Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-19

and will apply for an Injunction to prohiol,
further proceedings. These gentlemen ana
other cattle and sheep men with STRONG po
litcal pulls have been pasturlns theit stooh
in the valley and upon the government re-
carve around it. Senator Curtin owns a
ranch that lies Immediately within the 10
semitic National Park and is entireiy en-
circled by it. He has had great ueat ~, oa
trouble with the superintendent ana the
forest rangers because of his attempts W
secure free pasturage on government lsl !I
Captain Benson has driven Curtin 5 Cattle
out of the national park repeatedly, a. n
the last time he caught them on the re-
serve he drove them out of the eastern tiaii
into the desert where they scattered anu
Senator Curtn's cowboys have not oeeh
able to recover them. ,, -
plaiued but Benson is a conscieiltiouS,;,
courageous and determined ofhcer, anu WI,
do what is right, and carry out ms oluels
under ALL circumstances. His predecessor
have had similar trouble a company OF
regular soldiers has been kept IN the palk
for many years for the precise pulpose, ".
preventing free rangers from Vioialins
the laws of the United States YOU near
frequent complaints of the behavior OF the
soldiers but If you will follow them pach
to their source you Will mo geherails 'ia'
some one else is equally to blame. For eA-
ample the proprietors OF a hotel near .he
military camp are indignant because the
soldiers sometimes get drunk on Suhuays,
but the very men who make the protes's
sell them the whisky.
Senator Curtin threatens to carry the con-
test over the recession of the valley by the
state of California to the Supreme Court
of the United States, which may delay pro-
ceedings. But there Is no doubt that Con
gress. at the next session. will formally ac-
cept 1t.
A commission consisting Of Major Chit
tenden of the Engineer Corps, who has
made the Yellowstone National Park what
1t is; r. B. Marshall. topographer OF the
United States geological survey. and Frank
Bond Of the general land Office. has already
made a thorough investigation. and has
recommended legislation as follows:
/. Changing the name to the yosemite
National Park.
& That all existing legislation pertaining
to the Subject be repealed. as It is ambigu-
Gus. contradictory and confusing.
8. That an entirely new code OF laws.
similar to that provided for Yellowstone
National Park. be enacted;
4. That 100000 be appropriated to buy
up, by condemnation or otherwise, the pri-
vate property within the park.
8. That road up the MERGED Canyon be
built at once.
In conclusion the commission says: 1.-THE
Yosemite valley. with its immediate sur
the world. 1t is something which should be
placed on the same satisfactory basis as the
Yellowstone and be thus administered. In q
true sense. for the benefit and enjoyment OF
the people,"
During the last summer Secretary Hitch
cock has had two confidential agents out
here looking into things. and obtaining In
formation upon which his recommendations
to Congress will be based. To make the
great park have described. what 1t should
be will require many years and large sum
Of money. The government has spent near
ly million and a half dollars upon the
Yellowstone and this will require even
more, because of its greater area and other
conditions.