Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Commissioner Sparks, of the General Land Office, believes from reports received that a large part of the homestead entries in Dakota are fraudulent He has received advertisements offering ex-Union soldiers or sailors homesteads without the formality of living on them, au*l copies of railroad tickets with homestead entries under the timber-culture act attached as gratuitous coupons. The Commissioner says he will not certify any entries until convinced that they are regular. Ho will ask Congress for force enough to do the work speedily. The Postmaster General has solicited bids for the publication of a weekly post-office guide for New York and its vicinity. Should the experiment prove successful in that quarter, it will be duplicated in Chicago. The Congressional Committee of Inquiry now visiting Indian Territory will recommend for the civilized tribes the establishment of a tribunal government with one or more Federal courts. A bronze statue of James A. Garfield will be erected at the intersection of First street and Maryland avenue, Washington. A pedestal costing $29,000 is to be in position by July 1 next r Professor Powell has written to Secretary Lamar denying the various' charges affecting discreditably the administration of the geological survey. It has been resolved by the Government to bring to justice, if possible, the illicit distillers of Tennessee and Georgia. A number of revenue agents have been killed by moonshiners in the States named.