Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
La les 3 US ] sun n \ |. R / I
Washington News.

q Sitting Bull makes his debut before q big
crowd at Washington.
a student OF Lovola college, Baltimore,
has presented to the president a copy OF
the inaugural address translated into Lat
in and inscribed upon parchment. 81
Gen Pope has ira nsmitted to the war de-
partnent 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
in Southern Oregon. s.a1.
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
charged out OF g. tube, and is propelled by q
rocket composition which is held in an iron
tube sixteen inches in diameter and forty
two inches long. f.
s. NJ Goliath, brother OF the late Vice
President Wilson, employed as guide at
the bureau OF engraving and printing ct the
salary OF ST. 5 per day, has quite q 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 O. good position; but Of late years
they have entirely forgotten him. These
facts were brought to the attention OF Sec
Rotary Lamar, and it is understood that
he will furnish Mr.. Goliath with a 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 of in estimates for the year will be
about SO, 600, 900; $2,OOO,O00 in the in
ternal revenue: 81, 900, 900 in the customs
and 81, 900, 900 in the miscellaneous The
expenditures have been greaterf for pensions
and defenses than was anticipated, SO the
surplus for the fiscal year will probably be
between 100000 and 2O,OO0,00O less
loch in his. report to congress last year, leav-
ing the surplus at about 100000 in
stead OF $50, o00,0
One by one the old stagers are coming
back to Washington, says the Cleveland
Leaders Washington correspondents. Ex-
Senator Wilkinson of Minnesota is here.
This man was one of the most prominent
senators during the war period. He was
United States senatorin congressfrom 1859
to 1868, and he was also q member OF the
Forty first congress. He settled in Mime
sofa as far back as 1S47, and it was his
hand that drafted the Minnesota code OF
laws. Lit lS NOW SlACJ -SlA yeftIS VI <eeo sSiAe'
he looks younger than many men OF fifty
six. A tall, dark man, with face which
might have stepped out OF one OF the old
colonial portraits. He moves around &C
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 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. 81, and all persons
| preparing to enter and settle the same, that
they would neither be 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 at once, he will send troops
there and have them removed, by force, il
necessary. Secretary Lamar fully agrees
with the president.