The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-20
Thus far President Cleveland has d

Thus far President Cleveland hiss given NO
attention to Office seekerA He refuses to con-
slider any applications, referring all applicants
to the heads OF departmental. Those applica-
tons which reach him by mail are not pre-
scented to the president but referred by his
direction to the proper department. The So
lection Of principal subordinate officers will be
left raainly to the several secretaries.
tits understood that Judge I. ]. Mackey,
council for Gen Hazen. will challenge all the
members of the court martial to convene We'd
nesday next for the trial Of that officer, on the
ground that the late secretary of war brought
the charge Of d,srespect to himself, and he, the
accuser, at the same time, made q detail for
the court, which legally taints it's character %
. judicial body.
Al Waterford, Ireland, there was = regular
%rnction' between the Royal Irish regiment,
under orders for Egypt, and tho Town police.
Tho soldiers broke into the spirit house and
public houses and treated each other without
paying. b police were called on to eject
them, but the soidisrs refused to go, and at
once assaulted the police, with whom, after q
short but bloody battle, they literally wiped
the streets. 4
Washington Special: Ex-Governor +. lei
bach who 10 known throughout the northwest
- the s'squatter governor having been nomi-
Lated governor Of the .erritoryibeforei.ts organ
~izstion, will, it lie understood, be appointed to
succeed Gov. Pierce, who, it is SAID will resign
70 engage In cattle raising. Gov. Ordway thinks
CoL Benton of Fargo, an old friend Of Col La
mont can have the goyernorship If he de-
sires it .. w. Maratta is pressing his own
name, and is well supported.
Six miles south Of La Moure, Oak, Nj. Hall
and wife and three children retired atthe usual
hour in good health. He had arranged with .
neighbor to ride into town with him next morn
ing. When the latter called at tho house he founi
all unconscious but the woman, one of the
children, aged five, being dead. Mrs. Hall
was hardly able to speak, and could give no
expianatinn. The physicians think the others
viii die. The family has been poisoning foxes
and the casualty may have sprung from this,
or it may be from decaying matter.
Charles s. Fairchild, who was nominated by
the president to be assistant secretary Of the
treasury, was born in ls42a, at Cazenovia, N. Y.
BE was graduated at Harvard and was admitted
to tho bar in Albany. In 1A7, he was appoint
60 deputy attorney general and in tie follow
ing year, he was elected attorney general.
he held the Office for two years. He was q
candidate for denomination in 1877 but was
defeated in the convention by August Schoo-
maker, JE Mr.. Fairchild has held no public
Office since that year, but has been president
OF the New York Charities Aid association.
President Cleveland remained quietly atthe
White House last Sunday, much to the disap-
%pointInent OF the largest Congregation as
2sembled this winter for public worship at the
New York Avenue Presbyterian church. The
euitice was crowded in every part Chairs were
brought in and placedin the aisles, and every
LOO OF standing room was made available.
immens assemblage listened to an ex-
cellent DISCOURSE; but the countenances of
many, as they emerged from the church, show
cd but too plainly that the absence OF the
president had left an aching void, which even
an eloquent sermon had not completely filed.
Commissioners Price says he has no adyices
OF an Indian disturbancein the Winnebagore res
ervation. The executive order was issued on
the responsibility of Secretary Teller, and not
only by the Recommendation of Mr.. Price. The
only share the commissioner has had in it was
70 ask that the Indians be fully protected in
their remaining lands. This the president and
Secretary Teller assured him should be done
Land Commissioner MacFarland says Surveyor
Genoral Fessenden has been notified to send
the survey plats for the opened. land to the land
ofdce in which the lands lie. II no filings are
being received at the land office, it is because
they are not in q condition to receive them,
The squatters will be protected in the priority
claims, although the situation will yield o big
batch Of contests.