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Wu Ting Fang, Chlncso minis
tor has boon rocallod, and his suc
cessor will bo Chang Yin Tang.
Tho cost of the extra session of
congress is estimated at $500,000.
A lono bandit hold up tho Farmers
ftnd Morchants bank at Franklin, 111.
Covering tho cashier with a revolver
ho securod $2,500.
" Justice Mills of White Plains, N.
Y., haB refused to release Harry
Thaw from tho asylum. He holds
that Thaw is not sufficiently sano to
bo at large.
Sarauol It. Van Sant of Minnesota
was elected commander-in-chief of
tho G. A. R., in session at Salt Lake
City. In addition to Commander
Vati Sant tho following officers wore
elected: Senior vice commander, W.
II. Bostaph, Ogden, Utah; junior
vlco commander, Judge Alfred Beers,
Bristol, Conn.; surgeon general, W.
H. Lemon, Emporia, Kan.
party would be "war to the limit,
with no quarter agke(i 0r given, and
with control of tho republican na
tional organization the one great
prize at stake."
Governor Comer of Alabama has
signed tho state-wide prohibition
bill, and Alabama Is now dry. Under
this law it is unlawful to sell. or to
store any liquids containing moro
than one-half of one per cent of al
cohol, This was the so-called 'near
beer" sold under the old prohibition
law. Locker clubs are illegal, and
tho possession of a United States in
ternal revenue liconso shall be con
sidered prima facie evidence of guilt.
At Green Bay, Wis., the 275th an
niversary of Wisconsin's discovery
was celebrated with appropriate cere
monies.
In an Interview to tho Chicago
nowspapers Senator Cummins of
Iowa said that the fight to be waged
for tariff reform In tho republican
Here is a story of national capitol
life told- by the Washington corre
spondent for the Chicago Record
H6rald: "A local police judge has
mounted a searchlight upon his desk
to dotect perjury. Long experience
upon tho bench has taught him that
from the class of prisoners brought
before him it is difficult to obtain
trustworthy testimony. Searching
for a cure for this evil, he began to
experiment with light. An electric
light, with a strong reflector, was
brought into use, and as tho police
prisoners are brought to the witness
stand he turns on the impromptu
searchlight Its strong rays enable
the judge, sitting in tho shadow, to
follow every facial expression of the
offenders, and it is found that per
jury has been greatly reduced. The
judge, who is a student of criminol
ogy, reads tho faces of his visitors
and, in a way, their thoughts, and
upon tho appearance of an effort to
escape the consequences of the truth
he promptly checks them."
Sergeant Arthur Todd of the ma
rine corps gave testimony in the Sut
ton case indicating that Lieutenant
Sutton did not commit suicide, but
was murdered as charged by the
mother. The mother testified that
her son had appeared to her in a
vision and told her that he had been
killed by enemies.
Jane Germon, an actress who
played with Edwin Forrest, died at
Baltimore, aged 88 years.
hope that Des Moines might gome
day be able to welcome Cummins
homo as president instead of sen
ator. In response to tho speeches of
welcome Senator Cummins made a
short address, in which ho stated
briefly his reasons for voting against
tho Payno tariff bill. 'We all know
that the protective tariff is the funda
mental doctrine of the republican
party,' he said, 'but I do not believo
that fundamental doctrine was wisely
applied in the low just passed, and
therefore I voted against it. I have
no apology to make.' In conclusion
he declared that more intelligent in
vestigation is needed in order to
frame just and equitable tariff laws,'
and promised to increase his efforts
to bring it about."
Richard Golden, for forty years an
American actor of note, died at New
York.
San Benito, Texas, is in the very heart of ihe
Fertile L6wh.RiQGande..Vattey9 19 miles
north of Brownsville on the main line of the
ST. XtOUXti, JtJKOlVXSVlJCiXi'E AXJD MEXICO KAIL.WA.X
Tho cllnmto is idoal, bolngr somi-arld San, Bonlto has tho only gravity canal
find healthful. Tho wlntors aro mild In tho Lower Rio Grande Valley. No
and pleasant, tho summers compara- pumps to break down. Tho canal Is 37
tlvely cool, being- tempered by constant miles long, averages 250 feot in width
and refreshing breezes from tho Gulf and 20 foet In depth. Wo can store In
of Moxlco. "" tho basin of tho main canal over 30,000
Irrigation hero is msconsary, but acro foct ot water. s . ,
whon Irrlprated with tho water from tho Storage nnd Ktavlty are the two most
uiq ranae, this delta soil produces npt ncecpNury pouuitioiiN for successful Irrl
only a greater1 varloty of products than eation.
xno products or tno .bower uio Grando
Royal E. Kabell will succeed John
G. Capers as commissioner of internal
revenue. Mr. Kabell is a Virginia'
republican.
The neighbors of Senator Dolliver
gave him an enthusiastic reception at
his Fort Dodge, Iowa, home. Dis
patches say that 15,000 people
cheered the senator for public duty
well discharged.
that of any othor soction of tho United
states nut products which excel In
quantity as woll as quality.
