Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-11
Interior Department Decisions.

vice c. P. Arbuckle, removed.
Interior Department Decisions.
WASHINGTON, June 10th.-Secretary No.
BILE has affirmed the decision of the Land
Commissioners in the case of NJ NJ. Brown
VS.. Central Pacific Railroad Company re.
fuSing the application of the said Brown tC
make entry for certain lands in Section 25
Township 80, California, as the stated land
Is included within the twenty-mile limit oi
the grant of 1866, to said railroad company
He also affirmed the action of the Land
Commissioners in dismissing the contest
case of Lee r. Parsons against the home.
stead entry of Mrs. Catherine Hughes
northeast quarter of section 19, San Fran
cisco Land District.
New Life-Saving Stations.
WASHINGTON, June 10th.-Captain White
United States revenue marine, and Thomas
j. Blakeney, Superintendent of the Twelfth
Life-Saving District, have been appointed
Commission to select and procure sites
for the establishment of life-saving stations
at Coquille river, Umpqua river and Va
quina Bay, Oregon, and Ilwaco beach, and
Peterson's Point, Washington Territory
having due regard to the probable fre-
quenCy of wrecks and convenience OF
service.
The Irrigation Problem.
WASHINGTON, June 10sh.-Explicit in
structions have been issued by Professor
Powell, Director Of the Geological Survey,
Professor Thompson, Chief Topographer,
and G. E. Dutton, Chief Engineer and Hy-
drographer of the Irrigation Survey. Vari-
GUS problems are discussed in the letter,
and the business of the survey is summed
up in the question, What Is the best sys-
tenn and the one that will utilize the great
est amount of irrigation?
Washington Notes.
WASHINGTON, June 1Oth.-Assistant Sec.
retary Tichenor informed the Surveyor OF
Customs at St Louis that there is no form
or regulation for certificates to be issued to
Chinese merchants here desiring to visit
China, and if certificates are issued by Gus
toms officers they must be unofficial.
Among the Presidents callers to-day
were forty Cinnamon from 9 school in Bal
timore.
Clarkson's Chopper.
WASHINGTON, June 1Oth.-The following
changes have been made in fourth class
Postmasters in California: EraStus f.
Rawlings, appointed at Millville, Shasta
county, vice H. l.. Martin, resigned; Geo.
J. Ogden, at Sites, Colusa county. vice
James Mcdonald, resigned; Joseph II.
hdu'OWS, at MO Dell, tulnO OOlQt county,
vice w. S. Egan, resigned,
Regulations For Immigrants.
WASHINGTON, June 10th.-hssistant Sec.
retary Batchelder has issued a revised set
of immigration regulations They provide
that the removal Of immigrant passengers
from place to place, suitable for making an
examination of them, should not be con
sidered to land them.
Mineral Matters.
WASHINGTON, June l0th.-The forthcom-
ing report on the mineral resources of the
United States will show that the values OF
metals and metallic mineral substances
produced and in use in 1883 are as follows
metals, $256, 245, ,403; mineral substances
1928, ,9l4, ,52S; non-metallic, mineral products
unspecitied, s., SOC, 600; total, 1891, ,659, ,93l.
Pensions Issued.
WASHINGTON, June 10th.-Pensions have
been issued to citizens of California as fol.
lows: Restoration, Jos. L. Carter; original
widows, etc, Lucy A, widow of Hiram
Fay; Carolina, widow of Albert Heaths
Mexican survivors, David S. Wells, Wm
Z. Parker.
Washington Personals.
WASHINGTON, June 1Oth.-W. E. Meg
hell and wife, of San Francisco, and Harry
w. Hague, of Portland, Oregon, are among
the recent arrivals.