The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-28
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES

wASHINGTON NOTES.
ARRANGEMENTS have Leen made for
the entertainment of President Dole,
of Hawaii, on scale BETTING his rank
as the chief magistrate of friendly
nation. It has been decided that he
shall be regarded as the nations guest
and that this government shall bear
the expense of his entertainment while
in Washington.
THE order issued by the department
of the interior, directing the su b-treas-
urer of the United States at st. Louis
not to issue any more money to any OF
the treasurers of the five tribes on ac'
count of the invested fund held in trust
for the tribes. has caused sensation.
1t has paralyzed the Cherokee govern
ment. because 80 per cent. of the funds
used in the running of the government
are derived from the fund.
ACCORDING to Senator Chandler, not
a bill for the reform OF the currency is
likely to receive affirmative action in
this congress. He has leanings toward
very liberal coinage of silver and is
opposed to the retirement of the paper
currency of the government.
department that the French govern.
ment will surrender William r. Foster,
the defaulting custodian of the Pro-
duce Exchange gratuity fund, who fled
from New York with $4,000 of the
funds more than nine years ago.
COMMISSIONER EVANS, of the pension
Office. has-in preparation new set of
regulations governing the practice of
attorneys before the pension Office and
the adjudication of claims therein.
THE interior department has issued
q compact pamphlet of the United
States laws relating to mining. 1t
contains suggestions as to location,
possession, purchase and patenting of
the mineral lands of the public do
main.
PRESIDENT GOMPERs, of the A. +.
L., and other labor leaders had hear
ing the other day before the house Ia
Dor committee on proposed legislation
extending the eight-hour law to all
government work done by sub-con-
tractors.
, Gov. BARNES went to Washington
the other day to help secure the pas
sage of the free homes bill, giving Ok
lahoma settlers their claims under the
old homestead law without requiring
the payment of from 81 to So. so. which
would mean a saving of SIS, 900, 900 to
the settlers of the territory.
The president has nominated John
w. Griggs, the present governor of
New Jersey, to be attorney general.
REPORTS to the war department at
Washington indicate great scarcity of
food in the Klondike gold country in
Alaska, with prospects of worse to
come.
OFFICIALS of the land department of
the Rock Island railroad state that the
number of ''soOners" encamped on the
Wichita reservation in Oklahoma is
constantly increasing and there is sure
to be big rush for that section before
long.
POSTMASTER GENERAL GARY sent to
congress a request for an appropria-
ton of S163, 900 to meet a probable de-
fciency in the free delivery service for
the current fiscal year.
r. E. PRESTON, director of the mint.
has resigned and George E. Robinson,
of Fort Dodge, Ia, has been nomi-
mated to succeed him.
CONSIDERABLE comment was created
in Washington on the Gath, principally
because Of its probable effect on the
hot-headed Spaniards, by the an
nouncement that the United States
warship Maine had been ordered to
Havana. It was said at the navy de-
partment that the movement was in
the line of q resumption of free inter.
course of United States naval vessels
in Cuban waters such as prevailed
prior to their withdrawal on account
of the outbreak of hostilities.
THE president has nominated Charles
H. Duell, of New York, to be commits.
sioner of patents.
THE preliminary steps in the wrestle
with the arid land problem was taken
the other day by the public lands COM
mittee of the house. Several bills for
the disposition of the immense arid
tracts to the various states were up
and their consideration by the commit
tee was commenced.
GENERAL NEWS.
JONAS BEsrow's daughter, three years
old, was found dead at Webster City,
la, with one Of her hands in a wolf
trap. The steel spring had snapped an
artery. An elder brother had set the
continuance in the barn.
OFFICER FRANK MURRAY was picked
out of line of policemen by j. NJ
Platts and j. A. Brooks at the Grand
Crossing station at Chicago as the man
who had forced them at the point of q
revolver to surrender on the street