Show 4 HITCHCOCK AND GILSONITE l I The apparent connection of the lfc Kinley administration with the elater ite deal or steal or whatever It is on W the Ute reservations has given rise to i a suspicion that the new secretary of the interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock If may be interested in the matter in Eome way There is a gilsonite conpany of St f Louis which is now working a section 4 of the gilsonitedcposits nder a special I I 1 t dispensation or through some irregularity I i irregu-larity of the reservation surveys and i thIs company has been planning from the first to get an tension of privil 1 egos Mr Hitchcock who also hails from St Louis is thought to be con mcted with this company insome way However his appointment as secretary will mean no more for the elaterite gii Bonite or asphalt monopoly in process I of formation than would the retention f of Mr BUss in the department of the J f t interior But if Mr BUss was determined j deter-mIned to go it was necessary to in t I stall in his place a man whose interest I I in a bilsonite monopoly was fUlly as f great or greater than his intetest in the to t rights of the miners and prospectors to iay nothing of the government and its wards t r In enumerating the qualifications of I t Mr Hitchcock for a cabinet position i I f under Mr McKinley the Washington if correspondent of the Chicago Record t says t4 In the fiftyfirst congress when Mr i McKinley was framIng the tariff which I tt 0 bore his name Mr Hitchcocle was in it Washington in the interest of the p1atelass manufacturers I 5 f From that time says the corres 1t pondent a warm frIendship between t the two dated And he says further f Mr Hitchcock had spent some years t i jn a commercial caaclty in China Ee J was by direct contact famliJr with I 1 the oriental situation and that was b t why the president was desirous of so curia his services at St Petersburg 4J t tf l ij bl I NoW in the development ot events the i fnli has bme when the proslddntfels thIt such nian as Hitchcock with his experience an be very valuable in the cabinet IfMr Hitchcock ha any other training train-ing for the secretaryship of the interior except as a lObbYist in the Interest of a plateslass trust or a trader in China his eulogist Mr Curtis falls to poInt it out Utah and Colorado people have many interests at stake In the Interior In-terior department at present A ratification ratifi-cation of the ruling of the secretary b the matter of the Uintah leases will mean more than the mIneral and the area involved It will establish a precedent pre-cedent which may da the minIng industry in-dustry more injury than its eastern enemies have as yet been able to do it |