| Show BY TELEGRAPH rail PER WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH ass WASH washington washingto INGro 10 the fost fast today to day an interview with hon 9 sackville ac kville west british minister in regard to the seizure of the U S fishing vessel adams by the canadian authorities ties in which he says 1 I 1 have had no official correspondence upon the fisheries question this ivear you see the matter is in the hinds hands of the dominion authorities at present they correspond directly with the colonial office in london and it is not until some soine action is taken by the imperial government that I 1 should be called upon to act in the matter with wilh the united states I 1 dont apprehend this question is going to cause any serious difference between tile the two countries of course the seizure of the adams at digby will increase the unpleasantness which is felt on both sides everything might have been avoided had bad congress taken the advice of the administration and appointed a commission to inquire into the whole dispute but it has chosen not to do so led by senator biye who really does not seem to care what he says congress has de denounced the treaty of and it has ha substituted nothing leaving us to fall back u upon on the miserable ord old treaty of 1818 in instead of progress there has been retrogression trog in this matter and we are now acting under a treaty made over sixty sago ago s the question now is as to the interpretation of that treaty the canadians may interpret inter piot piet it one way the americans another while the imperial government may mav understand it in a way of its own everything appears now to depend on the way in which the british government may interpret this treaty this seizure of the adams will bring up the question and possibly uly decide the interpretation it will come before a mixed court part british citizens and part americans I 1 dont believe there will be any retaliatory action taken by either cout country itry that system tem is too old and has gone out of use and it has been found always to operate the retaliator A later dispatch says snow was convicted under the edmunds act for unlawful cohabitation and sent to prison where he now is he appe appealed aleO from rom the supreme court of the territory of ulah which sustained the judgment of the lower court in which he was convicted the supreme court of the united states holds that it has no jurisdiction in the cases and therefore dismissed them justice blatchford delivered the opinion of the court he held that in the cannon case the question of jurisdiction was not considered si and as the case was decided at the present term it had been decided to recall the mandate and dismiss the case for want of jurisdiction in order that the reported decision may not appear to be a precedent for the of of jurisdiction by the court in a case his kind the supreme court today to day decided case no salt lake city appellant vs 0 J hollister collector of internal revenue on appeal from the supreme court of the territory of utah this suit was instituted by tile the city of salt lake to recover of hollister the sum of illegally exacted by him as collector of internal revenue for the district of utah from the city for a special tax upon spirits alleged to have been distilled by said city and not deposited in the bonded warehouse of the united stal states tes by plaintiff as required by law the court in announcing its opi opinion ilion says awhile fc While the city does not deny the actual fact of distillation and of fraudulent returns by it it denies the whole affair by argument it says that though it is very true that the city did distill spirits did sell and did receive money into its treasury it cannot be held liable for this because it had bad no legal power to do so its want of separate authority to engage in distilling is to be received as conclusive that it did not do so while by pleading it is admitted that it did but the argument is unsound that whatever is dune by a corporation in excess of its corporate power sas defined baits charter is as though it was not done at all the judgment of the supreme court of utah is affirmed number 1291 united states vs the central pacific railroad company this was a suit brought in the court of claims by the railroad company to recover compensation for services rendered the united Sta states in transporting persons and freight over the unaided part of its road the united states demurred on the ground that the petition of the railroad company did not allege facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action the court of claims overruled the demurrer and the united states appealed this court decides that athe construe construction of the second section of the thurman act contended for by the railroad company is right and affirms the judgment of the court courton of claims the commissioner Commissi commissioner oter of the general land office in an his response to the senate resolution calling for the number of special agents empI employed dyed in his bis office and their duties says that aliat if the increased force recommended in his bis annual report be granted the entries suspended by his order of april 3 ISM will wili be investigated and disposed of in about a year and a half A large percentage of these entries he thinks are fraudulent the proportion of new tases cases that will require such investigation will be fauch inch less than in those previous to april 1885 since the order of quod suspension had bad the effect to mate bially check the making or completion of fraudulent entries it was the case with watch frauds could be perpetrated under existing laws and the immunity offered by the hasty issue of patents he says ithai encouraged the making of fictitious and fraudulent entries the certainty of a thorough investigation would restrain such practices but great frauds must inevitably exist so long as the opportunity of fraud is preserved in the laws law and and so long iong as it is hoped hy by the procurers and promoters of fraud that examinations may be impaired or suppressed the commissioner renews his recommendation that the preemption pre emption commuted homestead timber culture timber land and desert land laws be repealed 1 and says the questions broadly stated are whether the public lauds lands shall be protected and an honest acquisition of title insisted upon or a dishonest appropriation thereof be allowed these questions cannot long remain in abeyance with the present heedless rush of speculation and monopoly the public domain will be absorbed in a period ot of time so brief that even preventive measures against fraud and misappropriation may soon be too late to save any considerable portion of the public lands for the homes of the people the commissioner closes his corn com muni cation with the statement that his general information leads to a conclusion clu that no large amount of public land remains in the western states and territories east of the cattle belt which an actual settler can take up without first buying off a speculative claim or voiding some invalid entry by a contest proceeding while within the cattle region it is notorious that actual settlements are geue generally raly pre vented and made practically impossible outside the proximity of if towns through the unlawful control of tile the country maintained by cattle corporations the demand for free lands for the homes of american citizens which is daily Inc increasing reasin in intensity v cau can no longer be met unless ua ess the lands now unlawfully held or claimed can be recovered to tue the public domain and future illegal and fraudulent appropriations decisively stopped tue tae comptroller of the currency today authorized the american exchange national bank of Chicago lils to begin business with a capital ot of second assistant postmaster general knott today to day let contracts lor carrying mails on the pacific chastas coast as follows route irom from