Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-11

EXPENDITURES FOR LABOR AT NAVY YARDS
The Secretary of the Navy to-day sent re-
sponse to the resolution offered by Senator
Chandler calling for a statement of the ex-
penditures for labor in the navy yards for the
first six months of the present fiscal year from
the appropriations for CONSTRUCTION and repair
OF vessels and for steam machinery. The
amount expended from the appropriation for
construction and repair was S456,79 The
unexpended balance of the appropriation Jan
uary l was S259,575, of which $172,757 was
necessary to meet contracts and acquisitions
already made. The expenditures from the
appropriation for steam machinery was $685.
l59 and the uneXpended balance of the appro-
priation on January was 1928 TAI.
THE OoTToN CROP.-The cotton returns of
the department of agriculture make the aver
age close of picking six days later than last
year on account of later maturity and frequent
rains. In many counties in the southwest the
crop has not yet been fully harvested. A care
full consolidation of the returns makes the pro-
portion marketed "a. per cent. The staple is
shorter than last year, and there is more dis
colored and trashy fiber. The eaterpiller and
boil worm have been widely distributed but
their destruction has been greatly limited by
insecticides. Seed has been sold at 12 and l6
cents per bushel near lines of railroads. mostly
by tenants, the proprietors finding it more
40 ~~'No
SECRETARY FAIRoHn.D will not be a resident
of Washington long after the change of admin
istration. He is to become the president of
the New York security and trust company, and
intends disposing of his Washington home.
THE COURT OF CLAIMS to-day rendered judg-
ment in several cases. The petitions were dis
missed in the claims of Mellin, Griffith & Co.,
arising under the consular regulations; of Eu-
genia Roget, executrix. q claim for compensa-
ton of her late husband as professor of mathe-
matics at West Point, and of Geo. Howes Il Co.
and Geo. X. Wells Co., receivers; case grow
ing out of an Alabama claim judgment for
S200.74 was awarded W. A. Cartledge a mill
tary officer, claim for pay.
SURPRISING OPIUM SMUaoLINa.-The U. s.
consul at Victoria, B. c., has reported to the
State department that the agents of the Treas
ury at Port Townsend and Seattle, W. T., have
been very efficient during the past year in pre-
venting the smuggling of opium across the
Canadian border, and that their efforts bid fair
to result in total suppression of the traffic.
SToREKEEPERs AND GUAGERs APPOINTED
The Secretary Of the Treasury to-day ap-
pointed the following storekeepers and gaugers:
Josiah b. Custer, Star of the West, Ark; c. A.
Hartman, Pennington, N. c.; Geo. H. Dunn,
Allen county, KY; no. III. Bullock, Franklin
Tenn, and J. N. Thompson, Bee Lick, Ky.
A MIDNIGHT AssAULr.-This afternoon in the
Police Court George Ross, alias Warren, a
printer, was charged with committing an as
sault on John Sill, barber, and also with
carrying blackjack. The assault occurred on
Bridge street, in Georgetown after u O'Clock
Saturday night, while Sill was returning home
from work. The defendant struck Sill with a
blackjack. Ross was under the influence of
liquor, which was the cause of the trouble The
| court imposed fine Of s25 or seventy-ive
days.
John Starr, cousin of Belle Starr the outlaw,
who was murdered a week ago, has arrived at
Fort Smith, Ark, with e. A. Watson, the as
sassin.
John Erby, the owner Of the famous PAGER,
~ Bet, has begun suit against the Missouri
Pacific railroad company for q, ,000 The horse
was on . train that was wrecked in Texas near
the Indian territory line, and in the accident
was injured.
| The bodies Of an old woman named McNulty
| and young girl have been found in the snow
near Gatineau Point, Ontario, Can. They lost
their way in the snow storm few days ago and
perished