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" . ; h i. : ; + - - - : : : " - - - : _ - = - ; : : : : : : 7 . . ; ? = : . f , . . at . . + The Valentine Democrat f 4 1 i1 VALflENTINE , NEB. \ . R Pl - : JL M. RICE ' , , - - - - Publisher d ii , , MORE \ BOMBS THROWN l11 w. oJ' , ; 1 , J1 , , NOS. 32 AND 33 : AllE HURLED IN fi x , CHICAGO. as .f ' - . ' " " , , ' 11 ! . j : Li . . . . . " . > . * . 100/ * ' ' ' ' * - * 4' - * . * . ' r , People . . Hash from Two Building . i ! j"Whcrc : , Explosions Occur-Plate A. . 14 Glass Windows Shattered and Goods . . Scattered About Floors. . . i /Two n bombs which exploded with ter- i Hfic force in the downtown section of , Chicago Sunday night caused consid- i erable damage to property and created great excitement. ; tThc first bomb exploded soon after 6' o'clock in a building at 260 State street : and the other followed fifteen minutes later in a building near the I corner of La Salle and Madison streets. In the State street building the Em- pire club is located and the building at Madison and La Salic streets housed the Worth Jockey club. For two years bombs have been ex- ploded intermittently in Chicago in the vicinity of gambling houses and race bookers' establishments. The bombs thrown Sunday night were the thirty- second and thirty-third that have been thrown in what is believed to be a quarrel between syndicates of gam- blers who operate in violation of the law. law.The The explosion in State street shool the heart of the city , and buildings within a radius of a block were dam aged , hundreds of windows having . been broken. The concussion created havoc in the store room on the first floor , scattering stock over the floors : and blowing out plate glass windows in the front and all the windows in the rear of the structure. I Many buildings adjacent to the scene : of the explosion were damaged , in cluding the Chicago Automobile club , the Imperial and Inter-Ocean hotel and the Premier theater , a vaudeville house , which was filled with people when the bomb was fired. The ex- plosion frightened the audience , and men and women rushed for the ' street ? in a panic , but no one was injured. TWELVE 3IEN ARE KILLED. Meet Death in Pennsylvania Mine Ex plosion. Twelve men were killed in the Cam- bria Steel company's coal mine , two miles from Johnstown , Pa. , Sunday , so- the result of what is supposed to hav , been a dynamite explosion. All the dead are , foreigners. Three escaped with their lives by a perilous climb on life ladders through poisonous mine gas and falling slate up the steep walls of the main shaft. At the time of the explosion only fifteen workmen , all track layers , were in the mine. The explosion occurred at sundown as the workmen were putting theii tools away at the end of the day' work. The concussion caused by the terrific subterranean blast caused - many windows in the mining village surrounding the Cambria mine to be roken : in. Hundreds of persons gath- ered at the entrance within an incred. ible space of time. STABS SIX PEOPLE. 'Cincinnati Laborer Runs Amuck . Through the Streets. . Charles Barker , a laborer , ran xmuck in Cincinnati , 0. , Sunday night at the entrance to the Pearl street market , and before he was captured he had stabbed six people with a butcher knife , one of whom may die. The streets were thronged with Hal- lowe'en crowds when Baker suddenly dashed at a man and stabbed him un der the left shoulder. The man then rushed dovn Pearl street , striking a passersby. Edward Eimvistle Dead. " Constant grieving over the death of his wife , which occurred six weeks ago , caused the death at Des Moines , Ia. , Sunday of Edward Entwistle , former I fireman on the Rocket , the first loco- motive ever built by George Stephen- son , which ran between Manchester and Liverpool , Eng. Greek Outbreak Ends. . ' Four British warships have arrived at Phalerum , near Pieraus , Greece. The rebellion , for the time being at least , ' is at an end. The last of the naval vessels in the hands of mutinous- naval officers has been recovered. . . . ' Srntmces Susjjrndod. . Premier : Morel Sunday ordered the IS' officers at Barcelona Spain , to sus pend the execution of all courtmlirtial Sentences until the cases could be ex amined by the government. . ; ! , Sioux City Live