Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-06-08

e President Mckinley has accepted the
Invitation extended to him by Henry G.
Payne, on behalf of the merchants and
,11anufacturers of Milwaukee, to visit
nat city in October.
The War Department will loan can
<Dn1 captured from the Spnniards. one
x17nn to each state, to be cared for by
0ument associations, q. a. Il. posts
e0rporations, If the states borrowing
IN will pay all transportation ex-
SSes.
ne most expensive hat on record
800 in gold, and was presented
Seneral Grant while In Mexico In
1t is now on exhibition in the
pnal Museum at Washington
{. APPS the finest Mexican sombrerO
~ was ever made.
tier consultation with the secretary
he interior, Commissioner Hermann
me General Land Office has decided
fefuse the request of the wool grow
of Utah for Il modification of his
mer order prohibiting the grazing
eheep on the Uintah reservation In
NtAh.
COngressman David b. Henderson Of
Iowa has received enough pledges by
F74elegraph and mail to give him 1O2
votes in the Republican caucus for the
HDQeiti0n of speaker. As ninety-three
votes constitute IL majority of the Re-
publican representation in the House.
Colonel Henderson has nine to the good
and more states to hear from.
1t II possible that 10000 volunteers
will be called for, although it is not
definitely determined upon. General
Otis says he does not want more than
10000 troops. and he will have that
K Qumber by the list Of July If the re.
endorsements now arranged for sail as
.Iromptly as expected. More than D.
+ 40 volunteers have already been of
4 f6red.
The regulations allowing the volun-
teezH to purchase the arms and equip
4 mGd4b which they carried during the
z 6panlsh war will be continued in the
&ease Of the volunteers returning from
H4(aniln. They may purchase the
pTingfied rifles ut $40 each and the
yolver and equipments at the same
ice. while the other portions of the
tflt are sold at cost.
rhe officials here are quite hopeful
Int some good may come out of the
oace Conference at The Hague. The
arbitration proposition submitted by
Nthe United States has met with much
! favor. and, although 1t may not be
adopted in the form it was proposed
tine officials here are confident that the
congress will not adjourn without
adopting some sort Of an arbitration
plan.
Mr.. Oxnard of Grand Island. Nebras-
ka, who is the chief lobbyist of the
beet sugar interest in Washington. as
serts that nine new sugar mills are
EnOw being erected in the state of
Michigan alone, with capital that was
4ormerly interested in lumber. and de-
kclares that $50 100000 will be put into
the industry the coming year. While
this rapid development is going on it
~ scarcely probable that the Senate
Will ratify any treaty that encourages
competition.
Diplomatic relations with Spain,
sbroken Off April p. 1898, We're formal
Nv resumed last Saturday. when Pres
dqent Mckinley greeted Due dArcos,
the newly accredited minister to the
United States, in the blue parlor of the
White House. simultaneously in Ma
Arld, Bellamy Storrcr. the new United
hates minister to Spain, was being
eesented to Christiana, the Queen Re-
rant, during the legal minority Of his
Catholic majesty, AlphonsO N111.
N II Senator Hanna is chairman of the
next National Republican campaign
tcommittee it will be against his pres
Rent Intention and desire. Mr.. Hanna
has already informed his close friends
that he does not care to take charge
of the presidential campaign. His rea-
{son, as his friends state it, is entirely
Chased upon the state of his health
He is by no means well man. and is
to sail in n few days for Europe in
hope of gaining physical strength.
The administration has decided to
reduce the American armies of occupa-
tion in Cuba and Puerto Rico in order
to send additional troops to General
Otis in the Philippines. Orders nave
been sent to General Davis, military
governor of Puerto Rico. instructins
him to begin recruiting natives for use
in the army He is first to enlist bat
Aalion, 400 men. and then. if the expert
ment promises well. the number will
be increased until probably an entire
native regiment has been raised.
The President has not decided where
he will spend his vacation, but he
wants to go up into the northwest and
lis making preparations to do so. lie
has been to Colorado and Kansas and
as far as Minneapolis, where he at
tended the Republican convention in
1882 and, like Caesar. thrice refused Il
crown. But he is anxious to see the
wheat farms of the Dakotns ana wit
ness for himself the progress tiiat mas
been made in Montana, washington
and Oregon and visit the Yellowstone
park.
The coal production and consump-
ton OF the world the past fifteen years
III presented in tables just prepared by
HE treasury bureau of statistics: lhese
tl,,, II
Astill the largest coal producer in the
k,orJd the United States is Il close sec
pnJ IL the present rate of gain is con
KniIed this country will soon become
HleGlleading coal producing country OF
n,e world. The coal production or the
United Kingdom in 1897 was 2o2'ooo'-
20; that of the United States lo'ouo,,