The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-06-01
WASHINGTON NOTES

$l2, 0O0, 900.
The comptroller of the currency has au-
-thorized the st. Paul National bank, OF ST.
Pau, Mimi, TO begin business; capital,
The standard silver dollars coined at the
mints'for the week ended May IS were IA,
w; Tor the corresponding period last year,
Judge WilliamILawrenee, first ,comptrol-
Ter of the treasury Is said to be working
earnestly to secure metropolitan nomina-
ton for governor OF Ohio.
The property bounded by. Main, Della,
ware, and Secondstreets has been selected
as site for newpublic building at Leav-
enworth, Kan.
The President sen Monday appointed
Christopher Green postmaster at Sacrament
to, California, vice WilliamC c. Hopping, de-
ceased.
Adyices from Havana, Cuba, received by
the National Board of Health, report TWEEN.
ty-six deaths from yellow. fever at that
place for the seven days ending May e2.
The Supervising Architect Hill Investi-
eating Committee met Monday morning,
and adjourned till Thursday to allow MI.
Murch more time ITO prepare further evil
dence.
Colonel Barr on Monday submitted to Adj
iutant General Drum report Ct his N invest.
son. III the evidence Is sufdcienta court
martial will be ordeped.
Lieutenant Colonel Ilges, of the 18th in,
fantry, has withdrawn his resignation, and
asks O c0urtmartial to try the charge
against him of duplicating his pay ac-
counts.
eminent In the star-route conspiracy trial,
began the closing argument for the people,
Monday. His address will continue several
days.
Secretary Teller has directed that In the
future the registers and receivers OF land Of
aices must not receive Ellings upon ODD sec
lions of land granted railroads within the
limits of the grants Withdrawn for indem-
nifty purposes.
Captain Hosea Ballou, aged ninety. said
<toibe the Oldest Free Mason in the United
States, died here Tuesday. He entered the
order In 1918. His remains will be taken
to his home in Rhode Island for inter-
ment
The Supreme Court Of the District of
Columbia has issued rule upon the Sec
rotary of the Interior, compelling him to
awasd q patent to Samuel Fl. Ruggles, OF
Circleville, Ohio, for $50 acres of land IN
the Virginia Military District of Ohio.
The authorities at Washington are Of
Opfnionth that the provisions OF the immigra,
tion law relative to pauper immigrants will
warrant the exclusion Of two thirds OF the
Morm0ns brought here fromforeign coun-
tries.
The Dominion parliament was prorogued.
In his speech the governor general tend
cred the princess and his own thanks to
the parliament and people Of Canada for
the kindness with which they had been
treated.
The military court for the trial of Major
Wass0n, the defaulting paymaster Of the
United States army. convened at San An
time to bring forward witnesses to establish
his previOusgoOd character.
The marquis of Lorne will vacate the Of
fee of governor general of Canada in OctO-
Der, returning 80 Great Britain to be made
peer of the realm. Princessl Louise will
take her departure in July, proceeding to a
German minerOlspring for the benefit Of her
health.
The plan of a.eonsolidation of the inter
revenue districts has been submitted torres
ident Arthur by Secretary Folger, and the
scheme, as 1t now stands, Is to reduce their
.nrnber from l26 to ninety-two. Already
there is considerable work being done by
collectors and their congressman to retain
the. Threatened, districts.
Patent Commissioner Marble estimates
the receipts of the patent Office for the cur
rent year will be Sl2 600 or $40, 900 more
than last year. After July the force lin the
This reduction will not affect the examining
divisions. but will, 1t is stated, retard the
work in the copying divisions.
The secretary of the interior has directed
the recoGnitiOn of the miEing claims Of set
tiers upon the public lands In Montana
ment made June II, 1882 and ratified by
congress IL, 1882 The secretary holds that
these lands being coded by definite bounda-
.ries, became public lands upon the date of
the approval of the act of ratification and
from that date the legal rights of the claim
ants and settlers took effect
A number Of army officers WHO have been
mentioned as among those who have r0ped
in and feeced JOung army Ofheers at the
fascinating game Of poker are indignant and
threaten to bring libel suits against the pa
pers publishing them; Paymaster General
Rochester is one OF those mentioned. He
Gays ne mas not played poker since he en-
tered the army, and that so far as he knows
fhe.army poker clsb has no existence out
side OF the sensatioISm0ngers.
the attention Of the treasury department
having been called to the fact that fresh fish
Is sometimes admitted free of duties ON the
northern frontiers In excessive quantities.,
a circular has been issaed to collectors and
others directing that the importer be re-
quired to file an affidavit that the fresh fish
imported are for immediate consumption
and net intended for preservation. The
ports of Sandusky and Detroit are specially
mentioned as points where fish from Cana
da are received in large Numbers.
The Civil Service Commissioners seem
fated to keep on laundering. They have
again exposed themselves to ridicule, but
this time 1t Is their grammar that Is in fault
In the rules they have submitted for future
guidance fer p0stOflice officials seventeen
grammatical errors have been discovered,
and a critical examination of the rules Is
not completed. If the commissioners are
as deficient in other branches of knowl-
edge competitors will have soft time of
IL.
Secretary Teller has instructed the COM
missioner of the general land Office To direct
the officers of the local land Offices along the
Northern Pacific railroad to accept the &c
lections of lands with the indemnity limits
of the grant to that company, and to note
the same uSon the books when such selec-
tions are free from conflict, without requir-
ing the company TO furnish lists OF lands
''lost In place" The order Is to facilitate
the adjustmeat of the grant and to carry
out the recent decision of the secretary re-
eqniring promn action OH the part Of the
company in order that lands not needed for
the purpose of Its grant may be restored for
settlement at an early day.
Tbe convention of SuDefintendents of the