Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-25

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night Washed away his footprints q
that he could not be traced. and Their
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persisted in the cold ve.the-.-
JSo. Porn, Major General
The Paaess Law.
Greenleaf introd uced a bill to provid,
Tor the appointment Of three CON is
sioners by the President whose duty
snail be to examine. revise and rspor
TO Congress upon the pstent laws of th'
United states, the remedy for infrin ye
ment OF patents and the internal ad
ministration of the Patent Offices
They are also TO report such amend
menfs 20 the patent system a. seem Ok
pedient.
Assey's TeieGPaph 8tli.
The bill introduced by Representative
Morey for the purpose Of securing cor
rsapondence by telegraph at cheape,
rates authorizes and directs the Post
master General to enter into q contract
with the United States Postal TeIe9rat
and Cable Company that within five
years from the date of the contract the
company shall be prepared TO do bust
ness in all parts of the Atlantic division.
having free postoffice delivery east of
the Mississip and Missouri rivers and
south Of Omaha and Minneapolis: that
within seven years the business shall be
extended 70 the Pacific Coast, and shall
be known as the Pacific division. The
rates go Imposed are 70 cents fer 100
words, and 10 cents for each additional
10 words, or at night II cents for each
% words, in the Atlantic division. In
the Pacific division, rates from tho At
lant'c division shall be 20 Nnts for 100
words, and 10 cents for each additional
10 words, and % cents for night mes
saRcs of 70 words. Newspaper rates
shall be q cent for day service, and \
cent for night servi q, on the Atlantic
division. For points between tie two
divisions, rates are increased d of a
cent in each instance between New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
ton: and between all other points em-
bracinR only short distance, rates will
be ! cent per word during the day, and
u cent per word at night. The bill pro-
vIdes that stamps be issued for conduct
ing the business.
Arrogant Cattle Aem.
Secretary Teller today sent to the
House a supplemental report relative to
the unlawful fencing Of public land in
Nebraska. The report is special one
by the United States Deputy Surveyor.
who saws: The whole country embraced
in my contract Of North western Nsbras-
ka ia run bv capitalists engaged in cat
tie raising, by whom hundreds Of miles
of wire feuce have been constructed en-
closing all the desirable land, including
water courses, to form barriers for their
cattle aud prevent settlers from occupy
ing the land. They also represent that
they have desert and timber claims on
the land encl ssd, and on their fences
they have posted at intervals L .'tiecs as
follows: The son of a b-h WHO opens
this fence had better look out for bis
scalp" The fences are built often 90 a.
~ close several sections in one. Stock
ranches are joined together from mount
tains clear around to mountains again
Persons going there to settle are mott
fed that if they settled the ranchmen
will freeze them out; that they will not
employ man who settles ON or claims
lands, and that he cannot get employ
ment from any cattle man 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 oattlemen who
pretend to own and raise it. There
were thousands Of logs cut last summer
and hauled IL accessible points to be
used for fences, cOrrals, landings, shutss
an houses in Nebraska and Wyoming.