Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Alfred Orekporf, of Illinois, is being pushed for the Dakota Governor-hip.... Suit has been brought by the Secretary of the Interior to vacate 151 entries innde in Humboldt Comity. California, under the timlier land act, it being held that the entries were fraudulently made in the interest of a Scotch corporation for the purpose <Qf obtaining control of all the valuable redwood lands in that county. The disbursements of the (lovernmeut for the year on account of the army were $13,444,733... .The Chief of tho Bureau of Construction Rnd Repair has made his annual report on the condition of the navy. Of the flagship Tennessee, he says; “The Tennessee, the only first-rate wooden vessel in active service, can be kept in service but a few months longer. She is, undoubtedly, in very bail condition; her main wale-streaks are so badly decayed aR to preclude their being recnlked, and her lower mastheads are so liadlv decayed that it is not considered prudent to carry a press of sail upon them.” The number of serviceable vessels in the-navy has thus been reduced to two first-rate, ten second-rate, twenty third-rate, and seven fourth-rate vessels—the two latter class including two torpedo rams.