Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-07-09

Rx R6Atsnastrr<t4essra james is an ar.
dentsspfs<ate y postal savings banks
,Jisaks Z 8lsxwf Tree o. Chicago IL being
strongly usvs4 No the Austrian nrission.
Secretary Mahning urges upon customs
ofiieisi mnderAtion IN the use Of blank
booksafd stationery.
i Col. Villas announces TINT BE- cannot hear
/ personal applications for postofHees during
the two wteks following ths Fourth.
Postmsst.rs commissioned A. , Laird,
4 Green Mountain. Iowa. G. Hermann, Bran.
/ don, Wis, }. B. Banton Rutland Wis.
Gen Don Carlos Buell. viii probably be
/ appointed pension agent for Kentucky.
He has been twenty years IN retirement.
Horscs G Borchard director ofths niirt,
4 WINS removed and Dr James - Kb-5sll 81
\ Penneylvania appointep' ns=csed him
Ths Sg 4, 20, Orleans Z; g ,,..i r n,
Of the North, Central md South American
I exposition
The Eve special examiners OF the DEPART
mant ~ Justice and the general agent win be
disglissed, and the Offices Il il said, win be
abolished.
II il rumored that another call viii soon
be made for the interference % this govern.
nent TO protect the property OF It's citizens
upon the Isthnius Of Panama.
movement for the admission OF New
Mexico as state is in progress, and con-
gress is TO he asked 10 pass the bundle 81
political rubbish through next winter,
The paper to be used hereafter for United
States checks win be distinguished by
water mark o. the letters ~. ;. u d,
instead oEsiik threads, asforTnsrly
Mr.. 0rme, . prominent Pennsylvania
merchant, punched severely the head 81 an
attache Of the legation who bad made
hinself offensive 60 The formers vile.
Congressman Payson Of Illinois il in
Washington 20 urge the administration 60
act promptly 10 enforce the l4w for the re-
mo@al 81 fences BON the public domain.
Scores Of fellows are advertising IN the
Washington newspapers for government
claFksslips They offer 10 give 800 and
$50 10 the man who will got them theirposi-
tons
A delegation of Representatives 81 The va
rious American steamship lines called on
Postmaster General Villas 60 rcaFgue Che
claim for tle distribution OF 500 900 sub
sdy hut he gave them no hope
This secretary Of the navy aAked for the
resignation OF Frank Adams, an 81 800
clerk IN the bureau Of clothing and proyis.
Ions, navy department.. Mr.. Adams IL a
nephew Of Paymastsr General Smith.
Attorney General Garland says that he
will reduce the force OF examiners IN the de-
partmcnt % Justice considerably az he iinsfs
thm5 there is not sufficient. work 60 be done
70 Justify the employment Of the entire
force,
First Assistant Postmaster General Hay
tests congresamen who indorse parties for
postmastership by asking the question:
Would ySs tndorss thia mans note for
$40 900 as you havs Endorsed his papers9H
It staggers some os the.s:
O. w. PHILIPPE has accepted temporarily
the position 81 chief deputy marshal Of tho
District 81 Columbia. He was chief deputy
for twenty three years immediately prior
30 the Hayes administration. He is and
always has been a Democrat.
The clerk OF the house on representatives
says that from present Indications there
win be fewsr contested election cases before
The next congress Than there have been be-
fore any congress for forty-s six years. There
will probably not be more than three.
Second Iisutenant Carrot Mercer, ~ the
United States marine corps, who was tried
by court martial in New York for drunken
ness on tha Panama expedition, has been
sentenced to two years suspension on hall
pay and to retain his present number on
the registration during that time.
A supposed crank appeared az the main
door 81 tho White House and announced
that he was Che Sole representative az Che
SON 81 man chosen 20 pay the respects ~
the supreme riiiers to Mr.. Cleveland He
was dressed in whits duck suit with
blue silk sash around his waist and black
velvet slippers He carried a small basket
OF white flowers and said he bad just
arrived from paradise through California
by way Of the Golden Gate
The president has made the following 40
pointments 10 be receivers OF public
moneys, John 0'Keane, at V@aceuvsr.
Wash; Michael J. Cady, at Boo a. 4;al . ].
N Deiiison &C Humbcldt, Cal; n. c. Perry.
Edited States attorney for The district %
Kansas, vice H0ilowell, resigned; Jancs NJ 4
Spokane Fails, Wash, vice r, NJ Arm.
strong suspended, and Bcni. r. Peach pen
sion agent at Boston, Mass, vice Daniel w.
Gooch, suspended,
The eBufcer house force" Of senate EN-
pioyes consisting 81 three messengers with
salarias az 81 40 each, two janitors at
5000 and several laborers at S72o, win be
dropped from the pay rolls % eeHgeanf.at4
arms 40 Tho end 81 the present month.
These men are nearly All Republicans. At
the same time one assistant doorkeeper 81
chs senate AZ 81 500, two messengers 1T
81 400 each, and some employees Of Che fold.
ing room viii be dropped, OF these two ,sre
Democrats. one Is Republican and the
politics 81 the others is unknown.
The coming fiscal years worE o. the geo
logical survey has been thus mapped ont
and the plans approved by Secretary Ia.
mar. Typographical parties ELL eonSSss-.sie
the work already begun IN Massachusetts
and Nov Jersey. The mapped areas az the
coal ard irs.ss soaring regions Of the East
win DO considerably enlarged. tieographi-
cat surveys win Also DO continued in Ari-
xona, New Mexieo, California, Oregon, Mon
eral astronomical parties win also be sent
out 10 establish starting points Tor new
surveys 10 be begun next year. The oper-
ations % The geological survey IN the Fast
are 81 recent undertaking, and biologists of
eminenee in the scientific world being
drafted to Eastern fields 10 follow closely
upon the footsteps OF the geopraphers.