St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-25

fringed. Second, that the reissued Bostwick
patent is not for the same invention set
forth in original patent, and it, too, is there
fore void. The decree in the circuit court
dismissing the appellants bill, is therefore
affirmed
CHEAP TELEGRAPHY.
The bill introduced by Representative
Money for the purpose of securing correspon-
dence by telegraph at cheaper rates, author
ICES and directs the postmaster general to
enter into contract in behalf of the United
States with a postal telegraph and cable
company. Within five years from date the
contracting company shall be prepared to do
business in the cities in the Atlantic division,
having postoffice delivery, the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers, and south of Omaha and
Minneapolis. Within seven years the busi-
ness shall be extended to the Pacific coast
and there be known as the Pacific division.
The rates proposed are 25 cents for twenty
words, and 10 cents for each additional ten
words, and 15 cents for night messages of
twenty words in the Atlantic division. In
the Pacicc division the rates from the Allan
tic division shall be 80 cents for
twenty words, 90 cents for each addition
al ten words and 25 cents for night messages
of twenty words. Newspaper rates shall be
three fourths of cent for day service and
one-haf cent for night service on the Allan
tic division. For points between the two
divisions the rate is increased a quarter of a
cent in each instance. Between New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington,
and between all points embracing only short
distances, the rate be one-haf cent per word
during the day and one-third cent per word,
during the night. The bill provides that
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PATENT LAWS.
Representative Greenleaf introduced bill
to provide for the appointment of three
commissioners by the president, whose duty
it shall be to examine and revise, and report
to congress upon the patent laws of the United
States, the remedy for the infringements of
the patents and the internal administration
of the patent office They shall also report
such amendments to the patent system as is
expedient, either in single code or in drafts
on separate laws.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
Consuls-Willis E. Baker, Illinois, to Ros-
ario, Argentine Republic; Firth Charles
worth, Belott Kansas, to Finchal; Julius
SHAPED, consul general, Shanghai; Archer
Russell Platt, consul Chefoo, China; Brews-
ter Cameron, Beloit, Kansas, receiver of pub
lie moneys, Tucson, Arizona; Jacob B.
Blair, Wyoming, associate justice of the su-
| preme court of Wyoming; Case Broderik
| Kansas, associate justice of the supreme court,
| Idaho. Nothing is known at the department
| OF state regarding the alleged complaint of
the grand Yizier of Turkey against the re-
cent conduct of the United States minister,
| Wallace.
| FENCING OF PUBLIC LANDS.
Secretary Teller to-day sent to the house
supplemental report in relation to the un-
lawful fencing of public lands in
Nebraska. The report is special one
by United States Deputy Surveyor G.
w. Fairchild, who says: 'sThe whole country
embraced in my contract Northwestern
Nebraska is occupied and run by capitalists,
| engaged in cattle raising, who have hundreds
of miles of wire fence constructed to enclose
all desirable land including water courses,
to form barrier for their cattle and prevent
settlers from occupying the lands. They also
represent they have desertand timber claims
upon the land they have enclosed. Upon
their fences they have posted at intervals, as
follows: 1.-THE s-of-a-b- who opens this
fence had better look out for his scalp"
Fences are built often so as to enclose sever
al sections in one stock rancho. and ranches
are joined together from mountains clesy
round to mountains again. Persons going
there intending to settle are also notified, if
they settle on the land the ranchemen will
freeze them out. They will not employ a
man who settles on, or claims land, and that
he cannot get employment from any
cattle men in the whole country. My
chief object in addressing you, is to report
the wholesale destruction of valuable timber
on government land in this whole region by
cattle men, who pretend to own and raise it.
There are acres after acress of bare stumps.
which, but short time ago were growing
timber. There were thousands of logs cut
last summer and hauled out to accessible
points, to be used for fences, corrals, land
ing shutes and houses in Nebraska and Wyo-
ming.
The house committe on private land
claims, directed favorable report on repre-
sentative Hunts bill, to confirm title of
John c. Cofield to point Houmas plantation,
| Louisiana.