The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-10
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900; minor coinage, $79, 100 Total, 1924
10o Silver five cent pieces to the amount OF
500, 917 have been transferred from the
treasury to the Philadelphia mint to be coined
into like amount of dimes.
Judge Advocate General Swain, in reply to
an inquiry of the Secretary Of War, takes the
ground that officers of the army when they re-
fuse to pay their debts are liable to the process
of common law the same as civilians, and that
where their acts tend to bring discredit upon
the army or in any way to impair the efficiency
or discipline of the service, they constitute
sufficient cause for court martial. .,
The estimated reduction of the public debt
for October is about SIS, 250, 900. The amount
of three per cent. bonds issued in exchange
for three and half per cents. is about
s259, 900 600, leaving SIG, 752, 500 uncalled
three and half per cents. outstanding.
Postmaster General Howe has submitted to
the Secretary of the Treasury estimates for
1SS3-A The estimates are: Receipts, $780,
$40. 1924; expenditures, SAG, 741, 111.2S; leay-
ing net surplus of 60. 929, 94502.
The public debt statement for the month of
October shows cash in Treasury, S275, 1885,
19965; debt less cash in Treasury, 81, 60, 49,
O4S5S; decrease during the month, SIS, $685.
1S055; decrease since June 30th, 1882, $60,-
fe3,4lS14.
Bids were opened in Washington recently
TO supply beef to the Pawnee, Kiowa and
Cheyenne Indians Among the bidders were
w. C. O'Brien, of Kansas City; Levi Wilson,
of Leavenworth; Alexander Borday, of st.
Paul; II. c. Slavens, of Kansas City; II. L.
Newman, of National Stock Yards, and the
st. Clair Company, of Illinois. The bids
ranged from s3.23 to $3.50 per cwt, and all
were rejected as being excessive.
The Board of Direction of the Garfield
Monument Fair has issued their circular an
nouncing the trunk lines west of the Ohio
River will charge half fare to Washington
during the Bazaar. The lines east of the Ohio
River will charge one fare and one-ifth of
round-trip ticket.
Commissioner Mcfarland. replying to
question of the Land Attorney, says: Relative
to the location of soldiers homestead rights
on non-contiguous land, the land officer does
not construe the law so as to require the
tracts entered to be contiguous. In regard to
homesteads, he holds that it is a fundamental
principle of law that entries shall be made only
for the use, occupation and benefit of the
homestead party.
The President has suspended John O'Con-
nor, the Postmaster at Marysville, No., and
temporarily placed John Hall in charge of the
Office.
In two days last week Is, coo, 0c0 three-and-a-
half per cent bonds were received at the
Treasury, TO be exchanged into three per
cents. 1t is thought that the total amount of
extended fives exchanged for threes will reach
800 000, 000, leaving but about 100, 600, 900 ex-
tended fives outstanding.
Postmaster-GeneralH Howe has made an order
giving Postmasters discretion in returning
letters to writers upon application and the
production of proper proof. Heretofore this
power was vested only in the Postm aster-Gen-
eral.
The Knights Templar of Washington voted
to issue invitations to members of their order
throughout the United States to be present at
the Garfield Fair and participate in the parade
on Knights Templar day, November 30
The Commissioner-General of the Land
Office recently ordered an investigation of al
legged fraudulent land claims in Northern
Minnesota The testimony already taken
leads to the belief that all these claims are
fraudulent and the pre-emptors had not even
attempted to comply with the law.
1t is now thought at the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington that the issue of gold
certificates will be ready for distribution in
about two weeks.
The jury in the trial of A. c. Soltello, at
Washington, for killing his brother, brought
in verdict of not guilty. His brother was
killed in fight with Barton, editor of Wash
ington paper, and the charge was that A. C.
-Soltello killed his brother while attempting to
shoot Barton.
The forthcoming annual report of the As
sistant Postmaster General will show that the
revenue for the year is S., 091 OLE more than
that for the preceding year, while the expend-
lures, including all unsatisfed obligations,
are only $717, 134 more than those of the pre-
vious year. or this amount nearly 66G, OO0
for compensation of postmasters, is beyond
the control of the Department. After salts
flying all obligations yet unpaid there viii re-
main q balance amounting to more than s.
900 900.
The third monthly statement for the current
fiscal year of the Chief of the Bureau OF Statis-
tics, show that for the twelve months that
ended September 30th, 1882, there was an e1-
cess of imports Of s12, 14l $50; for the cores
ponding period of 1881 there was an excess of
exports over imports of $240, 249, go.
1t is stated on good authority that Mrs. De
Long has engaged counsel to appear before
the Naval Examining Board to represent her
husbands memory. This viii have the effect
of disclosing the relations which existed be-
tween De Long and Melville and Danenhower
of the Jeanette.
1t is stated by persons claiming to be in
formed on the subject, that two prominent
lawyers of Washington are examining
precedents with view of appealing to the
United States Supreme Court for an injunction
restraining the Commissioner of the General
Land Office from issuing any more land
patents to the Northern Pacific, Texas
Pacific, or Atlantic and Pacific Railroads.
Also directing these corporations to turn over
70 the United States all lands patented for
sections Constructed since the time fixed In
the charters for the completion of the roads.
II this lis DONE all questions relating TO land
grant railroads win be brought up for judicial
action.
Special Agent Drummond, of the Treasury
Department, has been apprized of an attempt
TO food New York with counterfeit ten dollar
Treasury notes, series of 1873, letter c. Tween
~, at least, were passed on shopkeepers. The
counterfeit is poor, and only likely to deceive
because the note has not been counterfeited
before. The counterfeit first appeared In
Chicago in 1880 and ran through the West. A
portion Of the plate was then captured in
Missouri, but the engraver escaped with the
other part.
THE EAST.
A fire at the freight depot of the New York
Central Railroad at Rochester, N. Y, recently