The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-03-11
ON LIVE 5STOCK.
The Agricultural Department Issues an
Interesting Bulletin.
PECULIAR PENSION FRAUD.
A Man Wants Half a Dozen Allowances
Under "a Many Aliases-Alaska Gold
Fields-Openins OF Reservation POST
Poned-Forest Reservations

cultural department has issued the
following bulletin on live stock:
The returns Of the number of live stock on
farms in the United States January L. show
there to have been 13 800 Oil horses: 2251 6S5
mules; l5.S4O.sS6 mich cows; q. 264 1877 oxen
and other cattle; 81 $50 $50 Sheep and 49, 759 1913
swine These figures show decrease of 403,-
1o6 in the number of horses: 1O0S4l in that OF
mich cows: 1.244 .21l in that of oxen and other
cattle; $40. 2S3 in that of swine On the other
hand there is an increase of 1888. 317 in the num-
Der of sheep and AZ. Oil in that OF mules While
there has been an increase in the number of
mich cows in each of the New England states.
and somewhat considerable increase
In the northwestern states, there has
been decrease throughout almost the
entire SOUTH and this fact, together with a
slight decrease in New York. Pennsylvania.
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. reduces
the total for the country at large to six-tenths
OF one per cent below that of last year. or the
IL states reporting total of over 1.O)0 900 of
hogs. Pennsylvania, Ohio. Georgia, Missouri.
Kansas and Nebraska show an increase and
Indiana. Illinois, Iowa and eight southern
states decrease. There is marked increase
in the value of live stock on farms reported
from almost every section of the country. the
total value of farm horses having increased
during the year by S25, 7l3 oil; that of mules
ID, 729,912; of mich cows s65. 573 1913; of oxen
and other cattle, sl04. 367 23 of sheep S25. 200,
1911, and of swine, IS, O7s 639-a total increase Of
S236, l62. $50, or a. q per cent
Remarkable Pension Fraud.
WASHINGTON, March "a remarka-
BILE case of pension fraud, the latest
developments in which have just come
to light, has been made public by the
pension Office. About eight years ago
George Watson, with four aliases, was
sentenced to a fine and imprisonment
for having drawn four separate pen
sions. At the time of his conviction
nc had two other claims for pensions
on file. Being an exemplary prisoner
Watson was discharged in June, 1896.
Shortly after. under the name of George
Kelley, he presented a claim for pen
sion on account of service in the Mexi-
IAN war on the ship Savannah and
.ater filed application for still another
On account of servi ce in the rebellion
IN the ship Pawnee. In this his du-
plicity was discovered as a result of
which he was held in Philadelphia
several days ago in 81, 900 bail.
Papers on the Alaska Gold Fields.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-Two papers
containing important contributions to
the collaborating regions of Alaska,
the publication of which has been
awaited with great interest for nearly
a year, have just been issued from the
government printing Office. They are
both advance chapters of the 18th an
nual report of the director of the
United States geological survey not
yet issued. The papers give the re-
suits of reconnaissance examinations
by survey experts, made respectively
in the summers of 1895 and 1896, or
shortly before the outbreak of the
Klondike gold excitement OF each of
these papers the geological survey has
about 200 copies for general distribu-
ton.
Opening of Reservation Postponed.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-Secretary
Bliss sent to congress yesterday the
draft of a resolution extending the
time for the opening of the Uncom.
pahgre Indian reservation in Utah for
six months from April 1, the date set
for the opening. The reason given by
the secretary for asking an extension
of the time is that the allotments tc
the Indians have been retarded by the
severe SnowStorms which have visited
the reservation.
Suspension of Forest Reserve Order.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-The senate
committee on public lands yesterday
reported favorably an amendment to
the sundry civil bill, extending for one
year the time when the SURVEYS for
forest reservations may be made. This
continues the law as at present and
suspends for another year the last or
der of President Cleveland, making
several large reservations