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VOLUME 10, NUMBER 35
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Nebraska was visited by a record
b'roalclrf; rain. Beginning at eight
o'clock :ono evening and lasting until
G o'clock Iho following morning,
measuring 8.38,. inches.
The hearing of charges in Chicago
against former employes of the Illi
nois Central railroad, charged with
car repair frauds develops sensa
tional testimony, showing that tho
frauds wore carried on an extensive
scale.
Senator Dolllver of .Iowa, speak
ing at Milwaukee, said that tho re
publican party needed no bosses,
but rather leaders liko LaFollctto.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Washington says: "Approximately
79,555 acres of land in Arizona' and
New Mexico, eliminated from tho na
tional forests by President Taft as
being chiefly valuablo for agricul
tural purposes, have beeif opened to
settlomont under' the homestead
laws by authority of the secretary
of the interior. Tho lands will be
como subject to settlement Novem
ber 22, but not to entry until De
cember 21. The list follows: From
the Coconino national forest, Ari
zona, about 283,344 acres lying along
Uie eastern and northern borders of
the forest in Coconino county; about
38,390 acres eliminated from the
Coronado national forest, Arizona,
lying in Pinal, Pima and Cochise
counties, Arizona, and about 51,057
acres in Grant county, Now Mexico,
and approximately G,240 acres In
Cochise county, Arizona, eliminated
from the Chirlcahua national forest.
Lands reaching the grand total of
1,737,000 aores in California and
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Nevada will bo opened to settlement
on November 21 and to entry one
month later. This area was restored
to entry today by Acting Secretary
of tho Interior Pierce. Tho lltnds
were originally withdrawn for the
Truckee-Carson irrigation project,
but have been restored owing to the
fact that" they are not easily
irrigable.
The 1910 census gives New York
a' population of 4,7GC,883, an in
crease since 1900 of 38.7 per cent.
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An Associated Press dispatch from
Washington, D. C, says: "Secre
tary MacVeagh's ruling on tho term
'commercial paper' in the treasury
department's, interpretation of tho
emergency currency law, became
known in its full import here today.
The way now is made clear for the
banks of the Uuited States to put
into circulation $500,000,000 in
emergency money at the first sign
of a financial stringency. Tho law
provides that commercial paper up
on which emergency currency may be
issued shall include only notes rep
resenting actual commercial transac
tions which shall bear the names of
at least two responsible persons, and
have not more than four months to
run. A large proportion of the
banks hold the notes of reputable
individuals and corporations which
have been bought from note brokers.
These notes bear only the name of
the maker. Secretary MacVeagh
has decided that the endorsement of
the holding bank on such notes will
constitute the second endorsement
which the law calls for. Mr. Mac
Veagh also holds that notes issued
by reputable persons for the carry
ing on of bona fide business, and
which are discounted at banks, rep
resent actual commercial transac
tions and are distinct from what is
known as accommodation-paper. The
latter is strictly barred from being-
usea as the basis of an issue of emer
gency currency. In making a liberal
interpretation of the term 'commer
cial paper' the secretary of the treas
ury holds it to be what banks them
selves consider it, and has endeav
ored to construe the -1 w so as to
meet the needs of the business and
financial world. Thirty years ago,
it is pointed out, a note which was
taken by a bank for a mere loan to
a depositor might not have been
held to represent an actual commer
cial transaction, while a note given
by a farmer for the purchase of a
threshing machine would. Nowa
days business men take the method
of selling their notes to brokers and
taking advantage of cash, discounts
by paying cash for their transactions
and under such bona fide conditions
the treasury holds they are good for
the basis of emergency currency."
New York dispatches say that
there is an impression at republican
headquarters that Vice President
Sherman will withdraw as a candi
date for temporary chairman of the
republican state convention and that
Mr. Roosevelt will be chosen without
a fight.
jury. The report concluded with an
arraignment of Licking county vot
ers for electing such officials. Tho
defendants will be arraigned next
Tuesday morning."
Governor Deneen, of Illinois,
opened the campaign at Taylorvillo
in which- he favored the right of
"recall," primary election, election
of senators by the people and purity
in politic? particularly in legislatures.
Vice President Sherman took part
in tho republican campaign in Mis
souri and Oklahoma. .
A Hanover, Germany, cablegram
carried by the Associated Press says:.
"Major Henry . Ree Rathbone, who
was an aido to President Lincoln and
received a stab wound in attempting
to save tho life of his chief on the
night of tho assassination is near
death in tho criminal ward of the in
sane assylum at Hlldcrshime of
which he has long been an inmate.
Many years ago while occupying the
post of American consul here Major
Rathbone murdered his wife. He
was convicted but declared to be in
sane and was committed to the in
stitution where he has since rer
mained and lived in luxury. For a
long time he made periodical at
tempts to secure his freedom and r is
awaiting tho end with some tran
quility. The physicians of the asy
lum state that the major is failing
rapidly and can not survive long."
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An Associated Press dispatch from
St. Paul, Minn., says: "C. P. Welsh,
a -discharged special agent of tho;
Great Northern Railway company,,
entered the office of Chief Special
Agent A. G. Ray and fired five shots
at the latter and missed him each!
time. Ray pulled a revolver and1 shot
Welsh dead, Welsh was abput .45
yeaps pd, a&Ua4.bfiep,4is(&ardj
by Ray about two .months ,ago for
shooting a man at p.uluth Since'
then Welsh had threatened to 'get'
Ray. Shortly after Ray entered his
office Welsh opened the door, drew a
revolver and began to fire. All the
bullets went wild. At Welsh's fifth
shot Ray got his own pistol into1
action and killed Welsh: Welsh was
shot at least four times, one bullet
went through the head and another
through the stomach. .Just before
he fell dead, Welsh pulled a pint
bottle of nitro-glycerine, with a fuse
and cap attached, from his pocket,'
hurled it to the floor and staggered
through a door. It failed to explode,
due to the fact that it was wrapped
in heavy paper."
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A boy was born at Kansas City,
Mo., to Mrs. Hyde, wife of Dr. Hyde,
now in prison, convicted of having
poisoned Colonel Thomas Swope.
The child died Boon after its birth.
A Newark, O., dispatch carried by
the United Press says: "Declaring
that if Sheriff Linke, Mayor Hert
Atherton and Chief of Police Zergie
cel had performed their respective
duties, the mob outrages would
never havo been committed, the
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Emil Seidel, mayor of Milwaukee,
declined to serve on the reception
committee to Theodore Roosevelt.
He wrote the managers of the re
ception a letter in which he saidrl
"In view of the unscholarly and un
fair position that Mr. Roosevelt has
taken in the discussion of the move
ment for which. I have spent all my,
spare time and energy, it is impos
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you that as chief executive of the
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bur city In other capacities in the
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Governor Shafroth will be a can-.
didate for a second term as governor'
of Colorado.
A New York dispatch, carried by.
tho United Press, says: "Seventy
one men and thirteen women, strik
ing cloakmakors, were arrested when
the polico broke up their parade On
Fifth avenue, and each were, fined
$3. Not one of tho. prisoners had
sufficient money to pay the fine and
ajl were sent. to jail forthreo days
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