The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-26
From Washington.

From Washington.
Four important Offices have been aban,
doned in the new Orleans custom house.
Tho British minister at Washington plays
lawn tennis in a pea jacket and green spec.
tacles.
George Wilson OF Peoria is appointed col
lector OF internal revenue for the Fifth dis.
trictt OF Illinois.
The president appointed George Wilson o!
Peoria, ILL.,, to be collector OF internal rev.
enue for the Fifth district of Illinois, vice
Howard Knowles, suspended. Wilson il
about forty years OF age, and a lawyer by
profession.
Land COMMISSIONS Sparks has addressed
accommodation to Secretary Lamar that
the indemnity limits along railroad grants
be cancelled. The aim is to prevent sc
many millions of acres being locked upfrom
settlement.
President Cleveland has appointed Mr..
Thomas C~urtin-chief OF the secret service in
place OF Col. Brooks. Mr.. Curtin was CHIEF
OF police in Buffalo while Mr.. Cleveland was
mayor, and is the second Buffalo appoint
ment OF the president.
The lightning which shivered thecapstone
OF the Washington monument recently, has
given a deal OF trouble to the government,
forit will be % very perilous and difficult
operation to repair the damage. Scaffold.
ing will haye to be erected over five hundred
feet high.
1t is expected that Secretary Whitney
will very soon issue an order for the court
martial ofPaymaster General Smith, whose
Office was recently investigated by a court
OF inquiry with regard to alleged irregular
practices in the matter of contracts for
naval supplies.
The fund Tor the payment OF the United
States marshals is very low, and will SO re-
main until July i, when the legislative. ex,
%ecutiye and judicial bill becomes operative
Therefore the marshals who have been re
Gently appointed have shown no eager de
sire to assume Office.
Senator Conger Of Michigan and Mrs. Con.
ger and Mrs. Conger's mother called on
the president, to pay their respects. Mrs.
Conger told the president that her mother
was a Delraocrat, and she came all the way
iromsO Ohio to pay her respects to the first
ltiNGlStCllU flC ltttI v stSl.
Daniel Corrigan, ex-chief clerk OF the bu
reau oil medicine and surgery of the nav
department, who had pleaded guilty onfoul
indictments Of theforty for presentingfalse
vouchers on the bureau ofmedicine and sur
gerry, was sentenced to six years in the al
bany p~enitentiary.
Gen. Rosecrans has happened upon for
tunate days for himself. Just as he recciv
ed the appointment OF register OF the treas
ury, with a salary OF $4,000 a year, a de
cision OF the federal supreme court, touch
ing certain land surveys in California, has
brought him abundant wealth.
The treasury department is informed o
the arrest in New York, OF Ed Hall, on 6
charge of .counterfeiting 500 Gautemalar
notes. This is the first arrest under the ACT
to prevent and punish the counterfeitiu.
within The United States OF securities OF
eign governments. Hall was committed il
default OF SIS, 1000 bail.
President cleveland refuses to appoin-
James Ryan postmaster at Appleton be
cause he is the publisher OF a partisan
Democratic newspaper-that the admins
~tration is daily removing Republicans be
cause OF thelr cOnnecti0n With partisan Re
publican sheets, and the postmaster gener
al and the president will not knowingly ap
point a man to a postofice who is connect
ed with a partisan newspaper.
Mr.. Sparks discharged one of the specia
agents OF the land department who recent,
returned to Washington under an assumed
name without proper authority, and helc
a.conversation with one oil the chiefs OF di
vision in regard to land entries which ar,
suspected of being fraudulent. The agen,
did not call upon Gen. Sparks. and kept out
Of sight as much as possible, and when dis
covered had no satisfactory explanation te
offer.
The rumor is audible in the corridors o
the interior department that the firm O
Britton& Gray, the great land lawyers
would be disbarred from practice before the
interior department, as a penalty for mali
cious statements recently made by private
circulars, and by a newspaper interview in
regard to the motive which led Land Com
m%issioners Sparks to issue his order O
April 3, suspending further action upon
land entries in certain districts of the West
This firm has been one OF the most success.
ful in Washington, and boasts ola business
amounting to between 100000 and $50,
900 a year.