The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-20
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-A dis.
patch from Pensacola says Thomas
Sheppard, one of the crew of the tug
boat, was attacked by yellow fever at
his home in Washington.
Total paper circulation now out
standing, 1891, 757 .059; total coin cir
culation, S743,S47,573; grand total,
S1.571, 104,642.
The commission appointed by Sec
rotary Folger, to Investigate all
charges under the color treaty be-
tween the United States and Sand
witch Islands of sugars imported
from these islands into ports of
the United States, whichever
lot is entitled to exemption from duty
thereon, has submitted his report.
1t finds that the charges consist
mainly of: First, that the class of
sugar imported since the treaty went
into effect differs from that con-
templated in the language itself and
from the Importation from the
Hawaiian islands prior to the said
treaty; that, in fact, the process of
manufacturing in the islands had
radically changed. Vacuum pans
and centrifugate have been substi-
tuted for open kettles and the or
binary methods of purging muscovite
sugars. Second, that sugars from
other countries were imported into
the Sandwich islands and fraudulently
imported to the United States in
violation of the treaty forbidding the
exported to the United States as Haw-
allan sugars. After a careful inVeSti-
CATION at San Francisco, the commits
Sioner aScertained that there was
remarkable increase in the per centage
of the lower grades imported into San
Francisco from July 1st, 1875. to Sep
TENDER 9, 1876, while, tie treaty was
pending, as compared with previous
period the proportion of sugars below
No. 10, Dutch standard, was 62.52
per cent, against an average sales of
grades of 1928 per cent on the fiscal
years OF 1874 and 1775, and an average
of 14.52 per cent from January l, 1877,
to June 80, 1883. 1t appears that up
to 1875 most of the better grades of
Sandwich island sugars were
sold in the markets of the
Pacific cost directly for consumption.
The president will probably leave
Washington tomorrow afternoon for
New York, to attend the funeral of
his friend, Hugh Hastings. The presi-
dent has been requested to act as one
of the pail bearers.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-Returns
for one week from one hundred
smaller money order offices show that
AZ per cent transmitted by the money
order service was in postal notes.
The commissioner of the land Office
said to-day in regard to the timber
land frauds in California: l have had
knowledge of these operations for
some time, and have had agents out
there making Investigations. In con-
sequence of the reports received from
them l have suspended action upon
all timber land cases il California,
Oregon and Washington territory,
persons interested are not getting any
patents, and they will not get any
until | am satisfied as to the honesty
of their entries. In explanation as
to the nature of operations, Commits
sioner Mcfarland said congress, by
speal act, provided for the sale to indi-
viduals of separate tracts of timber in
California, Oregon and Washington
territory at $3.50 per acre. The fraud
in these cases consisted in the pro-
by one person of a large
of such tracts through
the cooperation of others, who
purchased them, only to transfer them
to him in clear violation Of the spirit
of the law.
Mcfarland also said that frauds of
a similar character had been discov-
cred in connection with the entries of
coal lands in Colorado; that he now
has force of special agents at work
in that state, and that he intended to
examine carefully every entry of land;
that the land offices in Colorado had
been directed to suspend action on
coal land entries until the result of
these examinations could be made
known,