Gilpin observer., 1910-01-13
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.


Wyoming has been allotted four ap-
pointments of clerks in the census
bureau and has five applicants who
successfully passed the examination.
All of the Wyoming APPLICANTS are
women.
The department of Agriculture is
making a fight against bleached flour.
Its use is not defended by the bakers,
but by the manufacturers of bleach
ing machinery, who are said to have
raised fund of 100000 to defeat the
governments contention as regards
its injurious effects.
A senatorial party including Sena
tors Clark of Wyoming, Hepburn of
Idaho, Carter and Dixon of Montana,
returned few days since from a hol-
iday visit to Panama. All express sat
isfaction with the progress of work
on the canal, and say they will sup
port liberal appropriations for its
speedy completion.
Representative Rucker has filed
with the secretary of the interior
charges against Special Agent r. T.
Anderson of the general office, pre-
ferred by John G. Abbott, clerk of
Yuma county, Colo. Abbott charges
that Anderson broke into his house
September 1st, 1909, and ransacked
its contents.
The house public lands committee
favorably reported Representative
Martins bill granting leaves of abb
sence to homesteaders on account of
the inclement weather in North and
South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and
Utah. The bill provides that home
steaders may have three months
from the date of it's passage in which
to make settlement on their entries.
Clifford Pinchot, forester and inti-
mate friend of Theodore Roosevelt,
was dismissed on the 7th inst. from
the service of the United States by
President Taft for insubordination.
Associate Forester Overton w. Price
and Assistant Law Officer Alexander
C. Shaw, Pinchot's immediate assist
ants in the forestry bureau, followed
their chief out of the government en-
ploy.
The coming fourth Pan-American
conference, in Buenos Ayres in July,
is occupying the attention Of officials
of the state department and others in
terested in the meeting. The United
States committee has elected Maj.
Gen. George w. Davis. United States
army retired, as one of its members,
and appointed a committee to urge
upon Congress the necessity for an
appropriation for the proper partici-
patton of the United States.
bill introduced by Senator Mel
son, chairman of the public lands
committee, directs the secretary of the
interior OF classify the public lands into
eight classes-agricultura irrisable,
dry farming. timber. coal, mineral;
national forests and water power. II
provides for disposition of each class
as follows: Agricultural by home
steading only: irrigable, by operation
only of the national reclamation and
Carey act; dry farming. by the en-.
larged homestead act; timber lands
shall not be sold and the timber they
contain shall be sold to the highest
bidders and the proceeds divided be.
tween the states and the national
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be opened to prospecting and pur.
chase practically as at present.; coal
lands shall not be sold, and the coal,
oil. asphaltum and phosphate they
contain shall be disposed of by lease;
forest lands shall be retained in ma.
tional forests and water power lands
shall not be sold. but shall be leased
for periods and rates determined by
the interior dpDartmpnt
Representative Martin has intro.
duced a bill appropriating s35.OO0 to
reconstruct a wagon road between the
Santa Fe railway station in Las Ami.
mas and the United States naval hos.
pital, seven miles.
A bill introduced by Senator Gug-
genheim provides for the creation Of
the Monument National Park in Mesa
county, Colo, and appropriates $20,.
900 for building roads and bridges.
The proposed park will contain 1900
acres in townships II and ~. ranges
101 and 102.