The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-22

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jured at the Junction City accident
last Friday, died at st. Vincent's hos
pital this morning. The remains were
taken to Brownsville for interment
this afternoon.
LITTLE STEAMER LIBELLED.
The little Albina steamer Alarm
has been ibelled for damages to the
extent of $1,000 by Bartholomew Lett
keiser this morning. The steamer
was libelled by deputy United States
marshal Clay Myers, and her owner.
Captain Spencer, at once furnished
bail in the sum of $4,000. Leitkeiser
fell overheard one day last summer,
and claims it was the captains fault.
SOUTH AMERICAN POLITICS.
GUAYAoUIL, via Galveston), Oct.
2L-EE GLObO publishes a long edit
orial in support of the refusal of the
EcuadOrian government to accept the
proposals of an agent for a European
syndicate for an arrangement touch
ing upon national, external and in.
ternal debt. Also for the construc-
tiOn Of railroad to Quito, and the es-
tablishment of an official bank.
The government has rejected all
proposals, not acknowledging that the
agent had sufficient power to act in
the name of foreign bondholders.
YALE IS ALL RIGHT.
New HAVEN, Conn.,, Oct. 21.-Two
students of Yale college recently died
of typhoid fever, and sensational dis
patches were sent out alleging that an
epidemic of typhoid was raging. Pny-
sicians say there is nothing to Justify
them. The health of the students is
as good as usual at this time of year.
In all there have been four cases.
ARREST OF COUNTERFEITERS.
LONDON, Oct. Russian police
at Odessa late Saturday night arrested
two men said to be Americans charged
with circulating large amounts of new
and dangerous % rouble bills of the
bank of Russia. Two packages pur-
porting to be bales OF cotton cloth
which arrived from New York last
week were consigned to one of these
men and upon examination by the
customs officials were found to con-
tain nearly one million roubles of these
counterfeit bills.
WILL DISPENSE WITH THEIR SERVICES.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. 2L.-Num-
erOus applications have been made
to the secretary of the treasury for
the position of inspector of foreign
vessels at different ports in the United
States and upon examination of the
subject the secretary has found that
the controlling reason in most in
stances for the anxiety to secure these
places is the limited amount of work
the inspectors have had to perform.
Several of these places have for
number of years past been sinecures
and not more than dozen foreign
vessels would in a year take advan-
tage of the law permitting their ex-
animation by officers of the United
States government.
The secretary has therefore decided
to dispense altogether with the ser
vices of inspectors of foreign vessels
at Philadelphia, New Orleans and San
Francisco, and to have what slight
duties they would be called upon to
do performed 10y local inspectors. The
salary of inspectors who have been
dropped is $1,000 a year each.
AN OPINION BY THE LAND OFFICE.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2L-The COM
missioner of the land office in reply to
a letter from the attorney of the
Northern Pacific road says the Office
will continue In the course indicated
some time since, refusing action on
contests between the railroad company
and settlers on lands where the rail
road has been completed within the
time fixed by law, preferring to leave
the matter open until congress shall
express an opinion relative to the
claim OF the railroads to land of this
class.
The following is additional to the
above: Commissioner general land
office Croft has been called upon to
pass upon a question OF considerable
moment TO settlers along the Northern
Pacific railroad. Portions of this road
were not completed within the time
prescribed by law granting the land
TO the company. In consequence of
the failure of the company to comply
with the law these lists of selections
of land opposite to such portions of
the road, have not been approved by
the land Office. The company is un-
able to give title and until the lands
are declared forfeited the government
can give no title Bills have been in
troduced in congress to forfeit these
lands, but they never became laws.
1t has been considered by the land
office that this matter is pending in
congress and, therefore, no steps can
be taken. The attorneys of the COM
pany, however, recently asked COM
missioner Croft to have the company's
lists of selection approved as speed
lily as possible. Groff, however, after
careful examination of the matter,
refused to comply with this re-
quest, and states that he does not
wish to change the policy of the land
office in this respect. This decision
will cause the settlement of the en-
tire question to be deferred until con-
gress takes some action.
CHICKAsAw SQUAwMEN.
TExARKANA, Ark, Oct. 21.-Advices
from Tishomingo, Chickasaw nation,
say intense excitement prevails there
and throughout the country over a