The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-09-11
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
No credencs Given the Reported Mas
saoro Of an American Sur
veylng Party,
Ne xloan Thieves Thought TO 30
tho Murderers II the Report
Proves True
Ruilnx by Secretary carlisis-rhs Wheat
Crop for tho ouFrsnt Year Comp
trolier's Report

WAsuNdToS. Sept. l0.-No information
has reached government officials here re-
gardinR the reported massacre OF survey
ing party In .he Vicinity OF I'll PAso. Two
parties Of the geological survey have been
working In Texas. moving toward Fort
Davis, but not due 10 reach thsro for q
month. Topogfasher Charles UrquhaTt
and Assistant 1opoeraphor Gresn formed
one party, TopoRrAphsr G. O. BssssM the
other. Each wAs accompanied by q team
ater and cook. II IL also probable that
GsoloRis. II. ID. Hill aud Assistant Geolo-
Riat Y. W. Ysughn have been al work in
the vicinity of III Paso. They expected to
90 10 Maria, on tho Southern Pacific. this
week. and then 10 El PAso.
When tho San Francisco rumoi Was 90 M
municatod TO the survey ofiiss IL was. NJ
frat suegsatei that the party was tho Mex
lean International bombay commission,
but that party let the nelRhborhood
named for the Pacific coast sevsfal months
ago. II 10 stated that there has also been
In the Rio Grande country patty OF ten or
twelve scientists from the coast and geo.
detic survey. at the head OF which was
Assistant Stephen Fornsy. They left
Washington In February, and we're doc to
return hero al tho end Of ths month.
They. however. have been working Al the
mouth OF the Rio Grsnde. almost thous-
and miles from I'll Paso. Mexican thieves
aud not Indian. wsro regarded as likely TO
be the guilty parties In ease the Tumof
proved true.
Secretary Carlisle to-day add 'essed the
following letter to Com missioner OF Inter-
nal Revenue Miller; II havs received your
letter Of the 5lh instant In which you en-
close q telegram from Collsoior Wellborn.
Of San Francisco. requesting 10 bo informed
whether section nine OF the new tariff bill
acts 20 prohibit the dilution OF mixturs OF
distilled spirits In bond manufacturing q
houses. or only the manufacture of dia,illed
spirits from suoh dilutions or mixtures.
I'm reply you are Informed that the de-
partment holds that the purpose Of the
paragraph 10 the exclusion OF ths manu- fac
ture Of alcohol In any form in bonded
warehouses. No original alcohol can be
produosd by any process under such bonds
Mixture OF distilled spirits aud use OF same
ne component materials OF articles manu-
faciured In bonded warehouses are not
p ohibitsd, but such spirits must be intro
duced In bonded warehouses;. and not
created therein" ..'..- .s...
The report of the statisticisn OF tho de-
partmsnt Of agriculture for the month Of
September shows the reportsd conditions
from tho correspondents for the principal
whent growing states ss follows Ohio 102.
Michigan 81, Indiana l03. Illinois l0i. VIA
consin 92 Minnesota %. Iowa 92. Missouri
81, Kansas b8, Nshrasks 40, South Dakota
32 North Dakota "a, California SO. Oregon
~. Washington G7. In the principal vhsht
states there hns been considerable change
In conditions In the July report In parts Of
the whoat region. The crop Ia fully mp 10
expectations. and in other parts the yield
has exceeded exrcotations. The condition
Of wheat, considering both winter and
sptina varieties whom harvested. was 1871
agninst "a last yesr aud S5.3 In 1892.
The annual report OF Comptroller OF the
Currency Eeksls vna made public TO deT.
II is a record of the work Of the comptrol-
ler's ofiios. and shows tho total number of
accounts, claims and cases settled during
the hscal year ended June 30 last was 81
1865. involving $3.50, 602002. ~ comparing
the work OF this Office for the past three
hscA, years. an Increase OF volume OF busi-
ness aince 1891. In round numbers. of $l04. :
000, 600 10 shown, with an increase in the
last fiscal year OF $74, 100000.