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Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
RIO CRANDE CASE.
WATER CONTROVERSY WITH
MEXICO SETTLED.
CAN NOW BUILD RESERVOIRS
Rights of San Luis Valley land Own
ers UpheId-opening Of Crow In
dian Reservation in Montana.

Washington. - The Colorado dele
cation has succeeded in effecting sat-
isfactory settlement of the long-stand-
ing controversy over use of the head
waters of the Rio Grande river in Colo
RADIO for irrigation purposes.
In 1896 the Mexican government
made claim upon the United States
for $10,000,000 damages for diverting
by irrigation the waters of the Rio
Grande. Pending consideration of this
claim the Interior Department re-
fused to grant applications for water
filings from the Rio Grande and
stopped construction of the proposed
Elephant Butte irrigation enterprise.
which led to a long controversy in
courts.
In 1898 the Rio Grande Canal and Ir-
rigation Company of Colorado filed an
application for reservoir site and for
use of the Rio Grande waters. 1t was
rejected by the Interior Department,
whereupon Representative Brooks took
the matter up and appealed from the
decision of the department. His ac-
ton was indorsed at a mass meeting Of
settlers and land owners of the San
Luis valley, held last fall, and since
that time Brooks has been laboring
with the Geological Survey, the State
Department and the Department Of
Justice to try and obtain recognition
of the rights of settlers to waters of
the stream in controversy.
Thursday the State Department in
structed the Interior Department that
no further objection remained to
granting rights for reservoir sites and
an order was made by which the Inter-
ior Department will now admit all res
ervoir and canal filings for waters OF
the Rio Grande, pursuant to field sur
veys based upon actual applications
made prior to 1908.
This action practically lets in all
| the principal San Luis valley filings
and will prove a source of great benefit
to residents of that part of Colorado.
| A proclamation was signed Thursday
| by the President for the opening of one
million acres of land in the Crow In
| dian reservation, Montana, to sale and
settlement. The proclamation desig-
| mates Billings and Miles City, Montana,
| and Sheridan, Wyoming, as places for
registration, which will extend from
June 14th to 2Sth. The drawing will
take place in BILLINGS July I'd and en-
tries will be received at the rate of 125
daily, commencing July 18th.
The lands will be sold at $4 per acre,
| 81 down and the rest in four yearly in
stallments, commencing the second
year after entry. The lands will be
subject to homestead entry only dur
| ing sixty days following the opening
of the reserve, and thereafter will be
subject to mineral and other land en-
tries.
Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
SAN FRANCISCO AID.
Interesting Statistics Furnished by ths
Southern Pacific.

San Francisco to the re-
Pacific, that company, up to and in
cluding May 10Th, had handled free
into this city 1,635 cars of supplies for
the relief of the fire sufferers.
Sixty-seven cities and towns Of the
Golden State gave a carload or more
Of provisions to the Southern Pacific
to transport to San Francisco within
ten days after the disaster. Hardly
less remarkable is Oregon's record.
Down over the Shasta route twenty
two Oregon cities sent a carload or
more Of supplies to San Francisco be-
fore the end of April.
OF the eastern states sending gen.
erous contributions in carload lots, Ne
braska secured first place in the num-
ber of cities contributing carload or
more. Up to the end of April, twenty.
three cities and towns in Nebraska
had forwarded a carload or more each
of provisions for San Francisco.
The largest single item carried was
flour, of which over 5000 tons were
brought to San Francisco between
April 18th and May 10th. In the three
weeks succeeding the fire the potatoes
delivered aggregated 127 cars, or fif-
teen pounds for every inhabitant of the
city. Canned goods amounted to about
ten pounds each. The provisions and
supplies that had no other designa-
tion totaled over $4,000 tons before the
10th of May, or sixty pounds for ev-
cry resident of the city.
Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
DANGER IN RUSSIA.
Parliament Votes Lack Of Confidence
in the Ministry.

st. Petersburg.-At the end of n
memorable seven-hour session the
lower house of Parliament Saturday,
Indignantly rejected the governments
policy as presented by Premier Gore
mykin, and, with only seven dissenting
voices, voted lack of confidence in
the ministry. This practically throws
down the gauntlet to the bureaucracy
with the demand for the retirement of
the present Cabinet and its superses
sion by ministry approved by ma
jority in the House.
The spirit Of revolution is in the air.
and conflict between the crown and
the nation appears inevitable. While
the House avoided the appearance of
delegating an ultimatum. there seems
to be no alternative between surrender
and war.
The gloomiest forebodings are heard
and the general impression is that the
country is on the verge of titanic
struggle. which may be delayed, but
not averted.
Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
COMING TO COLORADO.
Land Offices Show Large Influx OF
Settlers

