The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-30
THE NEWS SUMMARIZED.
washington Gossip.

lEMFL VS. SO6A
"Dr LEO, Lesquerealx appears to be we'll
Known in Washington and various other
cities Of the land.
TIE president appointed James NJ. Chil6s
81 Maine to be United States consul at
Guelph, Canada, and James II. Trumbull
10 the United States consul at Talcahuano,
Chilli.
Attorney General Garland's relations
riththe president are said to be considera-
bly, strained and his resignation is looked
tor.
Richard Smith, an aged cOlored man,
Waited the White House and "shook''with
Grover. He has shaken hands with every
president since Madison.
Mr.. Bonner OF the Montana Improvement
company, says that Secretary Lamar's
statement that Secretary Teller gave per-
mission to cut timber on government lands
b false.
The secretary OF the interio or is dissatisfied
sith tho meagerne IS of the reports, hereto
lore furnished by the government directors,
Of the Pacific railroads, and intends to make
q. change in this respect.
Col. John c. Kciton, assistant adjntant
gone rnl, assumed charge OF the appoint
msnt commission and personal branch OF
the adiutant generals Office, war depart.
ment, relieving Gen. Chauncy McKuner,
who will take station at San Francisco.
A. r. West, the new agent at the Fort
Peck Indian agency to succeed Agent Parker
was n brigadier general in the Union army
during the a He lives at Woodfeld,
Ohio, and is q kinsman OF the blind man
eloquent who nominated Mr.. Blaine at
chicago last summer. Gen. West is a law
yer, and q man OF good business ability.
Cannon Farrar. of Westminster abbey,
arrived in Washington, and went to the
residence OF Mrs. McAlister Laughton, an
old friend, whose guest he will be while in
the city. President Cleveland extended an
invitation to him to become ~ guest ut the
White House, but the cannon was COM
PEELED to decline because OF arrangements
previously made.
In the case OF the postofTice ut Vinton,
lowe, Mr.. Pyne, who resigned, wal APP
pointed to office only a short time ago,
upon petitions thatappeared to be very
conclusive as to his good character. Since
his appointment, however, it has come to
the knowledge OF the postmaster general
the pension laws, and Abraham Rose,
an old soldier and a pensioner, was APP
pointed to the Office.
Gen. Hazen has put his footintoi it again.
us everybody always expects he will when
he takes hold OF a pen, or'opens his mouth
having written tho following remarkable
letter to the Washington editor OF the New
York Herald: Judge Mackay has informed
me that he has sent yon a copy OF his book,
THE Eazen Court Martial" l nave to
ask as n personal favor that you have
some y -minded, unbiased man review it
for publication. He informs me that any
expense connected with 1T will be met.
Second Controller May nard has made a
decision in the case OF Mai. l.. Middleton,
cate fireman, u. S. N, that upon the dis
lharge OF . claimant the government cam
not retain any part OF the local bounty re-
ccived at the time of enlistment. Middle
ton enlisted in August, 1864, for twoyears
and received $500 bounty from the town
to which he was credited. He was dis.
charged in August, 1866, because the gov
eminent n longer needed his services.
When paid off the paymaster deducted
from his pay $3.50, being one-half OF tho
local bounty received. The controller
holds that this deduction was unauthor-
lied by law; that the local bounty OF the
claimant belonged to him by virtue OF a
coutrnct made with the municipality pay
ing it, and that the United States could
not lawfully appropriate any part Of it to
its own use.