The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-12-04
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
washington Gossip.

John Eaton, commissioner OF education
has resigned to accept the presidency OF q
college.
In his annual report, Attorney General
Garland win strongly recommend the reor-
ganization OF the federal judiciary.
The United States supreme court declares
that policemen cannot arrest deserters
without a warrant or an order from mill
tary authority.
Charles Woodbury., or Hole-in-the-D Day,
the tall and handsome young Chippewa
chief who desired President Cleveland to
appoint him a cadet at West Point, is a
candidate for q place or the geological
survey, andi is likely to get it.
A regular meeting OF the cabinet was held.
All the members were present. The pres
ident's message, SO far as completed, was
read and unanimously approved. 1t is
said to be an unusually strong paper, con-
tanning many new and valuable sugges-
tions.
j. A. Walker OF New York has been APP
pointed private secretary to assistant
Secretary OF the Treasury Smith. Mr..
Walker has been for some time past a
clerk in the navy department, on duty in
the chief clerks roc as stenographer and
typewriter.
The Anglomania for house servants and
coachmen ID progressing with the rage for
other things, says the indianapolis News
Washington correspond emit. A l~iveryman
tells me that there is more money spent
there for carriages, coachmen, footmen and
liveries in proportion to population twice
over than in any other city in the Union.
Gov. Moody OF Oregon, through Capt.
John Mullen, Oregon's state agent, filed a
arr ., n1as. 800 ,.sAl II -an
against the COMMISSIONS OF the general
land office for failure to issue patents to
Oregon for lands heretofore approved to
the said state by Secretary Lamar's pred
ecessor, and for permitting a. contest to
be initiated for the said lands after such
approval.
In the supreme court OF the district. in
general term, was heard the motion OF Luz
Their Harrison for u writ Of mandamus to
compel the secretary OF the interior to rec
ognize him as an attorney in certain cases
in the department. Mr.. Harrison had
been assistant commissioner of the land of
flee and under the recent order ofSecretary
Lamar was declared to lie incompetent to
practice as an attorney in cases before the
department when he servered his onnec
ton with it. The motion was denied on
the ground that the secretary had the power
to regulate the practice OF his department
without legal interference.
The postmaster general has appointed the
following fourth-class postmasters: Da-
kota-Edgerton, Charles w. Pratt; Ga
lenE John b. Sheahan. Iowa-Alta, G.
K. Cameron; Cloves, George Blocker; Cones
vile, Richard r. Woiford; Delaware. Clara
Hefner; Dexter, j. l.. Meeks;G urnsey, Miss
Maggie McBurney; Guss, Miss Margaret
Bush; Hudson, Samuel l.. Wilson;
Maple River, John Geiss; Swan Creek, Ned
Mulroney; Templeton, Peter New; Uter f.
g. Dorothy. Washington Territory-Tu
talip, James M. Q%uilter; Fishers, Almsa D.
Buchanan; 0akville, Patrick j. Fitzgerald;
Fort Angeles, David w. Morse.
Assistant Secretary jerks drew up and
Mr.. Lamar signed a proclamation undoing
the order made by the commissioners in re-
gard to timber cutting from government
lands in Montana, The secretary OF the in
terror authorizes the publication OF the fol-
lowing statement: The system OF rules pur-
porting to be used by the commissioner OF
the general land office with reference to the
cutting OF timber for agricultural, mining
and ether domestic purposes, under the
provisions OF the act OF j une 3, 1878, APP
plying to the Territories OF montana, Idaho
and other territories, were issued mad
vertently and without authority. The
subject is under consideration by the de-
partment. When any change is made in
the present regulations it will be properly
announced.
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