Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-09
Especial Telegram to the Globe. I

Especial Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-Folger is very
superstitious. His trip to Bermuda was
given up, it is said, on account of a start
ling dream he had a few nights ago. A
friend of the secretary relates the dream as
follows: THE steamship on which the
party had taken passage was sailing along
serenely. The sea was as smooth as glass
and everybody was happy, when suddenly
a great dark cloud was observed On the
forward horizon, moving rapidly toward
the vessel, accompanied by an incessant
and terrific rumbling. The heavy cloud
soon ached the iI-fated craft, overspread-
ing the sea with the darkness of
Egypt. Great sheets Of lurid
fame shot forth in all
directions. The yessel tossed and quivered
and the sea was lashed into mountainous
billows. The secretary saw the forms Of
his party and crew enveloped in fire flying
through the angry clements. Suddenly he
stood alone on the deck, with The vessel
sinking beneath him in sea of fire, and
he awoke, trembling like an aspen, and
covered with beads Of perspiration, to find
that the terrible scene was only dream"
This frightful nightmare unnerved the old
man. He cannot think of the dream now
without shudder.
ROSCOE DoEsN'T 7 GIVE UP HOPE.
The story that Roscoe Conkling asked
for a rubber band at the interior depart
ment yesterday, and accepted it with the
remark, II guess it will be all that I'll get
out of this administration" is denied. Mr..
Conkling not only did not make the re-
mark but he did not ask for the rubber
band. He says so himself. 1t is a great
pity he did not let the story stand. It
would have spoiled Arthur's fishing trip,
and perhaps brought about disruption in
the cabinet. Roscoe looks we'll. He is
much feshier than he was year ago, and
there are no lines Of care on his face. His
friends say he is out of politics for good,
but you never can tell.
THE JEANETTE FOLLY.
New troubles appear to be growing out
ofsthe unfortunate Jeanette expedition,
and inquiry into its conduct may not
prove purely whIteweshing operation.
It is asserted that Secretary Chandler is in
possession Of charges against Lieut.. Dan
enhauer by DeLopg. These charges are
to the eject that Dlnenhauer weEt
en- the expedition with the full
knowledge that he vas unfit for duty.
They WIND up with demand for q court
martial. member OF the board Ct in
quiry said, to-day. thai DeLong and Danen-
hauer were constantly a5 cross-p1rposes,
and that at one time the latter was placed
under arrest. Il stories in circulation are
true, all the officers Of the Jeannette were
in perpetual hot water owing to misunder-
standings and jealogsies.
SETTLERS RIGHTS.
The railway companies are beginning to
realize the full scope of a adecision rendered
recently by the interior department in a
case brought by a man named Perkins
against an Alabama railway. In deciding
this case, the department embraces the
opportunity 10 lay down an en-
tirely new rule for determining
the rights of settlers as against
the claims of corporations. Heretofore
or until within the past year, railway COM
panies were uniformly successful in cases
brought before the land department, and
it was considered the height of folly for a
settler to make fight for his homestead
against a corporation. Secretary Teller
and the present land commissioner have
by the so-called perkins decision" COM
pletely overturned this condition of affairs,
and the settler is now on top. The sub
stance OF the decision is that the title of
settlers is held to be good, as against the
claims Of a railway if he shall locate his
homestead prior to the time when the rail
road company shall have definitely located
its right OF way, and filed the plat
thereof in the land Office. 1t
frequently happens that a settler
cannot acquire patent for his
homestead until he has complied with GER
tain requirements, one of which is resi-
dence on the location for the prescribed
number of years. II the meantime be-
fore the settler can get his patent and af-
ter he has made his location, railway
company claims his land as part of It's
grant for building q railway or the branch
es Of one already established. The Per
kins decision amounts to a rejection OF
all such claims and in7alidates great
many patents granted to railway corpora
tions in the Northwestern states. 1t holds
that settler has prior right to his
homestead, if it shall be located prior to
the certifcation of the land to the railway
company. The fact that railway compa,
ny had selected land prior to the date OF
the settlers pre-emption of his homestead
cannot operate to deprive him of it. Al
officer of the land department of the
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway company
was at the interior department to-day ant
made an unsuccessful effort to have th,
matter reopened, so that they could MAKE
an argument against what he called a,
courageous decision" He said the de
cision would let loose lot of settlers upo,
about 10000 acres of the st. Paul com