Gilpin observer., 1900-03-15

| tlcle or tnlnS whatsoever Otnef tnan tllp
manufacturers wrappers and labels,
and excludes all gifts. prizes, pre-
miums. etc, or orders for the same.
To-day the commissioner sent tAc-
graphic instructions to collectors of in
| terilal revenue that this act must be
strictly observed, and that tobacco and
| cigarettes found upon the market, in
disregard thereof, stamps bearing can
collation. on and after the first proXmo
must be seized.
The secretary of the interior. in Il
letter to the commissioner of the gen
eral land office. holds that person re-
linquishing and reconveying land in Il
| forest reservation under the act of
1897 must, at the time. designate tn"
land he desirea in lieu of that surren-
dered. The application for selection
| should embrace Il tract OF tracts equal
in area to that relinquis he'd. y num-
ber of selections have been approved
by the land office in which these condi-
| tions We're not observed. The secretary
says that where selections. in partial
satisfaction only. of ACCOMPLISHMENTS
have been approved they will be al
lowed to stand. but all such claimants
| will be notified that their failure here
tofore or delay henceforward to select
the balance of the area necessary to eN-
haust their claims will be at their own
| risk.
1t is reported that Mrs. Dewey has
contided to few intimate friends that
while she and the admiral are travel
ing this spring they will ascertain the
feeling of the public toward Admira,
| Dewey and the presidency and decide
whether he will be IL candidate. Mrs.
Dewey does not deny her ambition TO
he the first lady in the land" and says
that while Admiral Dewey was avrrse
| To running for Of before his mar.
riage he is such devoted husband
that he will gratiry her by accepting
the presidency if the country desires
to bestow it upon him. When one of
the women TO whom this remark was
made asked Mrs. Dewey on what
ticket the admiral would he n candi-
date, she replied. naively: Il don't see
that it makes any difference. because
he will be supported by all the people.
He is Republican and | am Il Demo.
craft so that will be n stand-off''
| The Treasury Department has taken
Il decided stand relative to shipping
American goods via Canadian points
into Alaska on British vessels. even
if they are accompanied with export
| -h'ihH Shli'ItlS W -NllShi
| obtain export certificates and send
their goods to Vancouver and other
points and thence to Alaska in Brit
ish vessels. thereby working n hard
| ship on American ship OWNERS. The
new order will practically debar Brit
ish vessels from entering the new
trade i'll freigh, carrying business. II
| is said that many American firms
have already contracted with British
vessels for the delivery of large con
signments of merchandise at Nome.
but owing to the ruling of the treas
ury department. these contracts will
have to be cancelled.
Representative Shafroth has intro
| duced bill of much interest to several
of the western states. 1t provides for
segregation from the public lands con
tained in tracts in Colorado. Utah. Ari-
zona and New Mexico. upon which are
found ancient ruins and evidences OF
The existence of prehistoric people. The
bill directs the secretary of the inter
ior 10 have surveys made of these
tracts by the Geological Survey. which
will he required 10 make maps of eacn
and report whether In his opinion the
| ruins are of sufficient historical value
10 he worthy of preservation and pro-
lection. The secretary of the interior
is directed to set aside such tracts 10
be reserved from settlement and placed
in custody of the Bureau of American
Ethnology, which shall maintain cllsto-
dams in each.
Sooner or later the Republican party
will come up against an economical
question which will seem II thousand
times more serious than that which
now pcrpleNcs its leaders in connection
with the government Of Puerto Rico
II viii bc II blessing for all concerned
If il can he settled by the courts before
IL reaches Congress. but even then ev-
cry Republican. from the President
down. will bc compelled To adapt them
self TO new conditions which the cx.
pansion policy of their party has ere
ated. Al this session of Congress the
Republican managers and the high.
tariff protcCtioniStS have been sorely
disturbed by the reciprocity treaties
! which their national convention
pledged the President To make: by the
admission of Hawaii. which was also
II prominent feature in their platform.
and by the Puerto Rican tariff law.
Every new proposition connected with
commercial or territorial expansion
seems to hit some industry that is pro
tccted by the tariff and to involve the
political future of one or more Republi-
can politicians and the control of the
House of Representatives. If the
French reciprocity treaty is ratified the
New England and New Jersey manu-.
fnctur"rs will bolt; the wool growers
of Ohio. Wyoming. Montana aud other
Statos will vote the Democratic ticket
If the Argentine treaty goes through:
the sugar-heot farmers threaten To re-.
volt " the reciprocity treaties with the
British West Indies are ratified. and
Connecticut will go Democratic if pucr.
10 lticnn tobacco Is admitted free.
These and others that might he men.
TONED are Republican propositions,