Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-26

ed that Germans may become members
BY laying fifty cents yearly: its session
shall be annual; an executive COMMITTEES
shall be appointed; it shall publish an or.
gan. have public lectures, found branch
associations, and otherwise promote the
cause of temperance. 1t was adopted.
Of LEGAL Interest.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-An order was
issued from the Treasury Department
at San Juan Island, empowering him to
under directions of the Collector of the
District of Puget Sound.
Tremendous Land Business.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.-The report of
the Commissioner Of the General Land
Office for the fiscal year ending Jun63O,
1882, will show an inroad upon the area
Of the public domain unprecedented in
the history of the country. The report
last year showed the disposal Of lands
by cash sales to amount to LEST ,6l7
acres. This year under the Same head
3y699, $50 acres of agricultural land alone,
including trihing sales of Indian land,
to which should b added sales of 37O, $40
acres under the desert land act, and l94
acsos Of zeal lands. Homestead entries
last year covered SOS, 100 acres, while
for the fiscal year just closed there were
taken under this tract the enormous
area of 6,347, ,729 acres. The increase
under the age act is striking, the last re-
port showing entries under this law of
l,763, ,7y9,acres for the fiscal Gear ending
June 80, 1882, the number of acres was
2,609, ,797. The grand total of the acreage
taken for the fiscal year ending June 10,
1881, was 10, ,S93, ,397, against Ii, ,8s,9, $40 for
tho fiscal year closed last June. The
total receipts of the Office for the fiscal
year of 18S0-81 we're $5.406, ,3SS, while
for the year just closed the receipts were
$S,Sl, ,O9l. The principal land sales
were for agricultural land, among them
being California, l45.M7 acres, at $3O7,-
GA; Colorado, "A, ,lS9 acres, at $ll6,9oU;
New Mexico 1895 acres, at $500; Oregon
81, $50 acres, at $l14,5l2; Utah, $3.50
acres, l7,343; Washington Territory,
l26, ,744 acres. $24O, ,z3O; Wyoming, l,781
acres, $500. Mineral land entries for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1881, cov-
cred D1 ,ls9 acres; for the fiscal year
just closed, 81, ,O63 acres. MOet of these
entries were made in Colorado where
II, ,725 acres were taken. Then followed
California with S,ll3, Montana with
5,:97, Nevada 1855, Arizona, l, ,733, New
Mexico 1,Oi4, Utah 1,l42. the rest all be-
seem to have been much activity in the
way of new discoveries in the Black
Hills country, since Dakota shows only
tuly 60
Under the desert land act there were
1O8, $50 acres taken during the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1881. There was
ment during the present year, there be-
der this act was confined to three States
and eight Territories. The largest
amount was taken in Montana, which
leads with III, ,6S2 acres, followed by Wy
0ming with 1874, Idaho 32,747, Utah
l2,7l7, California 1,694, New Mexico
S,37s. Oregon 5;Di5, Arizona 5,926. The
teceipts from these sales were $99, ,l82.
The immense tide of immigroti0n
that has poured into the West during
the past year has made it's showing in
the vast tracts taken under the hOme-
stead act. In the South also there have
been quantities of land taken under
this act, but over one-third of the whole
of the hOmesteads for the past fiscal
year have been located in the single
Territory OF Dakota, where the entries
cover an area of 2,1S7 ,3l5 acres, against
2S6,872 acres for the fiscal year ended
June goth, 1881. Minnesota comes next
with homestead entries for ,334
acres; close to Il comes Kansas with
237 ,532, and Nebraske with AZ, ,Sl6.
Next in amount comes entries under
the timber culture act. This class of
claims being imitedtO oue-quarter out
of each complete section open to settle
ment, shows Z, 2,609, ,797 acres entered un
der the timber culture act for the fiscal
year ended June Goth, 1882. Dakota
furnished over one-half of this amount.
There were taken under this act the
following number of acres in the sew
eral States and Territories: 1852 acres
in AEizona, 1882 in California. Al ,O33
in Colorado, lilo in Dakota,
~, $50 in Idaho, 623 in Iowa, &,ZS
in Kansas; HOS in Louisiana; 1880 in
Minnesota; 35,4H in Montana; 1850
in Nebraska; l520 in Nevada; 1852 in
New Mexico; 81 ,926 in Oregon; 35l9 in
Utah, ", ,S65 in Washington Territory;
and x284 in Wyoming. The commits
sions collected on this class of entries
for the year we're $704, ,lSS; fees, $l6,
367 10. There was large amount OF
land, aggregating 6l5, ,SG6 acres taken up
under various acts Providing for State
selections for school purposes, granting
iudemnities, railroad selections and va
rious kinds Of Scrip. Colorado fur
nished the largest amount of this kind
of location, which covered 25S, ,65S- -Acres;
next came Alabama with 81, ,969; Nevada
with g, ,806; and Nebraska with g SAG.
Temperature.
New YoBx, Aug. 25.-rhe highest tenn
perature reached at midnight was 80
degrees; the lowest was 65.
In uouor ef Rlalae.
WASHINGTON, Aug. GA new Post.
Office has boon established and called
Blaine, in Dakota Territory. John G.
Hoff, has been appointed Postmaster.
TariG Werk.
BosroN, Aug. 25.-At q session Of the
Tariff Commissioners today, David
Townsend one Of the Centennial sugar
refiners of Boston, advocated an advO-
loren duty. The present law he believed
discriminatee in favor of certain Glasses,
notably those Of tho Pacific coast a.
against Eastern. This il partially due
10 the Hawaiian treaty. For the Last
two years sugar on the Pacific coast ran
IL, and 29< cents per pound higher than
on the Atlantic cnast, while consumers
there have TO paw this on account OF the
business being all in the hands of two
or three San Francisco refineries; one of
whom owns large plantations in the
Sandwich Islanps. Labor there u very
cheap and sugar can be produced at
small cost. Il 10 admitted free of duty
and sold TO western consumers at exor-