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Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

A report said to have been publish
ed in Manila that General Macarthur
was coming home by way of South
Africa is emphatically denied at the
War Department. Although General
Macarthur could suit himself as to his
route, the cabled report from Manila
that he was to return by way Of Ma
gasaki is affirmed in the department.
The government has formally COM
municated to the foreign powers the
impossibility of joining in a joint
guarantee for the payment of the Chi
nese indemnity. The difficulties in
the way of such an arrangement are
set forth in the communication, par
ticularly those relating to the consti-
tutional restrictions ON the President
in making a joint guarantee of this
character.
On the 18th inst the President par
doned J. p. Greenwood, who pleaded
guilty to embezzling postotiice funds
while postmaster at Goldtield, Colo
RADIO. He was sentenced April 13,
1901, to pay fine of $43 and to i'm
prisonment for six months in Jail at
Denver. The attorney general recon-
mended pardon because "it was clear
ly shown that there was no Intention
on the part of the prisoner to defraud
the government. Greenwood stood
well in the community and the gov
ernment lost nothing, the amount of
the shortage being made good.
Before the industrial commission,
Thomas Turnbull. representing the
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce,
testified concerning labor conditions
in California. He said that. generally
speaking, skilled labor receives better
wages in California than in the east
! ern states, where there is no similar
difference in the wages of unskilled
labor. He expressed the opinion that
the cheapness of Chinese labor is due
almost entirely to the inetticiency of
the Chinese entirely as laborers.
Speaking of the Chinese, he said the
sentiment in California was generally
favorable to their prescription. rs they
were not desirable acquisitions from
any point of view.
A few days since Lone Wolf and
twelve or fifteen other Indians, repre-
senting the KiOwa, Camanche and
Apache tribes, appeared before the
secretary of the interior and made n
verbal protest against the opening of
any part of their lands in Oklahoma
to settlement under the act of the last
session of Congress. They We're in
troduced by Judge Springer. Several
of them declared that the agreement
for the cession of their lands had not
been secured by legitimate methods.
Judge Springer presented the COM
complaints of the Indians in detail.
Secretary Hitchcock told the Indians
that he had received them only as n
matter of courtesy, and that under no
circumstances could he consider their
presentation while their case was
pending in the courts. 1t is under
stood that the Indians will not be re-
ceived by the President on account of
Mrs. McKinley's condition.
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
MORMON SETTLERS
WORK IN WYOMING

Cody, Wyo., June -S.-The Mormons
are making wonderful progress on
their canal on the Shoshone river,
above here, and the immense irrigation
ditch will be completed by October lst.
From one of the engineers in charge
OF the project it is learned that $780,
600 has already been spent on the big
canal, and upwards of $4,000 will be
expended In the completion of the
work
At one point tunnel 800 feet long
is being constructed through high
hill to conduct the water to fertile
tract of bench lands on the east side
OF the divide. About 300 feet of the
tunnel has already been completed.
The colony of 1000 Mormons that
settled on the Shoshone last spring.
being the first of II number of
movements of church people from
Utah and Idaho to the Big Horn basin
during 1900, now has over 5000 acres
of fertile land under cultivation, and
all under the big canal being construct
ed. There are not less than go fnmi-
lies In this pioneer colony and each
family has built for itself n comfort
able home. barns, outbuildings and
corralS, etc.
Since the first colony of 1000 Nor
mons came to the Basin there have. 1t
Is estimated. not less than 5000 more
trckkcd In from Utah and Idaho, max
ing about 1000 Mormon people In this
section at the present time. More fami-
lies are On route, and II Is estimated
that before the end OF the year there
will have settled In the Big Horn ba-
sin. and principally along the Shoshonc
river, not less than $500 Mormons.
These people are Industrious, hard
working and progressive and where
they settle churches. schools and fine
buildings rise quickly from the desert
and the lands are made to produce to
their fullest capacity. Not only ARE
the people building homes for them
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
6be Romance
Of Rubber<

