Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-07-28
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Postmasters will do we'll to paste Gen. James
order, requiring prompt quarterly reports, in
their hats.
Secretary Lincoln says Sitting Bull and his
band will be disposed of as were the other sur
rendered hostiles.
The national bureau of agriculture places the
average of the wheat crop at So per cent of a
full yield. The area of corn planted has in
creased 2 per cent, but the crop promises to
be only 80 per cent of that of last year.
Secretary Window is taking vacation of a
few days on the summit of the Allegheny
mountains He went to Deer Park, and in
company with three distinguished DeNocratic
senators, Bayard, Davis and Camden, started
into the woods for the famous black water
trout streams.
The signal service authorities in Washington
are perfectng a system of signals by which it
is proposed to acquaint the farmers with pre-
dicted changes In the weather. Colored rock
cts are t. be sent up at ) O'Clock in the morn
ing from stations in the farming regions and
the probabil ties for the coming day are to he
indicated by the cClor of the rockies and their
arrangements.
The steamer Talapoosa is being fitted up at
the navy yard and has been ordered to be ready
for sea by August 18th. A swinging bunk is
being put in for the accommodation of Presi-
dent Garfield, and conyeniences are being sup
piled for Mrs. Gartield's comfort 1t is intend
| ed if the president keeps on improving as rap
| idly as he has been, to take hiH down the river
about August 10Th, provided also the weather
! is favorable If the water is smooth he will be
taken to Fortress Monroe and back, and pnssi-
| bly, if he stands the motion without injury,
| they will so on to some seashore resort
| No Information has yet been received at the
! interior department regarding the damage to
| Indian lands from the overflow caused by the
| proposed construction of the reservoirs on the
l ri
Commissioner Price cannot understand why the
agent sent cut TO investigate the amount of
probable damage should not have made his
report They iufer, however, that the agent
is experiencing some delay III inspecting the
Iudian lauds and arriving at a proper estimate
! of their value, and the amount of damage.
! The department is daily in receipt of inquiries
on the subject, and instructions have been sent
the agent to hurry his report
! A dispatch from West GrcCnviIle. S. c., TO
! G.. B. Raum, internal revenue commissioner,
| at Washington, says: Information was re-
ceived by Deputy Collector Broyton of an Illicit
! distillery in operation near Central, in Pickers
| county. Broyt.n, with four men, started to de-
| strcy the still ard arrest Jollu Mellow and two
others engaged with him. They approached the
| honse of Mellow TO arrest him, w hen they were
fired upon and Broyton killed, being sho:
through the lungs. A desultory firing took
| place, which resulted IN 10 damage to either
! parry hcDOW dliu negro, uedNlLN dIlueI, ait
now at the Central Air Line road defying arrest
and threatening TO kill any revenue officer
that approaches tkem Tie state authorities
are taking no steps i'll the matter What shall
be done:'
District Attorney Ccrkhi!l has addressed the
following letter to Gen. J. s. Crocker, warden
of the jail; The grand jury having adjourned
until the 18th of September, and il being I'M
possible to ascertain the final result of the at
! tack by Chas Gitteau, the assassin of the pres
ident, it will be necessary to retain him in Gus
tody for future action by the authorities | de-
! sire you 10 place him on one side of the jail
| whcre there are no prisoners. where means OF
escape are impossible; that you will allow him
| TO see no other persCn wha-ever and that he
be not permitted to hold conversation with any
| of the guards; that he be vigorously excluded
| from recieving:anv communication, except thtse
| delivered by me or received by my direction.
desire this direction to be vigorously executed.
Mr.. Henry Garrett, the geographer of the
| census bureau, is preparing series of very
interesting complications, in " hich he Will show
by counties the kind of fuel used, whether
wood, coal, corn stock or hay. Mr. Garrett is
of the opinion, although his work is not COM
pleted, that four tifths of the fuel of the coun
! try will prove TO be wood The increase in the
something prodigious during the past forty
years, and indeed for that matter Throughout
the world. In 1912 the United States produc
ed only 1000, 600 tons of coal, while las
year there was produced over TO.0GO,O ,OO0
According to rough estimate, GO, 900 of thi
population Of Minnesota use wood. 30, ,0OI
coal and $4,000 hay. When the statistics ar
complete they will have a be4rng upon tn
question Of the consumption OF forests.