Denver.-One of the best evidences
of the influx of people to Colorado is
found in the land offices in the state,
where entries are made by the new
corners upon public lands. Reports
from the offices in Denver, Lamar,
Hugo and Sterling, where the lands
are mostly adapted to agriculture,
show a great increase in entries. The
number of entries in the Hugo Office,
which comprise the counties of Lin
coin, Kit Carson and Cheyenne, now
average 200 a month. In the Lamor
district, covering Kiowa, Prowers,
Bent and Baca counties, the number
reaches 100 monthly. In the Sterling
district, covering Logan, Washington,
Sedgwick. Phillips and part of Morgan
and Yuma counties, the number is
from 125 to $50 every month. In the
Denver district, which covers the
counties north of Denver-Weld, Lari-
mer and others-the number of entries
averages as high as $50 every month.
Most of the new population is COM
ing from the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska
and other states in the West and mid
die West. The success of dry-farming,
the cheapness of the lands and the
abundance of crops last year are the
causes for the influx.
Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
MORE GAME WARDENS.
Commissions Sent to Government For.
est Rangers.

Denver.-Large numbers of game
wardens' commissions are being sent
from the Office of State Game and Fish
Commissioner ]. NJ. Woodard to forest
supervisors and rangers in the employ
of the government. Under late
announcement of the forestry depart
ment at Washington forest supervisors
and rangers must q t as state game
and fish wardens, and they are given
the same power as all other wardens
to make arrests without warrant. For
est supervisors have received instruc-
tions from the department by which
they are employed to furnish lists of
the rangers to the state game and fish
commissioner, and as fast as these
lists are received the commissions are
being mailed.
All this means that in this state this
years and henceforth there will be a
much moro rigid enforcement OF the
game and fish laws than in the past.
Upon the forest reserves are squads OF
rangers who hereafter will be required
to keep sharp lookout for violators
of the law. Severe punishment will
be meted out to those who fail In their
duty in this respect.
Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
Verdict Of Manslaughter.

Denver.-A Republican special from
Trinidad Wednesday says: Voluntary
manslaughter was the verdict rendered
by jury this evening against Arthur
Lemereaux, the fourteen-year-old boy,
who, with Raymond and Roy Robinson,
were tried for the murder Of John Par
lapiano, an Italian rancher, near Hast
lngs, May 7th. The verdict of the jury
was a surprise, as an acquittal was
confidently expected. The attorneys
for both sides agreed that the charge
against Roy Robinson, who is only
eight years Of age, would be dismissed.
as there was nothing to show that he
took an active part in the killing of the
Italian.
Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
Congregational.

The senate has passed the bill OPEN
ing for settlement 505,0O0 acres of
land in the Kiowa, Commanche and
Apache Indian reservations in Okla
homa.
Senator Burton, of Kansas, has made
n proposition to the senate, which was
accepted, that if no action was taken
in his case by that body he would
resign in case the supreme court failed
to grant him new trial.
After listening to sensational charges
of treachery against Mr.. Hepburn by
Representative Cooper the house sent
the railroad rate bill to conference.
The house conferees are representa-
tives Hepburn, Sherman and Richard
son.
The free alcohol bill has passed the
senate as 1t came from the committee.
The bill now goes to conference on the
amendments added to 1t by the senate.
A bill has been introduced in tho
senate, said to be an administration
measure, which provides for more
rigid inspection of packing house pro-
ducts. All meats whether for inter-
state or foreign commerce must have
the governments 20. K"
A resolution has been introduced in
the senate to investigate the legal eff
feet Of the recent supreme court de-
cision regarding Senator Burton, Of
Kansas.
The de1atured alcohol bill has been
ordered favorably reported by the SEN
ate finance committee.
Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
Benefit of Our Readers.
PcrnOnal.

