Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Those Fresh Deputy Marshals
in Oklahoma.
THE vANDALIA's HEROIC SAILOR

The New and Improved Monitor for
Which representative Thomas
is Sponsor.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, May IA The War De-
partment to-day received a telegram
from General Miles, of San Francisco,
giving official particulars of the robbery
of Paymaster Wham in Arizona. 1t does
not differ from the story as told in the
Associated Press dispatches.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.
The President made the following ap-
poiutments to-day: John F. Plummer,
New York, George E. Leighton, st. Louis,
Jesse Spaulding, Chicago, and Rufus B.
Bullock, Atlanta, to be Government Di.
rectors of the Union Pacific Railway
Company.
Alvin Saunders, Of Nebraska, to be q
member of the Board of Registration and
Election in the Territory of Utah.
William H. Lyon, of New York, to be
mem Der of the Board of Indian Com
missioners.
Bennett G. Gillespie, of Nebraska, to
he Register OF the Lank Office at O'Neill,
Neb.
Samuel G. Wright, of Nevada, to be
Superintendent of the Mint at Carson
City, New.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
Among the Supreme Court Decisions
yesterday was No. 226, Wallace Doug
lass. plaintiff in error, vs. Chas. w.
Lewis ct al, in error to tie Supreme
Court of the Territory of New Mexico.
Judgment affirmed with costs. Opinion
by Chief Justice Fuller.
The Chief Justice announced the al
lotment of Justice Harlan to the Sixth
Circuit.
THOSE OKLAHOMA SETTLERS.
Acknowledgement Miller has received a
report from United States Marshal Jones,
| of Kansas, in regard to the conduct OF
| himself and deputies on the opening of
Oklahoma. Marshal Jones says: 81
ordered from my old, experienced depu-
| ties, four, together with three new ap
pointees, to Guthrie to protect the home
seekers against la vie ssness from and
after that critical molu ent april 22d)
| where there had been stationed two or
| three companies of United States troops
! to preserve peace, up to that date whose
| functions ceased at the very moment
when the greatest difficulties were likely
| TO occur, and when thousands Of home
| seekers, business men, gamblers and
whisky de alers rushed from the incoming
trains and private conveyances. until,
| within twenty-fours, the entire face OF
| the country was dotted with homestead
lers' tents, and two or three cities OF from
l 600 to 800 inhabitants, born in one
| day, proved to me the necessity of a
respectable number of deputy mar
sh ais. AT Kingfsher / ordered two old
deputies of experience and new man
At Darlington, Fort Reno, 1 made nc
change, and at Oklahoma City ordered
| four. At the request of the officer com.
manding the troops at St. Alfred for g
marshal to capture horse thieves, l ap
pointed couple Of deputies and sent
them to that point. l also appointed, al
the request OF the officer at the Atchison
railroad, eight of their employees, most
of whom were conductors, and who were
kept constantly passing through the Ter.
ritory in anticipation of lswlessness on
the trains. The full number of deputy
marshals in Oklahoma, appointed by
me, is nineteen, besides eight tampora.
rily appointed at the request of the rail.
road company. l believe that few oil
my deputies have attempted to file on as
many tracts of land in the Territory,
but / know that many of them
have not, and while l in.
structed them not to do go, when thew
saw themselves surrounded by from 500
70 700 persons at Guthrie, and at least
one-half that number at Oklahoma,
waiting for the hour of IL to come, dc
not wonder that some of the deputies
who were serving without pay and only
there in the interests OF good order, took
the fever and attempted to get,a home
AS to myself, Inever attempted to home.
stead foot of land, either in Oklahcma
or any other Territory or State"
In postscript Marshal Jones says
''The country is absolutely quiet in Okla.
homa, and 1 am astonished at the false
reports of bloodshed circulated by the
papers. There has not been q single
| person killed by violence in that Terri
tory since the 22nd of April"
| The report is dated May 9th. Ii is IN
| oCfSeOoN thdo pHO bol
satisfied with the report, and will call
upon the Marshal for supplemental re-
port, giving the name of each officer who
| filed claim, and description of the
land secured by him, together with an
account of the attending circumstances.
THoMAs's IMPROVED MONITOR.
The Naval Boord of Design has COM
| pleted plans for the two thousaud-ton
gunboats, which will soon he published,
and is now hard at work upon the details
of the construction of the Thomas ship.
| This vessel will mark departure in the
practice of naval designing. as her gen,
eral plan was originated outside of the
| Navy Department by Representative
Thomas, member of the Naval Commit
tee of the last House of Representatives
| Much work yet remains to be done upon
the plans by the Department. The vessel
is to be of modified Monitor type, and
her peculiarities will be in her heavy
ordnance, great defensive power, and
ability to make long cruises with her
ample coal capacity. differing, in this last
| respect, from the old Monitor type.
TALK is CHEAP, MR.. TRACEY.
Secretary Tracey has issued general
order calling attention to the repeated
1 ofc Of hornicv, 90 Nt1I;ox. Eozu1 =.