Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-10-04
RESERVE OF GOLD
Continues Steadily to Increase
in the Treasury Vaults.
NEW YORK CUSTOMS RECEIPTS

For Twenty Days of This Month They
Show an Increase of Nearly Ihree
Million DolIars-Other Happenings
at the National Capital.
WASHINGTON, September 24.-At the
close OF business to-day the net cash IN
the Treasury Department was $l25, ,763,-
175, of which $58, ,OO5, ,O97 represented the
gold reserve. The gold reserve passed
another million mark, and reached the
highest point since July 2S, when 1t
began to dwindle to the lowest point in
the history of the department, $52, ,OOO,-
600.
A treasury statement issued to-day
shows that the custom receipts at the
New York custom-house for the first
twenty days of this month have been
7,411 ,797, against $4, ,S52, ,952 for the first
twenty days of last month, and $5,597,-
571 for the first twenty days OF Septem-
Der, 1898. Not one dollar in gold coin or
gold certificates was received at the New
York custom-house during the first
twenty days of September.
ORDERS TO COMMON CARRIERS.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
to-day ordered that all common carriers
subject to the act to regulate commerce
shall in all future issues of their rate
sheets, schedules and Joint tariffs include
all future amendments with the the gen.
eral rules laid down in pamphlet OF
the commission OF December l, 1891, as
modified by this order; that all joint
tariffs hereafter filed, and all future
amendments and supplements to exist
ing joint tariffs, be hereafter so arranged
and printed as to show distinctly the
names OF the several parties thereto;
that all common carriers subject to the
act which shall hereafter be named as
parties to any joint tariff, filed and
submitted by another carrier, or as
parties to any amendments or sup
plements to existing joint tariffs, shall
forthwith, upon publication thereof,
file with the commission statement
showing that acceptance of and concur
renee therein and making themselves
parties thereof.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT DECISION.
The Interior Department has just
passed on case in which a peculiar
fraud is being practiced. Some time ago
a resident of Tennessee wrote to the At
torney-General stating that last May he
saw an advertisement in Chicago paper
offering for sale 100 acres of land in Gov
ernor county, Kan. The real-estate
agent lived at Lathrop, Mo-, and through
him the land was purchased by the man
from Tennessee. 1t was then found that
the egovernmento owned the land, although
the Lathrop agent had furnished COM
plete deed and abstract of title. Since
then the same land has been advertised
by the same agent. 1t is held by the
Interior that, as the rights of the gov
ernment are in no way affected, there is
nothing for the department to do in the
premises. 1t is suggested, however, that
the attention of the proper authorities
be called to the fraud with a view OF
saving innocent parties who do not take
the trouble to make thorough investi-
CATION of land titles.
ALL THE LOTS ARB SOLD.
The Interior Department has been no.
titled that all the lots in the townsite of
Woodward, o. T., have been disposed of,
and the Commissioner of the general land
office has ordered the board for the town
discontinued. Some questions arose as
to whether the sales OF the last Register
and Receiver of the land district, in
which Woodward was situated, would be
approved. The Commissioner says that,
If the officers insist upon their purchases,
the deeds OF lots will be delivered to
them, but the practice is most emphat-
ically discouraged. A strict order has
been granted against the purchase of
lots by boards appointed to make sales,
and when such purchases have been made
the deeds are ordered cancelled and the
lots resold.
| KURINo CoNFERS WITH GRESHAM.
The new japanese Minister, Mr.. Ku-
rino, had conference with Secretary
Gresham to-day, discussing the terms OF
a convention to supersede the extra ter
rltorial jurisdiction now exercised by the
United States Consuls in Japan. 1t is
understood that the instrument under
discussion in its general character diff
lers only slightly from the treaty recent
ly negotiated between Great Britain and
Japan.
FLOUR FOR CHEROKEE INDIANS.
Acting Secretary Sims has decided not
to pay 81 bushel for wheat for the
Cherokee Indians in the Southeast, but
will buy flour for them instead. These
Indians have flour mill at their reser-
vation, and the Indian bureau wanted
to make use OF it; but, as the Indians
have raised no wheat of their own, the
other alternative is deemed proper
OKLAHOMA PosToFFICE BUILDINGS.
Acting Secretary Sims has informed
the Postmaster-General that the Land
Department has no objection to the erec-
ton of postotiice buildings on the gov
ernment reservations at Guthrie and
Perry, o. 7. The buildings are to be-
come the property of the government in
five years, and meanwhile will be used
as postotfice buildings.