Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-06-05
WASHINGTON.
A Van Removed from Office Commits
..E Suicide.

Suicide. ~
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Friends here
OF ex-First Auditor Reynolds, who wa:
FOUND dead in st. Louis do not think tina,
he committed suicide, but say he was sub
Ject 70 attacks of vertigo and suffered in.
tensely from other maladies and it is
thousht his mind was affected when he fell
through the shaft in the Southern hotel
he Sas IN comfortable circumstances. SO
the tsSs OF his Office could not be supposed
10 haYn driven him to self-destruction.
QUALITIES.
Judge Maynard, the newly appointed
SECOND comptroller of the treasury qualified
ttpsaaYsand ts, entered upon the discharge OF
~ GARNET MEETING.
The cabinet meeting today was attended
py.all the members, except the secretary
OF state and secretary of the navy. The
pflnclpal topic OF discussion was in regard
TO the application of the laws concerning
pleuro-pneumOnia and other laws reIatinS
10 the cattle handled in the northern parf
OF Texas, properly known as "No Mans
Lands" No conclusion was reached.
APPOINTMENTS. s.
"A number of postmasters for different
states were appointed today, among them,
Martin Y. Meredith, at East Saginaw, Mich.
vice w. G. Gage, suspended because he had
been guilty Of fraudulently appropriating
TO his own use part of his allowance for
office rent by means of false vouchers and
OF Sublettlng portion of the premises
without accounting for rent received for
the same.
John B. Hussey, of North Carolina. was
today appointed chief of division in the
once OF the third auditor of the treasury.
WASHINGTON, June, 4.-The following
dispatches from Gen. Schofield to Adiutant
General Drum relative to the Indian troubles
have been received at the war Dept, "In
reply to your dispatch of to-day please in
form the Secretary of War that I do not;
believe it practicable to do any thing more
at this time than has been done to give pro-
lection to the settlers in Arizona and New
Mexico from the Indians. It is impossible
to actually guard all frontier settlements.
larger than the United States Aamy.
In nAysDpiniOn, the only way t0 protect
the scattered settlers is to keep the savage
Indians under military control and liot
Per- permit them to roam over large reserva-
General Crook under date of June End.
also telegraphs as follows from Fort
Bayard:
"The Indians shortly after crossing the
New Mexico line evidently divided into
small parties, which raided in widely
separated localities, while the women and
children were hid away in the mountains.
The troops have been following different
raidiDg parties with the only effect of
breaking down their stock It is impOssi-
BILE with the troops to capture the parties.
they are so scattered among the noun
tains."
AN ORDER.
Commissioner Sparks of the land office
has 'aade the following order:
Final action at this office OIL all pre-
emption and homestead entries in San
Francisco and Humboldt, CAL, districts,
will be suspended until the same have been
examined by the special agents.
The effect of this order is simply to sus-
pend final issue of patents until the exami-
nation can be made and will not prevent the
filing OF entries at the local land offices.
REDUCTION OF FORCE.
: The treasury inquiry commission has
concluded its investigation of the internal
revenue bureau, and made report 10 the
secretary Of the treasury. The commission
recommend reduction in the present force
in several division.