Queen Alexandra and Princess Vic.
toria have returned to England after
an extended cruise in Mediterranean
waters.
]. Alison Bowen, attached to the
American consulate at Paris, died in
that city recently.
Mrs. Sallie e. Vest. widow OF the
late Senator George G. Vest, died re-
Gently at ST. Louis.
T. X. Hanna, widely known
wholesale dry goods merchant of Kan
sas City, is dead at his home in that
city.
Henrik Ibsen, Norway's greatest
poet and dramatist, died recently at
Christiania His death was mex
pected although for year he had been
very weak. He was rs years old.
The Maharajah or Gaikwar Of
Beroda. an Indian prince, was an inter-
ested spectator at recent session of
the United States senate.
Emperor Nicholas has accepted the
resignation of Admiral Rojestvensky
which was rendered on account of Ill
health following wounds received in the
war with Japan.
Representative John F. Lacey, of the
Sixth Iowa district has been renoni-
mated for tenth term by the repub-
licans of his district.
Col. w. +. Switzler, recognized as
the Oldest editor in the United States
and the Nestor of Missouri journalism,
died recently at the home of his
daughter in Columbia, Mo. He was
81 years old and commenced his news
paper career in Columbia in 1S41.-
Mrs. Ellen Tootle, wife of ]. ].
Tootle, a Millionaire banker of st.
Joseph, Mo. has been granted di-
vorce from her husband
Princess Ena, the prospective bride
of King Alfonso, met with an enthus-
iastic popular welcome on her arrival
at Irun, Spain, where she was met by
the king. The couple received con-
tinuous ovation on their way to Mad
rid where the wedding ceremony takes
Dlace
Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
Miscellaneous.

Judge Smith Mcpherson, in the fed
eral court at Kansas City, has denied
the demurrer of the Burlington rail-
road to the rebate indictment. The
railroad and packing companies must
now go to trial.
At the supreme council Of the Royal
Arcanum of the United States, in ses-
sion at Old Point, Va, Howard C.
Wiggans was reelected supreme re-
gent and the entire list of officers was
reelected
The registration of applicants for
lands in the Crow Indian reservation
in Montana will begin at Miles City
and Billings on June IA and continue
for two weeks. The drawings will be-
gin at Billings on July 2.
Charges have been made by the
independent oil men of Ohio that their
private kilograms are transmitted to
the Standard Oil headquarters at &c
Broadway, New York. The interstate
commerce commission will investigate
the allegation at Cleveland.
The supreme court Of Missouri has
affirmed the verdict of death IN the
cases of Mrs. Agnes Myers and Frank
Hoffman for the murder Of Mrs. Myers
husband at Kansas City in 1904. They
were both sentenced to hang on June
10 next.
Thomas F. McCarry former prom
inent attorney of Grand Rapids. Mich,
serving a sentence in the penitentiary
for bribery, has been paroled by the
governor.
stroyed.
Judge Lands, in the federal court
at Chicago, has issued an order re-
straining w. G. Voliva. his attorneys.
agents, and employees from disposing
of or dissipating the assets of the es-
tate of Zion City.
The foreign commerce of the United
States for April aggregated $251 ,OOO,-
600.
The supreme court of the United
States has granted the petition of the
state of Kansas to file suit against
the government for the benefit of the
NJ X. & T., railroad.
The opening OF a mine at Smith
field, O., with non union miners was
the signal for the beginning of hos
tilities by the strikers in that field
Many shots were exchanged but no
one was reported injured.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company have appointed a
committee to investigate the allega-
tions that certain officers of the COM
pany hold stock in several coal COM
panies.
A revolt against Cuban authority
in the Isle of Pines in the near future
is predicted unless tho United States
assumes authority over 1t.
At Lexington KY, recently, Barney
Oldheld drove an automobile so miles
in one hour, 13 minutes and two
seconds.
II is asserted that the GOO marines
which were hurriedly gathered for
shipment on the cruiser, Columbia are
intended for the protection of the
canal zone on the isthmus in case Of
revolutionary troubles ut the coming
Panama elections.
In his Memorial day proclamation
Gov. Hoch, OF Kansas, asked that the
day be not desecrated by frivolous
sports and questionable exhibitions.
An application for an Injunction to
prevent the union Of the Cumberland
and the Presbyterian churches has
been denied at Decatur, I'll.
Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
DEATH OF iBsEN.
Great Norwegian Author Dies at Ripe
Old Ace.

