Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-12-23


try the lands required for irrigation
works and the public lands proposed TO
be irrigated by them, and that upon
the determination being reached that
any irrigation project is practicable,
contract shall be made for its con
struction ii the estimate of the en-
gineer shows that the cost will not
exceed $40 an acre on the land to be
4. reclaimed.
After construction the lands to be
irrigated are to be subject to home
stead entry in areas not exceeding so
acres upon the entryman's paying s.
an acre to the reclamation fund
This fund is to be used for the opera
tion and maintenance of reservoirs and
irrigation works until payments for
the land settled upon are made, when
all the irrigation works except the
reservoirs shall be turned over To the
settlers. who are required as a body
| corporate to operate and maintain
them.
| MANILA, Dec. 19.-An unorganied
but tenacious resistance to the Amer
leans is still being offered by insu-
gents in Laguna and Matangas prov
inces, and numerous minor engage
ments are reported from there. So
many native refugees have come In
that Manila is becoming overcrowded
with them. The refugees travel
overland, as communication is pro-
hibited by way of Laguna de Bay
| Gen. Franklin Bell has been ex-
ceedingly active in Batangas prov
ince. and he intends by every means
available to stamp out the Insurgents.
Lieutenant Hennessey of the Sth in
fantry, together with one American
scout and six Filipinos captured an
| insurgent major with forty-two men.
twenty-five rines and $50 rounds Of
ammunition without the loss of
| man.
| A number of captured documents
and papers now in the hands of Gen.
Bell implcate in the insurrection the
presidente and other prominent ma
| tives of Liam, Batangas province
Gen. Bell has notified the natives In
Ratangas province that he proposes
to concentrate them on December 2S
in the neighborhood of the towns. He
will move their live stock. rice. etc,
to within the limits of concentration.
After that date everything outside nj
these limits will be confiscated
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-In com
menting upon the number OF court
martial findings just sent in General
Chaffee, commander of the Ienart-
ment Of the Philippines. passes this
severe structure upon the natives:
History affords no parallel of
| whole I,,.
| over to be war traitors, and in the ee-
f., MUS of no other people was ever dis
| covered such masterful powers OF
! secrecy and assimilation. but il is
! needless to say that no powerful state
was ever erected upon such an i'm
niofal unenlightened foundation
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 The
| chairman of the committee on com
| merce reported the Nicaragua canal
bill to the house today and arrange
| ments have been made for action upon
the measure shortly after the re-as-
sembling of congress next month.
WASHINGTON. Dec. l9.-About
l o'clock both houses of congress ad-
journed until January 6.
Senator Hanna introduced bill
$4,000 a year.
Senator Penrose introduced bill
| reviving the grade of vice-admiral in
the navy and promoting Schley
Sampson and Clark to that rank.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19-The pres
| ident today sent to the senate the
| nomination of w. S. Metcalf to be
pension agent at Topeka, Kansas,
A number of minor appointments
were also made.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Admiral
| Sampson has notified the navy de
partment that he wishes to enter a
protest against the findings of Ad-
miral Dewey in the inquiry case, and
that he will leave New York tonight
and reach Washington tomorrow.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-The pres
| ident today appointed the following
| Colorado postmasters: w. V. Rob
erts, Fort Collins; Edwin Price,
Grand Junction; d. e. Cooper, Lamar;
James w. Long, Ouray.
| ST. JOHNS, N. F., Dec. 19.-One OF
the most extraordinary engineering
projects yet proposed to the scien-
| titic world is that for closing the
Belle Isle strait, between Newfound-
land and Labrador, by building big
breakwater across it at the narrow
est part, where the channel is but 10
miles wide and $50 feet deep. The
| benefits to be derived from such a
scheme are that the shores of Que
bee, Anticosti Cape Breton, Nova
Scotia and Prince Edward Island
would become veritable gardens, in
which semi-tropical fruits and vege-
tables would flourish, and that the
portion of Labrador west of the cause
way would have climate as salubri-
GUS as that of France, being in
about the same latitude. The theo-
ry underlying this remarkable prop
ostion has the weight of practical ex-
perience largely on its side.
The argument is that Belle Isle
Strait is the channel or doorway from