Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1890 — SERIOUS CHARGES. [ARTICLE]

SERIOUS CHARGES.

John I Dlll« Aecuted [of Acting Dishonestly in Oklahoma. Cornelius Mcßride, the special inspector of public (lands, who was ordered to Oklahoma to investigate the alleged claims of town sites, lots and sections of land there, until Tuesday, refused to be interviewed on the result of his investigation, but now, inasmuch as the Senate has ordered the report printed, he regards the seal of secrecy removed, and talks ..freely! of its contents. When he first entered; the Territory, he said in an interview, and| before the President’s proclamation opening it up to settlement took effect, he was surprised to find that the anticipated troub-| les between various bands of settlers and! boomers was unwarranted. “I had not) been in Guthrie long,” he continued, “be-< fore I discovered that it was not bloodshedl. but rascality which the department had to 1 fear. Secretary Noble telegraphed me to look carefully after the horde of deputy United States Marshals who were reported to gave gone into Oklahoma under the guise of their office, and who had taken up claims. lat once telegraphed Mr. Noble that it was not the deputy marshals who' were the most to blame, but higher United States officials. “I found that John I. Dille, the land register, and C. M. Barnes, the receiver,had connived to allow their friends and relatives to come into the Territory before they had any right and enter the choicest land. Major Pickier, who went to Old ahoma with the same authority I had, re - mained on the inside of the land office, while I was on the outside watching the proceedings and getting names, witnesses, and transactions for our report. The results of our observation are all given in my official report, which contains revelations which the public ought to know, notwithstanding the fact that they compromise men in high official authority.

The New York Suns say: “Look out for new kind of coffee that is not coffee. Some clever Frenchman at tne Island of Reunion have discovered that the fruit of the wild orange that grows there has the aroma of the coffee bery. As it costs less to raise the wild orange than regular coffee naturally the planters are substituting the former for the latter, ond the government, even, has ordered that the great part of the highlands on the island be reserved for the cultivation of the new bogus .coffee. One bright gleam on the coffee 1.0 izon is in the fact that the new berry will be so cheap that it will, if its culture succeeds, drive out chicory, and as an adulterant it is said to be much less vile than that staple coffee cheapener.” Photography is being recognized at a useful handmaid tojmedicine. Not only does at least one medical journal produce specially taken photographs to illustration of its surgical and other articles, but there are now said to bs amateur photographers attached to th« staff of nearly every Landau hospital.