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iuctantly granted by the Mexican authorities.
Capt Bourke is the well-known author Of In |
dian Adventures, was on the stan OF Gen. |
Crook when he captured Geronimo, the eele-
brated Apache butcher, aud is known to all the
comrades in Washington as pleasing speaker
at Grand Army Campfres. lie entered the
army as a private in Co T, 18th Pa. Cav in
August, 1862 and was appointed a cadet to the
Military Academy from the ranks in October
4 1865, from which he was graduated in June,
4 1863 The most Of his service has been on the
/ plains and against the Indians since be became
Regular Army officer. He was under guard in
/ Mexico SO hours.
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/ case Of unusual interest was argued IN the
/ Supreme Court Of the United States on Thurs
/ day, Nov 10 1T was that Of the Des Moines
4 River Improvement Company VS.. hundreds oil
settlers on lands lying along the Des MONIES
/ River five miles on either side Of that stream,
! between the cities of Des Moines and Fort
] Dodge Iowa There are about 10000 acres
1 involved in the suit, and, should the Improve
ment Company win, thousands Of actual set
! tiers will be dispossessed OF their homes, which
/ they have lived on for years and have brought
to high state Of cultivation. These lands were
given the company for the improvement Of the
4 DesMoines River, but as very little Improvement
was made in fact none az all that was ever OF
the slightest benefit TO the State, the company
was supposed TO have forfeited their rights TO
these lands and the Government issued war
rants 10 the settlers at Government prices.
But it seems that the act Of Congress which
was passed about that time was for the benefit
OF the company. or at least they now claim it
was, therefore this suit If the Government
gains the suit these lands will be given the
settlers without further trouble by an act OF
Congress; but should the Improvement Com
pany win, hundreds Of farmers will be COM
PEELED to leave homes which they have been
living on and cultivating for years Attorney
General Miller and the law officers Of the
United States Government, aud Hon. John Y.
Stone, Attorney General for the State of Iowa,
argued the case for the Government and set
tiers, while the improvement Company is OF
course represented by the best legal talent IN
the United States. There arc millions Of dollars
involved, aud the decision Of the Supreme
Court is auxiously awaited.
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The annual meeting Of Postotiice Inspectors
took place in Washington on Friday, Nov. 90
These men are old in the service Of the Post
office Department and are 1rst-class men in
every respect Col. Evans, Of Boston, whose
division embraces the whole Of the New Eng
, land States, and Capt. James +. stuart, OF the
! Chicago Division, have been in the service for
2 20 years. In speaking Of this meeting Col.
Z Evans said that the Postofice Department Of
this Government is run on business principles,
, and has attained higher state Of perfection
! than az any time in our history. The plan Of
- -'------ .- - Ia~,r1trrnats insnect and
their respective Counties and report thereon
TO the POstmaster-Gcnera has worked admra-
Q bly,. The CouBtyseat officials are themselves
= subject to investigation by the Inspectors in
charge Of divisions and thus the entire system
, is kept up to a high pitch Of efficiency" The
Convention will last a week and the meetings
J will be presided over by Chief Inspector NJ ID.
: Wheeler, who recently succeeded Mr. Rathbone
who was promoted Fourth Assistant Postmaster.
! General The Inspectors present il Washing
q ton are: J. i. Stuart, Chicago; Geo s Evans
q Boston; A. Q. Bears, Cincinnati; W. w. Pat.
Z terson, Denver; Frank s. Bodell, Helena; q. c.
Maynard, New Orleans C. C. James, New York
Z W. p. Edgarton, Philadelphia; George A. Dice
! st. Louis; George J.. seybolt San Francisco
/ John ID. King, Washington.
80
Mr.. Lewis v Bogy, q moro or less distant
! relative Of the late Senator Bogy, OF Missouri,
and a clerk IN the Pension Bureau, wrote a
! book. There is no reason why clerks should
{ not write books or anything else In the album
dant leisure which is afforded by their out-of.
4 Office hours. But Mr.. Bogy's book is a par
. ticulary Objectionable one. II is entitled "In
: Office" and is a cheap, sensational production,
! picturing the life Of the women employed in
! the Departments in Police Gagate colors, and
making out that official life IN Washington Is
amazingly corrupt. Admitting, as every one
must, that occasionally disreputable women get
! into Government employ, and that there may
, be scandalous relations existing between some
I Of them and Members Of Congress, the fact re.
mains undoubted that the great mass Of women
{ clerks are as highly respectable as tho same
number Of women 10 be found anywhere. ]
, might even 20 farther, and say that they are
0 even Of much more than average respectability,
e FOR they are generally selected women. Of more
3 than ordinary ability and force Of character,
and large proportion Of them are widows or
4 daughters Of men formerly prominent in the
? Army, Navy, in Congress, in public office, or
b other walks Of life. The widows and daugh-
: toTs Of men who served their country faithfully
during the rebellion, In all capacities, from that
. Of a private TO a Major-Gcneral, are found
r everywhere. They are usually women past the
Q hcy-day Of youth, who have known the bitter.
. ness Of Fortunes ir0wns aud are bravcly strug-
! Cling 10 maintain themselves and dependent
q relatives on tie pay Of a clerk. No women in
, the country are living more creditabe lives, or
: better fulfilling al tie duties Of womanbood,
, than the women clerks Of Washington, taken
? as a whole. To represent. therefore, as Mr..
Bogy did, that licoutiousness Is rampant in
The Departments aud women only secure
0 proper treatment and promotion by the sacri-
a fce OF their virtue, Is the most outrageous
o SANDER. The book was brought TO the notice
Of Commissioner Raum who referred the mat
. ter to Secretary Noble The result was tho
dismissal Of the libelous author, with proper
! denunciation Of the mendacious character Of
the book.
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During the past week a series Of entertain.
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