Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-10-23
WASHINGTON TOPICS.

The President has signed an order dis
missing from the service Capt. Geo. I. Ohm
stead, IT., who was tried and convicted by
Court Martial on charges of embezzlement
while on special duty, in charge of the
military telegraph lines in Arizona.
Quartermaster General Holabird, in bis
annual report, recommends that authority
be given to pay ten dollars per month to ali
line officers properly detailed to service in
the Quartermastcr' Department who actu-
ally render service not less than thirty days
at any one time, provided such payments
do not exceed $4,000 per year. He says
the necessity OF assembling troops in larger
and more permanent posts near Indian res
ervation, and in proximity to the great
strategetic points or the country adj AGENT to
its valuable reservations harbOrs, and forts,
becomes daily more and more apparent in
consideration OF the principles OF economy,
| efficiency ana wise Government. The re-
| port states that there are eighty National
cemeteries, containing 32l ,625 lnterments.
The chief importance treated of in the
annual report of Mr.. Nimmo's bureau OF
statistics is the enormous magnitude of our
| internal commerce. 1t is shown that the
value of the products OF the various indus
| tries of the United States is seven times the
total value of our foreign commerce. Nearly
three times the total value of foreign COM
merce of Great Britain and Ireland, and five
times the total value of the foreign commerce
of France, including in each both imports
and exports. The total value of the products
Of industry in the United States is also
| shown to be little more than twice the
total value of the exports of merchandise
from all countries of Europe. The United
Lx-y1 & Ior<, Gao
country On the globe. fhe value of the
| products of American manufacture con-
sumed at home is i've times the value of
the manufactured products of Great Brit
ain and Ireland exported to all other coun-
| tries, and more than fourteen times the
| value of exports of manufa :tured products
| from France to all other countries. The
relative value of internal as compared
with foreign commerce of country is also
illustrated by statements Allowing that 80
per cent. of the coal mined in this country,
50 per cent. of our iron and steel products,
IS per cent. of the products of our leather
industry, more than SO per cent of our
manufactures of wool, 95 per cent. of the
products of our cotton manufactures,
more than 80 per cent. of our man
ufactures of silk, and 81 per cent.
of our manufactures of glass, glass
ware, earthenwa and stone ware are con-
sumed in the United States. The report
shows that the total bales of exports mer-
chandise from and imports into California,
Oregon and Washington Territory for the
year ended June 80, 1884, was SO, 565, S14
value of exports was SAG, $50, 2S4, and i'm
ports $37, 1880.
The United States Engineer Corps
Steamer Patrol, Capt. VIM. A. Gall,
orriu or hor
board Capt Smith, Corp 8 of Engineers,
United States Army, and United States
Civil Engineer John Ewens. Capt. Leach
is putting discharge observation parties in
the field for the coming season, and during
the present trip has been putting the work.
ing plant of the parties in practical work
ing order. The plant used is one devised
by Capt. Leach. The parties are stationed
at the following points: New Madrid, Mo-;
Helene, Ark; Arkansas City, and Warren
ton, Miss Red River Landing, La, and
Carrollton, La. These parties will gauge
the river from now until after the next
high water season closes. Engineer Ewens
inspected the following water gauges during
Cottonwood Point Mo-; Moons, Miss
Helena, Ark, and Arkansas City. Engineer
Ewens will recommend the changing of the
gauge bulletin at Lake Providence, La,
from its present position to a point below
the landing proper. The present location
is too far upstream on account of the bar
that makes out from the bank on that shore. |
A marked change is taking place in the
river, near st. James bayou, Just opposite
Island No. g.. At this point large bar has
formed in front of and above the bayou.
The formation is the most rapid one that
has ever been known on the river. The
Patrol found plenty of water on the cross
ings at Leland's, Fosters and Montezuma
Engineer Ewens expects shortly to begin
extensive examinations below Davis and
Waterloo crevices, and in the vicinity OF
the Waterproof cutoff. The Patrol leaves |
at daylight, and will go south as far as New
Orleans.