Stock Market. - , . . Saturday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow : Choice feeders , $4.50@5.25. Top hogs , $7.70. Captain's Body Washed Ashore. , The body of Capt. Paul Howell of the , steamer George Stone , which was . . . . lost on Point Pelee in upper Lake Erie . October 13 , js reported to have been . washed ashore near Fairport , O. . Roosevclts in Rome. ' : , ' Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt , Miss Ethel . . Roosevelt and Miss Carew , Mrs. Roose- " velt's sister , arrived in Rome , Italy , ' " . . Sunday and spent several hours sight I ' ' ; . seeing. , ' J . , - ; : : - - . . ' _ , . - . . ' . . A . . " . , , . . . " . .1t1 r. 1 ; . . . ' . . ' . , . , . . - . _ _ _ . _ . . . . . _ _ . . - - ' _ " " " . - _ _ _ , . . : . _ _ . .4I " " - _ . . . . . . J _ , _ _ : - " . , _ - : _ . - 1.--"r7 ! - - - - - ' - - . . . . . . * . . . UNIONISTS SCORE VICTORY. ' Blow to Result of British By-Election Budget. The bl-election Thursday in the Ber- mondsey division of Southwark , Eng- land , a parliamentary borough of Lon- don , which was characterized by the most militant attack the suffragettes have yet ventured to make in their struggle for "votes for women , " result- ed in a sweeping victory or the union- ists. John Dumphreys _ , unionist , won the three-cornered fight with a plur- ality of 987 over the liberal majority of 1,759 In 1906. The vote was as fol lows : Dumphreys , unionist , 4,278 ; S. L. Hughes , liberal , 3,291 ; Dr. A Sal- ter , socialist , 1,435. The unionist victory Is. considered a severe blow to the supporters of the budget , as all along this election was expected to afford a good test of the feeling in London and the country generally on the impending struggle in parliament. Bermondsey has been a doubtful constituency for years , some- times returning a liberal candidate and sometimes a unionist , but three years ago the election resulted in a liberal landslide. The militant suffragelles were early on the scene , and after adopting nu- merous expedients to harass the elec- tion officers and those most closely identified with the election , Mrs. Cha- pin , one of the best known of the or- ganization , slipped into one of the booths and smashed a bottle contain- ing a corrosive acid upon a ballot box , with the evident intention of ruining the ballots , a large number of which had already been deposited. The acid scattered over the officials and the broken glass cut their hands and faces , but the ballots were practically undamaged. FOUND DEAD IX BED. Not Believed Gas Jet Was Accidentally . Turned On. Mrs. Charles Elgecomb and her 4- year-old son , Charles , were found dead in bed in Chicago Thursday by the husband and father. The room where the two lay was filled with gas which . had escaped from a Jet. Mr. Edgcomb insists : : that the jet must have become opened accident- ally , but the police hold a contrary opinion and base it on the fact that the apartment was ordinarily lighted with electricity. Other residents of the building no ticed the odor of ' sas Wednesday af - ternoon , but Investigation - was made and the discovery of the dead mother and son was not made until Mr. Edgecomb returned to his home He declares there was no motive foi his wife to kill herself : , as their homr life was happy. MOB ROUTED BY GIRL. She Puts a Band ! of Night Riders tr Flight. A slender girl armed with a doubli barreled shotgun put to flight forts masked "night riders" when they crashed down the door of her father's house Thursday night in Mason coun- ty Ky. The mob appeared at the home of George Kreitz , evidently with the intention of whipping him , and when entrance was refused the door was : knocked in with an ax and crow- bar. Kr eitz's daughter stood ready with a looded shutguir and fired both barrels , Kreitz recognized several rid- ers and is in conference with the of- ficers at Maysville. Several arrests . are expected. Escape from Jail. Charles S. Cox. held for theft , and Charles Gilc ! : : > Jlie. charged with forg- ery escaped from the Clay county jail at Liberty , Mo. , by sawing the bars. Three other prisoners , including William Talbot , held for murder , re- fused to leave the jail and reported the escape to the authorities. Assassin of Ito Identified. ' The assassin of Prince Ito