The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-12

United States ana stocKmen nad no legal
right to use them for their own benefit and
fence them In, as they were now doing.
In an interview with General Rosecrans,
chairman OF the house committee investi-
eating the various soldiers homes Of the
country, he said the committee had visited
Dayton, Milwaukee and Togas, Me-. and
investigated the homes at those places.
They had found the homes In fair condl-
ton. The report will embrace the testimo-
ny of the officers and members at the sew
president of the board of managers OF the
soldiers homes, and of General McMahon,
the secretary The Hampton, Va, home
will be visited in November.
A good deal of dissatisfaction Is express
ed among the privates and sergeants OF the
signal corps over the recall of Brainard,
Long and Cornell, who were said to be
earning about $1,000 week exhibiting
themselves at a dime museum ut Cleveland,
Ohio. IL Is said that the men are poor, and
that such an opportunity for acquiring mon
ey rapidly may possibly never occur again.
Lieutenant DanenhOwer, after his return
from the Jeanette expedition, engaged his
services to well known eastern lecture bu-
reau before he had been In this country
twenty-four hours, and that the engagement
Melted him clean $40, 600 They say it was
llOb bnC lcCtuIc Illdb dlbItCbtu tllc duultIlCt,
but curiosity to see the man whose name
at the time was in everybody's mouth.
Regarding Washington dispatch deny
ing the statement of John ID. Caldwell, an
old friend of Hall, of Franklin relief fame,
as to cannibalsm in the Hall and Franklin
parties, Caldwell says: Captain McClin-
tOck's name, given as hasty recollection by
me, was wrong. The name of the officer
eaten, who Hall told me at my dinner Ia
BILE was shot and eaten by his comrades,
under contract to draw lots, was Captain
CroZier, and several others met the same
band of Miss Cracraft. Crozier was trust
ed officer of Sir John Franklin. Hall wit
messed the shooting and exiting of several Of
the party. Hall was saved from freezing to
death by an Esquimau woman. The last of
the Franklin, party, numbering forty,
starved to death.
The treasury department has received q
letter from DR.. Hill, United States health
officer at London, asserting that the import
alton of rags into this country from Eng
land is fraught with great danger. Small
poX, he says, has been for some time prev
alent in London, where quantities of rags
are collected and shipped to America, and
large quantities of continental rags are for
warded to London for shipment to Ameri-
can ports. These rags undergo no process
of disinfectiOn previous to exploration, and
are very likely agents to convey cholera
and smallpox II collected IN infected local-
ties. Twenty-three bales OF rags were re-
Gently shipped to New York by the Lydian
Monarch upon representation that they had
not been collected in the infected localities,
but investigation showed that they came
from Dunkirk, France, where cholera has
just broken out. Large quantities of CONT
mental rags are now being shipped to Amer
lea by way of Hull, more dangerous port
to ship from than either Liverpool or Lon
don.
THE INTENSE HEAT.
The terrific and unusual heat of the last
ten days continues. The signal-service OFF,
Ger does not offer any immediate hope Of a
low barometer in Colorado, with a nigh
hanging over the Atlantic in the vicinity of
the Carolinas. This condition of affairs has
the effect of continuing the warm, s0utherly
winds from which we are suffering. The
low area in Colorado has the effect of bring
ing winds in westerly direction In addi-
ton there IS warm wave apparently ap.
preaching from the Pacific slope, which will
have tendency to raise the temperature in
Dakota and the lake regions" The wealth
er Is so hot that Notwithstanding the fact
that laborers in Washington are accustomed
to work in intense heat, 1t has become nee
essary to partially suspend certain kinds OF
labor.
CROP REPORTS.
nC illOItllN CIOp DulltblH CDllUulllS tSllS
mates of the different crop products of In
diana, Ohio and Illinois for the year as fol-
lows: The acreage of wheat in Indiana is
1913, S57 acres. Our own reports show that
the average per acre in this state is ID BUSH
els. This would make the wheat crop of
Indiana for 1884, A, COZ, S55 bushels. Our
own reports from ONO do not differ materi-
ally from those of the state board of agri-
culture i'm that state, which puts the wheat
crop of Ohio ut l61 bushels per acre, and
the entire crop at 43, 9S2, $50 bushels. The
crop in Illinois, it is believed, will fall lit
tie below this both in the average per acre
and the aggregate production. The area of
oats in Indiana was 17G,0l3 acres, and the
average per acre SO bushels. This would
make the entire crop 25,60S, 400 bushels. In
Ohio the yield per acre is 3113 bushels and
the entire crop 1888, 663 bushels. Illinois
entire crop is much larger. Indiana has 81
CSS, III acres of corn growing this year. In
most sections of the state the weather has
been too dry to mature the crop WE'LL and
therefore the condition is reported at IS pe8
cent. of an average crop. In Ohio and in
parts OF Illinois the same has been true of
the season, and the dry weather has cut the
condition of the crop down to rs per cent.
In Ohio and so per cent in Illinois. Flax is
not extensively grown in either state. The
area in Illinois is but 25, 165 acres, and the
average OF seed per acre about nine bushels.
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crop.
WESTERN LAND FRAUDS.
Law Clerk st. John of the general land
office, who was detailed to investigate the
charges made in an affidavit to the effect
that twenty-five fraudulent entries had been
made of land on Bear Creek, in southwest
ern Colorado, reports that he found build
ings on all the entries and evidences of oc-
cupation, although there were no tenants,
and he says the probabilities are that these
lands and houses are occupied for winter
quarters by the entrymen who are engaged
in herding. There are no adverse settlers
in possession of the lands. The man who
made the affidavit lives 100 miles from the
entries and had no personal knowledge of
any facts that would justify the belief that
the entries were fraudulent. The special
agent concludes that the entries were genu-
inc and were made for the benefit of the
entrymen. A number of fraudulent entries
were discovered north of Trinidad, Colo.
In Las Animas county, Colorado, Mr.. 81.
John says that he found at least 100000
acres of public land fenced in with barbed
wire. These cases have already been re-
ported to the department.. Hall and Bar
rila have thus enclosed an area about ten
miles square, and Thompson, Texas cat
tleman has enclosed tract six miles by
ten in extent Great hardship to the set
tiers and delay in traffic and mail trans
pOrtation results from these unlawful en-
closures Of the public domain. The penal
ty inflicted by the stockmen upon persons