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P ppiRpiW' P1 l U l ilJilUPyilVf. r, - v The Commoner. VOLUME 9, NUMBER 35 Weaver, is 109,761, and the allot ment under various heads include $1,472,450 for arms, equipment and camp purposes; $490,760 for pro motion of rifle practice; $628,561 for ammunition, and $970,565 for supplies. Iowa, $86,000; Nebraska, $45,000; Kansas, $59,000; South Da kota, $25,000; Wyoming, $16,000. W. E, Campbell, Kansas City, first vice president; P. S. Florea, Indian apolis, secretary; Lee Landau, St. Louis, treasurer; Ray Woltz, Chicago, permanent sergeant-at-arms; direc tors, Will M. Clems, Memphis; I. H. Sawyer, St. Louis; Orva G. Williams, Chicago; S. K. Evans, New York, and P. V. Collins, Minneapolis. -'-l-TZll 'frTT"'y "' "' v """""" 7" ''grffw--."r'y "yffgrwyH' awwSwSS 0 I I III ' I II fvy"" " " J "ill "" 'ri1 l;.mU llii" iVlr imii fV bttti im m i i wHWtiiiinni hiimiiimii iTT " " "- -J,lt'' '" 5X k. 4- 7 V. The students of international law dro now discussing whotlier Div Cook's discovery of land inside the Arctic circlo gives tltlo to cho United States. r Roger C. Sullivan, Chicago's dem odratlc politician, was greeted by ..a party of friends in Now York upon his return from Europe. Secretary of the Interior Ballinger in an interview on the Pacific Coast announced that ho was going to see President Taft at Beverly. Ho said: "i propose incidentally to kill some snakes." Washington dispatches in terpret this as meaning that the sec retary is on the trail of the Pinchot adherents. It has been discovered that the now tariff law charges forty per cent ad valorem duty on flying machines. M. E. Kelloy of Brooklyn,. N. T., fvas elected president and Edward J. Cantwell of Brooklyn secretary, and Charles D.. Duffy, of Chicagp, treas urer of the National Association of Letter Carriers in session at St. Paul. Rochester, N. Y., will be the next meeting place. It is believed that the Chicago Great Westorn rtjihyayv has passed under the' control ' ,2UfJS 'Bierpont Morgan. &:' f f&fffi, t Governor1 Shallehberger of Nebras ka has announced that ho will be a candidate for re-nomination. His opponent will bo- Mayor Dahlman of Omaha. William R. Hearst announces that he intends to fight Tammany at the coming city election, but says lie will hot himself be a candidate, cial provisions of section. 6 of the act exempting from residence. The lands subject to entry under the act are non-mineral, non-timbered lands, not susceptible of Irrigation and which, because of Insufficient rainfall, will not produce remunerative crops un less cultivated by some unusual method such as "the dry farming" system. Residence must be estab lished on the land by the entrymen within six months from date of filing and be continued together with cul tivation and improvement of the land for five years." The value of the imports for July showed an increaso of $26,052,862 over July of 1908. Judges Grosscup and Kohlsatt In the federal court at Chicago have rendered a decision that the inter state commerce act does not give the commission power to make a rate that might build up one community to the disadvantage of another. Judge Baker dissented. New York dispatches say that Judge Robert S. ' Lovett will suc ceed E. H. Harriman in Mr. Harri man's railroad work. General Herbert O. Jeffries killed William N. Chandler, editor of the Panama Pressj, on the Panama zone. Chandler had printed an article re flecting on. Jeffries sister-in-law. St. Louis dispatches say that the millers of the country are collecting a fund of $50,000 to be used in lighting the government in defense of millers who may be arrested for sejling bleached flour. The association of state and na tional food and dairy departments in session at Denver adopted resolutions favoring more drastic food laws and chose New Orleans for next year's meetings, the date of which is to be determined later. Officers were elected as follows: President, Geo. P. Flanders, Albany, N. Y.; first vice president, Dr. Lucius P. Brown, Nashville, Tenn.; second vice presi dent, Dr. D. Harvey Dillon, 'New Or leans; third vice president, Andrew French, St. Paul, Minn.; secretary, Dr. W. M. Allen, Raleigh, N. C; treasurer, James Fourst, Harrisburg, Pa.; executive committee, Dr. Charles D. Woods, Orono, Me.; Dr. S. J. Crumbine, Topeka, Kan.; Dr. A. N. Cook, Vermillion, S. D. Th,o inqubator baby that was kid napped by Mrs. Stella Barclay at Tonoka, Kan., has been returned to Us mother, Mrs. Charlotte Blealcly. Proceedings against Mrs. Barclay will bo dismissed. Professor Willis L. Moore, .chief of1 the weather bureau, fell from a street car in Washington City and broke