The Holly chieftain., 1904-05-20

Secretary Taft has gone to the Adj
rondack mountains for ten days or two
weeks. He is suffering from a severe
cold.
Charles H. Robb, former assistant
attorney general for the postoffice de-
partment, has assumed his new duties
as assistant attorney general, with
much enlarged powers, at the depart
ment of justice.
r. A. Lane of Bingham, Mass, has
been appointed assistant secretary of
the Isthmian Canal commission. Mr.
Lane will discharge the duties of sec
retary to the commission until that
office is filled.
Colonel Edwards, chief of the insu-
lar bureau of the War Department. has
received from Mayor Patrick A. Col
Inns of Boston a reply to letter he
wrote regarding the entertainment OF
fifty Filipino representatives who will
visit eastern cities, saying that the
municipality of Boston will not enter
tain such delegation.
A Washington special Of May 11th
says: Representative Brooks left here
this evening for New York, where he
will attend to private business matters
for about week, and then go to Colo
rado. During his stay here after the
close of Congress Representative
Brooks has been closing up Colorado
matters in the various departments.
He has arranged with the General
Land Office to have a new edition OF
the map of Colorado printed, the last
edition having been printed in 1897.
He also has secured the promise of the
General Land Office to have all agri-
cultural lands eliminated from the
White river and Mesa forest reserves.
President Roosevelt has issued
proclamation reducing the area of the
Yellowstone forest reserve in Wyom-
ing and Montana nearly 100000
acres. Investigations of this reserve
was ordered May 2, 1903. by Land
Commissioner Richards, and Special
Agent Barrett occupied all of last sum-
mer in going over the reserve, locating
pasture lands for exclusion from the
reserve boundaries and timbered lands
for additions. The Presidents procla-
nation changes the former area of the
reserve by excluding $4,000 acres in
Wyoming and 127,360 acres in Mon
tana and by adding s5,120 acres in
Wyoming and 45,440 acres in Montana,
resulting in a reduction of 42S,S00
acres, reducing the total area Of the
reserve to 100000 acres.
The Bureau of Animal Industry is
increasing it's force of cattle inspectors
in the Western States in order to Sc
cure the enforcement of its regulations
governing the shipment or trading of
cattle between states. Under the regu-
lations cattle affected with or exposed
to mango or sca6ies shall not be ship
ped until they have been dipped in a
mixture approved by officers of the bu-
reau. Fifty inspectors will be sta
toned at Western cattle shipping
points to compel observance OF the
regulations. These inspectors are ap-
pointed from experts in the employ
of the bureau of elisibles who have
taken the prescribed Civil Service ex-
animation. Mango is said to be prev
alent in Utah. Wyoming, Colorado, Ne.
braska, New Mexico, and to be partic-
ularly severe in the Dakotas.
These are interesting days at the
White House. Although Congress has
adjourned, many senators, representa-
tives and politicians of prominence lin
ger in Washington. The campaign is
practically on, although the formal
opening is not supposed to take place
until after the two national conven-
tions are over and the issues of the
two parties have been defined. In the
minds of the Republican leaders there
seems to be no controversy over the
question of an issue. The tariff is to
be the principal plank in the Repub-
lican platform. There is pronounced
difference of opinion, however, among
the Republican leaders as to who is
qualified to step into the shoes of the
lamented Mark Hanna at the head Of
the Republican national committee.
Many have been called but no one has
yet been chosen.