Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Postmaster General Payne declares that increased pay for mail carriers is impossible. A series of small fires occurred in the treasury building, Washington, due to burning out of an electric cable. General Miles has selected Colonel John B. Babcock to be bis chief of staff, to succeed General Thomas Ward. Secretary Moody says more couihais-sic-ned officers are needed to properly man warships now in commission. Gov. YY’illiam H. Hunt of Porto Rico has arrived at New York and talks of the remarkable development of people and their affairs under American rule. President Roosevelt approves the finding of the court-martial in the cases of Maj. Glenn and Lieut. Gauchol, convicted of administering water cure to Filipinos. Secretary Root has declared in an interview that the United States did not seek to expel Philippine friars, but to assist church by replacing friars with priests acceptable to natives. The Interior Department has sent out notices asking for bids for the pine timber on sections 16 and 36 of each of the townships of the Red Lake reservation and of a part of the YVhite Earth reservation, in Minnesota. The action is the beginning of the disposal of the timber and the agricultural lands of those two extensive reservations under an act of the last session of Congress. The timber to be disposed of amounts to about 20,000,000 feet and covers 12.00 Q acres. The law requires that the sale shall be advertised for six months in most parts of the country.