Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-11-14
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The president appointed Frederick f.
Mansfield, of Texas, to be secretary OF
the legation at Japan.
The earnings OF the Milwaukee &
st. Paul for he first week in November
were S6o7, 600. against S553, 600 for the
same week last year, q gain OF $40 900.
The president to-day made the fol-
lowing appointments IN the navy: John
j. Hunker, lieutenant commander; Mil
ton *. Sehwink, lieutenant; VIM. Ell.
Schuetz, lieutenant; Waldeman d. Rose,
l%ieGsenant OF the junior grade.
The report of the director of the mint
has been issued, and is a much more
bulky document than usual, comprising
over 200 pages, three-auarters of which
are devoted to statistical tables and
correspondence with the United States
legations abroad in regard to the coinage
OF foreign countries.
Secretary of State Bayard has re-
quested Secretary OF the Navy Whitney
to send o man-of.war to the Samoan, or
Navigator's Island, for the purpose
OF opening communication with that
government. The inhabitants are
Christians and mostly Presbyterians.
The country is under tie protection of
the United States.
Civil Engineer Moneoal, of the navy,
who recently made q survey of the pro-
posed route of the Nicaraugua canal, has
submitted lis report of the surveying
expedition to the secretary Of the navy.
In this report a new route for the canal
is recommended, which will enter from
the eastern coast through the San Car
los river, IN the territory Of Costa Rica,
instead Of following The old line up the
San Juan.
The collector Of customs of San Fran
cisco informs the treasury department
that q number OF Chinese laborers who
landed In jane last in transit to San
Francisco, where they were to take a
steamer for China, have not been heard
from since their arrival in New York,
and the superstition is they are concealed
in this country and have no intention of
leaving. 1t is said at the treasury de-
partment there are no available means
which can be used to trace them.
The steamer Dolphin, the dispatch
boat built by John Roach for the navy,
about which there has been q contro-
versy, has been turned over to the navy
department, and now it is u source of
contention as to the selection of the Of
hcers to command her. She is the new
est and finest ship in the service aud
was constructed for a dispatch boat.
Her equipment is very fine and every Of
fcer in the navy is anxious to secure o
detail aboard hei.s 1t is understood
that the Dolphin will be assigned to the
North Atlantic.
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Il il new atiiassiiss#sttiisveii stated that
the Milwaukee & st. Paul will begin
work curly in the spring on the extern
sion FROM Ipswich, OAK, west to the
river, possibly further. A number of the
officers OF the company are interested in
the little town of Roscoe, west of lbs
Wiah, and have also purchased about all
tile property around Swan lake, and
have laid out a town called Theodore, at
the lake. 10 these men, General Mar
ager htlller gave the assurance last
spring that the extension would be built
this fall, ut least as far as Roscoe, but
this. has not been done. Early spring.
however, will see the work in progress.
The project for the establishment. OF a
line of fast ocean steamers between Fort
Pond Bay, l. [, and a point on the west
coast OF Ireland. is being actively pushed
by President Oorbin and the directors of
tho Long Island railroad. Plans are
being prepared for q number Of steamers
OF z, 0Oo tons, to cost 81, 800, 900 each. A
petition has already been prepared
which Is intended. TO be presented ia
congress during the coming session, ask
ing for a subsidy for carrying the mails.
Ii is proposed 10 have the line a strictly
American one in every respect, the
vessels to be constructed in Americas
yards.
A Wichita, Kansas, special from the
cantonment announces the death of the
noted and cruel Cheyenne chief, Stone
Cali, who died Wednesday at his camp
near the cantonment, Of spinal menin-
gifts. He was widely known and infu-
entail with the tribe of which ne was the
principal chief. He was the leader in
tho troubles Of last spring, always lived
IN remote parts of the reservation, and
never obeyed the agent if he could help
1t. He vas a terror to cattle men. and
previous to the annulling of the grass
leases regularly faided their ranches.
with his band, He len In the antbraat,