Man from the cradle to the grave,
says a writer In Alnslee's Magazine, is
related to rubber. 1t tips the infants
nursing bottle and soothes his preg-
nant gums; as the rattle, it fills his
face with bland delight. and in the
indestructible horse or the niger doll,
1t presents him with his first toy. Out
grown the nurses arms, he bounces
tho painted ball; anon, he gets his first
engine of war, the catapult, with which
he pelts the innocent birds or besieges
the cat upon the tiles. A few years
mere and he fleets with the wind on
tho tired bicycle, punches the glancing
bag or follows the spheroid in the
fierce clash of bone and Drawn on the
football field. Rubber is with him al
ways: At his work and play in health
and sickness. He drives his love be-
hind the shining colt on plates of rub
ber. or whirls her to the opera in an
auto" on wheels of rubber. Shod
with 1t. and wearing his rain-coat. he
cheats pneumonia. In the cushion of
his billiard table it speeds the ball on
its clicking way. 1t makes the mouth
piece of his pipe and the pouch which
holds his tobacco. 1t enters into his
shooting coat in the wilderness and
into the blanket he spreads at night.
AS the life-preserver. 1t comforts him
in the prospect of shipwreck. In his
Office 1t appears in many forms-in
the eraser on his desk, the stamp for
his name, the band for his papers, the
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
Stupend dous De-
ve1opnent Since 1t
Came Under White
Mems knowledge

receiver which he holds at the tele-
phone, the window strips which keep
out the blast, the spring which closes
his door without sound He is i'll. and
the ice-bag cools his brow; age creeps
on him and the air seat indulges his
bones; his teeth fail him and the dem
tist supplies him with gums from the
ever-present material; and when lifes
fitful fever is over, there's a rubber
cover for his casket.
The world was a long time learning
the uses and value of rubber. For two
centuries after the Spaniards saw the
gum in the hands of natives of the
new world. it was little more than a
curiosity. Old Herrea. who went with
Columbus on his second voyage, made
note of an elastic ball which was
nodded from the gum of tree. At
their games, the nude Haytians made
it bound high in the air. The Aztecs
were familiar with the gum and called
it ule, and from ti"- the Spaniards
learned to smear 1t on their coats to
keep out the wet They had crossed
the seas for gold. and never dreamed
OF time when the sticky milk the I'M
couth Indians drew from strange trees
would be worth more than all the
treasure of the hills.
In this country alone today there
are $50 rubber factories. large and
small employing 10000 operatives. 1t
is estimated that the rubber manufac-
turing business increased from $107.-
962 900 in 1894 to S161 .7S9. 900 in 1899.
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
CHINESE ORGANIZE
To FIGHT EXCLUSION

New York, June 1.-THE Tribune
says:
The Chinese in the United States are
preparing for an organized fight to OBJ
tain the absolute repeal of the Geary
exclusion act at the coming session of
Congress. The movement was started
here this week, and it is expected to
spread rapidly to Philadelphia, Chi
cagO, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco
and other cities having large Chinese
populations.
A powerful organization has been ef-
fected among the Chinese merchants
of this city. Within the next two
weeks every one of the $4,000 Chinese
here will be asked to sign carefully
prepared memorial to the United
States government asking that the ex-
clusion act be repealed. The memorial
will protest in the strongest possible
terms against having the act extended
for twenty years from the date of its
expiration in 1902. 1t will be forward
ed to the government, along with a
similar memorial prepared in other
cities, through Wu Ting Fang, Chi
nese minister at Washington.
An effort will also be made to OBJ
tain the support of thousands Of Amer
leans whom the Chinese believe are op-
posed to the exclusion act. The Chi
nese realize the handicap which is
placed on the movement through their
lack of suffrage.
Their strongest hope of eventual sue
cess lies in WI Ting Fang's influence.
They say that it was on his advice
that they organized for the struggle.
They depend largely on his personal
popularity to get them fighting sup
porters in the Senate and House.
The memorial to Congress will de-
mand the absolute repeal of the eX-
clusicn act on the grounds of fair play
and as n sort of reciprocity for the
opening of Chinese ports. Commercial
benefits which America would derive
from granting free communication
with the Chinese will be point
strongly pressed.
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
DENVER & RIO GRANDE
OPENS WESTCLIFFE DIVISION

