Evening journal., 1889-03-23
BOOMERS MADE HAPPY.
Oklahoma to be Opened at Once
for Settlement.
RETURN OF OLD BATTLE FLAGS.

Gen. Badeau Opposing Fred Grants Con.
frmation-Corp. Tanner Nominated for
Commissioner of Pensions-other Ma.
tional Capital Topics. Of Interest.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-The proclama.
tion opening up the Oklahoma territory tc
settlement will be issued to-day by President
Harrison. 1t win embrace about 500, ,0OC
acres OF land. The country affected by the
proclamation is bounded on the south by the
Canadian river, to point below Fort Reno,
thence north to the Cimarron river, along
that river in a northwestern direction for
some distance, and thence due east 10 point
near the Pawnee reservation, thence south to
the Cimarron river again, along that river
due west TO the Indian meridian; thence due
south along that meridian until the Canadian
river, the starting point reached.
Maj. John NJ Carson has received letter
from his son, Lieut. Carson, who is in com
mand of the United States troops at Okla
homa station. The letter bears date Of
March Il, the day prior to that on which a
conflict is reported to have occurred between
Lieut. Carson's forces and the Oklahoma
boomers. Lieut. Carson says he left Fort
Reno on Friday morning, the 18th, with
twenty men and six Indian scouts, for a
twelve days scout through Oklahoma. He
had orders to remove all intrnders and tc
take them to the Kansas line. Most Of the
boomers, as soon as they heard Of the arrival
of the troops, fed in all directions, and those
who remained were old men who showed no
very great disposition to resist the order tc
pack up and go. Some Of them were taken
away in wagons provided by Lieut.. Carson
The lieutenant says all these boomers are
peaceable law abiding citizens
RETURN OF BATTLE FLAGS.
Three days ago Senator Wade Hampton
Is. Cl addressed a letter to Senator QUAY
tPa.l asking him to transmit to the surviving
members of the Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer
cavalry two flags captured from that regi-
ment during the late war. Senator Hampton
said in his letter; THE country has now but
one flag, but the men who bore those which /
now send TO you will be glad to see again the
banners which they bore in the civil war. y
Senator Quay replied: II undertake, with
much satisfaction, to transmit the colors to
the former proprietors, and assure you they
will be received by the survivors Of the regi-
ment in the kindly spirit in which you deliver
them, and will be tenderly treasured for the
sake of old association, and as one Of the
multiplying evidences that the issues and
animcsities Of the civil war are faded
OPPOSING FRED GRANTS CONFIRMATION.
Gen. Adam Badeau, whose controversy
with the family Of Gen. Grant over the
authorship Of the "Grant Memoirs attracted
50 much attention last year, is in the city
opposing the nomination of Col Fred Grant
to be minister to Austria. Col Grants friends
say that his efforts will he of no avail and
that the nomination would have been con-
firmed if the senate had remained in session
or transacted any business.
EFFICIENCY THE FIRST QUALIFICATION.
Secretary Tracy has decided in the case Of
q discharged clerk in the yards and docks
office at the Navy Yard, who made an appli-
cation for reinstatement upon the grounds
of possessing a good soldiers record, that
while soldiers record is a good recommenda-
ton for appointment to and retention in
Office, yet the question Of efficiency must he
paramount TO all others. In this case the
clerk was discharged for inefliciency and the
cNNAIAdA l1tacHe " itiAclGlt
NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT.
Secretary Tracy said that among the nomi-
nations sent to the senate yesterday, but not
delivered, was that Of Corp. Tanner, to be
commissioner of pensions. Among the other
nominations sent in was said to be that of
William II. Calkins, ex-congressman from
Indiana, TO be commissioner Of the general
land office. The presidents messenger reached
the door of the senate with these and other
nominations just as Vice President Morton
declared the senate adjourned.
IMPORTANT TO SOLDIERS.
For the Information of the army Adit.
Gen. Drum has issued circular, based ON a
recent legal opinion, TO the effect that a
minor solder of the army in confinement un-
der a charge Of desertion will not be dis
charged from military service by the court
until he has been released from such foufina-