Gilpin observer., 1904-03-03

ents, and mines and mining commit
tees.
Secretary Hitchcock has requested
an appropriation of $4,000 from Con-
gress with which to run down and
prosecute persons running liquor
stores on Indian reservations.
Representative Hogg has introduced
bill giving certain sections of land
in the neighborhood of Durango to
that city for the purpose of water
storage, laying of pipes, etc.
The Senate has confirmed Charles
Cameron Forbes of Massachusetts to
be a member of the Philippine COM
mission and to succeed as secretary
OF the Department of Commerce and
police, Luke E. Wright.
A bill has passed the House provid-
ing for an additional assisting justice
for the Supreme Court of New Mexico.
Also a bill setting apart tract OF
laAd in Arizona as public park to
be known as the Petrified Forest Ma
tional Park
Representative Bonynge will extend
to the House committee on public
buildings the invitation of the Denver
Chamber of Commerce to visit Denver
at the close of the present session to
investigate the needs of Denver for
federal building.
The right to construct an aerial
tramway over the grand canon of the
Colorado, desired by w. w. Bass Of
Conconino, Arizona, and granted by
legislation pending before the House
committee on public lands, is to be
investigated by subcommittee.
Representative Van Duser of Nevada
introduced bill for the free and un-
limited coinage of silver. This bill
should have been referred to the COM
mittee on coinage, weights and meas
urts. but party leaders are taking
no chances even on the remote pos
sibility of the silver issue again stir
ring debate and referred the measure
to the ways and means committee, this
committee being used as a morgue for
such measures.
At the request of Representative
Mondell the secretary of war has made
supplemental recommendation to the
House appropriations committee for
$150,000 additional to the 100000 al
ready recommended for the improve
ment of roads in and leading to the
Yellowstone National Park for the
coming year. If the amount asked for
is granted. it will permit further work
on roads south and east of the park
and leading into it.
An effort is to be made by President
Roosevelt to prevent the wanton de-
struction of elk in this country. Con-
gress, probably informally, will be
asked to enact stringent laws looking
to the preservation of the great ami
mails. State game Wardens in the
Olympian mountains in Washington
found carcasses recently of eleven elk
in one place and eight in another. All
had been killed Illegally for two teeth
| in each animal which are used as en-
blems by the order of Elks. The car
casses remain where they fell.
Both houses have passed the bill to
legalize applications and final proofs
for entering public lands in cases
where papers were executed before Of
ficers outside of the land districts
in which the lands sought to
be entered were located. This
law will afford relief to num-
erous settlers upon public lands
who through inadvertence have not
complied with the technical provisions
of the statute requiring all papers re-
lating to entries to be executed in the
land district containing the land.
The House on February 9th de-
voted nearly the entire session to the
passage Of 269 private pension bills.
Mr.. Adams (Rep. Pa.) entered a pro-
test because pension bills introduced
by him had not been considered and
intimated that unless his district was
treated the same as other districts he
would block consideration Of pension
, bills in the House. Mr.. Slayden (Dem.
TnvaSl said that h0 hod rpCoivod
the same notice as other members in
regard to pension bills, and Speaker
Cannon said he would take the gen.
tleman's protest under consideration"
The engineering supervisor Of In
dian schools, Mr.. Pringle, recently at
Pennington. New Mexico, Investigate.
| ing the water and sewerage for the
| proposed new Indian school at San
Juan, has completed his work there
and has been ordered to Grand juno
| ton, Colorado. At Grand Junction he
| is to investigate the situation as to
| needs for new heating and ventilat-
| ing system for the Indian school
buildings at that point. The Indian
bureau has to it's credit $500 to in
stall a new heating and ventilating
| plant at Grand Junction.
The census bureau has issued a pre-
liminary report on the production Of
crude petroleum in the United States
during the calendar year 1902. 1t
shows a total product OF S9,275.302
barrels Of forty-two Gallons each. val
ued at $71.397.7 .739, against 35,163.51
barrels, valued at $26 1858, $40, as re-
ported by the eleventh census which
covered the year 1889. The report
shows that In 1902 there were 1851
wells, 29.522 operators, 3.033 salaried
employees drawing an aggregate of $2.-
| 9S6,76S and 1852 wage earners.
drawing $13.242.361. The cost Of sup
| plies and materials was $17,7S1, ,512.
miscellaneous expenses. $15,S11 ,726
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