The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-04-06
PlTR OF TIE NEWS.
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.secretsry Of State Bayaui has received
siispstch from the United States minister
ut Honolulu saying that all vessels arriv.
ing at Hawaii ports from San Francisco
are to be placed under quarantine reguln.
tt0ns. owing to the spread Of fsmall. pox in
xhateity
The president has made the following
nominations OF postmasters: James c.
Frost. Anoka, Mimi; Amos Cosswell,
owatonna, Mimi; James Tiernan, How.
ard, Wis; John II. Anlrich. McGreeor,
Iowa; Thcmas Francis Mcagher, Sprague,
Wash, lie also nominated J. H. Wool.
worth Of Wisconsin to be register Of the
8and office at Menasl,a, Wis.
. Mr. Lind has made an application to
The commissioner OF the general land Office
to have q patent for 80 ncres OF land is.
sued to the st. Paul and Sioux City road
cancelled. d. w. Randall settled on it in
1856. but going to the army, iailed to
make proof, and while he was away the
road got q certificate to the land. lIo re.
turned and lived on the land until he he.
came f.'d-ridden Last year the road
ouste>t him. and now he has no home.
The illness OF Chairman Mills may post.
pcne the consideration of tho tariff bill
longer than has been expected. Those who
mave official charge Of him make tho ordi.
mary stereotyped reply to all corners that
Mr.. Mills is not seriously i'll, that he will
iproOably be out IN day or two, )" but the
members OF the Mills family do not tall in !.
TO this conventional usage Of misrepresen.
tation. They state frankly that Mr.. Mills
u very Ill, although they hope not danger.
,ously.
gentleman who predicted Mr.. Lamar's
appointment ms associate justice OF the
supreme court long before it was actuRlly
decided upon is authority for the state.
ment that Mr.. Isayurd could have had
that appointment had he desired it. He
says that secretary Baynrd will be offered
the chief iustices,in and will accept il.
Ihere 10 a ruMOr from another source uf
tho same kind, coupled with the state
ncnI that Minister Phelps will succeed Mr.
bnyard as secretary of state. and from
Speaker Carlisle ia likely to be appointed
to be chief justice.
The illness OF Chairman Mills NAV hnyr
the effect to still further delay the nrcsen.
Eation oil the tariff reports. That Mr..
Mills is quite seriously in ia believed nv
A,ls nearest friends. however strcnuously
ahe TACT may be denied by his medical nd
'viscrs and by those in attendance upon
'hlm. The experience which occurs wien.
ever public man is i'll is repeated in tho
case ot Mr. Mills. Physicians in attend.
w "Scu W Uc UNWILLING To permit lL
TO become known that Il public man is i'll,
anu next to allow the public to know the
nature or extent OF the malady.
The senate investigation otthe Chippewa
tlmbcr lands in Wisconsin is in progress
with Agent Gregory Oh the stand. When
asked why he had shown slicl, decided en-.
Inity toward the Cailisans, he stated that
he put the Calligans off the reservation he
cause they were dishonest, and had been
using their influence against him. lie was
asked why the list Of contracts which hc
mad sent to the land office ior approval
mad no bond accompanying them us rcouir.
ca ny law, and stated that it was because
no had made q recommendation that in.
stead OF requiring bond for each scpa.
ts tate case that the firms securing the con.
tracts might be allowed to give a general
bond la'l lump.