Deathof an Eminent Oaulltt.^Denver, April 20.-l)r. W.T.Wilson,^considered one of the most talented ocullsta^in the country, and certainly without a^peer in the Rocky mountain regions, died^late last night from an overdose of mor^^phine. Dr. Wilson had been suffering^for sometime from insoraonta and took the^drug to secure sleep, and evidently miscal^^culated the amount. Several eminent phy^^sicians were summoned when his condi^^tion was discovered and worked with him^for three hours without avail. He was^only 2V) years of age a pupil of Dr. Knapp,^of New York. His income in this city was^estimated at $30,000 annually. He leaves a^widow here and a mother in Iowa
TheftnnKrnncUco Building- Kit*.
Washington,April 20^First Comp^^troller Durham has made a decision of cor*^siderable interest to citizens of San Fran^^cisco. The act of comeresi of March^1HH7, directs the appointment of three com^^missioners to select and purchase a site for^a public building at San Francisco at a cost^not to exceed 8350,000. The same act ap^^propriated the amount necessary to carry^out its provisions. It subsequently appear^log a suitable property could not be ob^^tained within the limit fixed by congress,^that body Jan. 21 last passed an act In^creastng the limit In cost to 8**0,000. The^first comptroller has decided this latter act^Inoperative, as no appropriation was made^to carry it into effect. He also decides^while the commission can continue the in^^vestigation under the appropriation of^March 2S. 1HH7, It cannot enter into an^^contract involving the government for the^future payment of money in excess of the^appropriation of 8860,000.
