Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-25
HOME AND ABROAD.
IMPORTANT DECISION Regard
ING PLACER MINES.
Railroad Sold-The Marine Bank
Frauds-High Tide at New
York-Foreign Items.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-UN1oN. ]
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Secretary of the Interior on Placer
Mines.

WASHINGTON, N OVemD Der 24th.-Ihe Dec
rotary of the Interior has rendered an i'm
portant decision not yet promulgated,
declaring illegal and void the famous circu-
lar issued by Secretary Teller, relative to
placer claims, dated September %, 1882,
and the amendment of Section thereof, |
dated December 9th, of the same year. He |
decides. first the area which may be en- /
braced in placer application is not limited; I
and second, that an expenditure of $500 |
upon a claim applied for, whether the same |
embraces one or more locations, entities |
the applicant to patent. The case came up |
on appeal from an adverse decision argued |
by E. c. Ford, before General Sparks. Com |
missioner of the General Land Office, in
the matter of the application of the Good
Return Mining Company, located in Placer
county, California. That clear under
standing may be had as to the i'm
portance of and the radical changes made
by this decision, it is necessary TO publish
herewith those portions of the circulars
affected. Paragraph No 8 of the original
circular reads as follows " No application
by an association of persons for patent to a
placer claim will be allowed to embrace
more than $50 acres nor will any applica-
ton be entertained that embraces more
than one location" The amended and ex-
planatory circular of December 9th reads as
follows 4 No application by an association
OF persons for patent to placer claim will
be allowed to embrace more than 100 acres,
and not less than $500 worth of work must
be shown to have been expended upon or
for the benefit of each separate location
embraced in such application. If an indi-
vidual becomes the purchaser and poSsessor
| of several separate claims of 20 acres each
or less, he may be permitted 20 include in
his application for patent any number of
! such claims contiguous to each other, not
| exceeding the aggregate 100 acres, but upon
or for the benefit of the original claim or
| location so embraced, he or his grantors
must have expended the sum of $500 in
| improvements"
Further Appointments.
WASHINGTON, November 24th-The Post
master-General to-day appointed the fol-
| lowing fourth-class Postmasters Nevada
Mrs. Amanda F. Cox, at Genoa.
Appointments by the President NJ. L.
Cormac, of Grand Forks, to be Secretary of
| Dakota Territory To be Registers of Land
Offices: Robert V Yeakle, of Little Rock,
Ark, at Little Rock. Ark; Henry c. Tip
| ton, OF Melbourne, Ark, at Harrison, Ark;
| Chester H. Warner, of Colfax, w T., at
Walia Walla, w. I. Bartholomew Coffey,
OF Salem, Or, to be Agent for the Indians
OF the Umatilla Agency, in Oregon.
| AhhS EoitECOhlDS MeSSds,e
| WASHINGTON, November oath. = There
was full attendance at the Cabinet meet
| ing to-day. The session lasted about three
hours, and was devoted almost entirely to
the consideration of the Presidents mes
sage to Congress. The document is in an
| advanced condition, and will be completed
| several days before the meeting of Con-
gress. One OF the questions discussed to-
day was the order in which certain topics
should be considered The President
favored the custom adopted by a majority
OF his predecessors, as to the order Of pre-
| cedence, with few exceptions, and was Sus-
tanned IN his views by all the other mem
bers of his Cabinet.
The King of Spain.
WASHINGTON, November 24th.-Iate this
afternoon the Spanish Minister received a
cablegram, sent by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs at Madrid, stating that King Al
fonSo was last night struck with a violent
disorder OF the respiratory organs, and was
; seriously i'll. A cablegram was sent this
morning.
Lieutenant Schultz's Trip to Siberia.
WASHINGTON, November 24th.-A letter
has been received by Secretary Bavard
from w. W. Schultz, United States Navy
who was sent to Siberia last summer tC
carry the presents and gratuities awarded
by Congress TO certain OF the natives of tina
. country who befriended the survivors o
: the Jeanette, giving an account of hi
journey. The letter is dated Irkutsk, cas-
Siberia, September %, 1885, and saws hi
Will be compelled to remain where he il
until the early part of November before re
Stunning his trip.
The Transcontinentai Pool.
NEW YORK, November 24th.-It is re
ported here that the next meeting of tn,
Transcontinental Pool will be held in thi
: city December 14th, and not in Monterey
as has been supposed. Your correspond
ent visited the California freight offices thi
morning and found that the principal topi
} of conversation among the members of tn,
Transcontinental Association was whethe
the contract system would be renewed a
the next meeting of the pool. 1t is claimed
that the amount of business done bv th,
Association during the past year does no
compare favorably with the year before
when the contract was in force Clippe
freights have not had buster season in
: number of years, showing that freight ha.
been diverted around the Horn Oper
rates this year were even lowe
than those prevailing under tn,
contract system, but the increas,
of freight did not follow. as was expected
The rate on dry goods in 1884 was s.. Thi
Fl year it has been as low as 81 IS, but ship
mentS were fully one-third smaller to thu
Pacific coast than in 1884. Large quantitie:
l of iron, now being sent by clippers, form
erly went by rail but shippers can max,
the water voyage for IS ton whereas i
costs them about $23 per ton by rail Th,
only advantage accruing to the overland
! routes by the non fulfllment of the contrac
system has been rates on the lowest class O
| hnc which tI,ic III
this end of the line 1t is not thought b,
any railroad people that the pool will dis
solve. 1t is generally believed that highe
percentage will be awarded the Southern
Pacific on account of their recent connec
ton. The disbanding of the California As
1 ISOLATION has had no effect on east-bounC
passenger rates yet. though dispatches from
San Francisco predicted general democrat
ization.
The Marine Bank Case.
? NEW YORK, November 24th.-This morn
, ing William S. Warner and ]. Henry Worl
: appeared before Judge Brown and asket
? their case. Judge Brown fixed the bail a
900. Both defendants appeared befor
r Commissioner Shields and gave bonds il
the sum of $50, 600, or double the amour
4 required. The sureties are Frank Worl
f and John c. Work, uncle and father of J
S Henry Work. The proceedings pendin
f before Commissioner Shields were dis
t missed. Following is the Indictment sub
a stantially as found against the defendants
=, That Ferdinand Ward, ON May 3, 1884, wa
a Director of the Marine Bank, and Will
acting as such, with intent to defraut
he with VIM. S. Warner, James H. Work an
5 divers other persons, to the jury as yet un
= known, did misapply the sum of so, 1886 !
as follows: That he Ward, by reason of
= check, did direct the payment to w.
s Warner of thes of ISL 900, which was nc
:, then on deposit, nor in any way secured
Q but was drawn so that VIM. s. Warner
o James Fl. Work and others should drav
: the sum of $40, 1856 rs from the Marin
Bank, and that Warner and Work wer
% present, and aided and abetted Ward t
= commit this offense. The second count
e the Indictment is the same as the foregc
ing, save that Ward is charged with "a al
n stracting" instead of misapplying th
l. funds of the bank. The third and fourt
i counts are the same as the first and SECOND
IS except that they refer to a different chez
for 81, 500. The fifth, sixth, seventh an
E. eighth counts are the same as the first, sec
lie ond, third and fourth counts, except the
e they charge the intent to have been to d.
~ fraud ULYSSES s. Grant The doclImer