The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-20
A WEEKS NEWS.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Attorney General has given an opin
Ion to the Secretary of the Treasury that i
was not the intention of the act to prevent
the importation of adulterated and spuriou.
teas to create a new Office to meet the re
guirement. That all teas entered for i'm
portation shall be examined before passing
from the control of the custom authorities
OVER six hundred reports had been re
ceived by the Commissioner of the Genera
Land Office to July /, from thirty special
agents engaged in an investigation o.
fraudulent land entries. About three hun
bred and fifty reports have shown sufficient
evidence of fraud to justify the Land Ofics
in summarily canceling the entries. The
land already restored to the public domain
upon the reports of these agents aggregates
about 5000 acres.
A CLERK in the Examiners division OF
the Pension Bureau named j. J. Alley and
a pension agent named j. c. Ellmet were
recently arrested on the charge of having
defrauded pensioners. Officials of the Pen.
sion Bureau say they have evidence of con.
spiracy between the clerks in the Pension
Office and Ellmett, by which applicants
sentation of the ability of the conspirators
TO push along their claims and secure them
pensions in advance of regular proceedings
of the Office. Other clerks in the conspiracy
will be arrested.
THSJuly report Of the Department OF
Agriculture shows very general improve
ment in the condition of cotton.
POSTMASTER GENERAL GRESHAM has
forwarded to the postmasters at New
Orleans and New York copies of his decis-
ion in the lottery case, together with letters
directing those postmasters to discontinue
the delivery of money orders or registered
packages to the agents of the Louisiana
Lottery Company.
The President accepted fifty miles of re-
Gently constructed Northern Pacific Rail-
TO the Goth mile.
SECRETARY TELLER has decided to ap-
point commission to visit the Indian Ter
ritory to investigate the difference between
the Spioche and Checota factions of Creek
Indians.
The Treasury Department has been in
formed of the arrest at Port Townsend, w.
T., of nine Cinnamon 'smuggled" into this
country through British Columbia. The
fact has been reported to the President who
will order their deportation.
SECRETARY TELLER says the indemnity
lands of the Northern Pacific roads must
not be closed to settlement any longer than
is necessary to enable the company to make
selections of lands in lieu of those lost with
in the granted limits, and directed the Com
- T nxr.-
company that all selections in Wisconsin
and Minnesota must be made in three
months; then orders withdrawing the in
demnity lands will be revoked and the same
opened to settlement.
IT is said the Civil Service Commission
will go before Congress next winter and
ask for an increased appropriation for the
support of the reform movement. 1t ap-
pears that the Commission is already ham,
pered for the want of clerks and funds to
employ them.
The Treasury Reserve the 18th, amounted
to SlS2, 100000, which was 100000 / ess
than the amount reserved for the redemp-
ton of legal tenders. The reserve the day
before was $145,OO0,OO0. The sudden reduc-
ton was Cue to the payment of nearly
$4,000, 600 on account of pensions.
JAMES IRWIN, Indian Agent, Shoshone
Agency, W. T., telegraphed Commissioner
Price recently that Uintah agency, Utah
Indians were passing into the Shoshone
agency in great numbers, not less than
fifty lodges having already arrived. Com
missioner Price replied, directing the agent
to order the Indians to return to their
reservation, and not to issue rations to
them from his supplies.
On the 18th the Treasury Department
purchased 40 600 ounces of silver for de-
livery at the Philadelphia, New Orleans
and San Francisco minis.
SECRETARY TELLER has denied the appli-
cation for reopening the question as to the
boundary of the Pueblo lands of San Juan,
as it was decided by Secretary Schurz
in 1881,