Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-15
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT.
Annual Report of Commodore Dewey on
Naval Affairs.

WASHINGTON, November 14th.-Commo-
dore Dewey, Chief of the Bureau of Equip
ment, in his annual report, says During
the past fiscal year sixty.fiye vessels have
been wholly or partially equipped, ar cost
of 1898 9S6 and coal has been purchased at
a cost of S451 ,693.
Commodore Dewey says the lighting of
ships-of- war by electricity, inaugnrated by
this Government, has now become so essen
tial that no war ships considered complete
which is not so lighted.
Special attention was given the past year
to the subject of means of interior COM
munication on shipboard, and telephone
system will soon be added, experimentally,
to other devices on one of the new cruisers.
The most notable feature in connection
with the extensive telegraphic time service
which has become established and is appar-
entity indispensable as commercial factor
centering at the Naval Observatory, has
been the concerted attack upon the prevail
ent system by large number Of observa-
tories located throughout the United States,
the object being to break Up the system, in
order that the time, which is now furnished
without cost from the Naval Observatory.
may be distributed and charged for at these
minor observatories as means OF con-
tributipg to their maintenance.
Eastern Weather.
WASHINGTON, November 14th.- The
storm central yesterday over Lake Su-
perior, moved to the mouth of the St. Law
renee, an off shoot of this storm developing
from Nebraska to Texas. This off shoot
divided the clearing condition which
yesterday extended from the Pacific 10 the
Atlantic, one portion being central Oh the
Middle Atlantic Coast, the other on the
North Pacific Coast. A cyclone of Sigh!
intensity appears TO be developing in the
Calf Rain has fallen on the South AT.
lantic coast ana in the Eastern Gulf States
The temperature has fallen in the extreme
Northwest, the Upper Lake region and the
Middle Gulf States, and, generally, it has
risen elsewhere.
THE TEMPERATURE.
CHICAGO. November l4.h.-The tempera
ture at o'clock this morning was reported
| as follows: Chicago 400, New York 400. ST.
| Louis $50, Cincinnati 800, Winnipeg 260.
Washington Notes.
| WASHINGTON, November 14th. - Mrs
Jones will not accompany Senator j. 2
Jones to Washington this winter, but will
remain with her children at their seashore
place at Santa Monica.
Julian Norton, of California, has been
promoted TO be q copyist in the Interior
Department, at 5000 per year.
Assistant Engineer j. l.. Wood has been
detached from the Naval Academy and or
dered to duty as assistant inspector Of ma
chinery being constructed at the Union
Iron Works, San Francisco.
r. E. Whitefield has been appointed q
gauger at San Francisco.
Indian Uprising Feared.
WASHINGTON, November 14th.-Late ad-
vices from the Pine Ridge Agency, South
Dakota, are to the effect that the excite
ment among the Indians on account of the
new Messiah is rapidly increasing. Some
apprehension is felt that if active measures
are not taken by the Government serious
outbreak may occur during the early spring,
or even before. 1t is said, however, that
the Government has the whole situation in
hand, and will at once and effec.ually crush
out the very first signs of an uprising.