Vv, have twelve mouths of throwing
ncason every ycxir.
Tho soil at San Benito is a rich allu
vial doposit, many foot in dopth.
"VJater in abundanco and a constant
supply Js necessary for successful irri
gation. This wo have at San Benito.
Valley Include sugar cane, cotton, corn,
alfalfa, sqrghum and other forage
crops, as well as truck, and fruits. The
Lower Rio Grando Valley is the winter
gardon of tho nation. Tho mild winter
climato permits us to get our products
on tho market at tho timo whon they
bring tho highest prices.
Come and seo San Benito. Write for
illustrated booklet.
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An Elizabeth,MN.. J dispatch, to
tho Chicago .jRe, cord-Herald says:
"Representative Charles N. Fowler,
who was one of the insurgents on
whom Speaker Cannon inflicted pun
ishment by deposing him as chair
man of the committee on banking
and; currency, declared today that he
is preparing an open letter to the
speaker of the house which will be
made public in a day or two. Mr.
Fowler today refused to make known
tany of the contents of the letter. He
declared that it was of national im
portance and would disclose facts
which would go directly to the root
of the trouble which resulted in
Speaker Cannon .meting out punish
ment to the representatives who had
opposed him as speaker of the house
at the beginning of the session.
Speaker Cannon's action in deposing
him as head cf tho committee on
banking and currency had made him
stronger politically, Mr. Fowler de
clared, and he will not be swerved,
from his purpose of fighting against
tho injustice with which every rep
resentative is familiar."
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Address Orders to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nek
Senator Cummins was given a re
ception by 5,000 of his Des Moines
neighbors as he stepped from a pas
senger train upon his return from
Washington. A newspaper dispatch
says: "Accompanied by a large re
ception committee in automobiles
and followed by a long procession of
citizens on foot the senator was es
corted to a downtown park, where
he was hailed by speakers, who for
mally welcomed him home, as one
of the leaders of tho republican
party. Every mention of Senator
Cummins' brilliant fight for lower
duties brought cheers from tho
throng which crowded around tho
speakers' stand. A picture of the
senator bearing the inscription,
'Cummins for President in 1912
was carried through the crowd and
caused much enthusiasm. Mayor A.
J. Mathis created another burst of
enthusiasm when he expressed the
James Shaw Maxwell, senior mag
istrate of the city of Glasgow, Scot
land, is visiting Chicago. Referring
to Mr. Maxwell, the Chicago Record
Herald says: "Mr. Maxwell, who Is
an earnest advocate of municipal
ownership and control, did not hesi
tate to express liis disapproval of
the utterances of James Dalrymple,
the director of Glasgow's traction
system, who came to Chicago to as
sist in solving the problem of trans
portation here before the settlement
ordinances were adopted, and. after
his return to Scotland issued a pessi
mistic report, in which "he said that
municipal ownership would bo im
practicable in Chicago on account of
the corruption existing in political
affairs. 'Mr. Dalrymple, as an em
ploye of the city of Glasgow, exceed
ed his authority when he gave ut-,
terance to such views,' said Mr. Max
well yesterday. 'He was loaned to
Chicago as a traction expert and npt
as a, critic of the city's, political in
stitutions. Can anyone seriously as-
.sert "that Chicago, yhich' is in many .
ways the most vigorous and .progres
sive ojf your American, municipalities '
can not manage its own affairs? The
mere suggestion, thus baldly put, is
monstrous. Everywhere I see about
me here in Chicago evidences of the
most capable administration of pri
vate industries. In the half century
since the fire your citizens have laid
the foundations of what seems to
me destined to bepome the greatest
city on the American continent. Your
business men are like the business
men of Glasgow efficient, energetic;
independent and shrewd, To say.
that they can not manage their own ,
affairs is not only grossly unjust; It .
is ludicrous in the extreme. I do
not Ignore the obvious fact that your
most capable brains are t not now. en
gaged with the problems of good
government, but I do , contend that
municipal ownership and control
would bring this about automatically.
Improvement would be inevitable.
You would make mistakes at first,
of course. Glasgow made mistakes,
but in the end Glasgow evolved on
of the best municipal .governments
in Europe, and the result has been
a tremendous saving in money, with
increased efficiency. In my own city
all of the public utilities are pwned
and operated by the city government.
It never occurs to anyone to ques
tion whether this is desirable. We
have demonstrated that and we ara
experimenting with an extension of
tho idea. For instance, Glasgow how
has a municipal milk supply depart-,
ment for Infants. We have come to
see that the children must be pro
tected. The city has purchased the
land occupied by unsanitary tene
ments, razed them and removed the
menace. In the thirty years since
these experiments have been going
forward the death rate has been cut
in half. Surely that is an asset
which no enlightened municipality
can afford to ignore.' "
In the Couer d'Alene , government
land lottery at Spokane 105,000 per
sons applied for land. Some of th
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