Show TELEGRAPH TIDINGS an ea early i aly adjournment of the congress anticipated 0 compelling om the theta U P system of beads road s to pay land taxes colorado is visited by terrific torrents of rain to tho id 11 I 1 the tile postal telegraph co CHICAGO june 11 an announcement will be made tomorrow to morrow morning th eliat t a now new tel telegraph egray I 1 i company a capital of haa has been organized zeld that work lias has actually borun bogun bow bew on its lines in elior the east w st and find t lint they ar arc 0 to bo be pushed rapidly west connect connecting in all principal cities elisha graythen Gray tho the electrician gives tile following facts in regard to it tile principal al stockholders aro are lion hen george coerce D Vl roberts and S 11 white new I 1 york ork biou jolin john B alley and ex collector beard of boston and george foster of ohio with hia his friends holds a large block of tho the stock tho the line is to bo be operated with grays patent patents it is to bo known as the postal telegraph company campany A material reduction in telegraph tolls is promised lias lins already been paid in for pr preliminaries elial in tile tariff CHICAGO juno june 10 A washington glo special says Es ex vice prest wheeler has forni formally nily declined to serve upon the tariff commission his declination may bo followed by others the president intends to nominate substitutes for wheeler and phelps next week alie declination lealoa tho commission entire entirely made up lip of comparatively unknown men 1119 the blate june 11 A meeting of the general ticket agents of the roads interested in tha pacific coast bu business 81 I 1 was held in this cit city y yesterday for the purpose of bri bringing ging neing about an advance in san francisco rates from froin kansas city on business originating at chicago there were present C S stebbins of tho the union pacific IV F white of the atchison topeka santa F fe c IN A th thrall rall bof of tho the northwestern percival lowell of the burlington E st john of tho the rock island and francis chandler of the tile missouri pacific the chicago al ton which had been i invited to attend the meeting was ivas not represented not being in favor of tho the movement the reason for this attempt to advance vance the rates from kansas city to san francisco is owing to the prevailing war of rate rates between chicago and kansas city the roads west of the missouri river get a larger rato rate from council blufus than from kansas city anu as tins this acts detrimental to iho union pacific this road is desirous to have tho the rate changed so as to make its proportion the same from kansas city as from council bluffs the tile rate from san francisco via council bluffs is 30 leaving 1530 to roads from chicago to council bluffs bluffis and to tho the union pacific from council bluffs to san francisco tho the regular rato from kansas city to san francisco is IGI but as the regular rate from chicago to kansas city is 1480 tho the rato rate via kansas city would bo c much nuell higher than via council bluffs to equalize this tile roads west of tho the missouri ag agreed greed to ai capt from ka kansak n city to san ar encisco brane an isco cisco wl which lich mado made the through rate from chicago via kansas city the same as via council bluffs lla 50 during daring tho tile last year or two however the rate from chicago to kansas cit has been but 5 and the chicago roads added this amount to tho the from kansas city making tho the through rate from kansas city against via council bluffs tho union pacific now wants added to the 5 rate rato from chica goso as to make the through rate in ardor to equalize things a little more no result was reached at yesterdays mec meeting ting und it docs does not look as if tho union pacific would succeed in bringing about tho the advance suffer sugar a making washington juno june 10 tho commissioner iniss ioner of agriculture has issued a circular letter to the manufacturers of from sorghum beota and other sugar producing plants in ili tho the united states setting forth th tho c results result s of sorghum and tho the experiments ladeby made by tho the department in 1881 from 1 5 acres of land there ivero acro obtained 2977 2077 gallons of syrup and 1673 pounds of sugar at a cost for cultivation ti and manufacture of in commenting upon these results tho the commissioner says tho the manufacture ture of sorghum at the department lias has been found to bo be expensive and unsatisfactory while therefore such scientific investigations as na is deemed necessary will bo be continued tho the experimental peri mental manufacturing can batet be better conducted by those who have thus furnished us all the valuable information wo have bave and this work worl I 1 refer to the manufacturers themselves and from whom is solicited an account in detail of tho the wok the commissioners returns when received will be submit submitted submitter teI to 11 competent committee for examination and in order to compensate the manufacturers for tho the work of making these returns I 1 propose to pay for tho the two best returns of processes of manufacturing beet sugar in his country 1200 will 1 0 also paid benevolent