Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-23
WASHINGTON.


w <A0x4 AAN9 OX.
Outbreak 1o0iDent.
WASHINGTON. March 2.-Aeeut Rear
don. OF the Navajo Agency in Arizona,
Who came TO this city With a q, legation
OF that trIbs t. endeavor TO have the
/ bound ares Of 10 1t reservation extended
AMI defined. h4s been suddenly called
u the agency by dispatch from the
acting agent, stating that an outbreak
OF the Indians Is imminent.
asdtan Tr.abie IL Msntaaa-
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
received the following telegram from
Agent Dyer, nov with the Cheyepnes on
Tongue River. Mont:
MILES CRY, Mont, March 81.
Black VOLTS baud have burned down
Anierscns ranch. A cowboy shot An
Indian, cause unknown. Particulars by
mail. Great excitement prev aiis. and
AIN afraid of trouble. Will send further
news as soon rs resolved. No mail or
telegraph nearer than Is miles.
Land MeaepsIisss.
In a report to the Commissioner of
the General Land Office, G. W. Fair
child. Deputy United States Surveyor Of
land in that section has been fenced in
BY cattle men. Their range extends
400 miles, and the wire fences enclos-
ing all desirable public lands, and even
water courses, are pos ed At intervals
with notices threatening death to any
person opening them. Herders assert
that they hold these lands under the
desert land and timber culture laws.
ia toeA nh 20
Sons seeking to make homestead settle
ments.
The Pension Bill.
The House Committee on Appropria-
tons has completed consideration of
the pension appropriation bill. The
measure apprOpriates $O.64. 40 and
provides that any balance of the ap-
preparation for the current fiscal year
which may run unexpended until June
30, 1854, shall be reappropriated. This
is estimated at SIS 100000. The appro-
priatiOns in detail are for invalids,
wido ~, minor children and dependent
relatives and for survivors and widows
of the war of 1872, {20,0O0,OOO; for
fees and expenses of examining sur
geons. $4,000; for pay allowance, pen
sion FIR salary, fees for preparing
vouchers, rent, fuel, lights, pos age on
letters to the Executive Department
and to pensioners. $l74.4O0; and for
contine ent Expenses of pension aeen-
cies, $4,000. The bill provides
that the sct relating to claim
agents and attorneys IN pen
sion cases provided June 10th
be made applicable to bounty arrears.
The act referred to provides that it
shall be unlawful for any attorney.
agent or any other person to demand or
receive for his services in pension cass
a greater sum than $40. 1t also pro-
vides that the fee of $40 prescribed BY
law shall OF be pay able nor demanded
or received by any age:t or attorney in
pension cases until such claims shall be
allowed. On the allowance of arrears
of pay, lost horse arrears, pay arrears,
pensions and pension cases, the COm-
missioner of Pensions shall direct that
the same he paid by the proper pension
agent. This Act shall apply to pensions,
rs well as to all future applications, pro-
vided that when a pensioner obtaining
a pension or an increase thereof. pending
application ~ heretofore, has paid to
his agent Or attor ey a suln equal to the
whole or any part Of the fee allowed by
this act. said peusioner snail be entitled
to credit for the same against the sam
which would otherwise be payable to
such agent or attorney. The bill further
provides that from aud after July LIST.
1884. agents for payment of pe nsioners
shall Receive only Is each for 100 vOuch
ers, or At that rate for "a fraction Of 100,
prepared and paid hy any agent in ex-
CESS OF 400 voucher, per aunum. 1t is
provided that from and after July LIST.
1894, there -hall bo no more than II
agents for the payment of pensions, and
it shall be the duty of the President to
reduce pension agents to not exceeding
that number for 400 vouchers. Agents
receive the same $ .lary rs before. $1,000
per year.
WyOnllng's stone.
The black granite contributed by Wy
Oming for the Washington monument,
has been received by the Monument
Commissioners.