The morning call., 1893-07-20
The Mohican Story Denied
CredenCe.
COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED
The Cruiser Did Not Leave Port
Townsend Until After the Re-
ported Engagement.
Ssecial to THE MORNING CALI.

WASHINGTON, July 19.-Any doubt that
may have existed in the mind Of the acting
Secretary of the Navy as to the improha-
biljtv of the story that the United States
steamer Mohican had been fred upon and
disabled by the seaIer Alexander has now
been set at rest. The latest versions agree
In fixing the date OF the alleged engage
ment as May %. The records OF the Navy
Department show that the Mohlcan was
at Port Townsend as late as May y, and
that she did not leave for Bering Sea until
some time after that.
IN important change has been made py
the Treasury Department IN the ciassIlca-
ton of wool that will lower the duty on
some grades nearly 100 per cent Inc
change is due to conclusive evidence OIL
fered by wool importers that certain
grades of hirh-clsss wool were practically
analogous to grades classified lower IN
the wool schedule of the Mckinley DILL
Hereafter the material known as 149 and
$50 Flamartin skin wool, and 179 kassap-
batcha skin wool, second quality of first
or highest class, will be known as 1876 and
3g7 Servian skin wool and $50 kassap-
batchia skin wool, second quality third
class The changes in the duty according
to tie rates prescribed for the different
classes will be seen to be great.
The charges of perjury made against the
Japanese interpreter employed at the
rnited States Custom-house at San Fran
q sco have been overruled by the Treasury
De7artment. To-day acting Secretary
Es1lin sent letter to the Collector Of
C-s oms at San Francisco exonerating the
srureter and directing that the twelve
Sc involved be deported ito the
col8iry whence they came"
number of pensioners dropped from
Jhe 1olls since March f. 1898, is Is, 245. aud
-hs jo1al n mber of pensioners suspended
s1oe March 4. pending further investiga-
tion ii their cases, is 5000.
The aDufscture of the new army rifle.
-Jotgensen, is being pressed vigorous
ly. It's believed the first lot of completed
rms will ne ready for delivery and issued
f. rhe service about the 1st of September.
The surge0n-general received cable
graz from Naples aYing the cholera is
there There we're t0gr fatal cases, widely
scattered, Sunday and Monday. Bacillus
was found IL All The origin was not
traced There have Det1 no cases since
Monday.
The value of merchandise exported for
the year ended Jane 90 SS47, ,423, 900
against 81. .030. 223. 600 fer the ,evious year
imports. s94i. 900 against S327, 4O2, 900
the previous year.
The Chief o the Bureau Of Statistics re-
ports that during the twelve months ended
June so, 1898, the numbe Of immigrants
VINO landed in the United Sta = was 4q7,-
9 nd during the res poading period
-of ne preceding yea ag 800
as I orkt0wG VIII saJ from New I ork
So Barbadoes Tomorrow, 90 her way to
tla pacifc.
JHs following land decisions have been
affirmed; United States VS.. Gustave
Wallin. Charles LaDdin and Percy Lesher,
Involving desert land in Lassen County,
Cal, entries rejected IN Susanville district
Edward McGinley's homestead entry in
Los Angeles district, contested by Edward
S. Mosher, is Cancelled; Harrison Rhodes,
in the Oregon City district, rejected
X. ID. Bowen has been appointed Post.
master at Red Creek, Cal. vice D. Hen
bricks, resigned, and r. E. Sewel has been
commissioned Postmaster ct Raridon, Cal.
r. L. Steward of San Francisco is at the
Shoreham Hotel.
L. A. Olsen of Tacoma applies for the
immigration ins ectorship.