Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-03-29
Capital Chat.

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Admiral Sir Henry Fairfax. British
commander-in-chief at Plymouth, died
AZ Naples.
Arthur u. Greedy, assistant commits
sioner Of patents, has resigned his
position. He will embark i'll private
business.
The navy department has received a
copy Of a proclamation issued by Capt.
/ Richard L. Leary. abolishing slavery
on the Island Of Guam.
Senator Mcmillan has introduced a
bill ITO prevent robbing the mail The
bill provides a system Of post checks
to be sem through the mails instead of
currency.
The secretary Of the interior has
approved l. the State Of Minnesota
swamp land giants Of eighty acres in
the CrookSton district and 621 acres
in the Duluth district.
Beginning next month scventy-three
additional postotices Will adopt the
system of registering letters by car
'iers. The new system then Will be ia
operation In three hundred and seven
cities.
The war department has resolved a
report from the sanitary corps which
has been making Il census Of Manila.
u places the population actually living
in houses within the police district at
10000.
Pietro Masc'gni's projected musicale
tour in Russia has ended in complete
failure at Moscow. where the adj
vanced hooking was so small that he
cancelled the concert. lcayinf Russia
without a show.
Arrangements are being made for
the extension OF the time allowed for
the ratification 0f the Jamaican reel
procity treaty and the other reciprocity
conventions applying TO the British
West Indian islands.
Rigo admits that his American
wife's money is running low and that
work on their Cairo palace has been
suspended. If his orchestra project is
launched the princess will join Rigo
and aid in the enterprise.
A bin was favorably passed upon by
the senate committee or foreign rela-
tons authorizing the president TO in
wife the international congress of nav
igation 10 meet in Washington in 1901.
The congress meets this year in Paris,
The head Of Thomas III. Benton of
Missouri will decorate the new , pea
cent bonds for s 1900. Benton, by his
persistent opposition TO paper and sill
yer and demand for gold currency,
was given the sobriquet of "OId
Bullion"
In compliance with a joint resolution
of congress the secretary Of the in
terror has entered into negotiations
for the purchase by the government
of lands occupied by the mammoth
tree grove and South park grove Of
big trees in California.
Maj. Charles Bird. q~uartermaster T.
s. A, just returned from Manila. has
been ordered 10 make an inspection Of
the transport service and other mat
tiers relative TO the quartermaSter's de-
partment NJ San Francisco. Cal, and
at Tacoma and Seattle, Wash.
A report made to the state depart,
ment by Consul George Holloway nj
ST. Petersburg states that the ship
building industry in Russia, with The
exception of tho government works for
hattlcships. is Cf little Importance and
mat IltdStItS dEe uAAAliI COAlSi&tlllAth
for the promotion of the merchant
marine.
Mai. Bellinger Of the quar- ermaster
generals department has returned
from New York where he made an in.
spccticn OF the new transport Sumner.
which, he says. Is probably the fines.
vessel Of her class in the world. Her
departure for Manila wins a large boly
of recruits. which had been fixed for
March %.
The commits sioner of internal revenue
HIS decided that when instruments
convey standin - cut timber they are
not taxable as conyeyances. He has
also decided thct elgnt ounces of stand
ard extracts of perfum~ry- must be re-
garded as a retail package. and that
quantities IN excess of g ght ounces are
bulk packages, ard taxes mast be paid
accordingly.