Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-04-11

ter General. POstmasters-John A. Show.
walter, Labrobe. Pa; Chas. E. Cook, Nc.
| PhersOn, Kan; g. Marien Moore, Pleasan-
ton, Kan. The nomination of Gen. J os. E.
Johnston to be Commissioner of Railroads
was favorably reported from the Senate
Committee on Railroads. The report wa
| unanimous.
Commissioner Black has issued circu-
lar to pension agents, warning them to exer-
else great care in selecting their subordi
mates, and says: The Government, it is true,
may be reimbursed from your bond for
such losses as are above referred to, but this
does not prevent the resulting scandal to
the service. This message of earnest caution
is sent youto call your attention particular
~ to your own risk and duty in the premises
Investigate your agencies thoroughly, take
all possible precaution to cleanse the ser
vice of every suspicious or unworthy per-
on.
The members of the Utah Commission
had very satisfactory interview with Pres
ident Cleveland few days ago. They made
a verbal report to him of the condition of
affairs in Utah, and outlined their plans for
future work. The President listened to
them with attention, and expressed salts
faction at the progress made. and approval
of their plans. He promised the Commits
sion that whatever could be done by the
administration toward Strengthening their
hands and sustaining them and the judi
ciary in Utah in the effort to root out po-
igamy would be done.
Commissioner Sparks, of the Land Office,
said in exclamation of the order issued by
him, suspending action upon the pre-
emption, timber culture and desert land
entries in number of the Western States
and Territories, that the Department had
reason to believe that great number of
fraudulent claims had been made, and he
wished to thoroughly investigate the mat
ter. The order applied particularly to the
portions of the country covered by the vast
cattle ranches, as the Commissioner sus-
poets these ranches have been greatly ex-
tended through fraudulent entries of public
lands.
The President sent the following nomin-
atoms to the Senate March 81: ENJOYS Ex-
traordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary
of the United States-Wm. r. Roberts,
tuckey, to Peru. Chas. T. Russell, Con-
necticut, Consul, Liverpool, England.
Henry G. Pearson, postmaster, New York.
Norman J. Coleman, Missouri, Commits
sioner of Agriculture. John T. Magraw,
West Virginia, Collector of Internal Rev
enue for the District of West Virginia.
Henry Konscar, Louisiana, Naval Officer
at New Orleans. Andrew ], Boyd, North
Carolina, Collector of Internal Revenue for
the Fifth District of North Carolina.
Richard B. Hubbard, Texas, Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary OF
the United States to Japan. VIM. L. Long
Texas, United. states Consul at Hamburg,
Germany.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has ordered that final action in the
land Office upon all entries of public lands,
except private land entries and such loca-
tons as are not dependent upon acts of set
Element and cultivation, be suspended in
the following localities: All lands west of
the first guide meridian in Kansas; all
west of range seventeen was in Nebraska;
the whole of Colorado, except the lands in
the Ute reservation; all lands in New Mex
leo, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada, and
that portion of Minnesota north of the Pa
cific railrord and east of the indemnity
limits of the Chicago, M. & M. railroad. FL
nal action in the land Office is ordered to
be suspended upon timber culture entries
under the act of June 8, 1887, which law
has not already been examined; also in all
cases of desert land entries.