The Grit-advocate., 1904-03-04

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affairs on bill giving the grade OF
major to fifteen army chaplains Tor
distinguished service
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
Abill giving certain sections OF land
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 ana
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
land 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
SudlDeI vi W flSiI ASh '>A
at the close of the present session to
: investigate the needs Of Denver for
a 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
ta5 NV g,Ib committee
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
! mo chances even on the remote pos
I sibility of the silver issue again stir
ring debate and referred the measure
/ TO the ways and means committee, this
committee being used as morgue for
such measures.
i At the request Of Representative
Mondell the secretary of war has made
supplemental recommendation to the
< House appropriations committee for
$15O,OOO additional to the 100000 al
ready recommended for the improve
e 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.
IN During the discussion Of the agri-
cultural Appropriation bill in the Sen
ate Mr. Gallinger called attention to
the appropriation of $4,000 for In
4 vestigating maple syrups, saying that
the same amount was appropriated
last year, and suggesting that some
results should have been announced
by this time. He offered an amend
ment which was adopted, requiring
that a report of progress be made to
Congress.
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
lin one place and eight in another. All
had been killed illegally for two teeth
lin 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
W Ore papers were executed before Of
Ulcers outside Of the land districts
in which the lands sought to
be entered were located. This
law will afford relief to num-
eIous 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 registers and receivers at Glen
wood Springs, Montrose and Gunni-
son, Colorado. have received notihca-
tion to temporarily withdraw from set
Element all vacant unapproprated
lands, which in the aggregate amount
to nearly 100000 acres. The tenn
porary withdrawal is for the purpose
of determining the udvisability of add
ing this territory to Battlement mesa
and Uncompahgre mountain forest re-
serves. 1t is proposed to add about
415,0OO acres to Uncompahgre forest
reserve and something like $4,000
acres to Battlement Mesa reserve.
The census bureau has issued 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
3ued at s71,397,7 ,739, against 35,1G3.5l3
barrels, valued at SIC, ,9C3.34O. as re-
ported by the eleventh census which
covered the year 1889. The report
shows that in 1902 there were 1851
oil ClIQrlpG
employees drawing an aggregate OF $G.-
i986,76S and 1852 wage earners,
drawing $l3,242,3G1 The cost OF sup
Iplies and materials was S17,7S1,5l2.
lO.llaneous expenses. 1851 ,726
and cost of contract work SI21S6,6 Gal.