portland oregon to vancouver W T twelve miles and back six times a week on steamboat per annum route from portland oregon to cascades W T sixty six miles and back in steamboat three times a week 2000 both contracts are let to the ore oreon oregon on railway navigation company pacy route from seattle via mitchell ville and colby to seattle sixty six miles equal to thirty three miles and back in steamboat let to wm win H euis ellis of seattle at the supreme court has reversed the judgment of the united states circuit court for california and the supreme court of california in the case of wo lee vs the sheriff the supreme court affirms the judgment of the california courts in the california railroad tax cases judge field concurring in a separate opinion the supreme court has decided the case no 1281 of wo lee appellant vs the sheriff of san francisco and no 1280 jack woo vs the same the plaintiffs were convicted under the ordinance of the city and county of san francisco prohibiting the carrying on of a laundry in a frame building and were sentenced to prison the supreme court holds the ordinance to be a discrimination against the chinese and was therefore illegal and in violation of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution the decision of the lower courts Is reversed and the cases remanded with directions to discharge the prisoners from custody in the case no 2019 of the county of san bernardino vs the southern pacific railway company the judg judgment of the circuit court is affirmed in this as in the tae other california railroad tax cases the assessments in the case of the court speaking through justice harlan improperly included the fence upon the line of the railroad and that must be held to be insufficient as a basis for the judgment sought against the people of the state of california vs the northern railway company number john mullan and francis avery appellants vs the united states on appeal from the circuit court of the united states for the District of california tais is a suit brought by the united states to vacate and amend the title of john mullan and francis avery to a portion of tb the e land at mount Diab diablo lonear near meridian listed to the state of california as a school indemnity selection on the ground that when the selection was made and when it was listed the land was coal landane lan land dand and was so known by officers of the state and by mullan and avery when they afterwards acquired title from the state the circuit court of the united states for the district of california entered a decision vacating the title of the state and of mullan and avery and the de cree is ia here affirmed N 1246 united states vs dagama alias billy and makaraka Ma kawaka alias aben bedillon Be nillon on a certificate ot of division of opinion between the judges of the court of the states for california the supreme court decides to be the provi of the indian appropriation bill for ISM 1885 making an indian reservation wholly within the state and making such indians indian subject to be tried in the same courts and subject to the same penalties as other persons esons and also decided that the united united states courts have jurisdiction to try and punish an indian belonging to an indian tribe for committing murder upon another indian of tile the same tribe both sustaining the same tribal relations when the crime is committed upon an indian reservation set apart for the tribe to which they belong the following order was made by the supreme court it is now here ordered by this court that all cases on the docket not rejected and all other business of tile the term not disposed of by the court be and the same is hereby continued until the next session of the court adjourned until october next commissioner of patents montgomery today to day rendered an important decision in the reese keese vs thomas patent interference case the commercial importance of the invention the right to which was at issue lies in the alleged ability to eliminate by its itsuye use phosphorus from metal treated by the bessemer s that reese perfected his invention at least ten years before thomas came with his application the patent to reese however is di directed r acted to be withheld until the question of abandonment by reese of his bis invention before filing his application for a patent thus making it public property is settled on appeal the may crop report of tile the department of agriculture indicates an improvement pro during april of two points in wheat with thy the general average of the condition at 95 the may average last year was 70 representative morrow has received a monster petition from the knights of labor of california it is over 2000 feet ion long and contains the names ol of over persons every state county and municipal officer and every knight of labor of Cali california lornia has signed this petition every male adult in many of of the counties of the state has put his name to it it prays for such action on the part of congress either by appropriate legislation or by a change in the present treaty with china as may be necessary to forever prohibit the further immigration of chinese to tie the united states N Y 10 A terrible tragedy was enacted about four miles from owego this morning A farmer named norman G lounsbury aged 72 years and killed nis als wife aged 17 years horace payson aged a about ou t 30 and himself the weapon used was a shotgun shot gun un and lounsbury inflicted wounds which in each case must beyond doubt have proved instantly fatal he was first married many years ago but was divorced divo aced about twenty y years ars ago last winter he married julia Pres sher sixteen years old and has since lived with his wife in a small house on the farm of horace lo 10 lounsbury uns his brother in horace louns burys lived horace payson a coal agent lor the delaware lackawanna western station at lounsbury erie brie station and at tioga norman houns lounsbury Loun abury bury had suspected for some time that improper relations existed between his wife and payson and had threatened her life several times she had been to see district attorney sears regarding these threats from all sources of formation information im it appears that the husband first shot his wife in the back of the head the charge lodging in the temple she was found lying in bed which was saturated wit with 11 hr her e blood he then reloaded his bis gun anti and proceeded to the barn of his bis brot brother h er horace where he saw and shot payson in the head the charge blew a hole through head the ball coming out at the back the murderer then went back to his nome reloaded his bis gun removed his coat and boots placed the weapon to his forehead and tired the whole upper portion of his head was blown off and portions of the skull shreds of flesh patches of hair and masses of the brain were scattered about the room DENVER col 10 an elizabeth colorado special to the news says bob wright was shot and killed here today to day by a woman from denver whom he had seduced and who came hereon here on the morning train from denver accompanied b by her brother after her arrival she step stepped acied ed nto into his of business and asked him to marry her and upon his refuse refusing she fired t three h ree shots at him from a ita C colts 1 ts forty five revolver two taking effect in his head and one in his chest killing him instantly the woman claims to be the mother of his illegitimate child and that wright often promised to marry her but always failed to kee keep his promise and she made up her mind min to kill him if he refused her again today after the shooting she and her brother lent entered ered a carriage drove to kiowa and gave herself up to the officers but she refused to give her name TORONTO 11 the globe in an editorial on the seizure of the american fishing vessel adams says there seems to be no room for doubt that the master of this vessel acted illegally and 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