Show CONTAGIOUS DISEASES President Cleveland Will Establish Es-tablish a National Patrol of Our Coasts For the Great Purpose of Guarding the Nation at Large Against the Danger of Infection Silver Certificates Listed at the New York Stock Exchange Affairs of the Great Hallways Front the Capital WASHINGTON June 9Although the plans for the hulls of ninoteenknot cruisers authorized au-thorized to be built by the last Congress have been open to inspection of bidder since the first of June but one application has been received for information as to details of the proposed new vessels This was sent in by the Union Iron Works of San Fran cisoo where the cruiser is now building Chief Engineer Melville arrived todav from Philadelphia and reports fast progress in the work of designing engines and boilers for the nineteenknot vessels Secretary Fairchild issued today a circular circu-lar in regard to contagious diseases in which he says In order to assist thojocal authorities in the maintenance of quarantine against the introduction of infectons diseases the President Pres-ident has determined to establish by moons of vessels of the revenue marine a National patrol of the coast of the United States so far as it may be practical under the existing law and consistent with tho performance of the other duties confided to that service The circular contains Rpecifio instructions to the commanding officers of the revenue cutters to cruise actively upon the outer lines of their cruising grounds and to exercise exer-cise special vigilance in speaking to vessels ves-sels arriving from foreign ports or from infected in-fected ports of the United States E L Baker United States Consul at Buenos Ayres in his monthly report to the Department of State treats in great detail of the native sheep of the Argentine Repub lio and the value and practicability of introducing intro-ducing them into this country Consul Baker thinks that all varieties could bo domiciled with advantage in the desert portions por-tions uf Texas New Mexico and Arizona and thus even the most unpromising portions por-tions of these Territories might in time attain at-tain to development The introduction and acclimatization of these valuable woolpro ducing animals would give us a new national source of wealth An order has been issued by the War Department De-partment directing the dismissal without character of W Greenthe only colored man ever admitted to the signal service His appointment was made about two years ago and his assignment to duty at Pensa oola caused a stir The Sergeant in charge refused to receive him and was reduced to the ranks Green being put in charge He did not give satisfaction however and was sent to Rochester N Y It is stated that his record while there has been very unsatisfactory unsat-isfactory and that had he been a white man his career in the signal service would have been summarily cut short long ago but a desire to give him every possible show to improve led to his retention until information informa-tion reached the signal service of such a character as to necessitate his immediate removal There is nothing intrinsically improbable in these statements said Captain Clarence E Dutton Chief of the U S Bureau of Volcanic 1 Vol-canic Geology to an Associated Press representative repre-sentative who called his attention to the dispatches received this morning announcing announc-ing the volcanic eruption in Sonora On the contrary it is a matter of surprise that wo have not had some volcanoes in our own Territory within the historic period or rather that we have not had more for ills now known that Mount St Helena in Washington Territory was in a state of activity and sent out largo quantities of lava and ashes as late asJi3 loan specify from memory remarkable evidences of recent occurrences in several localities whore violent eruptions have taken place One is near Fillmore in Utah another at the base of Mount Trumbull on the border of the Grand Canyon the third is near Fort Stanton New Mexico near the Texas line and another at Grant station on tho Atlantic tt Pacific Railway sixty or seventy miles from Albuquerque There are many others in Southern Arizona I have myself seen prya of lava I in which was imbedded fragments of Indian In-dian pottery showing that the outflow was subsequent to the occupation of the country by tho Indians and two years ago I visited an extinct volcano in Northern California which was BO recent that some of the trees killed by the heat had not entirely rotted away We have been gathering data of the Sonora earthquake May 3rd which gave birth to this new volcano and we have received re-ceived from all affected parts of this country coun-try about two hundred reports on the subject sub-ject enough we hope to establish the comparative com-parative magnitude of the occurrence and and give us a knowledge of the indications and violence of tho waves Its center seems to have been about sixty or sixtyfive miles south of our Arizona line in Old Mexico Its limits comprehended about twothirds of each of the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona It was not comparable in violence or extent to the Charleston earthquake earth-quake |