The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-26
HERE AND THERE.
Newsy Notes From the Capt.
tai Of the Nation.
A HEAVY SUNDAY ROBBERY
Idaho-Ren an American
Citizen-Notes.
Washington Notes.

WASHINGTON, May 25.-The Post
master-General has awarded to the
American Bank Note Company of New
York, the contract for furnishing post
age stamps for the next four years at
SOL, 1852 per annum for ordinary
stamps (Which will be printed entirely
by steam) and 81, 1929 for postage due
and other issues of stamps, making a
total of SOB .959.61 per annum. The
gross bid of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, which was the next
lowest bid, was $114, 1869, and the
work was to have been executed
by a combination of steam and hand
work. The samples of the steam work
of the American Bank Note Company
were found to be fully equal to the re-
quirements of the department. The
price paid for ordinary stamps under
the new contract, will be $6.99 per
thousand, as against 1919 under
the present contract Nearly four billion
stamps are required, equally to meet
the demands of the service. A saving
of 3 cents per thousand during the next
four years, willshow considerable re-
duction in this item of expenditure.
Professor Riley says the seventeen
year locusts, whose visit he has pre-
dicted, are harmless to growing crops
and do no injury, except to twigs of
forest and fruit trees. Wherever young
orchards have been planted on land
which has been cleared during the last
seventeen years, the trees are liable to
suffer somewhat; but it is probable
that kerosene spray will protect them.
The ordinary locust. which is so des-
tructive to growing crops, has jaws
which cut; while the seventeen year
specie, more properly called cicada, has
only a beak, through which he sucks
his nourishment.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ended
May %, was 267 ,497.
The Treasury Committee. appointed
to open bids for furnishing distinctive
paper for use in printing United States
notes and other securities, were received
one from the present contractors,
Crane & Co. ,of- Dalton, Mass, and the
other from Parsons & Co., of HoIyoke,
Mass. Tt is not expected that the con-
tract will be awarded until the return
of Secretary Manning. nNGH-
The President has designated either
Frank O'Neil or James Tracy. or
both, of St. Louis. to take charge of
Maxwell, the suspected murderer of
Preller,uPon their arrival in New Zea-
land. In the extradition papers, which
arrived in Washington to-day, these
gentlemen were named by the Governor
for this purpose.
A dispatch was received at the
department this afternoon, saying
young Schock had been suffering from
mental depression for several days prior
to his suicide. The early part of last
week an intimate friend of the young
officer, in this city. received a letter
from him, in which there was no indi-
cation of depressed spirits. Schock is.
said to have been engaged to young
lady in this country, who was recently
married, and his friends attribute the
suicide to this disappointment.
Secretary Lamar has declined to re-
view the decision of his predecessor, re-
fusing to issue an order for the survey
of Arsenal Island, opposite st. Louis. 6