The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-02-22

1910, but w GOD Is so young that ne u:ls
| twenty-four years to serve before ne
| reaches the age of retirement and
therefore Will remain on the active list
until 1924. having reached the rank OF
lieutenant general in 1910.
p, Secretary Hitchcock has reversed the
rulings of Land Commissioner Herr
mann by which patents have been de-
MED to n number of Colorado owners
| of mining lode claims. Patents were
denied under the commissioners rul-
| incs because the location lines of the
various lodes encroached upon contig-
nous patented claims. In line with his
decision in the Hidee Gold Mining case
the secretary reversed these rulings
and directs that patents be issued
The United States Supreme Court
has decided two cases involving the
question of the responsibility OF an en-
tire tribe of Indians for depredationS
committed by organized bands compos-
ed of members of the tribe, holding
that in such case there is no Liability.
The opinion was handed down by JUS
tice Brown and held that as the bands
! in both cases were strong enough 10
break away from their respective tribes
and to defy the United States govern
ment as they did. the tribes as whole
could not in equity be held responsible
for their misdeeds.
i The legislative committee of the w.
G. r. q. has prepared an amendment to
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition bill
making it condition of the acceptance
of the S500O,00O that neither the st.
Louis nor the Buffalo Exposition shall
be open on Sunday, and that no beer,
wine or other malt or spirituous liquors
shall be sold within the grounds. The
ladies intend to make as determined
! fight on this proposition as they did on
the canteen, and declare that before the
| st. Louis people can have n dollar or
| government money for their eXpositiun
they must pledge themselves that no
beer shall be sold either there or at
! Buffalo.
| The President has sent the following
nominations to the Senate: Navy
! Rear admirals to be advanced in rank
from the 11th day of February, 1901:
| William T.. sampson, five numbers, to
| take rank next after Rear Admiral
John A. Howell; Winfield Scott Schley.
three numbers. to take rank next after
Rear Admiral Sampson when ad-
vanced. Captains to be advanced i'll
rank from February IL. 1901-Robley
d. Evans. five numbers and to be
rear admiral; Henry G. Taylor, five
numbers and to be n rear admiral;
Sigsbee, three numbers: French L.
Chadwick. five numbers John ].
bunker, two numbers. Naval Con
| structor Hobson is advanced ten num-
berS.
A Washington letter says that prelim-
mary skirmiShes in Il battle for $780,
100000 have already begun in the cap
ital Holders of the Cuban war bonds.
issued by Spain to raise funds for the
prosecution of the wars in Cuba are
again moving to get their money back.
A lobby in already at work in Wash
ington, and 1t has had representatives
at the Cuban constitutional convention
seeking to shape the constitution of the
island so as to admit of a compromise
regarding this stupendous claim. In
Cuba the bondholders have met with
defeat. The draft of the constitution
now being considered shuts out any
possibility of compromise on these
bonds. but has left the way open for
the payment of the bonds of the repub-
lie of Cuba issued by the junta.
President Mckinley has sent mes
age to Congress urging that the thanks
of Congress be rendered to Admiral
Sampson for his work during the
Spanish war as commander or the
naval force of the North Atlantic
squadron. After recounting the work
of the squadron the President says: Il
recommend that. following our nation
al presidents. especially that in the
case of Admiral Dewey and the AT
lantic squadron, the thanks of Congress
. be given to Rear Admiral William Il.
Sampson. United States navy, and to
the officers and men under his COM
mand, for highly distinguished con-
duct in conflict with the enemy and in
IL L. vol
campaign on the Cuban coast resulting
in the destruction of the Spanish fleet
at Santiago de Cuba, July 3. 1898.
The correspondent of the New York
Times states that the report that the
President intends to make Judge Taft
civil governor of the Philippines in
} case Congress shall pass resolution
giving him authority to regulate affairs
there entirely in his discretion until
t Congress can make specific laws fol
r the islands. is probably the expression
4 of a wish entertained by the President
. when Judge Taft went to Manila. The
a qualification of the wish depends. first
: upon the action of Congress. and next
| upon the consent of Commissioner
a Taft When Mr.. Taft accepted the ap
{ pointment to the commission he de
i clared that he could not thirk of going
n to the Philippines for n longer periOC
: than eighteen months. His plan was
9 to accomplish so much as was possible
n in n wear and n half and return t.
:, practice law in Ohio.
The secretary of the interior has
:, transmitted to the Senate committee or
I public lands n favorable report upor
n Senator Warren's amendment to the
:. sundry civil service appropriation bill
n providing for extending ten years the
r period in which lands may be segre
i rated and reclaimed under the Carey
n arid land act. In his report Secretary
y Hitchcock states that the grant of lane