Show Washington Washington 9The treasury department de-partment purchased 435000 ounces of fine silver for delivery at New Orleans Philadelphia and San Francisco mints It is understood the courtmartia which tried Lieutenant Colonel Ingle on a charge of duplication of pay accounts found him guilty and recommended his dismissal from the service The commissioner general of the land office in the case of the application appli-cation of Pettigrew and Brown Dakota for a return of supreme court scrip used in the payment of location on entries whicn had been cancelled on the ground that the preemptors affidavits were false and fraudulent has rendered a decison in which he holds that the scrip used in payment land Is money within the meaning of the law and therefore lgul tender The Commissioner says It wu the price of the land and it would seem wheuftver given the thing is by law made receivable in payment tr lands at I i stated price and the consideration con-sideration is equivalent to money within the meaning Ot the tatue and that if the entry is fraudulent the consideration is forfeited Postmaster General Gresham has addressed a letter to the director general of the post in Mexico in which lIe asks his cooperation in seeing that international cone pondence now exchanged exclusively exclu-sively by sea have the advantage of railroad facilities whenever possible T |