his, arm. Clyde Fitch, the American play wright, was stricken with appendi citis at Shalons-Sur Marno, France, and death followed an operation. Elvert W. Shirk, president of the First National Bank of Tipton, Ihd., has been arrested by federal officers oh the charge, of misappropriating $24,000 of the bank's funds. Representative Walter I. Smith of Iowa will bo a candidate for speaker to succeed Mr. Cannon. President Taft has refused to re instate the cadets who were dis missed from West Point academy for hazing. The seventieth anniversary of the birth of Henry George was very gen erally celebrated throughout the country September 3. Beverly dispatches say that Presi dent Taft will visit Alaska next year. A' Washington disnatch carried hv the Associated Press, says: "Accord ing to a statement Issued by the sec retary of the interior almost 65, 000,000 acres have, been designated as subjeqt to entry under the en larged homestead act of the last con gress providing under specified con ditions for the appropriation of 320 acres under the homestead law in stead of 160 acres as heretofore. The lands thus designated are distribut ed as follows: Colorado, 2,250,000 acres; Montana, 26,000, 0Q0 acres; Now Mexico, 1,550,000 acres; Ore gon, 1,300,OQO acres; Washington, 3,500,000 acres; Wyoming, 11,900, 000 acres. Large areas in Utah 'have also been designated under the spe- The constitutional rigfit of a state to enact laws discriminating, against Chinamen Is to be tested in the United States supreme court. An Associated Press dispatch from Washington says: "The test is to be made by Quong Wing of Lewis and Clark county, Montana. The Montana law to which Quong takes exception provides for a license fee ui. 9iu per quarter tor nand laundries run by men. It does not mention the Chinese race, but it exempts steam laundries and lanndries con ducted by women unless more than two are engaged. Quong paid his license under protest and then ap pealed to the courts on the ground that as the law singles out a class it is in contravention of the federal, constitution. Professing himself deeply concerned about the main tenance of all rights under the fun damental law, he voluntarily takes upon himself the expense of bring ing the case to the supreme court paying another ten dollars." The Montana supreme court sustained the law. The American BaT Association in session at Detroit elected officers, as follows: President, Charles F. Libby,' Portland,' Me.; secretary, George Whitlock, Baltimore, Md.; treasurer, Fred E. Wadhams, Albany, Itf. Y.; R. W. Breckenridge of Omaha was chosen a member qf the executive committee. The next meeting place will not be chosen until January, 1910. , The associated advertising cluh's of America met at Louisville.' 'They chose Omaha as the next meeting place, and elected officers as follows: S. C. Dobbs, Atlanta, Ga president; Senator Cummins of Iowa an nounces that ho is preparing a bill which will seek to give thec interstate commerce ' commission supreme power over the railroads of the coun try. The commission will be au thorized to establish a schedule of freight rates and their order will be final except that an appeal would lie in case the constitutional question of confiscation of property be involved. The postoffice deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, .was $16,000,000 and President Taft held a long conference with Postmaster General Hitchcock on the subject. In the face of .protests by Cecil Lyon, national committeeman for Texas, President Taft has decided that Texas' supervisors of census shall half of them be democrats and half republicans. A Toronto dispatch says: "The west wing of the parliament building here was completely destroyed by a fire. The loss to the building is about $100,000, fully covered by in surance but the fine Mowat law library, one of the finest collections in the Dominion, . fa a -total loss, with no insurance." A Paris cablegram carried by the Associated Press, says: "Samuel Rompers, rjfden.tof the American Federation, of Labor,; ,ywas the dra matic" center of the first day's session of 'the 'sixth XnternUtional Trades Union congress when several Euro pean delegates bitterly denounced what they claimed to he the equivo cal attitude of the American Federa- A NEW PUBLICATION , THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MAGAZINE Edited by B. O. FLOWER, formerly of The Arena Hero is ft now magazine which cannot toil to bo intensely interesting: to overy reader of Tho Com monor. Tho best proof of this will bo found In tho titles of some of tho leading articles In first issue. 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