The Iola register., 1883-07-06
A WEEKS NEWS.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON MOVES.

WARRINGTON NOTES.
TIE President has approved the finding
and full sentence of the court martial il
Paymaster Wasson's case, which is to be
dismissed from the army, and to be con
lined at hard labor for eighteen months in
some prison to be selected hereafter.
THE President has issued an executive
order promulgating the changes made in
the internal revenue collection districts.
The order is to take effect July !, or as soon
thereafter as practicable. The number OF
districts is reduced from one hundred and
twenty-six to eighty-two, q reduction of
forty-four.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints for the week ending June %, was
1889; corresponding week last year,
SOS 400. &[
FROM information laid before him the
Postmaster General is convinced that there
has been much looseness in the transmits
sion of newspapers through the mails.
Numerous complaints have been received
by him to the effect that postal employees
break wrappers containing newspapers,
and are Indifferent as to whether news
papers reach their destination. The Post
master General says he proposes to remedy
the evil if possible, and that he will adopt
methods to detect and punish cases of neg
Ggence and violations of the law and regu-
1ations in this regard. He says newspa-
pers must be treated as sacred as any other
packages going through the mails.
GENERAL CROOK has been ordered to
Washington by the Secretary of War for
consultation as to the final disposition of
the captured Apaches. The War Depart
ment has received no official information
of the arrival of the captives at San Carlos
and no instructions to send them there will
be sent to General Crook
The President and Cabinet recently had
Q consultation in regard to the shipment
by England of pauper immigrants to this
country, and as a result the Secretary of
the Treasury telegraphed instructions to
the Collector of Customs at New York to
cooperate with the Commissioners of I'm
migration of that port to prevent the land
ing of all immigrants found to be paupers
within the meaning of the law. In the
event such pauper immigration may have
already landed, as is reported to be the
case with large number shipped on the
steamships furnished, the Collector is in
structed to take all practical measures to
have them reshipped to the port from which
they came.
THE Peruvian Minister at Washington
states that he has information that the
treaty of peace between Chilli and Peru has
not been signed.
II is stated that by the reduction of rev.
enue collection districts recently made
there will be an annual saving of 500, 600.
INFORMATION has been received at the
War Department that Major Nickerson
sailed for Europe June 10. aEE.
Mr.. BAssETT, chief clerk in the Postoffice
Department at Washington has been dis
placed and Charles NJ. Walker, of Indiana,
appointed to the position. Mr.. Bassett will
be provided for in the department. Gen.
eral Gresham desired personal friend in
the place, which is a confidential position,
and selected Mr.. Walker.
A STATEMENT prepared at the office of
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
shows the aggregate receipts for the
greater than the same month in 1882.
The amount was increased S231, ,729 from
spirits, $220,527 from tobacco, $167, 1868
from beer; a decrease of S4,049 from
banks and bankers, and decrease of $1SS,
752 from miscellaneous taxation. In tobac-
CO there was an increase of $119,900 on ci-
gars a decrease of S31 $50: on cigarettes an
increase of 81, ,5S1; on snuff an increase of
81, 500; on chewing and smoking tobacco a
decrease of sos, ,762; from dealers in man.
ufactured tobacco decrease of S67,0S9.
In speaking of pauper immigration to
this country Secretary Folger recently
said that the act of August, 1882, provided
that the Secretary of the Treasury may
enter int4 contract with the State Com
mission or Board to be designated by the
Governor of the State, and put upon the
body so chosen the duty of examining into
the condition of passengers arriving by sea.
The Governor of New York has designated
the Commissioners of immigration at
the port of New York to act in that capaci.
fy for the State of New York, and arrange
ments have been made with them to execute
the law. They have been instructed, in
case they find an emigrant unable to take
care of himself without becoming public
charge, to report the same in writing to
the Collector of Customs, and such person
wil not be permitted to land.
GENERAL PoPE telegraphed the Secretary
of War that David S. Payne had applied to
the United States Circuit Court at Topeka
for an injunction against himself aud the
Secretary restraining them from interfer-
ing with his entrance to end occupation of
the Oklahoma district of the Indian Terri.
tory. This application brings up for de-
cision the whole question of the status of
the Oklahoma district and General Pope
requests Secretary Lincoln to take imme-
diate steps to meet the case.
The Postofice Department has received
information that tine Australian Colonies
have resolved to apply for admission to the
universal postal union. If the application
Is successful Bolivia will be the only coun.
try with an organized postal service not
included in the union.
The Treasury Department last week pur.
chased 321 900 ounces of silver for delivery
nt the New Orleans, San Francisco and
Philadelphia mints.
The official PRONUNCIATION of the sentence
OF Paymaster Wasson has been made and
the Kansas State Penitentiary is designated
as the place for the execution of as much of
the sentence as relates to confinement,
where the prisoner will be sent under
direction of the commanding general of the
department of Texas. The Adjutant Gen.
erai viii cause publication to be made as
provided by the sentence. The sentence
was approved to take effect from July 8,
is6S, from which date Major Wasson ceased
20 be an officer of the army.
The Secretary of the Interior has decided
fAat lands selected under the laws of Utah
for university purposes are effective and