llene Vene Baltim BALTIMORE juno 10 A large largo meeting im of israelites was held 1 this afternoon to adopt some organized system of aiding tile russian refugees abraham nath man presided three liun died dollars was subscribed for immediate aid A committee commit tco was appointed to sit conjointly with tile hebrew benevolent society to provide financial assistance and procure employment for the refugees tho secretary was directed to notify the nw boz york committee to send no more refugees from that city to baltimore at present as the number now here and others to ta arrivo arrive at this port would very soon bo be as largo large as could be well provided fo for r N 0 11 Intent intention lon NEW tuno 10 the herald heralds s st petersburg special saya says general ignatoff Igna tiff w N rote this morning to tho th LF geror for perm permission iss on to t q ret retire I 1 re from fi office iio he is to to Pe to morrow to seek a reply this deel sion slon appears to be irre irrevocable vom ble Check lul speculators IN NEW york juno I 1 H L tho the he heralda ralda dt ft keogh mont special says among tile the good results of villa dillards villards Vil lards r I 1 s visit to the west is tho the order that hereafter thero shall bo be sold to no person more than acres of northern pacific lands for months past the west ivest and especially the ye 0 valley have been siv swarmed armed with eastern speculators buying up largo tracts of land to bo be lieff for rise dillards villards Vil Nril lards order completely check mates these speculators A mo juno IO 10 peter vinegar georgo george robison and iko ike king were taken from jail here this morning at I 1 by a crowd of vigil vigilantes antea and hanged from r m tho bridge e R robinson pleaded for his life and fell it on hia his knees thieo three times king said when lie was about to drop beys bys let mo me down easy 11 tho the inc men behind said did you let bondman down easy and gave tho the plank a shove tho the necks neck s of vinegar the robinson were brokey broke ii that of king was not there is i s lack of or revenge of the part of the colored people though most of illiam say u iho the kunishi punishment actie was deserved cabinet crisis IN NEW juno lo 10 tho heralds london special says humors rumors aro fire circulated among persons acquainted with the inner political circles that serious dissensions aro arc rife in the cabinet sir wm win harcourt insists on carrying out the crimo crime prevention bill in ita its most stringent form and threatens to resign if any concessions calculated to impair tho sweeping in cha character of tho the measure are adopted opted chamberlain and sir clias chas dilke take hn an 0 opposite 0 cion te view declaring the policy ef of coercion ua 1 to bo be a grave gravo political blunder certain to fail of pacifying ireland and find not unlikely to end in failure and disruption to tho the liberal party sir al wm III Ilar courts uncompromising in attitude in pree presence ence of the protests of some of tho the highest legal authorities ties on the liberal benches is said to hayo baye brought thia this divergence to a b head ead the result of yesterdays cabinet Coun ciris therefore anxiously looked for as it is understood that sir wm I 1 harcou rt intended to demand urgency for the crimo crime prevention bill which chamberlain and sir chas dilke would oppose advocating on the contrary material concesa concessions ions of tho the irish members the relations of tile members of the cabinet aro are becoming daily more strained so that a breakup break up tip js j s regarded as among tho the immediate probabilities chamberlain and clias chas dilke are known to bo be contempt con contemplating in res resignation should they finally decide on taking this step tho the d days ys of of the gladstone cabinet would bo 0 numbered an appeal to the country would so change it tho I 1 0 constitution ot of tho house of or comi com mons that a combination of radicals and home rulers would havo any ministry at ita mercy nor sir havo have ever spoken in support of the crimo crime prevention bill their unbroken silence does not fail to causa cause curious corn com ment it is also noticed that both in the house and in the lobbies they in maintain a sympathetic and even friendly endly atti attitude t ude toward parnell 11 calamities in colorado K colo june 10 one ono of the heaviest rain min storms ever known in this tilis section accompanied by water spouts swep swept tover over denver enver last night bt doing thousands of dollars worth of d damage age in the city and surrounding countr country cellars and basements were e filled fille water several sever I 1 ho houses es near tho tile platte river were swept away the bodies of two men lud wig mener and fidel who were in one of tho the houses to recover tho bodies of three children drowned and arc are not yet found it is feared other lives besides these were lost it is impossible to give full extent of the damage at present pic sent the storm reached over several miles of thickly settled country at golden several houses varo washed away the cambrian alre brick were struck by lightning and completely destroyed congressional chat washington