Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — TO EXTEND THE PARK [ARTICLE]

TO EXTEND THE PARK

BILL TO ENLARGE YELLOWSTONE RESERVATION. Col. Young, the Acting Superintendent, Desires to Have 3,000 Acres More Included in the National Park —Alaska Cowboy Lynched. * FOr a Larger Plcasnre Ground. Secretary Bliss has sent to the Public Land Committees of the Senate and House a bill prepared by Col. Young, the acting superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, for an extension of the limits of that reservation by about 3,000 square miles. In this extension is included the existing timber reserve in Wyoming, which abuts partly on the east and partly on the southern portions of the reservation. It also embraces a portion of the reservation set aside by President Cleveland in his order of Feb. 26, 1896, known as the Teton forest reserve, also in Wyoming. Another strip included is that at the southwest corner, which Is a large, amount of marshy land to which the animals resort for feed.' To the northwest of the park, in Montana, is a strip of mountainous county in which wild game abounds and which is the locality where most of the poachers get into the park. This portion is also to be included. The Teton reserve takes in the Jackson Hole country, where on account of the difficulty arising over the game laws there was considerable trouble with the Forf Hall (Idaho) Indians, who went there to hunt last year. Gotham Wants a Fair. Senator McNulty has introduced a bill in the Legislature'S! Albany providing for a world’s fairAo be held in New York City in 1901.‘The commissioners, shall meet in New York City as soon as practicable after the passage of the bill and shall draw up a plan for an exhibition of such magnitude as shall invite exhibitors from all parts of the world. The municipal assembly of New York may authorize the use of any public park in the city. Funds shall be provided by the Comptroller of the city, who shall issue municipal stock to an amount of 4 per cent, scrip certificates not exceeding $5,000,000. $225,000 Fire in Pennsylvania. The Y. M. C. A. Building at Scranton was totally destroyed by fire. Flames started from the explosion of cinematograph films in a vacant store. The large four-story building, with several stocks of goods, was a total loss. The damage will aggregate $225,000. Many Passengers Injured. Thirty-three persons were injured, six probably fatally, two cars were smashed and a locomotive ruined as the result of a rear-end collision at the Winter Hill station of the Boston and Maine Railroad, five miles out of Boston. The two trains in collision were crowded.