Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Fairchild has addressed a letter to Captain M. A. Healy, commanding the revenue steamer Bear at San Franmsco, which will soon sail for Alaskan waters, clothing him with full power to enforce the law which prohibits the killing of any otter, mink, marten, sable, or iur seal, or other fur-bearing animal, within the timthr of Afi£rfta3S^SEiß? : or-ni.l6e - waters thereof, except under the law and department regulations. He is also enjoined to enforce the law against the importation of intoxicating liquors and breechloading rifles into the Territory... Acting Commissioner Stockslager, of the General Land Office, has recommended to the Secretary of the Interior that the Attorney General be requested to file a motion in the Supreme Court for a reargume&C of the Maxwell land-grant case, in which the decree of the Colorado District Court was affirmed. It is claimed that new evidence has been discovered showing the fraudulent character of the grant. Pbesident Cleveland has appointed James W. Hyatt, of Connecticut, to be

Treasurer of the United States, to succeed Conrad N. Jordan, resigned. Associate Justice Wm. H. Woods, of the Supreme Court of the United States, died in Washington on the 14th inst. of dropsy. He was promoted to the Supreme bench in INBO ... Secretary Bayard, in speaking of Sir Charles Tupper s threats of what England will do in case of the non-intercourse policy being adopted, said it w ould l>e time enough to consider those things when they become actualities. Secretory Fairchild thought the i matter would have to be dealt with regardless; of the question whether it would pay.