Gilpin observer., 1904-06-02
LATEST NEWS FROM WASHINGTON


portioned out of the congressional re-
lief fund $780, to enable the Moros
to build roads through the Lake La
mao region.
Through our ministers abroad the
naval attaches of the United States
have been instructed to report upon
the number and the danger to neutral
shipping from war mines floating off
the Mancurian coast. This informa-
tion will be placed in the hands of the
naval board, which will submit it's
views to the President and If occasion
warrants it, representations will be
made to the belligerentS.
The Postoffice Department has an
nounced that navigation on the Yukon
river in Alaska is reopened and that
mail matter may be accepted by post
offices for transmission to and desti-
nation in Alaskan territory. This also
includes Dawson and all other places
in Yukon territory. The first trip up
the Yukon was made by the steamer
Portland. which was equipped with an
ice prov and which carried approx
mately $4,000 pounds of mail matter.
An order has been issued by the
Postoffice Department for the payment
of salaries of star route mail carriers
and mail messengers monthly, instead
of every three months. The officials
hope to inaugurate the monthly pay
ments August 1st for salaries for July.
There are 1926 star route carriers in Col
orado and sixty-seven mail messec-
gers; New Mexico has ISL star route and
twenty-three mail messengers and Wy
oming 1872 star route and nineteen mail
messengers.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved the plan adopted by Commits
sioner Richards of the General Land
Office for surveying and making a
boundary line for a distance of 200
miles between Wyoming and South Da-
kota and Wyoming and Montana. The
contract for the South Dakota-Wyom-
ing boundary survey will be given to
E. F. Stable of Cheyenne and of the
Notwithstanding line to Deputy Sur
veyor Peck of South Dakota. The
boundary will be marked with iron and
granite monuments. There is $40, 1000
available for the work.
The Indian bureau has received the
official report on the water for domes-
tic purposes in the proposed $50 1000 In
Juan river near Pennington, New Mex
leo. An analysis of the waters taken
from the San Juan and from well
mored 1000 feet away from that river
has been made by DR.. R. H. Forbes of
the Agricultural College at Tucson. DR..
Forbes favors well water for domestic
uses. The problem of getting health
full and adequate wter supply has been
worrying the department, but the
Forbes report asserts there is plenty of
pure water in the we'll. The work OF
preparing plans for the new Indian
school will be pushed to completion.
Actual work will likely be commenced
before the close of the present sumemr.
Governor Wright has cabled the
secretary of war. making the follow
ing quotations from a dispatch sent to
General Wright by General Wood:
mo disturbance in Cottobato valley.
There was fight with band of out
laws under Ali, who is as much an
enemy of peaceful Moros as of ours.
All Moros in valley are at work and
friendly, and, for the first time in his
tory, are taking out cedulas. Have ta-
ken out $500 in last two weeks. Not
the slightest cause Of anxiety"
General Wright does not anticipate
any serious trouble with the Moros.
They have no chief of prominence
around whom they could gather; they
are divided into very small groups,
commanded by insignificant dattos, in
tensely jealous and at general war
with each other. The Moro act abol-
ishing slavery and establishing form
Of government wholly at variance with
what has existed heretofore naturally
has produced some dissatisfaction. but
he regards serious opposition as i'm
probable, II not impossible.
The following is apropos to the ap-
pointmeat Of Secretary Cortelyou as
chairman of the Republican national
committee: This Is the day of the
young man. George B. Cortelyou is
about to step into the shoes worn by
Edwin d. Morgan, Zach Chandler, B.
F. Jones, Matthew Stanley Quay and
Marcus A. Hanna. With the exception
of Thomas H. Carter. who was thirty
eight when chairman. he is the young
est man to become chairman Of a ma
tional committee and the manager Of
a national campaign, says the New.
York Herald. Mr.. Cortelyou Is in his
forty-first year. William F. Harrity
was forty-two when he took charge of
the last successful fight the Democrats
made for the presidency in 1892. Ed
win d. Morgan Of New York was forty
three when he managed the first Of
the three campaigns which he con-
Quoted for the Republican party in
1856, 1860 and 1864. All OF these men
had participated in political affairs as
delegates to conventions. and most Of
them would be regarded as practical
politicians. Mr.. Cortelyou has not
been the first private secretary VI
President to become Cabinet minis
ter. Daniel Lamont and John Hay
have preceded him. but he Is the first
private secretary who rose to his pres
ent position from q subordinate gov
ernment iob and who ia to be advanced