The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-04

lplicants for enlistment in the army. An
outline chart of human figure
is to be furnished in each case upon
which are to be indicated any diStinc-
tive scar or marks, to insure identity
in case of desertion.
Secretary Tracy has finally mega
lively acted upon the application of
the Columbian iron " orks of Baltimore,
for an extension of time TOR the COM
pletiOn of their contract for construc-
tion of gunboat Petrol" He refers
the contractors to congress for relief.
By such an extension the contractors
would be relieved in part of the for
FIXTURES to the government from the de-
lay in completing the vessel.
The president to-day appointed a.
M. Wilson, of Fayetteville, Arkansas;
Geo. d. Robinson, of Chicopee. Mas
sachusetts, and j. Otis Humphrey, of
] Springfield, Illinois, as q commission
to negotiate with the Cherokee and
other Indians for the cession to the
| United States of their title, claim or
] interest in certain lands in the Indian
| Territory as provided in section IA of
the Indian appropriation act, approved
| March =, 1889. The lands for the
cession of which this commission will
| negotiate embrace al of the Indian
! Territory west of 96th degree of longi-
tude except Green county, the Okla
hoIna section recently opened by the
presidents proclamation, and such
other lands as have been heretofore
sold, and contain approximately TO-
000, 900 acres. There is, however, some
question as to whether the law contem-
plates conference with the Greeks,
ChoctaWS and ChickaSawS, only p0r-
| tionS of whose lands lie west of the
96th degree. II it is decided that it
was the intent of the law not to include
those lands, it will reduce the area to
be opened to settlement to about 49,
600 600 acres as follows: Cherokee out
let 1000, 900; portion of Greek and Sem
inoie lands still in reservation 100000
acres; Kiowa and Comanche land $780,
600 acres; Cheyenne and Araphoe A.
| 800, 600 acres; Wichitas O,0O0; total
| 1900 900 acres.
| The same act provides that the negO-
tiations with the Cherokees for acces-
sion of the Cherokee outlet shall pro-
coed upon substantially the same basis
as the agreement recently negotiated
with the Greek and Seminoles, and upon
the ratification of this agreement by
the Cherokee nation, the lands so coded
| shall become part of the public do
main without further action by con-
| reSS.
The clerks of the appropriation COM
mittees of the two houses who are re-
quired by law to prepare statements of
| appropriations made at each session
have completed that duty and have
also compiled statement showing the
appropriations for the fiscal year from
1875 to 1890 inclusive. This table shows
a constantly but not regularly increas-
ing total of appropriations. The ap-
preparations of the year ending June
80. 1890, are as follows. Agricultural,
81 ,669, 770; army, $24 800, ZIG; diplomat
ic and consular. 81 $50 OPS; District of
Columbia, So ,6S7 ,406; Notifications, ST.
S23 .233, 593; Indians, SIS, 035, 725; legiS-
lative and judicial, $20. $40 $50; mill
tary, $902.767; navy, $21, 692 $40; PEN
sions SSl ,S5S. 200; postoffice $50, sos, 344;
sundry civil $25, 277 ,342; deficiency $16.-
423 1850; miscellaneous 81, l53. $50; per-
manent appropriations Sl9S, 691 ,656;
total $4S5, 2S2. 331. The total appro-
priations made by the several congress
SEES since 1874, are as follows: Forty
third, S649, 794 99l; forty-fOurth, 1884,
643 ,272; forty-fifth, sos sos, 1858; forty
sixth, 1927 ,606 SOB; foTty-seventy, S777,
6S5. 94S; forty-eighth, $50 .26S, 402: forty
ninth, S746, 243 ,5l4; fiftieth, 1917 ,S7S, 075.
Constable johnson of Bushong was
IN the city Wednesday, and in connec-
tion with Commissioner Mcmillan pur-
chased suits of clothes for about ten
smallpox patients who will be dis
charged at the end of this week entirely
we'll. The disease has run it's course in
the northern part of the county, and we
are assured no one need have any fears
about it. The few that are yet quar-
antined will be turned out in few days.
when it is supposed that the railroad
will open its office again at Bushong.
Work will begin next week in the rock
quarries, and large number of people
! will go to work who have been COM
, PEELED to remain idle for weeks on ac-
5 count of the smallpox.
DR.. Hendy was elected at the Empo-
l ria Presbytery in Council Grove as d
commissioner to the general assembly
which meets in New York in May.