Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Appointment Mill Turns
Out its Grist.
EXPERTS In THE ANTIPODEs
Adjutant-General Drum Gets the
Official "TattOO"-IrOnclad
Cruiser MAINE"
Associated Press Dispatches TO the HERALD.

| WASHINGTON, May 28.-The Presiden
has made the following additional ap
pointments: Hiram Smith. Jr., o
Cameron, Mo-, to be First Deputy Com
missioner of Pensions; Benjamin M
Thomas, of Santa Fe, N NJ, to be Sec
retary of New Mexico; Robert S. Ander
son, OF Baker City, Ore, to be Commits
sioner in and for the District of Alaska
to reside at Ounalaska; Hal j. Cole, o
Spokane Falls, w. T.. to be Agent fol
the Indians of the Colville Agency il
Washington Territory; John Q. Apper
son, Of Oregon City, Ore, at Oregon
City; Herbert Brown, of Arizona, al
Tucson, Ariz., to be Registers of Land
Offices; John V. Scott, OF California, tc
be Receiver of Public Moneys at Shasta
Cal.
MUFFLED DRUM.
Adjutant General Drum, having
| formally retired from active service in
the army. General Kelton, who has
been Assistant Adjutant. General, will
dCU h6 uuUll kll6 dp-
pointment is made to fill the office.
Meanwhile army circles are stirred to
their depths respecting the appointment
and the promotion that will follow if an
Assistant Adjutant- General is appointed.
ANTIPoDEAN SILVER MINES.
In the course of long report to the
Department of State upon the commerce
of New South Wales, United States
Consul Griffin, at Sydney, says there
has been decline in the gold product of
all of the colonies except Victoria, and
even there the increase is very slight,
amounting to but ,602 ounces. Specula-
ton in mining stocks appears to have
run higher in the colonies, than at any
other period in the last quarter of CEN
tury, Extraordinary developments of sill
yer mines in Broken Hill county, New
South Wales, under the direction of Mr..
Patton, who formerly had charge of the
group of Comstock mines ia Nevada,
created a boom in the silver market.
The shares of the company rose from
1915 to So OLA, in one month. This ex-
cited speculation in other properties,
which soon came to grief. The Consul
says that modern American processes are
wanted in Australia, and that the hand
some profit realized at Broken Hill is the
result of the help Of American experts.
THE MAINE.sTAY CRUISER.
Reports from the New York Navy
Yard are to the effect that nearly all the
steel frames for the armored cruiser
Maine are now in place, and gratifying
progress is being made in the construc-
ton of the vessel. To give visible evil
dence how the ship will appear when
completed. most elaborate model,
about four feet long, has been made at
the Washington Navy Yard, and placed
in Secretary Tracy's Office. 1t represents
a vessel of over 5000 tons, as fine in
her lines as is consistent with
the great power required to bear up
the enormous armament of about forty
guns, ranging from four great ten.inch
rifles, down to the small revolving cam
non. Her horse-pow will be 5000,
calculated to drive the vessel at IL knots ;
but the principal point of interest about
the ship is the fact that, apart from the
monitors, she will be the first vessel
built since the war that is really iron
clad, relying not on protective steel de-
Elective decks, but on a solid belt OF
heavy steel armor, encircling her vital
parts. All of the details of construction
are most cunningly wrought in miniature
in the model, even to the capstan engines
and delicate machinery of two eighty
foot torpedo boats which the Maine will
carry on her decks.
SILK OPENING OFFERED.
Consul Bissinger, at Beyrut, Syria, in
his report to the Department of State,
oauo that Guriop Gil noun looL
covetously towards the United States as
a market for their raw silks, which
have developed phenomenally in
reelers in Syria are manifesting much
with the manufacturers in the United
States. The silk cultivators, however,
are puzzled to know why the United
States manufacturer should want to pay
an advance of to 10 per cent. for Syrian
silk in the form of commissions to Mar
seilles and Lyons firms when he could
himself in direct communication with
the responsible Syrian firms, which are
eager to establish mutually profitable re-
| lations.
HE WAS DISAPPOINTED.
| A gentleman, named III. G. Dodge, oi
| Bar Harbor, Maine, while waiting in
| Halford's room for chance to see the
President to-day, was taken sick and fell
to the floor in faint. Assistance was
rendered him, and, when sufficiently re-
covered. he was removed to his rooms.
1t is understood that he left a sick bed to
60 to the White House, and when in.
formed that the President was too much
engaged to grant him an interview to.
day, the shock was 30 great that he fell
in fit.
| THE REMoDELLING OF THE PURITAN.
The Board of Naval bureau chiefs
which has been considering the feasibil.
ity of changing the plans for the compile
ton of the monitor Puritan, held an
other meeting today, and decided t.
recommend the plan detailed in las
nights dispatches.
PAUNCEFoTE's PICNIC,
The postponed excursion given by Sec
retary Blaine in honor of Sir julia
Pauncefote, the new British Minister
. took place todey.
GOING TO BROOKLYN.
The President leaves for Brookly
tomorrow afternoon to participate il
Decoration Day services.
THE MAVERICK MURDER.
: Cumulative Evidence that the WIFI
o Was The Rornta