The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-07-02
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
washington News,

Sitting Bull makes his debut before a biz
crowd at Washington. &$
"a student Of Loyola college, Baltimore,
has presented to the president O. copysoI
the inaugural address translated into Lat.
In and inscribed upon parchment.
Gen Pope has transmitted to the war de.
partment an account OF the killing OF a
Piute Indian named Joe by two white men
in Happy Valley, Or. Gen Pope again in.
vites attention to the white and Indian out
RACES which are increasing in frequency
Recent experiments with an improved
torpedo at the Washington navy yard re.
suited in the attainment OF 100 feet in ten
seconds, the line OF firing being almost
perfectly straight across a current OF over
two knots an hour. This torpedo is dis.
charged out OF tube, and is propelled by a
rocket composition which is held in an iron
tube sixteen inches in diameter and forty.
two inches long. 94E 4se{, uytE,,G.
s. M. Goliath, a brother OF the late Vice
President Wilson, employed as guide at
the bureau OF engraving and printing at the
salary OF $1:15 per day, has quite large
family, being well advanced in years, and
can with the greatest difficulty perform his
duties. Soon after his brothers death the
Massachusetts delegation promised to place
him in q good position; but OF late years
they have entirely forgotten him. These
iacts were brought to the attention OF Sec
rotary Lamar. and it ia understood that
he will furnish Mr.. Goliath with position
in that department.. N. .cs7'
The fiscal year ends June 80. and accord
ing to the receipts from internal revenue,
customs and miscellaneous sources the
falling OIL in estimates for the year will be
about 100000, 0OO;$ 900, 600 in the in.
and 81, 100000 in the miscellaneous. The
expenditures have been greater for pensions
aud defensea than was anticipated, SO the
surplus for the fiscal year will probably be
between 16, 100000 and 20,0OO,OOO Sless
than was calculated by Secretary McCul-
ioch in his report to congress lastyear, leav.
ing the surplus at about $40, 100000 in.
stead OF $39, 900, 900. ~ l57Ea'gs IN. #
One by one the old stagers are coming
PACK to Washington, says the Cleveland
Leaders Washington correspondent. Elk
Senator Wilkinson OF Minnesota is here
This man was one OF the most prominent
senators during the war period. He was
United States senator in congress from 1858
TO 1858, and he.was also member OF the
Forty-frst congress. He settled in Mime
sofa as lar back as 1847, and it was his
hand that drafted the Minnesota code o.
laws. He is now. sixty-six years OF age, and
ne looks younger than many men OF fifty.
f., si1?*A tall, dark man, with face which
might have stepped out OF one OF the old
colonial portraits. He moves around &C
I lively, and is not SC, averse as some OF his
younger brethren to expressing his opinion
on public men and measures. -.
r The 18th OF April President Cleveland Is
sued a proclamation declaring void the or
der issued by President Arthur Feb. 81
1885, restoring the old Winnebago Crow
Greek reservations in Dakota to the public
domain. In that proclamation the presi
dent declared that in order to maintain in
violate the pledges Of the government with
the Indians, he warned all persons in occu,
patton OF said lands under color of the ex.
ecutiye order OF Feb. n, and all persons
preparing to enter and settle the same, that
they would neither permitted to remain
nor enter. It is known that the president
has resolved to enforce the order. If those
who are Illegally on the reservation named
DO not vacate ut once, he will send troops
there and have them removed, by force, il
necessary. Secretary Lamar fully agrees
with the president. M. S e. - ~