Show TELEGRAPH TIDINGS by IV U telegraph to the HERALD Hall road construction washington may 13 th the secretary of the interior addressed a letter to the commissioner of the general land office relative to the right ht of the railroad companies compani eg to take t to timber from the public lands by virtue of the act of 1875 tho the law referred to provides that an any y railroad company or organized zed aa as therein pr provided idd hitlam have ave the right lit to ta take from froia the public lands 11 to the line of railroad material earth stone and timber necessary sar for the construction of said rai railroad raif road the Secret secretary afy eaid said this law aw refers exclusively to con contemplo cd ed or roads corni pailles lanies have no aglet to take timber inder under this act for repairs or the further improvement of roada roads constructed ted congress in providing that railroad companies should have the he right to take timber from pubic lic lands adjacent to the line of construction st evidently meant timber standing I or growing adjacent to the inc line as distin distinguished growing guis ed from timber further urt lier off to hold that timber in all instances must betoken betaken bo taken from the nearest point to the road measuring g literally ite rally from the line would in in many cases wholly defeat the intention of congress such would be the caso case in in sections of the country where no timber could be found for man many y miles on cither either side of the line in buch I cases the secretary thinks the law aw contemplates that timber m may y c taken from any point opposite the line within the termini and carried forward and distributed as required u i r ed in the construction this right b however the secretary holds is is grazi granted ted to railroad companies duly organized according to the act of 1875 and to lone none others no company has power to give general authority to the bublic to cut timber from public alic ands in such cases ewes railroad companies would have no authority to di o place tov to where bere and the manner in which timber should be taken nor any control whatever over individuals cutting timber in ili conclusion the secretary tary decided that in n all instances where railroad corn tan ies desire to take large of earth stone and timber under the provisions of the act from any one part it should be required to make application to the commissioner of the general land office to do so p ryn culon ST sr PL may 13 the liver river dwina at archangel has hooded flooded a great part of the causing great distress the tie papers pipers are full of accounts of jewish riots in the south and southwest there was two days rioting in Bene government of cherson shops were pillaged and three jewish houses burned there was a serious encounter between the peasant peasants and the authorities at Victor cowa government of occoa owing to the authorities trying to recco recover vor stolen property troops were there from odessa odma at kicul t troops 00 are stationed in the streets one P person was killed and eighteen wounded there have been the muni municipal cepl co council un cill I is s deliberating with closed doors on measures to prevent further disturbances the chief ringleaders ring leaders were strangers who came from the north near Jene winka on tuesday a jewish house and shops hops were destroyed there are similar accounts from many other places two special trains train of refugee jews have arrived at A battalion of infantry flimm was sent from ti 01 ial art monday to suppress the riots s at where wh ere all the tile houses of alie jews sews were desti destroyed boyc d two committees have been formed at Elizabeth grad one composed of jews for the assistance of individual sufferers from the violence of the mob and the other compose composed A of christians to relieve families four lun blundred dred persons I were ar reeled at balta where a pro proclamation clma has been issued inciting the christian inhabitants against the jews algeria and PARIS may 13 the yellow book on tunis and algeria was distributed amongst the deputies today it includes the circular of bartholemy Barth clemy saint Ili hilaire laire defining the object of the tunis expedition which is for the definite pacification and determination of the eastern frontier and the conclusion ofa treaty guaranteeing algeria against frontier raids and the french interests against disloyal intrigues prudence obliges Pran france coto to watch the soli citations which may be pressed upon the bey and which may become a source of grave trouble to algeria the causes odthe of alie change chango inthe in the beys feelings towards franco france would be too delicate a matter to investigate the present crisis is is due itle to the persistent war waged during the past two yeara years against ull all french interests into r in tunis tito circular justifies the french refusal to recognize the fortes portos suzerainty and says the expedition meet the approval europe whenever p prejudice rel udice docs does not blind mens eyes A all I civilized nations tio ns will profit by bythe the change which france will effect there is nothing to prevent ua us from doing for tun without fighting what wo we do to in al geria and what england docs does in in dia |