Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-13
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DOMESTIC NEWS.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Government Timber Affair in idaho.
WAsHrNGToN, October l2ih.-The follow
ing letter has just been received by Com
missioner Sparks, of the General Land
Office:
RATHpRUoi Gdaho}. October S, ISS5.
To ttc lion t0a1pissi0Hcr Of Ae Load Odicc-
SIR: have the honor to report that l have
completed the reports in the Northern Pacific
Railway Company and Montana improvement
Company timber treSpass cases and herewith
transmit eight reports, making with what fh0d
already transmitted, thirty-one separate indict-
mCuts in all, showing that these corporations
have caused to be cut from the public domain
10 ,eG0 feet of lumber ana bridge timber: 81
IA railroad ties; l5,i0o,J00 shingles, or 81 coo
punches: ST. -, ,O39 cords Of wood. and 200 cedar
posts. The value of the lumber, at SO per / 900
feet, which would be low figures; the railroad
ties at 30 cents per tie The wood at So Der cord:
the posts at $50 per 900 and the shingles at s.
per l,G0O or % cents a bunch, would amOuut to
S6l3,40 This does not represent all the ties
and wood cut for the Northern Pacific Rail
way Company by Eddy, Hammond * Co., which
changed its name into the = Montana Improve
ment Company in July 1883 it is an absolute
impossibiiity TO get witnesses tOtestlfy in those
cases. or even to find persons OF whom
could obtain anything like satisfactory
information. Where the depredations We're
committed, between Rathdrum, Idaho, and
Beamouth, Montana, is very thinly set
ticd, and the men who were employed
bli liic t'LlittCtS uuI4itS lile CONSTRUCTOR OF
the Northern Pacific hallway have gone TO parts
unknown Owing TO this, 1t has taken me much
longer to complete this investigation than it
otherwise would / was hampcred by officers
OF the kontand improvement Company
who appeared to expect an investigation and
were fort!fying their position The company
had agents along the line endeavoTing 10 sup
press the facts of the Montana Improvement
Company operations. The company is an un-
ScrupulOuS corporation, that VIII leave nothing
undone to gain their point. l found that no re
"a
made by officers OF the Montana Improvement
Company. 1 have mailed you copy in dupli-
c0te of the contract between the Northern Pa
citic Railway Company and the Montana In
proYement Company. 1t was furnished rae by
If. w. FdiTweather, an eX-pNiSiOn Superintend-
cut Of the Northern Pacific Railway. I have
the honor to be your Obedient servant
N. J. HALEY, Special Timber Agent
The contract referred to by Agent Haley,
in the above report, is between the North
ern Pacific Railroad, of the first part. and
the Montana Improvement Company. of
the second part. 1t binds the railway com
pany to withdraw all of its timber lands
from sale or disposal, and gives the i'm
provement company the exclusive right to
cut timber from the lands. In return for
this privilege, the Improvement company
transfers to the railroad company 1.O0l
full paid shares of its capital stock. of the
value OF 81 GOO 100, reserying toitself shares
valued at $999,900 The improvement
company also agrees to erect, at its own
expense, all mills, and furnish all the plant
necessary for its business of timber cutting.
Nellie Grant-Sartoris and Her Englisl,
Husband.
WASHINGTON, October 12th-For several
weeks stories have been in circulation
about the unpleasant condition OF affairs
between Nellie Grant-Sartoris and her hus-
band. Long and minutely detailed histo-
ries of this difficulty, and the probability
of a divorce, have been in the various East
ern publication offices for some time. but
no publication of these stories was made
in the Eastern papers until the story first
appeared in Denver. The local papers here
have had several columns upon this sub
iect from day to day. The Critic this even
ing contains the following, which throws
| more light upon what has already been
printed: The newspaper gossip about the
unpleaSantness existing in the married re-
lations of Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris
and her husband does not surprise
| those familiar with their courtship.
They look upon these reports as the natu-
| raj sequence of the union. Nellie was a
girl of sweet disposition and gentle man
ners; her fathers idol, while Sartoris
was rough and coarse-grained English
man. His general conduct, in connection
with the fact that he had exhibited some
three of Nellie's letters to him. acc ompa-
MED with gross remarks, TO persons in a
Wisconsin town, where an accomplished
young lady had rejected his addresses,
caused Sohcitude among many of
Grants personal friends, some of
whom consulted as to the pro
pliety OF informing him of Sartoris'
conduct, with a view to gaining possession
i,af 10 IL
finally consented to brOach the delicate
subject TO General Grant. He called at the
White House, and in as delicate a manner
as possible commenced relating the current
scandal as to SartoriS' notorious conduct.
when the General quietly remarked: That
will do, Senator; my daughter is engaged
to Sartoris, and the wedding will take
place" Carpenter, in speaking of The in
terview, said he never felt so chagrined as
at the Presidents abrupt closing of the
conversation, and that he would never
again, under any circumstances, at
tempt. to advise about the do
was well known that Grant was
opposed to the alliance, but when his
daughters affections were engaged, he ac-
quiesced, and would listen to no argument
or suggestion 10 the contrary. When Gov
ernor Jewell was returning from his mis-
sion az St Petersburg, to 3crepi a position
in Grants Cabinet, he stopped dlv at
Southampton to call upon the elder Mr..
and the elder Mrs. Sartoris, parents Of Mel
lies husband. He was cordially received
by them but in the course of conversation
Mrs. Sartoiis astonished the ex-Minister 10
Russia by remarking that she did not see
what there was about Algernon 20 cause
the daughter of President Grant, of the
United States, to fall in love with and mar
ry. Jewell subsequently, expressed the
same astonishment.
The Carriage of Foreign Mails.
WASHINGTON, October 12th.-Within the
last sixty days, or since the American
Steamship Company's refusal to transport
the mails at the rates fixed by the Post
master-General, four complaints from in
dividuals and one petition have been re-
ceived. protesting against the methods
employed at the Department to secure the
carriage of foreign mails. One of these
communications refers TO the alleged de
fectS III the Chilean services, two refer to
the japanese service and the remainder
attack the West Indian service "a Ito
gether,' said Superintendent Bell to-day
!" the complaints are fewer in rumber Than
when | came into Office. In all but one
instance these complaints are without
foundation, and in that particular case the
mail steamer was disabled through an ac-
cident."
Capital Notes.
WAsHINGToN, October Richmond
S. Dement,, of Illinois, was to-day appoint
ed by the President to be S4rveyor-General
of the Territory of Utah, and Edmund
Shields, OF New Mexico, to be Register Of
the Land Office at Las Cruces, n. NJ.
The Secretary of the Treasury has isSEel
a circular TO customs ofiieers, in which be
says that as it appears to be iInpractieable
to procure, under the existing laws. aeeu-
rate statistics of immigrants arriving IN the
United States by railways from Contiguous
foreign territory, the collection of statistics
of 5lCh immigration viii be discontinued
until otherwise 0rdeged.
On motion OF 5. s. Burdett, the Supreme
Court to-day admitted to practice Thomas
S Nowlin, Of san Francisco.
Officers of the Government who arc fanai-
Ear with the Numerous applications for the
Office Of Supervising Architect Of the Treas
ury, express the opinion that the position
VIII DC offered 10 benjamin. Siiliman. OF
New York, son Of the late Professor SillI-
man, of Yale.
The Department of State has received,
through Consul General Beach, a synopsis
of the ne"g tariff laws passed BIZ the Con-
gress Of Ecuador in August OF this year.
The new duties become operative after
November lst, and involve many radical