Denver, June 1S.-The first train
over the new Texas Creek branch of
the Denver & Rio Grande road will
leave Texas Creek, the junction point
with the main line of the Denver &
Rio Grande, at 4 o'clock this afternoon
connecting with the west bound flyer
No. 1. On Wednesday daily service
each way will be established. A train
will leave Westcliffe each morning at
1:30 o'clock, arriving at Texas Creek
two hours later and connecting with
train No. for Denver and other points
on the line of the Denver & Rio
Grande. Train No. from Denver will
reach Texas Creek at 4:05 p. m. each
day and will make close connection
. with the branch line. The distance to
the mining camp is reached in two
hours, but after the track becomes set
tied the time may be greatly short
ened.
e. II. Wadleigh, agent for the Rio
Grande at Cotopaxi for some time past,
will be transferred to Westcliffe as
agent there. l.. A. Parkhurst, assist
ant in the office of Chief Dispatcher
\Ogg at Pueblo. goes to Cotopaxi as
agent there. c. w. Heaton, for some
time past an operator in the Rio
L utDlO III suN'SVu
Mr.. Parkhurst as assistant to the chief
dispatcher.
Work has been in progress for many
months on the new line and difficulties
have been overcome that In earlier
years of railway construction in the
mountains would have been looked
upon as insuperable. Much of the
roadway has been blasted out of the
side of precipitous mountains and the
cost has been so great that the con-
struction was delayed for years on
that account Twelve or fifteen years
ago there was branch railway eX-
tending from the Arkansas river to
Silver Cliff, two miles east of West
clffe, but the road was completely
washed out by great storm and was
never rebuilt. Ore coming out of the
camp has been hauled thirty miles and
vast bodies of low grade which could
not pay for transportation are await
ing the advent of the railway. 1t was
TO reach these ore bodies that the road
was projected. The distance by the
Texas Creek route is about twenty
five miles. The old branch was thirty
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
blood Rain.

Rains known as blood rains are.
though not common. yet not unknown.
They are generally due either to dust
clouds that are blown from the des-
erts and encounter a rain-storm Mt
some distance from their point of ORR
Rin or to n miscroscopic red fungcs,
but n real blood rain is a rarity.
However Prof. Luigi Palazza gives an
account of IA rain that occurred at Mes
slgnadi, in Calabria, on May 10, 1890.
greatly horrifying the inhabitants, as
drops resembling fresh blood fell from
the clouds. On microscopic and chem
ical examination of these drops at the
says, they proved to be real blood. but
the blood of birds. The phenomenon
public health laboratories of Rome. he
IN explained by the supposItion that
migratory birds had been caught In the
high winds that prevailed and torn to
pieces.
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
Taft Commission
Decides to Abolish
Slavery.
RULE FOR
MINDANAO

was held by the commissioners with
representatives of all interests involv-
ed. The wealthiest and cleverest man
in all that region is Piang, who is. half
Chinaman and half Moro. He is also
the original friend to the Americans,
having sent to Zamboanga for them
soon after the American occupation
there. He came into power by the
combined influence of wealth. brains
and fighting prowess. In relating
something of these things to the COM
mission Piang told of how, after he
had reached a certain degree of power
and was making encroachments upon
the territory of another influential
Datto, he and his councillors and the
other Datto, with his head men and
''the other chief died" Ia polite way of
saying that his head was cut Off, and,
his opponent being dead, Piang's fol-
lowers rendered him their allegiance,
which he has since held. Piang is i'm
mensely popular. He has a sort of
joint arrangement with Ali, neigh
boring Datto, by reason of which the
two WELD great influence and author
ity. The principal Dattos, with their
advisors were brought in for confer
ence. a group at time, and encour-
aged to talk about their conditions and
affairs. The gist of their testimony
was that they were more prosperous
and contented under American rule
than ever before, because they felt
their rights to be more settled and Sc
cure and they seemed to have no OBJ
lection to continuing matters as at
present so far as governmental control
went. 1t developed at the hearings
that these people had simple tradi-
tional modes of judicial procedure
which impressed the commission as be-
ing so fair and simple that they saw
no apparent reason for interfering
with them. Each community has a
man who acts as judge, appointed for
life by his Datto, on account of his
wisdom and familiarity with Moro
traditions. In cases of Importance or
where close questions of fact are in
volved, several of the old men of the
community are called in to assist in
the decision. The decisions stand un-
questioned. but the Datto must con-
firm sentence of death.
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20

