Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-10-11
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


A TELEGRAM from Washington says
the American Graphaphone Co. has di-
rected that suits for infringements of
patents, injunctions and accountings
be brought directly against the retail
dealers in the Edison photograph and
supplies in the United States and Can
ada. The patents owned by the Amer
lean Graphaphone Co., it is claimed,
give them a monopoly of all practical
talking machines and cylinders for
records
ACTING POSTMA sTER-GENERAL JONES
has sent letter to Postmaster Hesing,
of Chicago, concerning the inspection
of letter carriers in that city on Sun
day. He says that owing to the work
of the carriers and the interruption of
business an inspection on week day
is impracticable, but he says that as
they must under the law be inspected,
such inspection should be brief and en-
tail as little labor on the carriers as
possible and there should be no parade.
d. NJ. BROWNING, the commissioner
of Indian affairs, has submitted his an
nual report for the year ended June 80
to the secretary of the interior. No
attempt is made to theorize on the In
dian question. An educational awak-
ening is noted among the Navajos.
The commissioner reports progress in
the allotment of lands and also in con-
structing systems of irrigation.
A WASHINGTON dispatch on the 4th
said that the Colum bian relics, loaned
to this government for display at the
Chicago fair by the pope, have COM
menced their homeward journey by be-
ing placed on the Norfolk steamboat.
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Detroit at the Norfolk navy yard and
will be delivered to Ambassador Mac
IVeagh at Rome for return to the pope,
with an autograph letter of thanks
from President Cleveland.
The comptroller of the currency has
called for a report on the condition of
national banks at the close of business
on Tuesday, October 30.
COMMISSIONER LAMoREAUX, of the
general land Office, in his annual re-
port to the secretary of the interior,
recommends that the timber touched
by the forest fires in Michigan, Mime
sofa and Wisconsin be cut by the set
tiers on their lands where the tim Der
As in such condition that if not cut
and disposed of in a short time it would
be worm-eat ten and worthless and thus
deprive the land of a great proportion
of its value to the settler. He there
fore asks that congress be requested to
give the necessary permission to allow
the cutting. The commissioner also
recommends that public lands be sur
veyed only by the geological survey.
His report shows that the total num-
Der of acres patented for the year
ended June 80 to be 1888, 735.
THE treasury department has def
nitely determined to suspend the free
alcohol clause of the new tariff bill I'M
til congress shall have chance to wipe
it out. The department concluded
that the provision would result in gross
fraud and enormous loss of revenue.
THE Interstate Democra tic associa-
ton, of Washington, at meeting at
tended by 400 members unanimously
resolved that members of the associa-
ton going home to vote at the fall cleo
tions would not ride in Pullman cars.
The association numbers about 1900
mem bers, and this action is designed
to express sympathy with struggling
labor.