Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-20
WASHINGTON TOPICS.

The President appointed Thomas Adam
son, of Pennsy lvanla, United States CoBsu
Panama.
The counsel tor Gen. Swain laid befor'
the President an argument against th,
legality OF the court martial appointed IL
his css5.
The annual Export of Lieutenant Genera
Sheridan has been made covering the periOt
from his assignment to command Noye M
Der /, 1883, to November l, 1884.
Ia letter 70 the English Posottics De
partment, Postmaster General Hatton ex
presses his regret at the death Of Postmss
ter General Fawcett, of Eagianu, and pays
a high tribute to his pubic .nd private yr-
tues.
The President has appointed Caleb II
Barney rs COMMISSIONER and Joseph Rey-
nolds IS alternate Commissioner, to repre-
sent New Jersey at the New Orleans Exposi.
ton.
The President has mod fed rule 10, civil
service regulation specifying officers exempt
from examination, so as 10 INCLUDE in the
list disbursing officers having the custody OF
money who give bonds.
Secretary Mcpherson, Of the Republican
| oongressiOua, committee has received word
from Chalmers, of Mississippi, saying be
would contest the election OF mis- congress
sional competitor on the ground of fraud.
DR.. Salmon, chief Of the bureau of animal
| industry, has submitted to the commission
er Of agriculture his report upon the con-
| tagi0us diseases among ANIMALS. Many
valuable suggestions and remedies are
among the Chief features OF the report.
10 ,har Of Ia ~
| Department OF Agriculture point to some
what larger crop than in 1888. The rate of
| yield of corn indicate product somewhat
| IN excess of $50 000,co0 bushels, or an
average of small fraction above twenty
six bushels per acre.
A decree of the Supreme Court Of the
! District OF Columbia a1judging insane j.
! 0. z. Burnside, late discussing officer of the
Postoftice Department, now under indiCt-
ment tor emDezzelment, Was presented to
the Secretary OF the Interior, aud upon biz
authority Burnside was committed to the
Government Hospital for Insane, as an in
sane person end INDECENT.
Governor Crosby, of Montana. in his an
| nual report, estimates the Increase IN popu-
lation in that Territory during the yea at
1900, and the present populaton II ABOUT
81, 600. He says the Cattle now 10 tibet Ter
ritory number over 10000, and the value of
the taxable property, which does not rep
resent one quarter OF the we'll OF the
Territory, is between $50 100000 and SSJ,-
100000.
T. A. Trittle, Governor of Arizona, 10 his
annual report to the Secretary of the Int
rior, after referring tr the prosperous condi-
ton of the Territory, says that the unset
tied condition of the land grants to the At
lautic & Pacific and Texas Pacific railroads
before Congress, is preventing to n great ex-
tent the settlement of the Territory. He
says that unless the extended immigration
of Mormons into the Territory is restrained
by law he fears violence.
The Washington monument hes reached
a greater height than thai of any other
structure in the world, being $50 feet ans
10 inches above the floor of TIE monument.
The next highest structure is the spire of
the Cologne Cathedral, which towers SIS
feet above the floor OF the building. II is
estimated that it will take but twenty i've
working days to complete the monument
so there is no doubt OF It's being finished in
time for dedication on the 22d of February.
J. II. Saunders, agent of the United
States, for the Department OF Agriculture,
to attend the International Exhibition al
Hamburg, in the report recently submitted
to the Commissioner Of Agriculture, says
$50 far as could gather, it is generally
conceded that whenever an inspe cion of
our pork is made under careful govern
mental supervision similar to that made by
the German authorities, there will be no
objection to its sale in Germany. Indeed,
it strikes me that were such restrictions
made there would be such q strong pressure
brought 30 bear upon the German
Government by their own people that
the embargo would have to be speedily re
moved.