Show STORAGE RESERVOIRS HOUSE COMMITTEE WILL HEAD I CONGRESSMAN MONDELL Wyoming Member Will Talk of the Necessity of Construcing Reservoirs Reser-voirs on Western Rivers J TRIBUNE BUREAU rf > l Fourteenth Street Washington D C Dec 3 1000 Kiiuvtikii mvc lon cl of Wyoming I today conferred with Chairman Burton Bur-ton of he Rivers and Harbors committee com-mittee during which he was promised a hearing In behalf of the construction of storage reservoirs of Western rivers riv-ers The committee has been peisist ent In its refusal to allow hearings but Mr Mondell will be given n hearing before be-fore a subcommittee within n few days CHEYENNE PUBLIC BUILDING He also talked with Chairman Mercer of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds with reference to increasing increas-ing the limit of cost of the public building ut Cheyenne to 300000 and is hopeful of favorable action KING AND RAWLINS ARRIVE Representative King of Utah and Senators Rawllns and Clark of Wyoming Wyo-ming have arrived In the city and wore at the capitol today POSTMASTER APPOINTED I Fred R Pryor was today appointed postmaster at Mlnersville Beaver county coun-ty Utah vice AVilllam Wood removed NEW POSTOFFICE A poslodice has been established n turner Turner Bannock county Idn with Smith Gummersall as postmaster PENSION GRANTED John Braman of Blngham Canyon Utah has been granted a pension of 10 a month on account of Injuries received re-ceived In the war with Spain MINING CASE DISMISSED The Supreme court today dismissed for want of jurisdiction the case cC Mark K Lowry and others plaintiffs In error against the Silver City Gold and Silver Mining company from Utah FIRST BILL IN HOUSE Ono Introduced by Hoosier Providing for Apportionment Washington Dec 3The first bill of the session Introduced In the House of Representatives was by Representative Represen-tative Crumpacker Rep Ind Making an apportionment of Representatives Repre-sentatives In Congress under the twelfth census I provides an increase In-crease of membership from 3D7 to 865 The following States gain In representation represen-tation Arkansas 1 Colorado 1 California fornia 1 Connecticut 1 Florida 1 Illinois 2 Massachusetts 1 Minnesota Minne-sota 2 Missouri Ii New Jersey U New York 3 North Dakota lj Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania 2 Texas 2 Washington 1 West Vlrganla 1 The following States lose Kansas 1 Louisiana 2 Mississippi Missis-sippi 3 Nebraska 1 North Carolina 4 1 South Carolina 3 Virginia 1 |