five miles in length and had grades to
overcome that We're almost insuper
able. The present route is built with
no grade greater than two and one
half per cent. and is said to be mar
vel of railway construction. 1t leads
near the tops of commanding noun
tains and the scenery is equal to any
presented from Boreas hill or the
famed Marshall pass. The valleys
along the route are among the most
fertile in the state and it Is expected
that shipping will greatly encourage
mining development. Scores of partial
ly developed properties are on the line
of the road or in its immediate vicin-
ity. and for months the work OF de-
velopment has been progressing vigor-
ously. At Westcliffe, where several of
the famous mines. as the Bassick and
Bull Domingo. are located, the town
has assumed new appearance and
promises to expand into one of the per-
manent flourishng mining communi-
ties. AS Wet Mountain valley is open
ed by the new line, one of the most
thriving grazing districts in Colorado
is reached and Denver men who are
interested in the region are jubilant
over the outlook. The ores which are
produced from the mines in the imme-
date region of Westcliffe and Silver
Cliff are greatly desired by the smell
tiers, and representatives of the smelt-
ing trust have been securing the dis
trict in an effort to complete contracts
with the mine owners. The district
never had an outlook as bright as 1t
has to-day and inquiries Mt headquar-
ters of the Denver Il Rio Grande show
that many mining men are desirOus OF
visiting the region. After the road Is
in complete operating order, an eXcur-
sion to Westcliffe for the special ac-
commodation of prospectors and min
ing men will be run.
Preparations are also being made for
the opening of the new branch from
Moffat to the growing mining camp OF
Crestone. The line to Crestone Is
twelve miles long, and Cottonwood.
mining camp six miles further, is also
to be reached by the railway. 1t Is
thought the line will be in operation
within IA month. At present the work
train makes the trip over the first
twelve miles each day and freight In
carload lots is also carried to Crestone.
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
Yandnla at WashlnRton.

Nearly every tourist who visits
Washington wants to take away n
souvenir. Souvenir stores in the ma
tional capital are as plenty as saloons,
but your true souvenir hunter wants
something that he has culled himself.
BY preference he will hammer, hew
or slice it off from some monument or
landmark. That is why it costs Uncle
Sam a fortune to guard his treasures
of history, wonder and beauty. What
ever public building you enter, your
cane, umbrella, or whatever you may
have that would make n good ham,
mer, is taken from you and checked,
and at the Congressional Library and
CorcOran Art Gallery you are watched
very closely. lest you might get an op-
portunity to use your heels. These
two places are particularly enticing to
the vandal, with all their statuary and
carved marble.
Unfortunately the Washington Mon
ument has not been SO well guarded
the depredations of the souvenir
'fiends. Inside it is very dim in spots,
the light being supplied by an occa-
slopal incandescent lamp, along the
stairway. 1t is in this atmosphere that
vandalism iiourishes. Like white
squares and the blacks of huge
checker board stand the memorial
slabs presented by the states in the
Union at the time of the monuments
erection, and by the societies and Or
ganizations of tire nation wishing their
names to he immortaliZed at the ma
tional capital. There are more than
100 of these. and many of them are in
distressful condition of mutilation.
+ Missing heads, arms, legs and drapery
from statuary bear eloquent witness
TO the appreciation of visitors who
We're so favorably impressed with the
monument that they couldn't tear
themselves away without taking some
thing with them to remember 1t by.
Just exactly what value, real or senti-
mental, the left ear lobe of the God
dess of Prosperity, for instance, can
have for any person is hard for n sane
man to understand. Somebody got 1t,
however.
At Mount Vernon there is small
army of spoilers" on the lookout for
the worker of souvenir inlquity. A
quarter admission Is charged and the
money goes TO defray the expense OF
guarding the place. In Washington's
old home there Is one thing that strikes
lnc UOllce ny llS COHITuSt 10 Ine pre-
vailing simplicity. 1t is the carved
mantclpiece of Carara marble In the
dining room. One who Is not n van
dal cannot gaze upon 1t without an
athematiZing the whole race of relic
seekers. Even with watchers In every
room some individual managed to get
In his work." and knock Off the head
of n galloping deer in the center OF
the group. The animal remained head
less for months. Then one day back
came the head In n little box post
marked Paris. The culprit had real
ized the evil of his ways. the vllalny
of his vandalism. said the accom-
panying note, ut did not occur to me
In my own country, where everything
Is SO perfectly preserved, the outrage,
that 1t IL TO mutllate historic places.
for relicc. Here nothing IL preserved
everything Is Clipped and marrcd and
broken by travellers like myself. / re-
turn herewith, etc" Signcd-not at al
The head was stuck on. the glro
stained the marble. and the milk whito
deer has u yellow streak around hi :
neck.
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
VIII ExpcI "sooners."

