The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-15
Washington wtsps.

Washington, 24.-FOr some time
past there has been unpleasantnesS
existing between Chief Clarke, of
the revenue marine, and his deputy.
MI. Ereyitt, of New York state,
Some months ago the deputy made
a desperate attempt to succeed the
chief, but failed. Clarke to-day de-
cided to supercede the deputy.
Chief Brooks, of the secret service
of the treasury department, has re-
ceived sample of counterfeit of
the bland silver dollars, which is
being extensively circulated,
especially in the west. Tbs coin is
very heavily plated, and resists
acid tests unless deeply cut before
applied has ring similar to genuine
and is of exact weight. The officers
of the department consider the
counterfeit one of the most dam
gerous which has yet appeared.
Capt. Geo. T. Olmstead, Jr., has
been ordered TO Prescott, Arizona,
to relieve First Lieut.. Fred'k K.
Ward, First Cavalry, in charge Of
the California and Arizona division
of the United STATES military tele-
graph line.
Secretary Teller is expected to
arrive here tonight. Secretaries
Lincoln and Chandler are here.
Mr.. James 2. Young entered upon
his duties as chief clerk of the de-
partment of justice. to-day.
| Acting Secretary of the Interior
Joslyn, to-day, decided that statutes
restricting contest against a priol
timber culture entry to The one who
seeks to enter it under homestead
or timber culture laws, in the alb
sence of the application there is NJ
right of entry.
POstmaster-General Howe sai(
he had no intention of resigning.
In the decision rendered to-da,
the acting secretary of the interio
holds that a contest for a land it'll
instituted by a parent cannot b.
transferred or inherited by a child
even though it shall appear tina
the contest was instituted for th
child's benefit.
Commissioner Mcfarland, III
recent decision, declares that wher
a person has tailed to make entr
! to tract Of land through bein
: misinformed of his rights by locS
q officers, when otherwise entltled I
make entry, he will be protected b
the de arbment, and lose nOthin
. unless required TO do SO by the al
n tual demands of the law.
1t is believed some Of the age
y clerks in the postOffice deparJmer
4 VIII be weeded out on the 1st of til
d month. Many Of them are said t
Il be incapacitaLed for duty. I'll
d Star says some removals will al:
be made, because the clerks refuse
G to pay assessments.
4 On April 5th, 1881, the Presidel
issued a proclamation reseryir
= from sale certain lands in WiSco
# sir, which was thought would
y required for reservation purpos
n on the headWaterS of the Mlssi 81
e and the st. CroiX Rivers, This pro
# lamation was based on the engi
% GERS report. From a subsequent 7
" port it appears the lands reserve
!. are not required. The President,
i another proclamation, releases Il
lands embraced in the former.
The board of directors of the Gs
field monument fair, met this eve
ing and received reports from d
is ferent committees and state boart
* all of which Indicated rapid
Q, crease in the perfection of final {
a rangements.
10 Ex-senator Dorsey arrived he
it from New Mexico for the purpC
III Of being present at the comment
ne ment of the new trial.