Observation-Disclosures Ibsen, Norway's
greatest poet and dramatist, died
peacefully at $3.50 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. Although Ibsens great lit
erary activity ceased some years ago,
when an apoplectic seizure forced him
to refrain from mental effort, he had
continued to be a familiar figure in the
life of Christiania, and was frequently
seen driving in the streets with CON-
panion. His sudden removal, there
fore, deeply impresses the capital.
Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
Aerial Passenger Line.

Denver.-A Georgetown dispatch
says that a Denver company has been
awarded the contract for building the
aerial scenic line. This line will ex.
tend from a point above the Colorado
G. Southern pavilion at Silver Plume
Ito Sunset peak ON Leavenworth noun
tain, . distance Of $4,000 feet. 4
Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
Sentence for Horse Stealing.

Colorado Springs.-In the District
Court, Wednesday, Henry Woodford
pleaded guilty to stealing horse from
e. N. Huntoon, and was sentenced to
the reformatory at Buena Vista.
Woodford Is nineteen years old. and
was captured by the sheriff after
chase extending more than 1900 miles.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-02
EVERYTHING WORTH WHILE IN SPORT GATHERED HERE
HONOR N. SPORTS
PLEADED i; ]. !! !. OF j A. all
College Asked to Accept BY laws
Of New intercollegiate
Athletic Association.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
New York, April 2-There has been mailed
to presidents OF colleges thruout the country
circular letter setting forth what the new IN
tercolegiate athletic association OF fhe Ulted
States hopes to accomplish, with copies OF ITS
constitution and bylaws, by Captain r Il.
Pierce, u. s. Al president of the association,
and Louis Bevier, Jr., Of Rutgers, the secretary
treasurer.
This association had it's birth at the football
conference last December. 1t is an AMBITIOUS
movement having in view not only football
hut college sport In general turnout the United
States. The circular reads as follows:
..'At the football conference in New York on
Dec. % an executive committee was elected
to carry on the work there begun and to pro-
vide for It's permanency. To carry out these
Instructions the executive committee has draft
ed the constitution and bylaws herewith sen-
closed. tbs hoped all the colleges and univer-
stiles represented at the conference. and many
which did not send delegates viii join the
\ association, ratffy the constitution and bylaws
! and assist in the difficult task of securing a
wide cooperation in student athletic sports. to
save what is salutary and abate the evils that
have grown up.
Each Institution which joins the association
thereby agrees to take control of student athletic
sports 80 far as may be necessary to maintain
/ them on a high standard of personal honor
| eligibility and fair play, and to remedy what
ever abuses exist The enforcement of definite
| set of eligibility rules Is not required for mem
bership III this association.
1.-THE by laws provide for publicity and co
ordination of work turnout the land. Member
| of the executive committee, to be selected frOr
seven districts into which the United State
has been divided, are required to report to tn
conference on the conditions of student ath
| letics in their districts, with such recommends
| lions as they may care to make.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-02
RAIN MAY BALK
MAGNATES' PLANS
Openings May Be Deferred by
Wet Weather-Shorter Sea-
son Next Year.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal $500
Chicago, April 2.-The championship baseball
season will be in the National league one
week from next Thursday, according to the
schedule and the calendar. BY the same COM
bination the American leagues season will start
one week from next Saturday in the east and
two weeks from next Tuesday in the west.
These are the plans made by the magnates, but
unless radical changes of heart are experienced
by the men in charge of the United States
weather bureau in the decidedly near future,
these plans may go am1ss.
Neither of the Chicago teams, for instance
| has been able to get weeks work altogether.
altho both have been chasing over all sections
of the middle routes for nearly four weeks in
search of sunshine. One two clubs have
been more fortunate in lodging the rain clouds
and chill winds, but most of the sixteen teams
| are in no better fix than Chicago.
If the championship openings favored
with good weather, contrary to present indica-
| tions the experiences of this spring probably
| will produce change Of sentiment among the
magnates regarding early opening of champion
ship seasons. Already it is asserted that train
ing trips will be curtailed radically another
year. The big expenses entaied this year IL
shipping twenty or thirty men around. the coun
try and paying their hotel bills while they were
| doing gymnasium stunts and playing cards, will
little result in the way Of conditioning, will
cause the clubowners to do considerable thinking
before another campaign is mapped out.
An agreement of more. or less ironclad firm
ness has been predicted to abolish long trainin,
trips in future. The same thinking Will doubt
less lead to a return to later openings ant
shorter championship seasons. For several year
the baseball men have been crowding the season
by gradual stages As late as 1900 the pennan
race was started on April 49, week later thai
this year. In 1902 1t had advanced to April Il
in 1908 to April 15 last year to April 10 ant
u this year to April r. J. *. =.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-02
PASSING THE HAT is
POSSIBLE AT MADISON

