Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-16
TEE WORLD AT LARGE.

The House Committee on Territories has
reported bill forming the Territory OF Okla
homa out of the public land strip and all that
part of the Indian Territory not actually oc
cupied by the five civilized tribes
The bill provides the necessary machinery Of
government, including governor, legisati We
assembly, supreme court, and delegate to
Congress- The President is directed TO APP
point five commissioners 20 negotiate with the
Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee tribes, and
when they shall signify their, assent 70 tho
dent has issued his " proc iamation FIX.
ing the time for the same to take effect.
the unoccupied lands coded to the United
States under the treaties OF June and March,
1886. shall BIO thrown open to actual settlers,
except tho sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections
in each township, which shall be reserved for
school purposes. 1t opens all the lands not re-
quired for the of any Indian tribes to settle
ment 1t makes it q punishable offense for
any person or company to induce any person
to settle upon these lands with view to after
ward acquiring title for himself from said
occupants.
DELEGATES of the African Emigration As
ISOLATION are on their way from Topeka, Kan,
to Washington to interview the President
and from there TO Liberia, to see If it Is q
favorable place for Southern negroes to emi-
CRATE to-
r. G. Dun & Co, in their last weekly re-
view of trade, cay:
In tho general course OF business there has
been no perceptible change. The volume OF
payments, including paper maturing Fob. l,
was over IL per cent larger than last year out
81 S q mne y
tonnage is enlarged by wars Of Iotos, aud the
ratio OF expenses to earnings Lf0ws loss salts
factory. At nearly all into..ct points report
ing, trade is dun or inactive, though percep-
tible improvement within che pasE ten days Is
noted at St Paul and Omaha But collections
are slow at st. Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit and
Cleveland, and tho numbey of failures in the
Northwest beyond the Mississippi seems larger
a retarding influence In many quarters. A
vast amount of capital mas been lacked up, and
vast body OF indebtedness created In con-
nection with real estate, grain, and other
speculations OF the past year. indebtedness
based on fictitious valuation OF property or
commodities, in not few cases, Will have to be
liqudated at q loss. On the chance of war in
Europe, wheat was suddenly advanced 80 far
that peace prospects involve disaster TO many.
Nearly all the markets are lowori stocks about
so cents per share for the week wheat about
cent per bushel; corn, a cent oats, y cent !;
coffee, cent per pound and sugar, both refined
and crushed; Is cent; hogs 10 cents per 100
pounds; and tin, Il cent per pound.
THE February statistical report Of the Ma
tional Department OF Agriculture relates TO
numbers and values OF farm animalG- There
is a reported increase in horses, mules and
cattle and decrease In sheep and swine.
The largest rate of increase is in
horses, per cent, and it is general
throu yhout tho country though largest west
Of tho Mississippi The aggregate exceeds
100000. The increase in mules averages
80 per cent Tho increase in cattle is 216
per cent 1t makes the aggregate over 49,
100000 The increase is nearly as large in
mich COWS as in othor cattle In sheep the
decline appears to be between 2 and per
cent, the aggregate Of nocks being about 49,
100000 There is a similar decline in num-
bers Of swine, less than per cent, leaving
the aggregate over 44,OOl,0O0 The aggre-
gate value of ali farm animals is $4,000, 600
more than year ago.