The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-09-22
PTTH OF THE NEWS.
urrNrC rN TRANSFORMATIONS.

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The Sunday Capital says: mo DECISION
was reached 10 the army and navy court
| martial cases laid on the presidents oesK
duripo his absence in the West. 1t Is
known that he h some reluCtarce TO meet
the issue presented in the case OF Col. llges.
Ia Montana he met many friends OF thaI
| officer, indeed every one seems 10 De his
! frienC in the region where he has s'rVeo SO
long and so well, who made the strongest
| eDneaIs for q lenient view of the testimony
! in the case when the president came TO act
finally upnn the proceedings of the court
It is also believed that the review OF the
case by the Judge advocate general St me
! army, which accompanies the PROCEEDINGS
! as thew ar. Laid before the president, WI
be of Service to the friends OF Col. Ilges IN
| their efforts to save him.
The secretary of the'interior, in a decis-
ion lust rendered, holds that a presumption
settlement initiated and filed in good faith
is a bar TO a timber eutry, under the act OF
June 3, 1878, for the disposal OF timber
lands in certain states and in Washington
territory. He also holds that where a set
tier ALLEGES that he has filed his declaration
to become a citizen and fails for a time TO
secure record evidence OF the fact, such evil
dence when procured may be tled any
time before final disposal Of the land, and
when filed is conclusive to his qualhca-
tons as q pre- -emptor with respect to clti-
Zenship.
The ciyil-service examination for places
in the city postofice at Washington have
not been as satisfactory in their results as
was expected by the friends of the new law.
Several candidates have successfully passed
the examinations and been placed upon
the eligible list, but being cCmpe led to
at the lowest grade, which pays
a salary of only $500 a year, nearly all those
who have been appointed resigned the Of
fee, prefering to run their chances of doing
better in private lite.
Proofimpression upon silk fibre paper
have been made at the bureau Of engraving
and printing Of the entire series OF paper
money of the United States, from the de-
nomination Of 81 up to 81, 900, and Of all
denominations of the 5 per cent. bonds. Toe
collection has been bound in handsome and
attractive style in Russian leather, and it is
intended for presentation to the Russian
GOV rnment, which made a formal request
for the same.
The question of what is the proper uni
form to be worn by retired army officers has
long been in dispute, bat has at last been
solved by the war department authorities
to be the Uniform of he rank held, and of
the corps to which the officer belonged when
retired from the service, but emitting from
the shoulder knot the letters Of the corps or
the figures donating the regiment 10 which
the officer belonged.
A prominent officer Of the government is
authority for the statement that the new
postal notes are made so simply that their
counterfeltipg would be very easy. Eumer-
u complaints have been received, especi-
ally from banking institutions, relative to
the fimsy character of the new notes, and
a pretty fair imitation of one of them, for a
small amount, has been sent to the secret
service bureau for investigation.
The increase in the sales of public lands
during TIE last fiscal year exceeded that of
the previous year by s84 per cent, and that
of the fiscal year of 1881 by 50 per cent.
A legal question is raised with reference
to the Ilges court-martial, which is thought
in some quarters 10 be fatal to the verdict.