Madison. Wis, April 2-The Wisconsin crew
will probably be sent east again this year to
take part in the intercollegiate race at Pough-
keepsie on the Hudson. The prospects for, a
good crew are said to be such that 1t would, be
4 misfortune if Wisconsin was not again repre-
scented in the great regatta. =
The plan is to raise money by subscription.
1t is figured that $500 to $4,000 will be
necessary to carry the crew east and keep
things going until that time. Work will be
started Immediately toward getting subscrip-
lions from the students and alumni, and promi
nent business people turnout the state interested
in affairs here will be called upon to con
| tribute.
There are about forty men candidates for the
varsity eight and four-oared crews. They are
good material, and 1t is predicted that the tasl
of choosing crew will be harder this year thar
for some time. ~ 3F.s} a%
Coach O'Dea told the men that If things arr
arranged SO that the crew will be able to ge
into race he will stay the year out. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-02
DOPE OF THE DAY

THE WEATHER at Hot Springs almost JUS
titles profanity. Il. ''--.s-t.. .s.-zr.-
MIKE ~DONLIN is reported to have bad
ankle. Not the only thing Mike has, at
that. ... ~. w.. -.~,.s. +. !.
THE CONSENSUS of opinion at Norwood ap.
pears to be that the Toledo team has good
chance to land the silk streamer. n
| ALREADY the first triple play has made its
appearance. Boston Americans did it, and Col
Inns had hand in the trick.
| WASHINGTON has secured Otto Williams,
formerly utility on the Chicago National
league club, in place of Joe Cassidy.
THAT POLICEMAN who accepted job UNI
| pire in Western league must have been trav-
cling tough beat. - Il >H5z IL e IL:
| EUGENE EDEAIONTREVILLE, Toledo's crack
second baseman is to be sold to Rochester. Jude,
the Carlisle Indian, reported to Toledo yester-
| day. H. = ,..... 80 !, t-sss +,
ROY, an Indian pitcher from Carlisle, who
has been signed by the Williamsport club of
the Tri-State league, is considered by many
| the equal Of Bender.
THE st. Louis Americans are beginning where
! they stopped last fall They We're .<walloped
| three StaightS by the Dallas, Texas, team, a
| Class D organization
with Toledo, has been released outright by Bos
| ton Grillo has no intention Of trying to get
him back either. ;.'
GARRY HERMANN is out as an advocate
| OF later spring training trips. he cant see
any thing in hiring players to knock icicles Of
the bats to knock fungoes with.
/ EXPLOSIONS in various sections of the south
in the next few days will not be dynamite fac
tories letting 60, but bush leaguers reputation!
punctured by major league managers.
/ FIELDER JONES is figuring on new outfelt
for the whitesox. Danny Jones is .retrogradins
and Hub Hart may be picked for the job
/ If Callahan does not show up, Hemphill will b.
sent in to fill his Shoes
TAKE Brady and Beckley off the field and i
q will be hard to recognize the cardinals this sea
tson. s. The team looks as if It had gone thru
renovating machine--but It, sure needed some
thing. 1s s@stss = &
CHARLIE CARR and E. C.. Mack of the Tor
onto Eastern league team are organizing a Ca
I. madam league for operation next season. Mon
J, treal, Ottawa, Kingston Hamilton, Guelph an
London are in on the deal ..#5 St..ssss+ sss#
!; OLD MAN VAN HALTREN is not so far i
, the sere and yellow leaf stage that he canno
sting the ball "a few His average last yea
was .255 for 220 games in the Pacific Coas
league
z Il IT is ANNOUNCED. that Roy Clark, VII
caught good ball for the Toledo American asse
citation team last season, will play this yea
with Spring field, Ohio Manager Jack Hendrick
has secured the young mani signature to -aacor
!; tract ttG
Il GEORGE TEBEAU must have the Indian sig
on the other magnates of the American Associ;
ton of Baseball Clubs This observations
bound to occur to anyone who examines closet
s the schedule which was adopted at the meetin
of the association at the Grand Pacific hote
Chicago. sssss6g