The Red Cloud chief., 1900-06-22
AFFAIRS OF STATE.
Departmental and Executive
Actions Condensed.
MOVEMENTS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Transactions and Happenings of More
Than Ordinary Interest to the
People of Administrations
which Make History

Edgar Howard Of Papillion a
nominated for congress at the Omaha
convention.
Senator Clark has returned to Mon
tana and denounces his accusers as a
gang of %perjurers.
Over six million persons are now re-
ceiving relief in India. The prospects
of a fair monsoon are somewhat i'm
proved.
The bark Roderick Dhu, formerly
Hawaiian. sailed from San Francisco
for Hilo, Hawaiian islands, under the
American flag. She is the first vessel
to change her flag since the annexation
of the islands.
News has been received at New Or
leans that President Iglesais of Costa
Rica had sent to congress a decree
making legal the circulation in that
States; also the gold coin of England.
France and Germany.
A Jackson, Miss. dispatch says that
when Governor Longino learned Of
the lynching of the negroes Russ and
Askew at Mississippi City, he intimat-
ed that IL the facts are as reported he
will Immediately undertake to bring
the guilty parties to justice.
The United States cruiser Albany,
which was placed in commission AT
Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 30, and under
orders TO proceed to the Mediterranean,
has arrived at Southampton. The
United States ,raining ship Buffalo.
which sailed from New York April 10
for n cruise in the Mediterranean has
also arrived.
1t is being claimed by those in a
position to form reliable opinion, that
the prices of news paper are likely to
be higher during the latter half of the
present year than they have been here
toforc. This Judgment is based on the
heavy demands both in this country
and abroad, occasioncd by the Paris
Exposition. the British-Boer war, and
our now approaching presidential cam
paign.
A Denver, June II dispatch says;
The state court Of appeals decided
that 4 membership in or a contrac,
with the Associated press is not a
property" which can be taxed. This
suit was brought by the Rocky Noun,
tain News on behalf of the pa pers in
the city using the service to proven,
the assessment of the Associated press
franchise of S25,O The decision o.
the lower court that it was not a taX
able property is affirmed.
A San Francisco, June IL dispatch
SAYS: The Examiner asserts that of 4;
band of thirty-two Japanese immi
grants who were recently deportcd on
the steamer Thyra, at least four, ano
possibly twenty, are already back il
this state. One of them has been iden.
titled and is now in custody. The mel
are supposed to have left the Thyra a,
Portland or Astoria. where the vessel
touched, but the northern customs
officers declare that such could no
have been the ease.
Privates Cole and Ripley, two pris
oners doing terms for dcsertion, es
capped from the guard house at For
Meade, near Sioux City. Ia, Tuesday
night. Just al hour after the dis
covery of the escape Private Jacl
O'Donnell of Troop /, w of tn
escape, came down the Dad and wa,
ordered to halt. He probably did no
hear, and advancing, was shot dead b,
the sentry. O'Donnell was an oil,
Eighth cavalryman and had just re
turned from Cuba. Lieutenant Fit2
hugh Lee, son of General Lee, was tn,
officer of the guard.
A special from Washington says
The intervention of the United State
in the Chinese crisis involving the rer
reservations already made by Ministc
Conger, together with the action take,
by Admiral Kempff, both under tn
discretion allowed them by the pres
dents instructions, are declared OH
cially to exhaust this governments +,
/ sources, so far as they can be apple
at the present time. Without n distinc
change in national policy, which is +,
5 garded as most rcmote and except III
der g~ravely complicated i%nternationa
conditions affecting not only the sta
bilitv of the Chinese empire, but tn
equilibrium of Europe the officers G
American agencies at Pekin and Tie
Tsin as well as in future centers of da
t~urbances, will be limited to such e
forts for the protection of America
interests as the participation of Mil
lister Conger in the insistent demand
! made by all the foreign representative
+. upon the tsung-li-yamen and the dow
n ager empress for aifording security I
the life and property of aliens, and |;
the landing of armed forces and IL
, dispatch of gunboats to furnish I'll
|, necessary protection in case of China
failure to comply.
Senator Scott, who is in Philade
y phia attending to his duties as a men
Der of the republican national con
n mittee, sent a saO,O Geographic drat
d to his son, Lieutenant Scott, at Sa
Francisco, where the young man, upo