Show WASHINGTON WORD Financial Jjand and Other Matters at the Capital I NEWS NOTES TRQir GERMANY i j l J < T S The Boodle Aldermen On the Turf Gen Sheridan InstabtulBaok OmeEto Washington Whispers WASHINGTON October 21The rev enu s so far this month have averaged over 1000000 a day and are now about 12000000 in excess of the expenditure during the same period last year THE FINANCIAL SITUATION is regarded at the Treasury Department as favorable for another call for 3 percent per-cent bonds and it is probable that one will be issued in a iew days Commissioner Sparks has made a report re-port to the Secretary of the Interior upon information received at the General Gen-eral L n 1 Office to the effect that tbe Montana Improvement Company is making extensive depredations upon the public time and unsurveyed lands along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad under an agreement with the railroad company and that private surveys sur-veys are being made by the timber company com-pany with a view of claiming that THE LANDS DEP3EDATED UPON are odd sections belonging to the J railroad rail-road company and not to the United States The commissioner in his report re-port urges a vigorous prosecution against both companies He says that he qucsiicM whether the Jtforthera Pacific Railroad Company has a legal right to any lands along such portions of its road at least not located in the time when the road was required to be constructed con-structed has not been settled but that if it had such a right generally it has no right to specific tracts until the odd sections have been defined by public savings that such sections cannot be defined by private surveys and that the private surveys are unlawful He recommends that the timber company be enjoined from trespassing upon the public lands to make such surveys and says that nothing but the most active and SEVEBE MEASURES will put a stop to its operations He recommends criminal jjrosecutiona against all persons connected with its alleged timber trespasses In another report upon the application applica-tion of the company to have certain suits discontinued that have already been commenced the Commissioner recommends that instead of discontinuing discon-tinuing the suits they should be pressed with the utmost vigor and says that the public lands in portions of Montana Idaho and Washington Territories are being rapidly denuded by it of al their valuable timber and unless the full force of the government is exerted to put an immediate stop to these operations much of the public timberland timber-land in said Territories will soon be nothing but a barren waste GEOVSBS OHABITT The following explains itself EXECUTIVE MANSION WASHINGTON October 19th 1836 Colonel A Belo JIy Dear SirThe late terrible disaster at Sabins Pass in the State of Texas and the destitution suffering and death I thereby occasioned have so roused my sympathy that I should be glad to contribute con-tribute to the relief of the stricken people of that locality who are so much in need of help I have not seen in the newspapers mention of any appointed medium by which my purpose can be reached and I have therefore deter miued to avail myself of your knowledge knowl-edge of the i lace and people and Jour interest in all that pertains to practical aid in such cause and to request you to undertake that my small contribution I herewith enclosed be placed where it will relieve the most distress and need Thanking you in advance for what you will do for me in this behalf I am Yours sincerely GROVER CLEVELAND ARIZONA REPORTS Hon C Meyer Zulick Governor of Arizona in his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior fers briefly to the termination of the Apaches troubles in that Territory and says with the removal re-moval of these renegades he sees the dawn of a new day Her rapid development de-velopment will now goon without check or drawback The Governor re ferrirg to the San Cao Indian reservation says It contains 6 950 square miles or 2523000 acres of land well watered and well timbered most of which is as good as any agricultural land in this Tdriory Upon this tract are gathered together of Yuma Tento and White Mountain Apaches about 3500 souls so that each Indian male and female young and old hells over 700 acres or land These Indians I am told are nearly selfsupporting It would be well for Congress to parcel out thelan 1 giving to each head of a family 610 acres or if this is deemed premature then Congress should take measures to reduce the reservation bat least half its present limits Then follows mining and railroad statistics of the Territory The Governor recommends that the lands of the Atlantic and Pacific Company be surveyed at the earliest possible moment mo-ment in orderthat they may be listed for county and territorial taxation On the subject of desert lands and irrigation irriga-tion the Governor says Arizona ton tains nearly 114000 square miles or about 72000 000 acres of land About 18000000 acres are utilized for stock raising and upon it graze nearly 1000 000 head of cattle and more han 1000000 sheep besides horses nmie and other domestic animals Nutritious i = r j grass grows everywhere and could the 1 balance of the land adapfetT fo grazing be utilized for this purpose this would utcom 40 jatest stockraisingcoun try in the United bcaica The woant of water is j the only drawback to its occupation oc-cupation and development For the most part these lands lie So that water reservoirs can be constructed to preserve pre-serve the water from the rains of summer sum-mer and the melting snows oTwinter for the aseof the herds of cattle and other stock Of the iemaining 36000000 of acres which are mineral and agricultural agri-cultural tTothirds are arable could they be irrigated Of these 100000 acres can tfe reclaimed by judicious appropriation and tne distribution of the present water supply The Governor requests that Congress be asked to demonstrate by scientific survey and practical test the feasibility of artesian wells for giving the needed supply of water and add Around Denver a well irrigates from forty to fifty acres if half as good results could obtained in Arizona wo could produce wine raisins fruits nuts and olives enough to support in affluence a population of 2000000 people The Governor in con elusion predicts that the Apaches removed re-moved the Territory will double in population and resources within the next two years |