The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-08-05

| Congress for the protection of miners
in the territories. The law limits
shots to be fired in the mines to one
per day, and the mine inspector for In
dian Territory says that if the law is
literally interpreted the product of
some of the mines. now 800 or 1000
tons per day. will be reduced to two or
three tons per day. He suggests that
the law be construed as If the word
''one" was ''once." This change, while
permitting the usual number of shots,
would confine them to certain periods
| of the day. and thus afford the desired
protection to the mine workers.
The President has returned to the
War Department the cases of Major
Edwin $. Glenn, Fifth infantry; First
Lieut.. Julian Il. Gaujot, Tenth cav
airy. and Lieut.. Norman G. Cook, Pril-
ippine scouts. Glenn was found guilty
by the courts and sentenced to be sus-
pended for one month and to forfeit
$50 of his pay: Gauj0t was found
guilty and sentenced to suspension for
three months and to forfeit $50 per
month during that period; Cook was
acquitted. The President approves
the findings in the cases of Major
Glenn and Lieutenant Gaujot and dis
approves the action of the court in the
case of Lieutenant Cook He makes
no comment on the case whatever be-
yond the approval in the two cases and
disapproval in the one. Glenn was
tried by court martial for administer
ing the water cure to the presidente of
Igbares, and Gaujot for administering
the cure to three natives. Lieutenant
Cook was tried on the charge of order
ing three natives to be shot by the
Macabebe scouts.
Judge Outcalt of Cincinnati, form
er law partner of Senator Foraker,
Will appear before the commissioner Of
internal revenue to argue point that
will have an important bearing in the
enforcement of the law relating to the
manufacture and sale of oleomarga-
rine. The commissioner has recently
ruled that oleomargarine which had
been colored to ANY shade of yellow"
by the use of butter. comes under the
head of artificially colored oleo, and
is subject to a tax of 10 cents per
pound. This contention Judge Outcalt
will combat. He has already filed II
brief, in which he urges that as yellow
Is the natural color of butter, when ii
is used i'll oleo 1t is not within the
province of the commissioner of inter
nal revenue to hold that an artificial
coloring matter has been used. Inves-
legations that have been made by the
officials of the Internal Revenue De-
partment show that oleo can be given
II very good shade of yellow by the use
of about one pound of rich, yellow but
ter to ten pounds of oleo.
1t is said in Washington that the
commercial treaty between Great
Britain and China, approved at con
ference ut the London foreign C-ice,
Is to serve aS II pattern for similar
treaties TO be negotiated by the other
powers with China. The revision
which Great Britain proposed to China
in the trade treaty, II is said, extends
10 nearly every point in which the
United States is interested, from tn
registration and protection of trade
marks. the creation of n national cur
rency and the extension of the bonded
warehouse system to the reform of the
Shanghai mixed court and the aboii-
tion of all internal taxation, whether
native or foreign or for import or eN-
port. If the provisions which will be
embodied in the British treaty as it is
finally concluded meet the views and
wishes of this government. the United
States may accept under the most
favored nation" clause. But if the re-
suits obtained by Great Britain fall
short of this governments expecta-
ll'HN. llltH tnt tHlttu
push separate negotiations and con-
clude a treaty of its own.
United States Ambassador Clayton.
Mt Mexico. has succeeded in securing
restitution on one of the largest en-
beZzlement cases before the Mexican
state department. Some time ago
James Brown Potter. representing
large American and English interests
in the Tiahaulilo Mining Company OF
Mexico. appealed to the State Depart
ment for justice. claiming that by a
fraudulent conspiracy some of the di-
rectors of the company had embeZzled
funds to the amount of over s., ,OOO. 900.
This. it was charged, was accomplished
by packed elections and the bestowal
of illegal powers upon one of the direc-
tors of the company. The fact that
some inferior Mexican officials were in
volved in the conspiracy made it al
most impossible to obtain justice by
the ordinary methods. The State De-
partment referred the case to Ambas-
sador Clayton and he brought ii to the
attention of the Mexican government
and pressed 1t so vigorously that he IS
now able to report that the conspira-
tors have been obliged to disgorge all
of the money and securities they had
obtained by their fraudulent opera
tions.
a general order has been Issued by
General Miles, commanding the army.
announcing the award of medals of
honor and certificates of merit to of
ficers and enlisted men for specially
meritorious service. The awards cover
n period beginning with the civil war
and extending 10 last winter. and are
in addition to list published two
hon, ftrct DIS
announced. In the present list are the
names of Gen. Horace Porter and Col.
Albert L. Mills. superintendent of the
Military Academy, both of whom are
given medals for acts of bravery, the
former at Atlnntn. and the latter al