june II 11 represent of both parties aro are beginning to talk hopefully of adjournment within the next thirty days tl alie e ways and means committee w will I 1 meet on thesda tuesday to consider tho the subject and some N of its members think it possible to get got away by friday july ath there aro are a score or more of members absent and most of those remaining in the city aro are impatient to return to their homes during tho the past week work lias has been pushed ahead vigorously tho the general deficiency bill passed the house tho tile legislative executive and judicial bill ia is nearly completed and will bo be finally adopted on tu tuesday tile army appropriation bill passed tho senate and the navy appropriation bill ie is ready to be reported the committee Commit tco on appropriations the river and harbor bill will be taken up as soon as the legisla legislative tivo bill is disposed of and both me measures agures aro arc ready for consider consideration atton in the senate by the end of this week robeson will manage the naval bill in tile house and there may a be some liveli lively fighting before tho the bill becomes a law i if tho tile average progress ia is made however and tho attends strictly atly to business there is prospect iari prospect that hie the appropriations may all bo be made bv alio lie farst of july when the fiscal year begins thero there will bo be considerable parleying parl eying between the two houses before an agreement is reached on the legislative ti a and nd riv river erand and harbor barbor bills very r y little business outside the passage asiago of the money bills is likely to be ce done dono before adjournment alic bill extending tho the bank charters lias has been reported back to tho the se senate ate from the I 1 finance cnance committee with amendments and it will probably bo be called up this week tho the opponents of iho banks will talk 10 7 71 m ennst it for a icek or more and then atwill it will come back to the tile house for concurrence on the senate amendments the anti bank representatives threaten to filibuster against the ati bill 1 1 but enough democrats will voto vote with t h the republicans to make a quor quorum tim it is doubtful if any action will bo be readied reached on the internal revenue bill this season both parties are cons considerably i der mixed over il it t and it was seen at the republican caucus last week reek that a solid party vote could not bo be obtained for its support Kall road lami land tux tax washington juno june II 11 A short bill was tag passed by tho tile senate last friday which is of considerable im to the tile union pacific system at of railroads and especially to tile kansas raier railroad edtl d company the kansas pacific although in possession se of a cholo grant of land of nearly four millions of acrea in kansas and colorado liaa has evaded payment of local taxes on more than three millions of acres by b refusing to pay the cost of survey by y the law patents aro are withheld until the coats of survey havo have been paid and therefore tho the title of the land remains in tile government so that state and county taxes cannot be laid upon them and collected whenever a 4 farmer buys any of the land and desires a patent the company pays all tho the costs of survey and procures ono one for him the kansas pacifica landa lands in kansas are reported worth thirteen million dollars and by tho the methods already described the tile state and counties are deprived of per annum in taxes the bill passed by the senate provides that lands belonging not only to the kansas pacific but joany to any other com company parly in the union pacific system shall after they havo have been surveyed and after therom alio company lius become entitled to receive the patents on the payment of the cost of stir surveying i 1 1 M be subject to state and ac territorial I 1 1 i taxes to the same extent as its they would be if completely conveyed and patented to tho tile companies there aro are no published statistics showing the tf acres granted to other roads in ili the union pacific system surveyed but not patented and therefore not subject to local taxation A little over abear ago tho the commissioner of railroad Kaii road accounts reported that the letters granted to the tile union Pacific Central pacific central branch of tho the union Pa pacific cille sioux city pacific and burlington missouri companies amounted to nearly 41 acres of which there biad liah been patented by the com companies anias up to juno 3 une 18 1000 acre acres tho the value of the companies unseld unsold lands was estimated at the bill reported by tho the house committee contains an important provision creating a sinking fund for tho the kansas pacific sious sioux city oty pacific and the central branch of tho the union pacific companies it proposes to amend the tile sink ing feml act of 1878 so that the sum E ot arild required to bo be paid to tho the credit of the fund by tho the central pacific on february of each year shall be paid in two installments on april and october let of each year and the sum of required to bo be paid by the union pacific shall be in a like manner divided into two installments |