Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-21


estate bushes, and has large spec
uIative business in the district,
conjointly with Hallett Kilbourne, one of
the old time partners of ''Boss" Shepherd.
The letters have already had the effect of
setting senators to making personal in
quiries into the matter, and the result is
doubtful.
NEWSPAPER POSTAGE
The postmaster general has been Off
cially informed by the Canadian post de-
partment that an act was passed at the
last session of the Dominion parliament
exempting from postage all newspapers
mailed from offices of publication in Can
ada addressed to subscribers in that coun-
try, and that under the terms of the postal
convention of 1875 this exemption from
postage has also been extended to newspa-
pers mailed from Canadian offices of pub
ication and addressed to subscribers in
the United States.
DEATH OF AN ARMY OFFORR.
Gen. Crook, in dispatch to the war de-
partment, says that Lieut.. A. R. Jordan,
Third cavalry, while on a hunt about
twenty-five miles from Camp Verde, Ari-
zona, wandered from his tent on the night
of the 11th inst, in fit of temporary alb
errat1on of mind. His commander missed
him, and after a search of three days his
dead body was found.
LAND OFFICE DECISION REVERSED.
Secretary Teller reverses the decision of
the commissioner of the general land
Office, who dismissed the adverse
claims in the care of VIM. Robinson and
others, representing the nine hour lode,
filed against the issue of patent in favor
C. F. Magger, for the st. Louis lode,
Helena, Montana. The grounds of the Sec
retary's action are that the same case is
pending in the courts, and that other pro-
ceedings should be stayed until the court
takes final action. 1t affirms the decis-
ion of the commissioner in favor of Chris
tian Sherger VS.. John Cox, involving the
latter's shomestead entry at Brownsville.
Cox's son made nocturnal visits to the
tract to establish an appearance III COM
pliance with the law. In the case of W.
II. Fulton vs.. Rudolph Leitner, involving
an entry an Little Rock, Arkansas, the
commissioner decided against Eeitner for
similar reasons, and in this case he has
been sustained by the secretary who de-
mands full compliance with the law in
these cases or forfeiture of claim.
INDIAN AGENT INVESTIGATED.
The Indian chief Red Cloud is expected
here daily to have an interview with Secre-
tary Teller about the management of the
Pine river, Dakota, Indian agency, now in
charge of McGillicuddy. The latter has
for long time been accused of misman-
agement and the interior department has
had him under investigation
for a year. The investigation
was temporarily abandoned, however,
by the suspension of Indian Agent Pollock
who was in charge of it. Pollock assumed
the powers of secretary of the interior,
taking the liberty to wilfully disobey Sec
retary Teller's orders, and substituting his
own ideas of dealing with McGillicuddy.
It is supposed that Red Clouds mission is
to have the investigation of McGillicuddy
resumed.
REBATE ON TOBACCO.
The senate finance committee discussed
the tobacco tax question to-day, and is re-
ported to have decided to recommend the
adoption of resolution favoring the pay
ment of rebate on tobacco if the tax is
reduced. Probably a resolution of this
kind will be introduced in the senate
tomorrow, and it is hoped to get it
through the senate and the house before
the holiday adjournment
statements in the public prints that the
committee had recommended provision
in the bankruptcy bill to the effect that
dealing in futures should be, in itself, an
act of bankruptcy. This, he said, is a
mistake. The provision applies only to
persons who are actually insolvent.
swINDL1NG PRE-EMPTIoNs.
The commissioner of the general land
Office yesterday cancelled 1O9 pre-emption
filings and 100 timber cul-
ture entries in Dakota, made
by F. Lecouque, as attorney, on the report
of Special Agent Burke that the same were
fraudulent.
MORE SILVER.
Enormous quantities of standard silver
dollars are being put into circulation. At
the beginning of the fiscal year there were
in New Orleans nearly $5,OOO,OO0, but
amounts drawn from that source to date
have reduced the amount to 100000.
OLDEST PENSIONER.
Representative Matson has prepared a
bill to increase from IS to $50 month
the pension of Simson Harris, of Putnam
county, Ind. Harris is 1O5 years old, was
private in the war of 1912 North Caro-
lima volunteers, and is the Oldest man now
on the pension rolls.
THE WHITE HOUSE.
The improvement just completed at the
white house is shown to visitors for the
first time to-day, are the most elegant
specimens of interior decoration ever seen
in the city. The president hopes to be
comfortably settled in the executive man
sion by the first of the year, though he
will probably eat his Christmas dinner at
the Soldiers Home.