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A Pekln cablegram, carried by the
Associated Press, says: Yuan Shi
Kai has accepted the premiership.
The official gazette contained an ex
pression of thanks, from Yuan Shi
Kai to the throne for his appoint
ment, but the truth Is he did not
undertake the task without receiv
ing guarantees that he would
fhjaye practically a free hand in con-
uucuug auairs wnne ne retained nis
official position. The new premier
received several foreign ministers,
including the United States minister
to China, William J. Calhoun, who
only recently returned here. In con
versation with foreigners, Yuan Shi
Kai said he intended to form a' cabi
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carry on the government by gaining
the support of as many provinces as
possible, allowing the remainder to
retain their Independence for the
time being. It would be his en
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their allegiance to the throne.
International Harvester Company of
America will be suspended.
The opinion found that competi
tion was lessened and that practically
all of the harvester and binder busi
ness in Missouri was done by the
respondent company. It held that
It Is contrary to th laws of the state
of Missouri for one company to con
duct the business of another, as in
this case. The New Jersey company
had no license to do business in
Missouri.
The company must file proofs of
its willingness to comply with the
judgment of the court and the proofs
must be approved by the attorney
general.
Judges Lamm, Brown, Ferris and
Woodson concurred in the opinion by
Judge Graves. Chief Justice Val
liant wrote an opinion which was
concurred in by Judges Lamm, Brown
and Ferris and which left the amount
hof the fine to be fixed by the court
atter the company made a showing
that It would comply with the law
in the future. Judge Grave sus
tained the position of the special
commission on every contention.
The International Harvester Com
pany of America in September, 1910,
was found guilty of violating tho
Missouri anti-trust laws by a com
missioner appointed by the state
supreme court and the case was sub
mitted for affirmation last April.
The effect of the decision is to pre
vent all the companies which make
up the International Harvester Com
pany of New Jersey from conducting
further business in the state.
The ouster suit against the com
pany was brought under the common
law and the Missouri anti-trust law,
which aTe broader than the Sher
man anti-trust law.
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At the beginlng of their trial at
Chicago for conspiracy in restraint
of trade the Chicago packers invoked
the habeas corpus. The packers who
had been out on bond were formerly
surrendered and put under guard in
the court room, later their lawyers
wont before Federal' Judge Kohlsaat
and secured their release under
habeas corpus writ and under new
bou'ds. They base their fight upon
the alleged unconstitutionality of the
Sherman anti-trust law. They hold
that the provisions of the Sherman
act are "indefinite" and that the de
fendants were not therefore in a
position to know in advance whether
the acts charged were criminal.
President Caceres, of the Domi
nican republic, was shot dead at San
Domingo city. Two men did -the
shooting.
C. P. Rogers, the aviator who fell
from his airship and was slightly in
jured, gave this explanation of his
fall: "I yielded to the drowsiness
that seizes all airmen at times, and
I went to sleep. I can not recall
when I fell. Johnstone, Hoxsey and
others went the same way, but I was
lucky enough to live to tell the tale."
The commission form of govern
ment wais defeated in Council Bluffs,
Iowa.
A Jefferson City, Mo., dispatch
follows: The International Har
vester company of America was
ousted from the state of Missouri and
fined $50,000 by the state supreme
court here recently. The court's
decision sustained the findings of
Theodore Brace, special commis
sioner, who reported to the court
that the company violated the com
mon and' the anti-trust laws of Mis
souri. The court ruled that the Ann mnnf
be paid on or before Jan. 1, 1912,
and that if the International Har
vester Company of America proves
to the court by March 1, 1912, that
It has ceased all connection wltn th
International Harvester Company of
Now Jersey, which the courf noM tn
bo unlawful, that the ouster of the tlve business with our postofflce.
Governor Aldrich of Nebraska
attended the Trans-Mississippi con
gress at Kansas City and returning
home said he was disgusted with it
because it was conducted solely for
political purposes and to aid "big
business." At the same session
George J. Kindel of Denver, who is
making a fight for tho parcels post
denounced the congress, to its face.
In speaking from the platform he
made this startling statement:
"This Trans-Mississippi commer
cial congress is controlled by lobby
ists representing the robber express
companies, the railroads and the
sugar trust and this has been demon
strated repeatedly by the congress'
action."
Mr. Kindel referred to what ho
termed the domination of the gov
ernment "by the robber express com
panies," who were getting the benefit
of the failure to have a parcels post,
he declared that "only a nation of
'chumps' would stand for such damn
able treatment and statesmanship."
"I predict that In ten years," he
continued, "there will be no express
company doing interstate or competl-
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