The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-11-14
The Hill-Sharon Case and New
Developments.
The Pension Frauds and Other
Interesting News.
The Deal of the Railroad Poo,
Etc.
The adventures of a Desperate
Defaulter.
Great Damage and Death by
Falling Walls.

this morning to produce the alleged mar
riaye contract until informed by the
Judge that if she didn't 1t would be ruled
out as evidence. as it was only 50 much
paper. Sharon after seeing it denounced
it in such indignant terms that the Judge
ordered him to be removed from the
court room. The document remains in
the possession of the clerk until large
photographs are taken.
JACKSON, Miss. Nov. S-The election
returns are nearly all in. The Joint leg
islature stands 1870 democrats and % re-
publicans and independents. The dem
ocrats elected eleven ont of twelve dis
trict attorneys The disturbance of
Copiah county is the only one reported
in the state on election day.
WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-Thr following
letter from the Attorney General ex-
plains itself Under previous instruc-
| tons from him Colonel Corkhill, United
States District Attorney, has nearly conf
p,eted number of cases of frauds upon
pension claimants for action by the
grand jury. lie has received large
number of fraudulent circulars and let
tiers explaining the use made Of them.
He is DESTROYS that all soldiers, or their
friends, having copies of such circulars
or knowledge of such attempted frauds,
will at once send him full information
and be particular to send the number by
which their claim in each case is known
at the pension Office:
DEPARTMENT OF JrsrrE,
WASHINGTON, ID. C., Nov. I, 1888.
To the Secretary Of Interim:
Referring to your letter of the I'd, re-
speeding the appointment by the Com
missioner Of Persons of a person to aid
the United States District Attorney of
this district in the investigation of all
claims for pensions or bounties, in con-
nection with which charges have been
made against the attorneys, to examine
such cases as the District Attorney shall
desire to present to the Grand Jury. l
agree with YOU that such an appoint
ment cannot be made to aid IN the ex-
aminations where the offenses charged
are not otfenses against the United
States; but the District Attorney in his
letter to YOU includes cases where these
pension agents make formal applications
to the pension office, well knowing that
the claims that they present are fraudu-
lent This is an otfense against the
United States So far as the District
Attorney makes charges ofcrimcs against
the United States he shonld be aided in
the examinations of such cases by an
officer of the Pension Bureau specially
detailed for that purpose. The evil set
forth by the District Attorney is grow
Ing one, and all the means that can le-
gally be employed to suppress it ought
to be put in motion to that end. Permit
me to send you advance proof sheets of
the Second Auditors report, which dis
closes frightful condition Of organized
fraud against the poor and helpless, who
have either served their country them
selves and lived manned and broken
down in health, or who have left desti-
tute widows and children, all of whom
are now victims Of these designing, bad
men, who rob them of their little savings
and earnings under the color of gains
which they are never to have, and over
load the public departments with work
that binders the necessary progress of
their proper business. Ifthis can be put
an end to it by the Intervention of the
officers of the United States, it ought to
be done.
(Signed] BREWSTER.
WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-The President
has so amended Civil Service Rule No.
s that it now distinctly prohibits the APP
pointing power alike in every depart
ment and in every postoffice for making
any discrimination in the selections for
for appointments by reason of any politi-
cal or religious operation or affiliations.
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. S.-The latest re-
turns increase the democratic gains. Re.
ports from all but two districts give the
democrats % senators and the coalition
lists, Is. Returns from these districts not
fully reported shows heavy democratic
gains, which, if continued at points not
heard from will give one or both to the
democrats. OF the house delegates, the
democrats so far have secured 63 men,
bers and the coalitionists, :3. Of the
four remaining delegates, the democrats
have one certain, which makes their
majority in the house 26; on joint ballot
not less than 80. The popular majority
in the state will likely reach $4,000.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. S.-Official returns
from fifty-seven of the sixty-seven coun-
ties in the state, and estimate for. the
others, gives Niles 1921, and Livasy,
1880 majority over the democratic cam
didates
CHICAGO, Nov. lO.-A private dispatch
received here to day from st. Paul from
John Muir, General Traffic Manager of
the Northern Pacific, in which he saws :
Taking effect yesterday we withdraw
from the California business and the |
southern lines withdraw from all bust
ness north of San Francisco"
No explanation of the reasons for this
action is given, but it is supposed to be
the result of a secret conference among |
the passenger representatives of the
roads on the transcontin entail association
at Topeka during the past three days;
they having failed to reach an agreement
as to the division of the competitive ter
ritory at the late Chicago meeting. Here
tofore the Northern Pacific claimed the
right to land passengers from the east at
San Francisco via Portland at the same
rate as other Pacific roads charged by d.
rect route, and the Pacific roads in turn
claimed the right to land eastern passen-
gers at Portland via San +. ancisco at the
same rate as charged by the Northern
Pacific The new arrangement takes
both Portland and San Francisco out of
and leaves the trip between
tho two noints nv the Oregon Steamship