Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-10-16

that crime was under investigation, cut hi
throat. He recovered, was arrested on sus
picion, but finally discharged.
WASHINGTON TOPICS.
eThe Treasury Department has purchase,
3s5, 900 ounces of silver for delivery at tn
New Orleans, San Francisco and Philadel
phia minis.
Judge Smell has rendered decision i,
the civil rights case of Emanuel Hallet (col
Ored) against John Fowler, purser OF tn,
Potomac river steamer, Jane Mosely. Thi
was suit brought under the crimina
clause of the civil rights act, for alleged re
fusal to sell plaintiff a supper ticket on ,
passenger steamer plying between Wash
ington and Norfolk, Va. Judge Smell, il
rendering his decision, said THE burden
of the proof is on the Government to show
that Henlett was refused the ticket on &C
count of his race, color, etc. The law ha'
been declared unconstitutional 50 far rs tn.
States are concerned, but as being in full
force in the District of Columbia. If thu
charge was proven that the complainant
was refused the ticket in the District o
Columbia, l should have no hesitation il
giving judgment against defendant bu
1
tanned the issue, and defendant is dis
charged
| The Director of the mint est
mates the amount of gold and silver
coin in the United States the 1st OF
i October at SS15 100000. OF this 1858 ,OeO.
! 600 is gold, $182, coo, 600 standard silver dol.
lars and $75, 0OO, OoO sub sidary silver, gain
from the LIST of October, 1882, of S35, 600, 600
Sl3, coo, 900 being gold com and $4,000, OO(
| silver. In addition to the coin in circula.
| ton the LIST of October, the minis and assay
Offices held bullion tor coinage amounting
in gold to S53 ,0e0, 900 and silver IS, 600, 900,
| making the total amount of Unithd States
| coin, and bullion availa BILE for coinage, in
| the country the LIST of October, sS73, 900 600,
of which S610, 600 600 is fold and $263, O0O,
silver. The amount of gold coin outside OF
the Treasury was about $75,OOO,O0O less
than the LIST of October 1888, while the
amount in the Treasury was $4,000 900
more. The amount of silver in the banks
and general circulation is about $4,000 600
less than in 1883, and the amount in the
Treasury about $S1, 100000 more The
amount of outstanding gold and silver GER
tificates is numbered at $4,000, 600 more
than on the LIST of October 1883
The following patents have recently been
issued to Western inventors:
Reuben =. Ayres, st. Louis, thill COUP
ling,
Lucius l.. Culver, st. Louis, oven shelf.
Robert P. Faris, st. Louis, paddle wheel
for steamboats,.
Simeon B. Higley, Trenton, No, iointed
display frame.
John +. Laturno, Armstrong, Mo-, power
transmitting pulley.
Ferdinand Meynase, st. Louis, lantern.
F. Snedaker, H. Poe and O. G. Richey, ST.
Louis, feed water heater.
E. w. Allen and E. Kibbe, Seneca, Kas.,
washing machine.
Charles E. Coe, Leesburg, Kas., sorghum
and corn cutter.
Jacob Haege, Garfield, Kas., fire escape.
j. Lee knight, Topeka, Kas., seeding ma
chine.
Aaron B. Perine, Topeka, K as, thill coup.
ling.
J. Rigby and J. W. Gorsuch, Ottawa, Has,
machine tor making horse shoes.
Milton B. Smith, Holton, Kas.. index.
The Commissioner General of the Land
Office has submitted report of the opera
tons of the Office for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1884. The sales, entries and selec-
tons of public lands embrace 1854, O41
oCIco, AuuIou AduuSs oo| I'D dCIcs, IOtdl, ~ =
531 40 acres; increase over the year 1883, of
9, l0l 1877 acres, and over 1882 of 1922, 0O3
acres. Receipts from disposals of public
lands, Sill $40, S92; from Indian lands, $685.
137; total, 12,779, $50, an increase over 1883
of 81, O73, 1865, increase over 1882 of 1882, :.
$50. to which is to be added $50, 725 received
for certified copies of records, making the
total receipts for the year, $12, 789, 4O5, total
number of entries and filing, 2S6, 312, aggre-
eating &c, 625 900 acres; increase over the
preceding year, 6O,725 acres; number of
acres approved for patenting under pre-
emption and other laws, 6O,276; increase
over the previous year, 6,429; agricultural
patents numbered 81 1897; increase over pre-
ceding year, S55; number of private cash
entries, 1884, and 3, 2Oe 095 acres were sold
preceding year, 900, 1856 acres; receipts from
cash sales, $40, 302 ,5S3; average, fraction
over 81 80 per acre; 3,11S tracts of land, en-
bracing 100000 acres, sold at public
sale at an average of 500 per acre.
The Commissioners renews his recon-
mendatiOn that the pre-emption law be re.
pealed, and it is most important that the
homestead law be amended so as to require
proof of actual residence and improvement
for two years before homestead entry may
be ccmmuted to cash payment. He rec.
ommenoed the repeal OF the timber culture
act the act providing that lands covered by
ACCOMPLISHMENTS shall be subject to entry
Immediately upon cancellation at the local
Office, the desert land law and the timber
and stone act. There were LOG miles of
the various grants. The Commissioner
suggests that Commission be appointed to
examine and decide upon unsettled pr.
vase land claims in New Mexico, Colorado
and Arizona. and recommends the re-estab.
lishment of boundary line between Colo
RADIO and Utah and the survey of the bound
airy line between Dakota and Montana and
the Yellowstone Park. Thirty-two cases of
illegal fencing of public lands have been re-
ported, the area inclosed aggregating 4,431,-
9Sl acres. Twelve cases have been acted
upon, and suits recommended to compel
the removal of the fences. A very large
number OF cases remain uninvestigated for
want of facilities. The Commissioner says
the portion of public lands still remaining
should be economiZed for the use OF actual
settlers only. An act reserying public lands,
except mineral and timber reserves, for entry
under the homestead law, with an amend
men, to prevent eyasions of wiserestrictions,
would be measure meeting this end. In
conclusion, the Commissioner points out
the necessity for the immediate adoption of
some measure by which natural forests may
be preserved at the headwaters of import
ant rivers and their tributaries, and in such
other situations where their preservation is
expedient for climatic effect and other rea-
sons of utility. He says there is no good
reason why lands worth $25 to 500 per
acre tor timber should be sold for 81 .25 to
$3.50 per acre, as at present, and he favors
the withdrawal from sale or entry under
existing laws all distinctly timber lands by
the United States until an examination and
appraisement can be made. After examina-
ton, permanent timber reserves should be
established where deemed desirable, and