New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-19
NEWS NOTES AT THE CAPITAL.
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST A YELLOW FEVER
EPIDEMIC.
slyRGEoN.cENERAI. wYMAN BACK FROM HIS TRIP
tn DURHAM IMPORTANT LAND DEcIsIoN-To
INVESTIGATE THE HABITS OF SEALS

SUPERINTENDENT wYMAN BACK FROM HIS TRIP
TO crypA-AN IMPORTANT LAND DEcIsIoN-To
INVESTIGATE THE HABITS OF SEALS
NO MONEY FOR THE COURTS
Washington, May disappointment waiter
Wyman OF the Marine Hospital service mas 'u'.
returned from a three weeks trip TO CUBA anu
no,nts on the South Atlantic and Gulf coast. which
he believes will result In benehciai changes ~
Havana with the aid OF Drs Burgess ana oas'e'
lanos. United States medical inspectors Dr. "y'na"
located the source of much OF the yellow ie'ei
which comes from that port. IL was iouhu ti'a'
all the cases developed at Ship Island ana Dry
Tortugas in 1893 and 1894 came in vessels ioadeu
at TWO particular wharves in Havana vessels
which load in the bay are much more iKe'y ~ es
cape the contagion than those when go 10 TIC
wharves The latter always open to SUSPICION
DR. Wyman says that at present there Is no Dan
ger OF an outbreak OF yellow fever IN Cuba ass.s
lne presence oil large number OF unacchma, ,e
s Sp Was "nn AXE " Visited The
ship Island Hrunswiek' Ga, and Blackboard Island,
Ga also, he marine hospitals a. Key Mss, sIo Hnr
Al savapnah there - Marine Hospital a ses" hs
ss "a sGssh e al 81 and "Sss
o1ialas with a view OF Increasing me sne'enny
man also visited several, out,oflhegey places
which had been recognized AZ weak links n ne
service Al Hound leland q Nlsslssptl sound,
only twenty miles from ship Island, ~ whl'h
and quarantine are maintained. there was prae.
llcsy nothing done e pdeyen, lhe Inlod9eil%a . o.
was DO protection aaans, he iandng, Of infected
0"nsrai and ddVS'Y boa, and small force Furnished
the quarantine at Blackboard Island
The Secretary OF the Interior to-day rendered nm
important decision In railroad case. regarding
Tho. raIlp alt ofe "a
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company
now the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Company. The lands granted to the company are
In Nebraska and are on both sides Of The road
had taken 1 0l acres TO the north or tho line ~
excess Of ee amount granted snd refused TO- re-
to compel the company TO do 30. ana ls now pend
he road nS ess than is entitled " an nS"h
are stu lands which might be patented 10 II were
ns mol qf me on me o SIDE Is
tracts on tho southern side, and IL willing TO give
the lands sod but Secretary smith aer p@en' h bat
no patent would be issued for them until the com
| ern side OF the road.
| The Fish Commission steamer Albatross will sail
| from San Francisco Monday for Behring Sea-
| TO pursue the investigation OF the peagic habits
| OF the seal and the condition OF the rookeres on
the Pribylof Islands She will carry the largest and
best equipped corps OF scientists ever engaged in
for some substantial results from the seasons
operations Besides the force regularly attached TO
| the Abatross. under Charles H. Townsend, natu-
ralist, there will be F. w. True, curator OF man.
mails and Lconhard Stejneger. curator OF reptiles
at the Smithsonian Institution These two men left
Washington to-day and will join the Albatross at
| Port Townsend. The vessel will spend tho summer
The work OF the vessel has been interrupted for
two or three years by reason OF her assignment
to patrol duty In Behrng Sea. Ii is intended az
continuation Of the investigation begun by the
Treasury Department some years ago by Its special
agents. which was largely confined 10 the COM
1t Is said at the Department OF Justice that moth
Ing can be done. far as the officials can dis
cover. to keep the United States courts going The
appropriation for witnesses fees and the pay OF
court bailiffs Is exhausted Formerly Congress an
propriated lump sums for Department expenses
and the Attorney General cannot use one appro-
priation pay the expense appropriated for under
another head IL Is learned that the appropriation
for the Department OF Justice for the fiscal year
beginning July next is 900 short OF the esti
mate submitted and that estimate is within a few
dollars Of what Congress appropriated for this De-
partment for the current fiscal year, and which IL
now short that the United States courts have
10 close.
Three Chinese laborers who left the United States
for Bluenelds, Nicaragua, are now at New Orleans
bekn debarred, as they have no certificates en-
fitting them to re-enteT On the way 10 Buehelds
they were shipwrecked and brought to New Orleans
In the rescue ship The Treasury was appealed to
and has decided that the Cinnamon cannot be ad-
mitted