Guthrie. o. r.. June 1S.-CaptaIn
Farrand Sayers. commanding officer ut
Fort sill. oklahoma, acting under orders
from the War Department. started yes.
tcrdny with forty cnvalrymcn to clear
the Wichita mountain land of unlawful
lntruders. preparatory to the opening
of the Kiowa and Comnnche rcscrvn.
tion. The government Is determined
to free the country OF all "sooners'
whether there for the purpose of min
ing or otherwise.
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
wonlh Rncc Across the Atlnntlc.

Lond9n, June 15.-Sir Thomas Lip
ton Is willing that the Shamrock ii.
shoul4 race with the Independence II
n cup were offered. after his engage
merit with the New York Yacht Club
Is Concluded
.fWhat | would like to do" he said.
would be to arrange race with the
Constitution across the Atlantic after
The challenge raccs. Whoever wins
there. This would be good sport and
a fine test of scnmanship.'
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20

tionate letter, in which he signed him
self: Your always unchanged. affec-
tionate and deeply grateful Nicholas. :"
1t was probably not an accident that
the letter was written on the same day
as the rescript. for 1t is NJ. Pobyenotost-
seff who is generally credited with
having first planned the desire for
peace In the young emperor's mind. O..
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
y,,i,o ,I,o cuhan commission wns i'm

While the Cuban commission wns In
Washington the delegates Informed
Secretary Root that they did not think
II would bc possible to have the Gu
ban government organized before Feb
r,nry Isl, owing to the fact that GER
tain procedures mus. be had under the
new constitution. opinion mt the War
Department is that there will be little
or no difficulty IN eifcciing change
from American military control TO Gu.
ban cisll control.
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
Grand Lodr. of Forester.

Leadville. Colo, June 15.7-rhe For
esters OF America, who are holding
their stntc session here, spent nearly
the entire day yesterday in the consid.
Grafton and adoption OF their new by
laws.
The annual reports OF the officers
show that there are twenty-sevcn
lodges of the order In the state, which
have increased 900 members since
their last Years session.
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20

selves and reclaimng thousands Of
acres of land In this section, but they
are engaging in almost every kind Of
work that will bring in n dollar. Dur
ing the spring the Mormons have built
twent three miles of road on the Ia
luca- Cody line the contracts amount
ing to $4,000. and they have contract
ed for enough more to keep them busy
until snow flies,
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
pob,.n,tosts,r .,d tn, Cy.r.

NJ. Pobyenotostseff, who narrowly
escaped from the hands of an assassin,
was the schoolmaster of the present
czar and of his father. He ls nearer
to the throne than any other man in
Russia. On the day on which the
Cars peace rcscript made him the
most -talked-of man in the world Mich
Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
Rn,,rond Earning. In Aiabam

There is great prosperity in Ala
bama. The earnings of the railroads
of that state for the year 1900 were
500, SG7 1853. an increase OF s3.024. $50
over the previous year.