Show TELEGRAPHIC NEWS TUE CAPITAL Gnlteane Bones are Nobodys The Yellowstone Park flintier Notes and News Washington 21Ihe story that the government contemplates paying 2000 for Guiteaua bones is moonshine No one owns the bones The pretended will of Guiteau granting tnem to Dr licks has never been probated and probably prob-ably never will be District Attorney Uorkbill said today anyone who has possEssion of the bones has as much right to them as anyone else Assistant Secretary Joslyn of the interior tenor department has been criticised for his action in the matter of the Yellow stone Park Says the letterof General Jrisbin on the subject It shows what his motives were for assailing me tie xpecied to make a million dollar according ac-cording to his letter and if he could do this everything would be all right When he found eomebody eke was likely to make money cut of the enterprie then the whole thing was a swindle He evidently is very much prejudiced The secretary of the interior is con id ering the advisability of modifying or qualifying the recent decision of the case of Phelps vs the Northern Pacific In his event while the result in the particular partic-ular cases Involved the Bitter Valley lands will not be reversed the scope of the original decision as generally under ptod will be greatly limited It is intimated imated that pressure has been brought to bear to secure this limitation The decision all published seems to have alarmed railroad menThe men-The Supreme Court ofthe United States today rendered an elaborate decision in which it is held that section 651 of the Revised Statutes is not supported by the authority and that the enactment was beyond the power of Congress Washington 22Teller has ordered stricken from the Phelps decision the clause which has beon misconstrued so the decision applies only to lands in Bitter Root Valley The President has approved the agriculture culture appropriation bill J and the act mending sections 1926 and 1928 Revised Re-vised Statutes so as to extend the limits of the jurisdiction justices of the peace in the territories of Washington Idaho and Montana James F G > wen and John Gary of Oregon testified in the star route trial elaivftothe route from Canyon City to Fort Dermott During Careys eianina ion a letter from Miner to vitcess was read wherein he is directed to purchare tho silence of a person in Oregon who md been sending to the department protests pro-tests against cuntinuence of the increased service The court of claims today rendered a decision in the case of Commander Jar D Graham of the navy to the effect that naval officere while travelling in a foreign country under orders are entitled en-titled to mileage the same as when traveling travel-ing under orders in the United States Judgment was given for 36340 in favor of the claimU Tho court overruled bo motion of the government for a new trial ot the case Timothy Frd Co Logans bill reported to the Senate with favorable recommendation to day requires telegraph companies to receive dispatches from any persons or from any other line and transmit the same without with-out favor or prejudice The secretaries of flat 1 end treasury have agreed upon the form of the new Chinese regulations to bo promulgated in the circular from the treasury in a day or two |