Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-08-10
Land Office Fees.


WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, July 81. -
| The commissioner of tho general land Office
has issued circular 10 registersfand receivers
explaining the provisions of the act of the last
| session Of congress in relation to fees for re-
| iucmg testimony TO writing. In computing
I'the fees for reducing testimony to writing the
words actually written. by registers and re-
| ceiyers or persons in their employ ouly must
| be, charged for at the rates allowed by para
| graphs 40, II, aud l2, OF Sec 223S, Revised
| Statutes, and no charge is to be made for the
| printed words There can be no uniform fee
| Of specified sum applicable 10 every case Of
| the same class of entries. The commissioner
prescrbes the following fees: .,.
! Fora diagram Showing entries only, 81; for
| ownship plat showing entries names Of claimants,
nnd character Of entry, 81: for atownshp plat
| showing entries names of claimants, character of
entry and number. IS; for township }plat show
nG entries, names of claimants. character Of cntry
opasraphT a ss 7?K i; s Ss9s' 9s s1a1 win
| shai. he entitled 10 the same fees for examining
and approving testimony given before the Judge or
allowed by law for taking, the same. Registers
of land Offices have 30 right, officially to receive
| nny moneys ~haterar, except sucn As reported
| by the receivers as salary, fees and commissions,
cevc for giving notice Of the caicttlaon Of pre-
nar H0 bs aS + Nay ss ssF sRfgo opsTs entries
ceivedfor services rendered by either registers or
receivers upder the act OF 1larcl. 5, 1888 are to
| De patu 20 the RECEIVER who VIII the register
his portion thereof. Should any nj 5uey be for
warded 10 the register, pil to him, he will at
once pay over the same 10 tle receiver and when
parties address the register as to the cost of any
service required flo viii gefef the matter 10 the re-
| celver. t9-rst -
| Prior TO the act Of March last all fees were
reported and accounted for by rocetvers The
effect of thc claogowIll be to give officers that
| were maximum good deal more compeusa
ton tuan they We're Ieceiving before, whl, it
| VII not benefit officers thatwero not maximum,
for the reason Tthat officers that were
maximum before got $4,000, and now
| they win get fees in ; excess Of
! this. On the other hand, officers not maximum
will get direct from the parties paying the
same fees they formerly reported aud received
notably those. in Deso:a. the feee Of the local
officers will be considerably increhsM Among
the officers benefited by the new "a y are
| those at Huron, where the fees the Offices will
pc 6s au5oriIea to retain will amount 10 at least
amount to over So, 600. In Minnesota, Where
the offices are not so large, the increase of
eomr epsaton, If there is any. will be less
Another Big Boston Failure.
1.-The Boston Journal says That E. T. & j.
u. Ihinney, boot and shoe counter manu-
| facturers, have suspended, with liabilities
Esomething over $io9, 900. They are on Shaw
| q Bros. paper to the amount OF S40O, 600.
j he Journals Bangor special saws: The
creditors of Shaw 81 Bros. are RAPIDLY plac-
/ ing attachments on the properly of that
firm, in the hope that Maine creditors will be
| given preference over the creditors of other
States, as regards the property Of the firm
| ID Name In this county the attachments
| aggregate s72, 600. Other attachments upon
the property ofthetfrm,in other parts OF
| the state aggregate $l0O000 There is con-
siderable inv rA A. @,
10 s9eash HI / c2sdora Bssyed
OF the 6rnf in Cal aAr where the. indebted
ness is about $100,0 900, are inclined 10 favor
the'firm in'every possible way shS e
~ lsaiiaA{ ti---~--s------tg II tgl -. lss.
The Printed Calico Business.
The printed calico business for the
last six months 8hasFbeen anything but
satisfactory, totthe. manufacturers. The
supply had been excessive, and commits
sion houses began to unload7 at figures
which soon produced Ia decentralization
| of the market This was aided by the
action Of leading retailers, who We'd
with each other to give the best print
for nickel, and finally finer goods were
! effected and the elegant satines. which
| eQualed the foreign makes Of last year,
and were quickats 253 to- 81 .l-2 fell to
| IL - cents, or to rank Of nine. penny
calico The, day for making money by
| printing 64 square cloth seems to have
| passed; the productio,,sisitoo large and
the competition too sharp to admit of
Lying profit, The consumer is begin
! ming to find out that it issno economy to
1 buy a FIVE cent calico dress as it takes as
much time and labor to make 1t up as it
does q stronger and better material. 1t
| behoves the manufacturer then, to
ulakeand printa better cloth, with fast
| colors and texture firm enough to st md
| at least u months exposure 10 sunlight
and fwasht,lh. The ca Square cloth is a
relic; of the .Rebellion. period, when
cheap fabrics were used because they
could betflnade ata low price, ITO day
the cry is for something durableas well
as pretty, and although 1cottonf'srinted
will be worn as long as there are women
towear it, yet it will lie the prints that
! makes the best goods that will pay the
1 best dividend. Lawns are growing less
IN demand every year. Every summer
there is something that RACES. Last
year it was polka dots and this year il
! Is small check known as "pin check"