The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-03
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LATEST NEWS SUMMARY,
Washington News.


sitting Bull makes his debut before big
crowd at Washington.
A student Of Loyola college, Baltimore,
the inaugural address translated into Lat
5 In and inscribed upon parchment.
Gen Pope has transmitted to the war de.
partment an account Of the killing Of a
Ptute Indian named Joe by two white men
n Happy Valley, Or. Gen Pope again in
vites to the white and Indian out
raRes which are increasing in frequency
inBouthern Oregon.
Recent experiments with an improved
torpedo at the Washington navy yard re.
In the attainment Of 100 feet in ten
sscoads, the line Of firing being almost
perfectly straight across o current Of over
two knots an hour. This torpedo is dis
charged out OF tube, and is propelled bya
rocket composition which is held in an iron
tube sixteen inches in diameter and forty
{ two inches long.
III 8. N. Goliath, brother OF the late Vice
President Wilson, employed as guide at
the bureau OF engraving and printing ut the
salary OF $1.15 per day, has quite q large
. family, being we'll advanced in years, and
IN with the greatest difficulty perform his
nties. Soon after his brothers death the
y delegation promised to place
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they have entirely forgotten him. These
facts were brought to the attention OF Sec
retary Lamar, and it is understood that
he will furnish Mr.. Goliath with q position
in that department.
The fiscal year ends June 80, and accord
ing to the receipts from internal revenue,
customs and miscellaneous sources, the
falling off in estimates for the year will be
about $40, 900, 900; 81, 900, 900 in the in
ternal revenue: 81, 900, 900 in the customs
and -, 900, 900 in the miscellaneous. The
expenditures have been greater for pensions
and deienses than was anticipated, 80 the
surplus for the fiscal year will probably be
between 15, 600, 900 and 10000, 900 less
than was calculated by Secretary McCul-
!och in his report to congress last year, leav
ing the surplus at about 500, 100000 in
stead Of $39, ,OOO, 900.
One by one the old stagers are coming
back to Washington, says the Cleveland
Leaders Washington correspondent. Ex-
Senator Wilkinson Of Minnesota is here.
This man was one Of the most prominent
United states senator in congress from 1853
to 1868, and he was also q member OF the
Forty-frst congress. He settled in Mime
sofa as far back us 1S47, and it was his
hand that drafted the Minnesota code Of
laws. He is now sixty-six years Of age, and
ne looks younger than many men of fifty
six. A tall, dark man, with o face which
might have stepped out OF one Of the old
colonial portraits. He moves around ac-
lively, and is not SO averse as some Of his
younger brethren to expressing his opinion
on public men and measures.
The 18th Of April President Cleveland is
sued a proclamation declaring void the Or
der issued by President Arthur Feb. 27,
1885, restoring the old Winnebago Crow
Creek 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-
ecutive order OF Feb. 27 and all persons
preparing to enter and settle thcsamc, that
they would neither be permitted to remain
nor enter. 1t is known that the president
has resolved to enforce the order. II those
who are illegally on the reservation named
do not vacate at once, he will send troops
there and have them removed, by force, if
necessary. Secretary Lamar fully agrees
with the president.