The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-07-03
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington News.

Sitting Bull makes his debut before a big
crowd at Washington.
A student Of Loyola college, Baltimore,
has presented to Che president q copy 81
b inaugural address translated into Lat
IN and inscribed upon parchment.
Gen Pope has transmitted to the war de-
partment an account OF the killing of a
Pinto Indian named Joe by two white men
in Happy Valley, Or. Gen Pope again in
yites attentionto the white and Indian out
RACES which are increasing in frequency
in Southern Oregon.
Recent experiments with an improved
torpedo mt the Washington navy yard re-
suited in the attainment Of 100 feet in ten
seconds, the Inc OF firing being almost
perfectly straight across d current Of over
two knots an hour. This torpedo is dis
charged out OF tube, and is propelled bya
rocket composition which is held in an iron
tube sixteen inches in diameter and forty
two inches long.
s.. NJ. Goliath, a brother OF the late Vice
President Wilson, employed MS p guide at
the bureau OF engraving and printing atthe
salary of S1.15 per day, has quite q lnrge
family, being well advanced in years, and
can with the greatest difficulty perform his
duties. Soon after his brothers. death the
Massachusetts delegation promised TO place
him In a good position; but OF late years
they have entirely forgotten him. These
facts were brought to the attention OF See
rotary Lamar, and it is understood that
he will furnish Mr.. Goliath with O position
In that department.
The fiscal year ends June 30, and accord
ing to the receipts from internal revenue,
customs and miscellaneous sources, the
falling off in estimates for the year will be
about $4,000, 900; 81, Oo0, 900 in the in
torha1 rayop,,o. Cd nGn nnO II, thu frucfnfnS
and $4,000, 900 in the miscellaneous. The
expenditures have been greaterfor pensions
and defsnses than was anticipated, 50 the
surplus for the fiscal year will probably be
between 100000 and 2O,000,00O less
than was calculated by Secretary McCul-
loch in his report t%ocongress last year, leay-
ing the surplus Mt about $20,O00.O0O in
stead OF $4,000, 900.
One by one the old stagcrs are coming
back to Washington, says the Cleveland
Leaders Washington correspondent. Elk.
Senator Wilkinson OF Minnesota is here.
This man was one OF the most prominent
senators during the war period. He was
United States senatorin congress from 1855
to 1868, and he WAS also n member OF the
Forty-first congress. He settled in Mime
sofa as far back as 1S47, and it was his
hand that drafted the Minnesota code o.
laws. He Is nov sixty-six years Of age, and
1No AOohs yOunStF tHdH Iuhuy uieH VI my
six. A tall, dark man, with a face which
might have stepped out Of n OF the ole
colonial portraita. He moves around nc
lively, and is not SO averse as some oil hi
younger brethren to expressing his opinion
on public men and measures.
The 18th OF April President Cleveland is
sued q proclamation declaring void the or
der issued by President Arthur Feb. 81
1856, restoring the old Winnebago Croy
Creek reservations in Dakota to the publ
domain. In that proclamation the presi
dent declared that in order to maintain in
violate the pledges Of the government witt
the Indians, he warned all persons in occu
patton OF said lands under color OF the ex
ecutive order of Feb. 81, and all person
preparing to enter and settle thesame, tina
they would neither be permitted to remain
nor enter. It. is known that the presiden
has resolved to enforce the order. If thos
who are Illegally on the reservation name'
do not yacate Mt once, he will send troop
there and have them removed, by force,
necessary. Secretary Lamar fully agree
with the president.