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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.
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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-
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Fertile Lower Rio Grande Valley, 19 miles
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