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VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4 J
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FOR THE YEARS 1910 AND 1911
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W,. E. Stanloy, former governor
of .Kansas, died at his homo in
Wichita.
President Taft has approved the
plans for raising the wreck of the
battleship Maine in Havana harbor.
President Taft will sail for tho
Isthmus of Panama from Charles
town, S. C, on the armored cruiser,
North Carolina, accompanied by the
sister ship, the Montana. He will
bo gone about twelvo days and will
spend four days on the Isthmus.
An Associated Press dispatch from
'Now York says: "The entire Fifth
avenue establishment of tho five Du
veon brothers, known the world over
as dealers in rare art objects and
antiques, was seized by federal
officers, and Benjamin J. Duveen,
the only member of the firm now in
the city, was placed under arrest
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the government out of customs du
ties. Henry A. Wise, United States
district attorney, in asking for extra
ordinary heavy bail, $100,000, when
the prisoner was arraigned, said he
had evidence that tho frauds would
reach more than $1,000,000, and
'that all five brothers were implicat
ed, as well as another man."
An Associated Press dispatch from
Boston says: "Federal authorities!
visueu me extensive omces of tlie
Redeemable Investment company at
85 Devonshire ntreet and came a"way
with Manager Charles H. Brooks,
the books of the company and sev
eral thousand dollars in cash, all
taken under a warrant charging the
company with the use of the mails
in a scheme to defraud.' Officers
were hunting for Rev. Norman Plass,
president of the company, who had
the endorsement of Secretary of the
Interior Richard A. Ballinger, the
late Associate Justice David J.
Brewer of the United States supreme
court, Senator Charles Curtis of
Kansas, and several local Congrega
tional ministers. Rev. Mr. Plass was
for seven years president of Wash
burn college, at Topeka, Kan. The
Redeemable investment company
ties assured Mrs Taft that tho little,
boy was in no danger. The acclderit
occurred when Mr. Taft was return
ing from Boston. Tho accident was
tho second in which a White House
automobile has figured since the
president's family came to Beverly
this year." .
The secretary of the treasury will
appeal from the decision rendered
by the board of appraisers at New
York admitting rosin into this coun
try freo of duty.
A violent collision occurred on the
streets of Valencia, Spain, between
republicans and members of the
Catholic club. Many person.8 were
injured and the police had to sep
arate the combatants.
King Manuel of Portugal has sent
a note vto his old country to the
effect that he has not abdicated, but
may return and remount the throne.
In the meantime the revolutionists
continue in the organization of a
new government. They have .ordered
the monks and nuns out-of the
country. "
Indians from many sections of the
United States attended the first ses
sion of the National Indian Congress
at Muskogee, Oklahoma.
A Washington dispatch carried bv
the Associated Press says: "The
production of spring wheat as esti
mated by the crop-reporting board
for 1910, was 233,475,000 bushels,
compared with 290,823,000 bushels
in 1909, the yield per acre being
11.8 bushels, compared with 15.8 in
1909 and 13.7, the ten yea average.
The quality was 94.1 per cent, com
pared with 86.2, the ten year aver
age. The production of all wheat
for 1910 was 691,769,000 bushels,
compared with 737,189,000 bushels
in 1909, the yield per acre being
14.2 bushels compared with 15.8 in
1909 and 14.1, the ten year average.
The quality was 93.1 per cent."
George Wallace was- arrested at
Sacramento, Cal., on the supposition
was organized three years ago as a that he knew something about the
holding company, with a capital of Los Angeles bomb outrage.
$10,000,000."
Governor Eberhart says that Min
nesota has learned a ghastly lesson
on the forest fires. He says that
proper fire protection must be
provided.
Commander Robert E. Peary has
been promoted to the rank of cap
tain in the corps of naval civil engineers.
To the already large area of about
17,000,000 acres, the department of
the interior has added 167,000 acres
of land to the enlarged homestead
portion of Wyoming.
Charles E. Hughes, former gov
ernor of New York, was formally in
stalled as . associate justice of the
United States supreme court. x
Bill Barlow, author of "Sage
Brush Philosophy," died at his home
in Douglas, Wyoming. His real
name was Morris C. Barrow.
A Salem, Massachusetts, dispatch
carried by the Associated Press says:
"Mrs. W. H. Taft was an anxious
Visitor at the Salem hospital today,
where Willfred A Crowell, six-year-old
son of William Crowell of this
city, lies suffering from bruises and
cuts received. yesterday when he was
struck by one of. the White House
automobiles. The hospital authori-
The New York World describes
the results of the prosecution of tbe
turpentine trust in tnis way: "Spen
cer P. Shotter, chairman of the
board of directors of the American
Naval Stores company, sentenced to
three months in jail and fined
$5,000; J. F. Cooper Myers, vice
president of the American Naval
Stores company, sentenced to three
months in jail and fined $2,500;
Edmund S. Nash, president of the
American iavai stores company,
fined $3,000; George M. Boardman,
treasurer of the American Naval
Stores company, fined $2,OD0; Carl
Meller, agent for the American
Stores comifany at Jacksonville, fined
$5,000. On May 14, 1909, Judge
William B. Sheppard in the United
States district court at Savannah,
Ga., passed sentence on the convict
ed officials. An appeal was taken,
which has never been heard. Mean
while the operations of the trust
continuqs."
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