was iden- cified at Harbin , Manchuria , Thursday , as Inchan Angan , a former editor of a newspaper at Seoul. He said that , he was one of an organization of twenty Koreans who had taken an oath that they would kill the Japanese statesman. Girl Steals Fincr ' . An uncontrollable love for finery caused Tillie Shoemaker , a beautiful 18-year-old girl of Davenpprt. to take a suitcase and $18 in cash and a large assortment of'"glad rags" belonging to Mrs. A. E. Fields , a prominent society woman. She was arrested. Slavery Charge Denounced. Hon. W. W. Blake , a former Bur- lington citizen , but for 35 years a resi- dent of old Mexico , now visiting in Durlington , | I gave out an interview de I ' nouncing as utterly .false and inexcus- able the article published in a maga- zine alleging peonage and slavery in Mexico. . Wreck in Indiana. In a collision between a westbound immigrant train and an eastbound freight train at ToscSn , Ind. , on the Chicago and Erie railroad Friday morning , 35 immigrants-men , women and children-were injured , some of them perhaps fatally. Beri-Bcri in Texas. Reliable reports from Brownsville , Tex. , on the Mexican border , state that several well developed cases of beri- beri prevail among Chinese prisoners held at Brownsville by the govern ment. Yale Bequeathed $500,000. By the terms of the will of the late : . Dr. Levy Shoemaker , of Wilkesbarre Pa. , Yale university Is given more than $500,000 to be used in the medical de- . partment . the institution. I . . f . { : ' . , ? _ : _ . - - . : - - : ' " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . r F - . -a.-c -.e- . . . . , FIVE KILLED ; SCORE RURT. Disastrous Wreck on a Denver Street Fire in Chicago. Car Line. Two persons were killed and twenty injured Friday morning when a Sev- enteenth avenue car got beyond con- trol on the steep hill and jumped the track at Court place , in Denver , Colo. As the car started on the descent of the Seventeenth street hill the brakes failed to work and the motorman shouted to the passengers to jump. Many did so , but there were fifty peo- ple left in the car when it reached the foot of the hills. Mrs. Minnie Melville , the woman who was killed , was walk- ink along the sidewalk when she was caught by the runaway car , which turned over upon her after striking a telephone pole. After striking the telephone pole the car crashed through a taxicab stand- ing at the curb , k led a horse attached to a delivery wagon and turned over against the building occupied by a cleaning establishment. Arthur Pack- er , chauffeur of the taxicab , was sit- ting in his seat when the car crashed into his machine and was seriously hurt. Mrs. Burt Guiry was hurt inter- nally and may die. Raymond Whita- ker , of St. Joseph , Mo. : , suffered a dis located shoulder. William H. Schrader , who had one leg broken and suffered internal injuries , died at a local hos- pital later. QUAKE IS QUITE SEVERE. Windows Shattered ; Chimneys Brok- en on Coast. The earthquake shock felt in north ern California and southern Oregon Thursday night is reported from a number of places to have been more severe than any experienced in several years previously. The vibrations con- tinued from ten to twenty-five seconds , according to observations in different towns. Windows were shattered , chimneys prostrated , dishes broken , and small pieces of furniture moved , but so far as known the financial dam- age was nominal. Humbolt county appears to have been the center of the seismic disturb- ance. It does not appear , however that the shock was of great violence Among the cities and towns where the quake was felt were Redding , Red Bluff , Chico , McCloud : , Weaverville. Dunsmuire and Crescent City , in Cali- fornia and Grant's Pass and Marsh- field , in Oregon. VICTORY FOR IIIGIIER LAW. Rich West Virginia Farmer Cleared of Murder. : The jury in the case of John Sickles aged 67 years , a wealthy farmer , charged with the murder of his nep- hew , Randolph Ritchea , returned a verdict of not guilty after deliberat- ing thirty-one minutes at Moundsville" : W. Va. , Friday. When Judge Harvey told him he was free , Sickles burst into tears and sobbed : "God has been so good to 10. " On August 25 last Sickles returned to his home following a short absencr and heard his daughter , Mattie , 15 years old , screaming for help. He rushed to her room and found Kltchea there. As the young man was leaving the house a moment later Sickles shut him. . Rich Man End. Life. . Henry S. Hysinger i'J i ! ) years old , a wealthy retired merchant , committed t suicide at his home in St. Louis. Mo. . Friday. The fear of approaching pov- erty is given by relatives as the im- pelling motive for his self dc truc- tion. English Mine Explosion. A score of miners were killed by an explosion in the Rhymey Iron com- pany's colliery in Glamorganshire , Wales , Friday. Manager : Bowen and two companions , who attempted a res- ' . were themselves overcome by the erdamp and perished. v Raise in Pay ; for 3,000. Officials of the Pittsburg and Lake : Erie railroad have issued circulars to their 3,000 laborers announcing that when they draw their pay November 1 for October work they will receive pay on a basis of $1.G5 a day instead of $1.65. Mrs. Hayes Buried. Mrs. Howell Jefforson Davis Hayes , .laughter of the confederacy , who died recently , was buried in Richmond , Va. , Friday with impressive cerem nies. Interment was in the Davis plot in Hollywood cemetery. "Workman Killed Instantly. A large plank fell from the top story . ) f the new twelve-story Jefferson building at Peoria. III. . Thursday , striking H. La timer and J. Murphy , structural iron workers , killing the for- nier. Speed Enthusiast. Killed. While speeding a practice mile Eu- jene J. Marsh , an amateur of Dallas , Tex. , was thrown from his motor cy- ie and instantly killed Thursday. De Lara is Released. L. Guiterrez de Lara , the Mexican attorney held by the United States im migration authorities on the charge of being an anarchist and illegally resid- ing in this country , was released from the Los Angeles , Cal. , jail Friday , on $5,000 bond. English Statesman Dead. Sir Edmund John Monson , formerly British ambassador to France , died in London Friday. , " t ; . " . : . ' - . , . ' , ' . ' 1 - y I * dj ti ti * * P fI , T 1 tr V * : f r : Vi - ; Vr , - : t : > - -a * * * , . . -"F 4.j"F * Id . NEBRASKA STATE NEViS * i4.i f : : . - - - News of the Week -t = : : ; ' " ; , , in Concise Form 71 * , ' 1" /l' . : iJ ' ; ' . * - - * 'ii C * * * * * * * / * * * * * * * * * * * . , , WROTE TO A WHITE GIRL. Angry Crowd at Fremont Wrecks Ne gro Barber Shop. An angry crowd at Fremont sur- rounded the barber shop of Charles I R. Johnson , a negro barber , who is accused of writing letters to Miss Liz- zie Miller , age I d 15. Windows were broken and fixtures wrecked. There was talk of tar and feathers for John- son , who is in jail. Fremont was stirred over the arrest of Charles R. Johnson , a negro who owns a barber shop there , accused of writing letters to a 15-year-old white girl , Lizzie Miller : , a laundress , urging her to meet him at the foundry to re- ceive presents. Johnson was put un der $1,000 bonds to keep the peace and is in jail. Johnson is a prominent ne gro , wears Masonic emblems and a plug hat. He has been under suspi- cion in similar cases many times. FIDDLERS' CARNIVAL. : . Old Time Contest Arranged for Ne- . braska City. Arrangements are being completed for holding an old-fashioned fiddlers' carnival , at the Overland theater in Nebraska City the latter part of the month. Already forty entries have been made , and Secretary John L. Pat- terson is receiving new applications every day. This is something new ana novel , and never before attempted in this state. Some of the applicants are from Missouri and Arkansas. After the carnival , which may last two even- ings , will be held an old-fashioned dance at Eagle hall. Secretary Pat- terson has arranged a large list of prizes and will secure a goodly sized committee of competent persons to act I as judges. It will be the biggest event ! ever pulled off in that part of the ' state and will follow the corn show , which is November 24-27. SOCIETIES UNITE. r Put Six Men Into the Field to Keep : the Work Moving. The Anti-Saloon league and the Ne- braska Temperance union were , merged more closely when the board of trustees of the league invited the , governing board of the union to meet i with them. ' I' It was decided to immediately divide the state into four districts , the north- ern district with office at Norfolk , southern