The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-03-13

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The naval bill, which has passed the senate
authorizes the president to construct sevenateel
vessels for the navy, consisting of one cruiser
Of 4, 500 tons displacement, one cruiser Of ZOO
tons, one dispatch vessel OF !, 500 tons, twe
heavily armed gunboats Of ], 500 tons each, one
light gunboat Of 40 tons, and one gunboats o.
Of 500 toms, It further authorizes the con
structon of one steel ram, one cruising torpedo
and two harbor torpedoea Il Il;
The treasurer OF the United States has pre-
pared statement showing that the total coin.
age OF standard silver dollars under the not d
Feb. q, 1875, to March l, 1884, was S16G, ls5;.
119; held in the treasury offices and mints,
3126, Sc, 500; outstanding, 839, 302, 1a0 OF
the amount held BY the treasury there are
ss6, 81, Y, leaving owned by the treasury,
Additional steps toward enlarging the pension
lists i taken BY abiii introduced into the hoaae;
That AL persons actually engaged in the ynp-
preston Of the Sioux Indian war in Minnesota,
n 1852 and not belonging to any organized mil;
tia, but called into service BY the sherifs so1
the several counties Of Minnesota, be and theJ
are hereby placed, in regard to pensions, on a.
equal footing with persons provided for by the
Gen. Horaio G. Wright, chief OF engineers,
wiz be retired from the army this week, after
forty years 81 active service, and will probably
BIO succeeded by: Gen. Newton, who has had
charge Of the Hell Gate improvements at: New
York. Gen. Wright has brilliant military rec
ord and stands very high as an engineer. Al
lent physical condition, and might serve for
several years longer, for the good Of the SER
vice 80. RI. y3$s r.
For the third time since the war the supreme
court on Monday decided that the much abused
greenback was constitutional money and legal
tenders for all debts, public and private The
decision rendered to-day was to the effect tint
treasury notes reissued under the act Of 1873
was rs good as the original money. The first
decision in this particular was by Chief Justice
Chase n 1855 the second IN $50, and to-day
the opinion was read by the Justice Gray,
which was concurred in BY n entire court.
A decision was rendered in what are KNOW,
as the Ku Klux cases, which stand on theorigi
ahl dockatunder the title az parte In the matters
Of Jasper Garborough and others They are
padtons for writs Of habeas corpus to releasea
number of persons now imprisoned under
Judgment Of the United States circuit cour.
for the Northern district Of Georgia, rendered
after the trial and conviction Of the prisoners
for the ofense Of threatening, beating and other
"
Georgia formembers Of congress. The speti-
ton was denied 81 y Z. Il Ys3g !. NE
WA Burleigh, formerly delegate in. con-
gress from Dakota, utnow = resident Of Mon
tana, was before springer's committee on
March 1st, and examined relative Is the ofi-
cial conduct Of Judge Congef, ore of the
district judges OF Montana, recently succeeded
by Judge Coburn Of Indiana Z The witness tes-
tilted that Judge Conger was under the in1n-
ence Of liquor so often that business suffered
Burieigh has seen him go to sleep on the bench
while Important cases were being tried The
delay in appointing 2 successor to Judge Con-
ger, Mr. Burieigh asserted cost the district
from 375, 900 TO $4,000 y
b Joaquin Miller appeared before the house
COMMITTEES on territories and gave his views ON
tho Mnrlnon ion Fzs char cterissl The
sI6orrnons as cranks and GuitAaua. arad sopposed
repressiye measures. only tending to 2incite
them to further laWless acts instead Of snbduZZ
ing them This, he said was the history 81 ell
On the decrease, and he described sdueation a.
q panacea for the Ills for. which the people OF
Utah suffered. The Mormons as q paople
were, In his opinion, extremely Ignorant per-
sons, led by craiks aud those who Had their
own ends 70 serve, and All that was necessary
Was to show them their trne CON ition Il
The new Kansas Representative Edward b
Funsto elected By S 900 majority to congress
from Kansas, in place of Haskell, deceased,
was born in 1881 in Clark comfy, Ohio, grad.
uated at Carlisle academy in that county WIS
fhree years union soldier and lieutenailt of
the Sixteenth Ohio battery He wrought q
farm from the unbroken praiii e in Allen conn
tn, Kansas, in 1857 where he now lives. He
was Gnnually elected To- the lower house OF the
Kansas Legislature in 1872 1873, 1874, 1873. was
l5sspeaker Of the house In j 875, has been vice
president of the: state board of agriculture and
member Of the republican state central com.
mittee He was elected 10 the atate senate Id
1880. and was presto dent pro tenn His termex-
plrss tho presest year: ;5's
Inthei supreme eonrt u decision was ron.
dsred On what are generally known IS the s POI
cent Land cases, viz, the State Of Iowa and
Statsof Illinois against Noah g Mcfarland,
e6mmisssoner Of the general land Office, These
we're petitions for Erits Of mandalnns to COM
Epel the commissioner Of 5the general land Office
toniake a Std enent, sf the account betweenthe
EEtaies of Town and Illinois for the purpose 81
disseminating ahet Sums ~ ,oney are due :aaid