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Show PRESERVE PREHISTORIC RUINS Washington, Jan. 31. Representative Shafroth this afternoon introduced a bill providing for the preservation of tha prehistoric ruins of the southweat. . The bill is drafted and presented in accordance with the suggestions of F. H. Newell of the department of agriculture. agri-culture. .The Denver representative has been for some time in correspondence with the United States geological survey and the Ethnological bureau relative to legislation upon this subject. The measure introduced by Mr. Shafroth . today provides penalties for the destruction des-truction or carrying away any part of any historic antiquity or ruin. The government bureaus having: knowledge of this subject say that the . McClerg maps are quite Insufficient to ! properly describe the ruins by metes and bounds. The department there- fore deems- it necessary to have an ac- I curate survey made. The bill presented 1 by Mr. Shafroth is designed to protect ruins from vandalism until the sur- t veys can be properly completed. I Senator Shoup this afternoon Intro- j duced bills to increase the pensions of Hippolyte Perrault of Lewiston and Cornelius Schroeder of Glenn'3 Ferry. j |