Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-11-11
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The Interior Department, the Indian
Bureau and the Commissioners who are
to negotiate with the Puyalup Indians
in Washington have decided that the
commission wait week or more before
going West to begin its work. The pre-
else reason for the delay is not officially
announced. II is said that an interpre.
tation OF the law is desired from compe-
tent officials before any negotiations are
begun. General Cumback of Indiana,
ii is said, does not want to leave his
State until after election, and the delay
may be prolonged until about the middle
of November.
| Assistant-Secretary Spaulding has
written the Collector of Customs at San
Francisco in regard to certain steel rails
now in bonded warehouses, which are
withheld from sale from time to time at
the the request OF the Oregon Pacific
Railway Company 1t is understood the
railway company is anxious to withdraw
the rails and pay the duties thereon in a
short time, and the question arises
whether they are dutiable under the old
or new tariff laws. Spaulding SAYS, as
duties additional had accrued on the
rails before the passage of the new act
and the rails remained in bond merely
by sufferance and not legally, they do
not come within the purview OF the act
and are therefore dutiable under the old
law.
The Chief OF the Ordnance Bureau of
the Navy Department is giving attention
to the procurement OF nickel or matte,
Tor which Congress appropriated 81 ,000,-
900. A representative of firms which
deal in this ore and metal has been in
communication with the department and
to ms ertain the exact capacity of our
domestic nickel works. Sew. raj compe-
tent steel experts have been sent by the
department to various parts OF the coun-
try. Chief Folger of the Ordnance Blu
reau intends to ascertain the possibilities
OF the alloy OF steel and nickel in other
branches of naval construction as well
as in the manufacture of armor plate, in
which II has already shown such credit
able qualities that he is preparing to
have made at the Washington navy yard
trials of projectiles made from the new
alloy, as well ms the usual test of elastic
ity, breaking strength, ductility, etc.
The annual report OF Inspector GEN
eral Dumont of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
service shows: Total number OF vessels
inspected during the year 1905 total net
tonnage ofvessels inspected, 800 $3.50. rs; !
total number of officers licensed. ~ .o97
During the year there were thirty-four
accidents, resulting in the loss of 2h4
lives, decrease Of tiity-six rs compared
with the preceding year or the acct !
dents seventeen resulted from collisions, |
and l02 of the lives lost were by drown
ing. OF the number of lives lost sixty
hve were passengers and $50 officers or
persons employed on steamers. Fully !
5Oo, 100000 passengers were carried on 1
steam vessels during the fiscal year. The /
report shows saving in the expenses of |
foreign steamboat steamboat inspection !
service, resulting from a diseontinuance (
Of offices for such inspection at Philadel- /
phia, New Orleans and San Francisco. |
General Dumont suggests the abolition
Of the foreign inspection servi alto
gether