Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-25
WASHINGTON.
GOING TO KANSAS,

WASHINGTON, April 24.-Secretary Lin
coin, Adjutant General Drum and Colonel
Burr, will leave here on Thursday or Fri
day for Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, for the
purpose Of making the customary annual
inspection of the military prison at that
place. Gen. Schofeld, the other member
of the prison commission, who takes Gen.
McDowell's place, will meet them there.
THE INQUIRY ENDED.
A supplemental report of the Jeannette
court of inquiry, which has been read and
approved by Secretary Chandler, states
that the court has concluded its examina-
tion of the Jeannette survivors, who recently
returned from Siberia, and that after ma
ture consideration of all the evidence
adduced, the court sees no reason to change
or modify its conclusions reported on Feb
ruary II.
MADE COMPROMISE.
The solicitor of the treasury has recon-
mended the acceptance of the offer of Mr..
W. Nippon, of Illinois, to pay $1,000 in
compromise of his liability to the govern
mert as surety on the bond of the late A.
J. D. Rupert, of Illinois. Rupert was
distiller of whisky and judgments were
obtained against him and his sureties for a
failure to comply with the requirements of
the law. He died insolvent and all efforts
to collect judgments from him or from
his sureties have been fruitless. This is
one of the well-known Pekin cases, of
which there were twenty two Judgments to
the aggregate amount of $222,O0O, and
were obtained in these cases about eight
L. /
against Nippon is $6,957. In recon-
mending the acceptance of $1,000 in com
promise of the claim the solicitors say:
1T is all the government can possibly
realize and just that much more than conld
be collected from Nippon under an exc
cution. 1t does not, he says, in any way
| relieve or palliate the offenses of the prin-
cipals, who were the only real violators of
the law. The solicitor adds that he feels
inclined to release all the other sureties in
these cases if they offer a reasonable
amount in compromise, provided such re-
lief can be given without extending it to
the guilty principal. The report of the
solicitor has been approved by the COM
missioner of internal revenue, and is a
matter now in the hands of Secretery Fol
ger.
A NAVAL SURGEON DECEASED.
Ex-Surgeon General Palmer, of the
United States navy, died to-day at his res
idence in this city, aged seventy-two years.
KER IN HIS TEDIOUS ARGUMENT.
Mr.. Ker of the counsel for the prosecu-
tion continued his argument in the star
route case to-day, by reviewing and ana
lying the evidence relating to the routes
from Toquerville to Adairville, from Sa-
quache to Lake City, and from the Dalles
to Baker City, Oregon. The last named is
the eighth of the nineteen routes included
in the indictment.
Col. Ingersoll said to a reporter to-day
that he thought his turn to address the jury
in this case would come in about four
weeks.
After tAe recess, Mr.. Miller took up the
''gum boot route" from Eugene City tc
Bridge Greek, Oregon, SO called because
one of the postmasters testified that tn,
entire mail over this route was carried il
one rubber boot. Mr.. Ker summed up the
evidence concerning this route with the
following expressive rhyme:
The mail was small,
Scarce any at all,
a letter or two and paper
Went over this route,
In the leg of boot,
The horse on fve-nile caper
Laughter. And, Mr.. Ker added, the con
tractors made profit of $9,46O per an
mum.
Attorney General Brewster has made
formal application to Judge Wylie to b.
allowed to take part in the closing argu
meut in the star route cases.
The route from Canyon City to CAM
McDermott, Oregon, was next taken up
and the consideration of the evidence relat
ing to it occupied the time up to adjourn
. ment of the court.
PosTMAsTER's APPOINTED.