Gilpin observer., 1899-06-08

Invitation extended to him by Henry c.
Payne, on behalf of the merchants and
manufacturers of Milwaukee, to visit
that city in October.
The War Department will loan can
non captured from the Spaniards, one
gun to each state, to be cared for by
monument askociatiOns, G. A. II. posts
or corporations, If the states borrowing
them will pay all transportation ex-
penses.
The most expensive hat on record
cost $1,000 in gold, and was presented
to General Grant while in Mexico in
1852. 1t is now on exhibition in the
National Museum at Washington
perhaps the finest Mexican sombrero
that was ever made.
After consultation with the secretary
of the interior, Commissioner Hermann
of the General Land Office has decided
to refuse the request of the wool grow
ers of Utah for modification of his
former order prohibiting the grazing
of sheep on the Uintah reservation in
Utah.
Congressman David b. Henderson of
Iowa has received enough pledges by
telegraph and mail to give him 1O2
votes in the Republican caucus for the
position 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 is possible that 10000 volunteers
will be called for, although 1t is not
definitely determined upon. General
Otis says he does not want more than
10000 troops, and he will have that
number by the 1st of July If the re-
endorsements now arranged for sail as
promptly as expected. More than 25,-
900 volunteers have already been Of
fered..
The regulations allowing the vOluE-
teers to purchase the arms and equip
ments which they carried during the
Spanish war will be continued in the
case of the volunteers returning from
Manila. They may purchase the
Springfield rifles at $40 each and the
revolver and equipments at the same
price. while the other portions of the
outfit are sold at cost.
The officials here are quite hopeful
that some good may come out of the
Peace Conference at The Hague. The
arbitration proposition submitted by
Tie suites HAS met Will
favor, and. although it may not be
adopted in the form 1t was proposed,
the officials here are confident that the
congress will not adjourn without
adopting some sort of an arbitration
plan.
Mr.. Oxnard of Grand Island, Nebras-
Ra, who is the chief lobbyist of the
beet sugar interest in Washington, as
So .fs, haf ,fra ra
now being erected in the state of
Michigan. alone, with capital that was
formerly interested in lumber, and de-
clares that $25.0O0,OO0 will be put into
the industry the coming year. While
this rapid development is going on 1t
IS scarcely probable that the Senate
will ratify any treaty that encourages
competition.
Diplomatic relations with Spain,
oroken off April 21. 1893, were formal
" resumed last Saturday. when Pres
dent Mckinley greeted Due d'Arcos,
the newly accredited minister to the
United States, in the blue parlor of the
White House. simultaneously in Ma
1rid, Bellamy StOrrer, the new United
States minister to Spain, was being
presented to Christiana, the Queen Re-
gent. during the legal minority of his
Catholic majesty, AlphonsO XIII.
If Senator Hanna is chairman of the
next National Republican campaign
committee ii will be against his pres
ent intention and desire. MIR. 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
based upon the state of his health.
He is by no means n well man, and is
to sail in Il few days for Europe in
hope of gaining physical strength.
The administration has. decided to
reduce the. American armies of occupa-
ton in Cuba and Puerto Rico in order
to send additional troops to General
Otis in the Philippines. Orders have
been sent to General Davis. military
governor of Puerto Rico, instructine
him to begin recruiting natives for use
in the army. He is first to enlist n bat
talon, 400 men. and then, if the expert
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
is making preparations to do so. He
has been to Colorado and Kansas and
as far as Minneapolis, where he at
tended the Republican convention in
1892, and, like Caesar, thrice refused n
crown. But he Is anxious to see the
wheat farms of the Dakotas and wit
ness for himself the progress that has
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
is presented in tables just prepared by
the treasury bureau OF statistics. These
show that while the United Kingdom
IS still the largest coal producer in the
world the United States Is n close sec
and ha npasnpt In IF unip 10 .nn