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Show KING SAYS HEARST WON'T BE NOMINATED Fish. Culture Station, for Utah Indian In-dian War Voterans to Get Pensions. BY A. F. PHILIPS. -) Tribune Bureau. National Hotel, WASHINGTON, D. C. April 2. ) Former Congressman William II. King arrived here today. He came .from Philadelphia, where he is inter-Jested inter-Jested In some litigation. He was given a warm welcome by many-old friends In both parties on the floor of the House. Judge King, who is a member mem-ber of the Democratic National committee, com-mittee, will confer' with . Democratic .leaders regardlng.the coming campaign. Asked as to "the. probable nominee for President by the St., Louis convention, he spoke In favor of Judge Parker, but would be for any good Democrat. On one question he was emphatic, and that was .that-Hearst would not be' nominated, nomi-nated, and this despite the fact that Hearst holds the whip hand. 1 As to affairs in Utah, Judge King had little to say. Issues there . this campaign, he said, would be fought out on party lines. Judge King will remain' several days, having some mining matters, mat-ters, to look after before the Interior department- . ' o i Spnntor Smoot's bill to establish a fish culture station in Utah and appropriating appro-priating $25,000 therefor passed the Senate Sen-ate this afternoon. o ' The Status of tho Indian war veterans veter-ans as to pensions has been fixed at last by a number of conferences of the lUtah delegation with officials of the pension office. On 'Monday Senator Kcarns will Introduce a bill to extend the provisions, limitations and benefits of the act of 1S92 so as to Include the Indian wars which occurred In Omaha, down to and Including the year 1SC7. One provision will be that the loss or lack of certificates of discharge shall nf)t deprive the applicant of the benefits bene-fits of the act, but other proof of service ser-vice ierformed and of honorable discharge, dis-charge, If satisfactory, shall be deemed sufficient. When there Is no record or evidence of such service nnd discharge, the applicant may establish the same by other satisfactory testimony. Senator Heyburn. at the White House today, was presented to George W. Flshback, a member of the Porto Rlcan Legislature. They discussed conditions and laws recently enacted In the Island, including a civil code which was prepared pre-pared by former Congressman Sweet of Idaho, noiv Attorney-General for the Island. The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections received a protest today signed by citizens of Utah against statements made by President Smith in his recent testimony before the. committee com-mittee in the Smoot case. i The Department of Agriculture has just issued bulletin No. 141 from office experiment stations, giving results of experiments on losses In cooking meat. The object of the Investigation was to secure accurate data regarding the changes which take place In meat when cooked by the ordinary household methods meth-ods and also tho effects of cooking upon nutritive value. It Is considered a progress report and gives the details of eighty-seven cooking experiments. 6 S. A. Conner has been appointed post-moster post-moster at Almond, Sweetwater county, Wyoming, vice Walter B. Aikln, removed. re-moved. Sealed proposals will be received at tho Postofflce department until April 2Cth for carrying tho mall from Oling-house Oling-house to Wadsworth,' Nev., nine miles, and back six times a week. Contract to run from May 24, 1901, to Juno 30, 1906. a b i The site of the postoffice at Haden, Fremont county, Idaho, has been moved one and three-fourths miles northeast; also the site of the Rock Creek, Mont., postoffice ono and one-half miles east. Tho hydrographlc branch of the United States Geological Survey is planning an active campaign In Idaho for the coining summer. The work of stream measurement will begin during March and continue probably until the end of July. At Boise Fred Stockton will have charge of this work, looking after all the stations in Southeastern Idaho and doing reconnaissance work on the headwaters of the streams of this section. His assistant in the eastern end of tho State will be located at St. Anthony An-thony and will look after all the stations sta-tions east of Shoshone, besides carrying carry-ing on reconnaissance work on the headwaters of the Snake river. The hydrographer In the eastern portion will be charged also with the maintenance, mainten-ance, of the system of measurements of the canals in the upper Snake River valley. Additional stations may be established, establish-ed, one on the Big Lost river at the upper up-per end of the sinks above Mackey, one on Wood river In the vicinity of Hallcy, and two stations on Snake river, one near Blackfot and the other at Swan Falls. A gaging station was established at Sucker creek and one on Big Lost river. At least two stations are desired on Big Wood river, and another should bo established on Deep creek at Malad City. A suit was recently tiled in the District Dis-trict court in Idaho for the allotment of the waters of Snake river from American Ameri-can Falls up. This covers the use of the water overman area of about 700,-000 700,-000 acres. The State Engineer is about to begin a survey of irrigation candl-tlons candl-tlons under tho State law, and the Chief Engineer of the Reclamation Service has agreed to co-operate with the State In the measurement of all the principal canals In this region". |