The Lamar register., 1904-06-15


eral Bristow has announced that the
salaries of the rural free delivery mail
carriers will be adjusted on the basis
of the number of miles Travelled.
The President has appointed Charles
F. McKenna of Pittsburg. Pennsylva-
MIA, toSbe district judge of Porto Rico.
Mr. McKenna was appointed to the Of
fee during the last session of Congress,
but his appointment failed of confirma-
tion. Since that time the appointment,
which originally was made at the in
stance of Representative Dalzell. has
been agreed to by Senator Penrose.
The following order has been issued
: by the War Department: At the re-
uqest of the governor of Colorado,
Brigadier General Charles l.. Cooper,
United States army, retired, will re-
port to the governor of Colorado at
Denver for duty with the organized MI
litia of that state for period of four
years, unless sooner relieved. Brlga-
dier General Cooper, while on the duty
there as specified is entitled to receive
full pay and allowances of his grade.
Secretary Hitchcock has formally
apportioned $2.500,000 for the Gunni-
son, or Uncomphagre, irrigation pro-
ject in Colorado. 1t is proposed to ir-
rigate 10000 acres of land in the I'm
comphagre valley by diverting the
waters of the Gunnison river by tun-
mel and canals from the Gunnison
Canon. The preliminary surveys have
been completed and with the appor-
tionment of funds the work on the pro-
ject may be commenced Immediately.
After consultation with Secretary of
the Navy Moody. President Roosevelt
has named the mixed board which is to
select a site for naval training
school on the great lakes. The COM
mission is composed of Captain Will
liam H. Reeder, United States navy;
Henry NJ. Waite of Lexington, Ken
lucky, a relative of former Chief Jus
tice Waite of the Supreme Court, and
William NJ Bradley, an attorney at
Portland. Maine. When the bill was
under discussion. Illinois, Wisconsin.
Ohio and Michigan engaged in an acri-
monious controversy about the loca-
ton. and this dispute nearly defeated
the measure itself. 1t was decided,
however, to let the President select
the site.
The Republican congressional com
mittee will lose no time in opening the
fight Headquarters in New York City
will be established Immediately. A
good force of men will be put to work,
and every possible attention paid to
getting the campaign for seats in the
National House in good shape. This
program is somewhat earlier than was
at first expected, for Chairman Babcock
planned to start up after the national
convention But New York is to be
great battle ground. and as it is the
Presidents state. the Republicans not
only want to carry it for Mr.. Roosevelt
bu. to gain several districts in New
York City Democratic congressional
committee headquarters have been open
in Washington for couple OF weeks,
and work is being pressed in getting
out literature and in organizing.
United States Charge Lee, at Pana-
ma, has cabled the State Department
that the government of Panama has
consented to suspend action upon the
pending coinage legislation until con-
ference is held in Washington with
view to securing a system similar TO
that prevailing in the Philippines. As
sistant Secretary Loomis and Minister
John Barrett were in conference re-
specting the projected conference, and
the minister also conferred with Secre-
tary Taft and William Nelson Crom-
we'll Mr.. Loomis afterward telegraphed
to Messrs. Arias and Morales, the Pan
anna commissioners now in New York.
asking them to come to Washington
and to bring with them Senior Obaldia.
the new Panama minister. who has just
arrived in New York, in order that the
conference may be held at the earliest
possible moment
Just before Attorney General Knox
left Washington, few days ago, he
called on the President and told him
that he had been rendered the appoint
ment of United States senator to sue
ceed Mr.. Quay. and that IL the Presi-
dent was willing, he would accept The
President told him while 1t was true
that probably no other man in the
country could quite fill the position OF
attorney general as he had filled It,
yet ne believed that his services in the
Senate would be exceptionally valu-
able, not only to the state Of Pennsyl-
yania, but to the whole country. The
President said that during the next ses-
sion or two of Congress 1t was fair
assumption that there would be con-
siderable constructive legislation on
the subject of trusts and combinations
\ of one character or another, and in that
matter Mr.. Knox would be of greater
service than perhaps any other man.
The President is greatly pleased that
Mr. Knox will accept the position. The
latter probably will not resign as attor-
ney general until Congress convenes
next December.
Mrs. Roosevelt, the wife Of the Pres
ident, had a narrow escape from in
jury on the 9th inst. her horse falling
in a fit from sunstroke and almost
overturning the carriage in which she
was returning to the White House af-