The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-23
INVALID LEASES!
The President and Cabinet
Decide Cowmen must va
cate the Territory.
The Cheyennes and Arapahoes
Turned Over 20 the Care
of the Army.
Full Report of the Results of
Eads' Work on the Missis-
sippi Jetties.
The Trouble of Texas Cattle
men not yet Over-mOre at
the Kansas Line.
WARRINGTON NEWS.
Gathered About the Executive and
Consular offices ana the
Departments.
TERRITORY LEASES INVALID.


Washington, July 22.-After mature
consideration the president aud cab.
met have reached the conclusion that
leases flauds in the Indian Territory
held by cattlemen are invalid and II
has been determined to take steps to
have them set aside. General Sheri-
dan has reported that no permanent
settlement of the troubles in the Ter
ritory can be effected while cattlemen
are in possession of the best lands and
1t is the intention of the president to
remove the disturbing elements and
reserve the Indian Territory tor the
exclusive occupation of Indians. The
method of procedure has not yet been
determined. A presidential procla-
nation may issue but it is regarded
by well-informed persons as more
probable that actions will be begun in
the United States courts of the western
division Of Kansas, having jurisdic-
lh Sa ag'S ST desc i i sSsssss' nj '""
MILITARY CONTROL OF INDIANS.
Washington, July 22.-After cabi-
net council aud in accordance with the
advice of General Sheridan, tine secre-
tary of the interior has decided to
turn over to the war department, the
complete control ofthe Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reservation IN the lrdisn
Territory. A telegram received at
the interior department to-day from
Inspector Armstrong, announces that
the count of the Indians on the Chey-
enne aud Arapahoe reservation Is
progressing quietly and no further
trouble is apprehended.
THE MISSISSIPPI PASSES.
Washington, July 22-Major Heur
of the corps of engineers, has submit
ted his report of the progress of the
work OH the improvements of the
south pass of the Mississippi
river for the past year
TO General Newton; chief of engi-
ueers. He says: "One OF the inter
estiug facts connected with the inn
provement is that the full depths and
width of channels required by laws
have been maintained throughout the
year by Mr., Eads and that no dredg
ing of any kind has been required OF
any OF the work since February 1888
No work has been done OF the pas
or at the head of the passes during
the year. The inner, east jet!
has been offended COS feet
The man jctties, where covered
with concrete blocks, still continue 4
settle slightly. The subsistence Tor tn
year averaging little less than TIVE
inches. Near the head of the pass, II
September and October of 1884, tn
channel shoaled to q depth of twenty
six feet, but IL February following tn
depth increased to thirty three fee
seven inches. This has again shoale,
to a depth of thirty feet in cons,
quencc of falling river. The III t
foot channel at this locality is no,
100 feet wide. In the pass itself II
change of consequence has occurre
during the year. The shoalest area
those near Bayou Grande and Coz
Island, have deepened slightly.
complete survey of the south pa
made in November 1881, showed il hi
n channel throughout, whose lea
depth was twenty-seven feet and tn
lexcept for about one half mile the
was a channel whose least centr
depth was thirty feet. Between Il
ietties during the year there has be,
some shoaling varying from three
ten feet in hcighth, but rs this shot
ing has occurred iu the deeper pa
of the channel no harm has resulte
At present there is cham
through the jetties whose least de
is 3l.3, feet. There is also thiI
foot channel of which the least " i'd
is thirty feet and twenty-six f
channel hfving at least width of .
feet. In the gulf, about 500 feet
- ond the outer ends of the jetti
there is Il legal channel twenty
feet deep having a width of TWEEN
one feet and central depth of thi
feet or more, but this channel ma
such sharp bend or turn of alb,
ninety degrees, that believe il wo
- be impracticable for vessel draw
twenty-five or twenty-s'N feet to mi
the turn without grounding ON
shoals ON either size. The fan-sha
area, embracing one and a qual
square miles beyond the ends of
etties had been deepened during
year, and an average depth equal
One-sixteenth of a foot, whereas ,
ing the previous year 1t had shoale
deposited three-sixty-flrsts of 70,
vertical height. A scour, One-sixteC
of a foot deep over this area, me
the removal of about H., 100000 Ct
yards more of material than was
- posted therein. AT the same
there still re mains In this area a
posit averaging seyen-thirteenths
foot in height, and estimated rou