district with office at Hast- ing , eastern district with office at Lin- oln : : , and the Omaha district with an 3ffice at Omaha. Lincoln is to contin- ue to be the state headquarters. This plan will put six men in the field , including the two who are al- ready there , who will devote their en- tire time to the work. An effort will be made to raise a campaign fund of 50000. Auto Accident. Tom Johnson , president of the Com- mercial bank of Chappell , and John Wamberg , a real estate agent of that village , were speeding along in an auto at a 50-mIle gait near the St. George ranch , near Sidney , when the car turned turtle , throwing them both under the car and injuring them se- verely. The car was demolished. Fell Down Stairs. Ruth Stauffer , the 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Stauf- fer , of Lyons , fainted at the head of a stairway and fell headlong to the bot- tom and when her father picked her up he thought her dead. A physician was sent for and she was resuscitated , but still remains in a critical condi tion. Hastings Lets Sewer Contract. H C. Gardner , of Lincoln has been given a contract by the council for laying 15,293 feet of sewer at Hast- ings for $11,290. His proposal was $630 less than the next lowest. Eight contractors from Grand Island , Omaha and Lincoln entered the competition. Declared Insane. Grant McFarland , whose wife filed a complaint charging him with being insane , had his hearing before the board of commissioners in Nebraska City and was ordered taken to the asy lum for treatment. He is a well to do farmer and resides near Dunbar. Young Man Commits Suicide. Charles Boales. a young man living north of Cozad. committed suieido by drinking carbolic . " acid. The ) youth was 21 years old and had been living alone on his farm. He was to have been married on the day following his death. . Cattle ; Buyer Injured. Frank Ralston a cattle buyer , was thrown from his horse three miles east of town and rendered uncom .ciom : . His injuries are not serious. Boy Dragged to Death by Cow. Marvin Hatch , aged 8 years ; , son of Edward Hatch , was dragged to death by a cow at Seward. The boy , who was leading the animal from the pas- ture , had the rope tied around his waist. Clothing Store Robbed. 1 The Reo Clothing company's store was broken into at Gothenburg and about _ $75 taken. Bloodhounds from Lexington found no trail . . , . . , . L . . ; , ' < ' , t. ' ' N. . . . . t , s - . I'll FRIENDS QUARREL , ONE IS SIIOT Shooter Now in Jail and Victim in Hospital. Charles Steele is in jail in Platts- mouth and Charles Martin , his friend , is in a hospital in Omaha with a bullet in his hip , all the result of too much booze. The men had gone to Jens Rasmussen's place : , a mile and a half west of Avoca , and proceeded to fill up , and as a result becamo quarrel- some. About o'clock as Steele was standing inside of the building Martin threw rocks at him , it is said , and re- fused to desist when told to do so. Steele , it is alleged , thereupon fired at Martin , the bullet entering his hip and lodging. Steele immediately went to Avoca and surrendered to the officers. BURNS PROVE FATAL. F. B. Chirk ; Sacrifices Life in Trying t < Rescue IIm' = ( 's. For attempting to rescue some horses from a burning barn a few days ago at his home , Frank B. Clark , of Rosalie , sacrificed his life. He rushed into the blazing barn to free the ani- mals when his clothing caught fire , and before the flames could be extin- guished he had been fatally burned. He was brought to a hospital in Sioux City. He hovered between life and death for two days , and died. Clark's body was a mass of burns. He lived longer than physicians pre- dicted , although no hope of recovery was entertained at any time. MAN'S : BACK : BROKEN. Taken : to Omaha for Treatment , bm . . Little Hope of Hecovcr > . . G. H. Mahlpie , who runs a restau- rant at Pilger , had his back broken. In company with Louis Koplin , he had gone aflor a load of hay and was re- turning when the wagon upset. Mr. Mahlpie struck the ground in such a way as to break his back and other- wise injure himself. He was brought in in an automobile and it was decid- to take him to Omaha. . Mr. Mahlpio : is entirely paralyzed from his hip ; down , and his recovery is doubtful. Withdrawal