Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-20
Important Land Decision.

WASHINGTON, April 10Th Secretary
Noble has reversed the decision of the
Commissioner of the General Land Office
respecting the appeal of T. l.. Chamberlain
TO have ordered into market certain lands
in Sacramento Land District, and ordered
them into market. Said land has been
used for school and cemetery purposes by
the citizens.
The Secretary has also reversed the de-
cision of the Commissioner respecting the
application of Henry A. Frederick to pur-
chase lands in Mount Diablo meridian,
Stockton, Cal.
The Secretary has modified the DECISION
of the Commissioner of the Genera Land
Office in the case of Beverly w. Wag. oner,
and directs a new hearing. Waggoner
made application to purchase lands in
Stockton Land District, and his application
was rejected by the Commissioner of the
Land Office, on account of said tract con-
tanning the California Big Trees.
Presidential Appointments.
WASHINGTON, April l9th.-The President
to-day made the following appointments
Solon w. Stocking, of Onandaga. n. Y,
to be Examiner-in-C Chief in the Patent
Office.
Ralph W. Wheelock to be Receiver of
Moneys at Mitchell, DIT.
Harrison Kelly to be Receiver of Pubic
Moneys at Drewsey, Or.
James R. Hayden to be Receiver of Pub
lie Moneys at Seattle, W. T.
Laban ]. Miles, of Westbranch, Iowa,
to be agent for the Usage Indians in Indian
Territory.
James G. Hatchitt, of Frankfort, KY, to
be special agent to make allotments of
lands in severalty for the Indians. under
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1887.
Morris D. Wickersham TO be Attorney
for the United States for the District Court
of Alabama.
Rich Quartz.
PUEBLO, April 1Sth.-Information is leak
ing Gut and causing excitement, concern
ing rich discovery of gold short dis
tance from Ouray, Col. 1t is free gold, in
iron-stained white quartz, lying between
shale and quartzite. 1t is said it shows
fifty to eighty ounces of gold, besides con-
siderable amount of silver, and thus far is
found the full width of the shafts. One
party sold two claims to st. Louis COM
pany for $43 ,000 their tunnel being in only
twenty feet. The company have extended
another twenty feet, and have ore to the
value of three times what they paid for the
claim. The rock is very hard, but is at a
moderate altitude, being only 5000 above
the level of the sea. The deposit is known
to be extensive. as the same ore is found on
both sides of the Unoompahgre river. A
carload of ore received in this city yester-
day averaged forty-three ounces of gold to
the ton.
Senator Hampton's Hopes.
WASHINGTON, April 19th.-Senator Wade
Hampton still has hopes that Governor
Thompson, of South Carolina, will be made
the Democratic member of the Civil Ser
vice Commission. He called on the Presi-
dent to-day. and when he came out he
seemed to be pleased.
The President told him that he had not
had time as yet to come to any conclusion
in the matter. The Senator said he did not
see how Governor Thompson could tail to
get the appointment, as he was Endorsed,
practically, by the whole Senate.
The friends of ex-Congressman Merri-
man, of New York, are still confident, and
several other Democratic candidates have
filed papers, but are not allowing much to
be said for them in public. The Republi-
cans do not seem to banker after the va
cant place which belongs to them.
Not a Good Republican.
WASHINGTON, April 19th.-Charges have
been filed with the President against ex-
Representative Smalls, of South Carolina,
which, if proved true, are likely to prevent
his appointment as Collector of Customs at
Beaufort, said to have been previously de-
termined upon. One of the charges made
against him is that he bolted the party
ticket at the last Presidential election, and
has committed acts of treachery to the
party which make him unfit for the least
recognition at the hands of the present ad-
ministration.
Baby for Horse and Buggy.
FoRT WAYNE Und.) April 19th.-Rev,
Father Koerdt of Sheldon, village in this
county, drove to this city yesterday TO call
upon Bishop Devenger. He hitched his
horse in front of the Bishops residence
and when ne left the house after shor,
conference with his superior he found the
team gone. In its place newly born baby
had been left on the front doorstep of the
Bishops residence. There is no clue to
the identity of either the thief or the donor
of the baby.
In Commission.
NEW YORK, April 19th.-The large stee
cruiser Chicago went into commission q
the Brooklyn Navy Yard Wednesday a