Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The public debt increased $8,441,188 during October, and is now $1,020,563,901. The war department is making an investigation into the recent reported uprising among the Utes in Utah with a view to securing all the facts possible for its information. ■ , ■ James 11. Eckels, Comptroller of the Currency, has accepted the offer made him by the Commercial National Bank of Chicago and the first of the new year will become its president. The heirs of the late Millionaire Andrew J. Davis have secured a writ of error from Justice Brewer at Washington and will push their claim for the stock of the First National Bank of Butte, Mont., valued at $1,060,000. Before he died Davis is alleged to have given the bank to his favorite nephew, Andrew J. Davis, Jr., and the latter has held it since. Commissioner of the General Land Office Binger Hermann has submitted his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior at Washington. Compared with the previous year, it shows a decrease of 3,298 original homestead entries, aggregating 378,625 acres. In the entire disposals of public land there was a falling off of 5,370,406 acres. The area sold for cash reached 419,052 acres and miscellaneous entries aggregated 7,334,554 acres. There were patented or certified with the effect of patenting for the benefit of railroad companies, under Congressional grants, 5,101,969 acres, a decrease of over 10,000,000 acres from the previous year. An approximate estimate of the number of acres of public lands in the several States and Territories at the close of the fiscal year is as follows: Alabama, 532,339: Arizona, 54,400,211; Arkansas, 3,922,042; California. 43,841,044; Colorado, 40,037,204; Florida, 1,797,662; Idaho, 45,962,855: Kansas, 1,046,589; Louisiana, 845,020; Michigan, 322,431; Minnesota, 6,248,809; Mississippi, 441,220; Missouri, 497,764; Montana, 71,432,917; Nebraska, 10,669,353; Nevada, 61,578,586; New Mexico, 56,983,047; North Dakota, 21,385.293; Oklahoma, 8,105,238; Oregon, 35,892,318; South Dakota, 13,250,718; Utah, 44,205,070; Washington, 17,958,536; Wisconsin, 454,107; Wyoming, 49,341,588; Alaska, 369,529.600 acres. The figures above given do not include the vacant land embraced in military timber and Indian reservations, reservoir sites, tracts covered by selection, filings and railroad grants.