Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-27


/ allow selections to be made for 600, ,0OC
/ acres more, under the lapsed land grant tc
that company III the State of Oregon. The
grant expired in 1884.
Vacancies in the Army.
! WASHINGTON, June 26th-It is expected
that the recent graduates at the West Point
Military Academy will be assigned to the
various regiments when Secretary Endi-
colt returns TO Washington next week
! There Were 80 graduates At the present
! time there exists 81 vacancies among Off
! GERS of the army, of which IS are in the
/ cavalry branch, in the artillery, % in the
! infantry and in the engineer corps After
! the assignment fthe West Point graduates
! non-commissioned officers who have passed
I examinations by the Boards convened by
( the various Departments will be assigned
! "Redueing the Force"
! WASHINGTON, June 26th--The Butler
/ house force" Of Senate employees consist
/ ing OF three messengers, at salaries Of 81 40
/ each. two janitors at $500, and several
i laborcrs at $720, will be dropped from the
/ pay-rolls Of the Se"geant-at-Arms at the
+ end OF the present month. These men are
nearly all Republicans. At the same time
one assistant doorkeeper Of the Senate, at
! l,o00, two messengers at $1,440 each, and
/ one employe Of the folding room viii be
! dropped. OF these two are Democrats. one
! Is Republican, and the politics of the other
! is unknown.
Capital Notes.
| WASHINGTON, June 26th.-It is stated at
| the White House to-day that no change
will be made in the Office OF Collector OF
! Customs at New York before next week.
/ Mr.. Robertson's term of Office expires on
the 28th instant, and there. is a possibility
of his retaining the office until the 1st prox-
imo.
The four-years' term for which Commo-
, dore Montgomery Sicard was appointed to
act as Chief Of the Bureau of Ordnance
| in the Navy Department will expire on the
| 30th inst. 1t is understood that he will be
reappointed.
The school proposed by Commodore
Schiey for the instruction of seamen in the
! improved armament of modern vessels.
| will open in the navy yard in this city on
! the 1st of July. \ class of twenty sailors
has been selected. Commodore Schley
hopes to open it with class Of twenty
/ members at Newport August 1st.
! Professor J. G. and Mrs. Lehman, the
eminent botaniSts, are visiting here. Pro
fessor Lehman, as Commissioner of Cali
fornia, had charge of that States extensive
exhibit at the New Orleans Exposition.
d
cliic slope women's department of the ex-
hibt.
Naval PaymasteTs Deering and Barton,
Of the Paymaster- Generals ofiice. were de
tached from duty to-day and placed on
waiting orders. This action was taken be-
cause it was thought best to have the office
in new hands dming the Court-martiaI of
the Chief of the Bureau. and not because
the officers named were thought to have
had any connection with the irregularities
charged against the head Of the division
General Frank Armstrong. of New Or
, leans, was to-day appointed by the Sccre-
tary of the Interior Indian Inspector, TO
succeed Inspector Newell, suspended.
General Hazen, Chief Signal Officer, has
issued an order extending to day and a
half in advance the weather predictions,
which now cover only q day. The change
will go into effect July lst
Attorney-General Garland says he will
reduce the force Of examiners in the De-
partment of Justice considerably, as he
finds there is not sufficient work to be done
to justify the employment Of the entire
force
The Postmaster General to-day fixed the
rates to be paid for the transmission of
Government kilograms during the next
fiscal year. The new rates will be sub
s.anually the same as those now in force.
The Indian Situation.
. WASHINGTON, June 26th-Genefal Augur
; has reported To the War Department. that
he has sixteen c0mpanies-ten Of cavalry
and six Of infanuy-at Fort Reno, Indian
Territory. The last company arrived at
the fort to-day. The General apprehends
no immediate outbreak Of the Cheyenne
Indians. They have been informed of tne
nj n r.
investigate their troubles, and express q
willingness to await the result,
AFFAIRS IN COLORADO.
DURAGGo (Col.), June 26th.-It is cur
rently reported that the citizens of this
county viii demand the delivery to the law
officers OF the Indians concerned IN the
murder Of Genthner, when trouble is almost
sure TO follow. Nothing has been heard
here of late of Agent Stollsteimer's investi-
CATION. UncOnhrmed reports are aAoat
! here that other Indians have been killed
The excitement is subsiding here. Mrs
Genthner's condition is considered hopeless,
GENERAL MASSACRE or WHITES IMMINENT.
WICHITA, June 25th-The Daily Eagle
is in receipt of specials from the Cheyenne
Indian Agency late this evening, Of which
a synopsis is transmitted. The situation
at the Agency looks critical, and officers,
tackled by the infuriated Cheyennes at anV
moment. The Indians are drilling daily
in regular warlike form. The arrival oi
the troops under Sumner only seems to
have stirred up the Indians, who have put
out extra spies in ail directions. Without
prompt and efficient action on the part OF
the Government, q bloody raid and
massacre will be the result \ spe-
cial, which is from q reliable man
at the fort, says the Indians are in sufficient
force 20 butcher all the whites, including
the troops now stationed there. The In
dians keep their ponies picketed night and
day, are well armed and have plenty OF
ammunition. The people of the Agency
dare not attempt to reach the Kansas Dor
der. Five companies of the Fifth Cavalry
under Major Carpenter, passed through this
{ city by special train to-day, and will be
/ within days march Of Reno By to-mor-
row morning.
A BIoodthirsty Outlaw.
MACON (Ga.}, June 26th.-Last night
near Gibson, in Gla5scock county, Warren
Wilcher, murderer and notorious outlaw
went to his wifes house and shot her in
the mouth, infiicting fatal wound. vii
cher broke jail q month ago, and this
makes the second person he has shot since
that time. The citizens are searching the
woods for him.
General Grants Best Dey Since Leaving
New York.
MOUNT McGREGoR, June 26th-To-day
was General Grants most comfortable day
since he came here, and was chiefly spent
on the piazza of the cottage with his family
At o'clock this evening the General re
tired. The usual amount of morphine was
given him, though DR.. Douglas was of the
! impression that the patient might have
slept without it.
Destruction by Fire.
DENVER {Col.), June 27th--A. M
Sheds cheap store was burned at midnight
The loss is estimated at $4,000 fully in
sured.
HENLEY's CITIZENSHIP. = The Oakland
Times, Democratic paper OF the mos
pronounced adherence to party lines, thu!
pointedly scaips the so-called citizenship o
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