Too ' Late. Because : A. G. Wolfenbarger ana R. L. Staple , prohibition candidates for supreme judge , did not make up their minds to get" off the ticket until the latter part of last week , a number of counties have already printed the ballots with their names thereon. These , counties were informed by Sec- retary of State Junkin , with the sanc- tion of the attorney general , that they could blot out these names on the bal- lots or instruct the election judges to do the work. New Court House. The contractors for building Mor- : rill county's new $25,000 court house , began breaking ground for the foun- dation. The building is to be of press- ed brick and stone , with basement , and two stories high. This court house will not be so large as many of the older counties have , but , it will be one of the most complete in the state and is considered a great credit to Nebraska's youngest county. Treasury Out of Cash. State Treasurer Brian has on hano warrants to the amount of $11,000 , with no money to pay them. He has written to the county treasurers ask- ing to the hurry up and send him some money , as many of them have paid nothing to the state for six months. The treasurer will not register the warrants , as he expects shortly to col lect enough" money to pay them. Appeals to Supreme Court. The \Vestern Union Telegraph com pany at Lincoln has appealed to the supreme court from a conviction in the lower court of having violated a state law by changing its rates of charges without first having secured permission of the state railway com- mission. Farm Help Scarce. Corn husking is progressing rapirtlj in Cuming county and the yield is an average one. Farmers are experienc- ing difficulty in obtaining competent help. Five cents per bushel is being paid for husking with few men to be had even at that price. - - Cortlai'd Driig ; d ijjt Hold. Mclvin D. \\VIsh lue Uortlunrt drug gist arres-trd on the charge of/selling i / intoxicating ! liquor ! without license. . was bound o\er to theiKtrict"court ' in : the sum of $1,000. The office of the secretary of state had to send back to the state peniten- tiary a telephone bill which the state balks on paying. The toll charges amounted to $6.85 and was for calls exclusively to York counly. . Want Money for College. The Hastings Commercial club has started a movement to complete the raising of a fund of $25.000 to pay off the the deficit of Hastings college , conditional on the designation of the institution as the Nebraska synodical college. I Burglars at Firth. Robbers entered the home of James I Auman at Firth an dsecured $22 : in cash. There is no clue to the thieves. . " ' . - ; . , . - " - " . . ' . , , ' . - . . - . - 4 . . F - - - r ' d ' . - . ' . : ' - \ . 1 , i 1 r , / - 1 fl . " . + . , . ' - ; - Congress h . . . The commission sent by from , Liberia in answer to an appeal - assimila . that country to save it from ; ' Britain has tion by Franco and Great I the- help . Just reported , ' recommending . i interesting fflcts and : l' ' asked for. Some : Aan 40,000 i . figures are given. Therp are ? \ r descendants of civ . is Liberians , that , ne- ilized negroes , and 150,000 native live in towns along groes. The former much > the coast and rivers that very ' of our own resemble the negro towns them- . Southern States. They occupy r the trading with eelvcs mainly with natives in natural products which thy ' schools , but no export. They have well railroads ; their towns are fairly , f governed and fairly clean. The gOV- in fact as well ernment is a republic , as name. The country needs protection ' \ i j from encroachments on her territory , IV. , and also money and business manage- 1 . . t " , a. , . ant inde ; - # ment if it is to survive as ; pendent nation. ' ' - - - Notwithstanding the fact that 45,312 veteran pensioners of Uncle Sam died during the past fiscal year , and over the rolls dropped from 3,000 more were from other causes , the amount paid out in pensions during that year was , larger than for any preceding year ; the amount was $161,973,703. CommIs- sioner Warner explains these facts by showing that a large number of new pensioners were placed on- the rolls by the act of February , 1907 , granting . $12 , $15 and $20 to survivors of the war h with Mexico : and the Civil War on . . reaching the ages of 62 , 70 and 75 , re- gardless of injuries having been re- ceived. v , - : - Postmaster General Hitchcock does , not overlook the value of the cat in the postal service and , during the present fiscal year , the postoffice de partment will spend approximately $135 for cat meat. Cats are recog- nized by the department as employes , and so carried on the rolls. They are r used in the postoffices to minimize the depredations of rats and mice , and _ have saved a large amount of money to the government. I * * : - : - A recent report from Washington shows that contrary to the common . belief the number of Indians in this I country is not decreasing , but has in- ( k. ) creased some 40,000 in the past twen- tV. } ty years. The increase is attributed , to the government's efforts to raise . 1 the Indian through practical education to the level of civilization. More than 30,000 Indian girls and boys are being educated by the government at an an- nual expense of $3,000,000. . . ' ' - - - The War Department is running be- hind because of the increased cost of living. The higher prices raise the . cost of rations pr day for each man ! t from 19.65 cents to 21.05 cents. As the ; YI : . army consumes about 30,000,000 ra- - ' ' . . tions annually , it means that Uncle Sam will hereafter pay about $420,000 more every year to feed the soldiers * . _ * i.-i JB v The suits in the Supreme Court of J-/ . . . " . the United States involving the lands ' - claimed by the Catholic Church in - 7' Porto Rico were dismissed by the court in accordance with a stipulation / arrived at between the Porto Rican . government and the -church authori- , ties. - : - * - , The controller of the currency has r approved the application to convert the First State Bank of Onida , S. D. , : into the First National Bank of Onida , : : with $25,000 capital. i . " : - : - r The big Panuama ditch is half-way 1. 0 toward completion , according to the report of Chief Engineer Gothals tf the canal commission. . TRADE AND INDUSTRY. The Russell-Miller Milling Company " - . a North Dakota corporation , has filet ; - with the Secretary of State of Iin- , nesota notice of an increase in its . Minnesota capital stock of $475,000. ; , In order to replenish the depleted 1 i supply of corn in the republic of Mex 1 , ico , the duty on that serial from the ' if } 1 , United States has been temporarily i rescinded. Owing to severe drouths throughout the corn belt of Northern Mexico , followed by floods both the I , - 1 growing crop and the supplies of corn in storage have been reduced to such - an extent as to entail high prices and ( actual suffering. The orange and lemon growers of a Southern California have raised a fund - - ; r of $50,000 to fight the Southern Pa- , ! . cific and other roads , which they say ; \ are taking all their profits in exorbi- : . I j- ! : tant transportation rates. Acting for the citrus/ growers in the fight Sena- tor Flint will , as soon as Congress { meets , introduce a bill prohibiting i. , railroads from raising their rates- } , i without the consent of the interstate j ! 1 commerce commission. ! ( - The new State Agricultural school 1 { at Morris , which was given by the \ government to Minnesota : , will not be { . 3 opened until next autumn. The In- v dians who were government wards 1 ; f there have returned to their re pec- r ! tive homes at the reservation , and the - 1 buildings will stand vacant during the i Jil ! . present school year because : I. pre school. the State . ( r3 , . : . Legislature failed to make provision , f . . ' < \ if for sufficient funds to carr ' ; : for. carry on the 1 , _ agricultural work there the present _ 4. f . year. . 1 ; Indians on the Cheyenne reserva - r ' tion were much interested in the Gas j ! Belt exposition at Pierre , S. D. , and made , elaborate arrangements for ex- \ hibiting their agricultural products there. 1 Twenty-two hundred and fifty com- 1 ' I' bined harvesting machines , operated i\ 1 by steam , gasoline , horses and mules , 1A and 60,000 men were required to A gar- ner the wheat crop , estimated at 60- ' , r 000,000 bushels , Washington ! , Oregon $ % and . Idaho . last season. The value of this crop is placed at from $45 . 000 , 000- to $50,000,000. r " . . _ J. . . , 'of. . - . , , > , - I f
