The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18
VOL. 6.
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
by TELEa APM TO DATE.


BIZ TELEG APH TO Date
It is thought among senator's il
Washington that Senator Hill, o
Georgia, viii die from his malady.
Secretary Folger has ordered collec
tion of duties on sugar according to it
apparent color when imported.
The entire city detective force of Phil
| adelphia has been disbsnded on account
OF charges against their character.
It is reported nine Europeans travelling
| from Tunis to Gafsa were murdered las
week between Tunis and Kairwan.
Garland introduced bill in the senat,
on the 10th to prevent levees breaking
etc., and appropriating SIT, ,000, 600 fol
the purpose.
It is now stated Senator Edmunds MAJ
| accept the associate justiceship of tn,
supreme court. Edmunds and Ingalll
both declare they will vote against tlt
Chinese bill unless the Ingalls, amend
ment is adopted.
The secretary Of the interior has de
cided in the case of John Elliott of Van
couver district, Washington territory
| that second notification for q largel
| amount of lands than first application
cannot be allowed.
In the house Deering from the com
mittee on Indian affairs reported a bill
| to ratify an agreement entered into by
| Shoshonea, Bannocks and Sheepeatel
Indians for sale of a portion of theil
lands in Idaho; referred to committee o.
the whole.
| Ainslie of Idaho, from the committe,
reported bill to ratify an agreemen
entered into by the Shoshones and Ban
| nocks for the sale of their reservation il
Idaho for the use of the Utah and North
| ern railroad company, which was referred
| to the same committee.
Romero, special envoy of the Mexican
| government, has arranged for confer
ence with the secretary of state, with
| view of entering into negotiations for {
treaty of reciprocity between Mexico ant
| this government. The zona libra vii
be abolished in any treaty which may bs
entered into between the two countries
Representative Harris has completed
| his report on the bill for construction OF
| new war vessels. The report cover.
about eighty legal cap pages. It begins
by reviewing the present utter ineffi
| cheney and says the naval committee fell
that the time for wise and energetic
action had come. The work of recon.
struction must begin and be pushed with
vigor, in order that new vessels prop
erly armed may be ready to fill the
places of vessels of the present navy al
fast as they become unfit for further ser
vice. 1t is recommended that they be
sold and the proceeds be used in the
construction of new vessels. The bill
authorizing the construction of vessels
of war for the navy and other purposes
which this report is to accompany has
been amended by the committee since
published.
A sharp fight is likoly to occur be.
tween proprietors of domestic mineral
waters and owners and agents of Apolli.
naris water. Attorney General Mac
Veagh decided that Apollinaris is On
artificial water, and therefore dutiable
but Secretary Folger recently reversed
this decision, and decided that Apolli
naris was entitled to enter this country
without payment of customs duty. A
resolution is pending in congress direct.
ing the secretary Of the treasury not to
take any steps towards carrying out his
decision until there can be an opportu-
nifty for Investigation of the question as
to whether Apollinaris is entitled to be
placed on the free list. Able legal talent
has been employed ON both sides, and
ex-senator Conkling is said to be counsel
for the Apollinaris interests and to have
received cash fee of $50, 900.
DR.. Boynton, who was in attendance
upon Gen. Garfield during his late ill.
ness, has written letter to DIR. Baxter,
medical purveyor of the u. S. army.
Boynton says Bliss was never placed in
charge of the presidents case by any
member of the presidents family, and
was continued without any authority
from them throughout the entire case.
Upon the back of Boynton's letter is an
endorsement by Mrs. Garfield of the
truth of the statements therein. DR..
Baxter has circulated this letter among
senators and members in order to defeat
Bliss bill, included in the report of the
committee charged with auditing ex-
penses attendant upon Garfeld's illness.
There is such grave impropriety in all
this that it can have but little result
DIR. Bliss was summoned in the case by
Secretary Lincoln, and If the president
or any member of his family had at any
time desired to make change it would
have been very easy.
A Memphis dispatch of the 9Th says
The river continues stationary. Reports
of great suffering of the people in the
overhowed districts continue. In reply
to an inquiry of the secretary of war as
to the number of destitute people in his
state, Judge Mungrum, commissioner OF
Arkansas, replied he had information oi
about 20, 900, but the number was daily
increasing. Commissioner Hemming
way, of Mississippi, in reply to the same
interrogatory, named $4,000 as being in
needy condition in Mississippi. By
adding to these 5000 destitute in Tennes
see, there is an aggregate~of 43, 200 per
soEs whore condition is such as to de
mand prompt attention at the hands o.
| the government. The change in the
weather has increased suffering, and
many lives must be lost from exposure
| Governor Hawkins, of Tennessee, hai
appointed NJ. 81 James, at this point, a,
commissioner of Tennessee to receive ant
distribute supplies furnished by the gov
ernment for the relief of inhabitants o
| this state.
"A hanSaS city utspateu u tno Stu say .
A passenger arrived on the Wabash trail
recently and said while he was waiting
for the train at Moberly. sheriff's Office
entered the depot there, having just ar
| rived from the west looking very pale
worn and bespattered, and told an ex
citing story, which if true. will caus
much rejoicing among railroad officials
He said Jesse James was captured las
evening at some place in Kansas, th,
| passenger did not remember the exac
location of the determined and blood,
| fight in which he killed seven of the pur
| suing officers and wounded three others
Jesse himself is said to have been sho
full of holes and it is impossible for hin
] to live The ontlaH YVES surrounded q