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of pensions, has rendered his resig-
nation to the president.
Chinese bandits are committing !
depredations in the vicinity of Yin
Kow. Several rich natives who
were kidnapped by them from New
Chwang have been rescued.
Mrs. Ham Cox, of humphreys
boro, Ill.,, while passing the home
of a neighbor shortly after dark,
was mistaken for a chicken theft
and shot and instantly killed.
The census bureau has prepared a
bulletin on irrigation in Oklahoma,
showing that in 1903 there were g.
1872 acres under irrigation. The
water is supplied from 113 systems,
the cost Of construction of which aV-
eraged about 81 per acre.
The national union Of walters
and b~artenders has voted to exclude
negroes from membership in the
following states: Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Missouri, West Virginia,
Virginia, North Dakota, South Car
olina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Arkansas. Texas, Oklahoma Terri
tory and Indiana.
The president has issued a proc
lamation for the entry of the coded
sands of the Rosebud Indian reser-
walton in South Dakota, beginning
on August s next. The lands will
be selected by lot, and a drawing
will be established for that purpose.
There are about 100000 acres OF
these lands, some of which is very
fertile.
Upon the decision of his aged
and devoted mother depended the
acceptance by John Findley Wal
lace Of the position Of chief engl-
neer Of the Panama canal. He
went direct from Washington to
Wooster, Ohio, where his mother,
Mrs. David A. Wallace, lives. She
is ~ years of age. She thought OF
the eight or ten years absence, Of
the disease dangers that the work
involved, of her W years and OF
the probability that she should new
er see her son again, and then an
swered: at is your duty"
With the view of frustrating the
landing of japanese troops at that
point the Russians blew up the
piers and docks at Port Dalney,
Lao Tong peninsula. Port Dalny
was intended by Russia to be the
chief commercial emporium Of its
Eastern d~ominions. An edict pro-
viding for its construction was IS
sued by the Russian emperor July
80, 1899, and Port Dalny, fully
equipped with all modern improve
ments, docks, warehouses and rail-
road facilities, was opened to COM
merce in December, 1901.
After opening federal court at
Texarkana Judge John Fl. Rogers,
in his charge to the grand jury, call
ed attention to that section OF the
revised statutes of the United
States making it a crime for two or
more persons to conspire to prevent
any citizen of the United States
from engaging in any kind OF en-
pIoyment on account of race. Judge
Rogers devoted most of his charge
to this subject, and quoting decIa-
ions of the United States supreme
court to sustain him, urged the ne
cessity of a rigid prosecution of all
men who might be found to have
conspired to prevent a negro from
engaging in any kind Of work sim
ply because he was a negro.
Her Bebel, the socialist leader in
the German ~reichstag, in a recent
speech referred to the situation in
the far east, denying that public
sentiment of Germany is with Rus
STA. Her Bebel's remarks caused
something of a sensation on account
of a recent assertion of Emperor
William in a telegram to the czar,
in which the emperor declared thai
"Russia's sorrow is Germany's sor-
row."
The board of managers Of the
American Bible Society has decid-
ed to print a revised version Of the
Bible. This has been urged for g
long time by believers in what has
been accomplished by modern re-
search into scriptural questions.
AT the end Of the fourteenth
week Of the war in the far east ia
pan has landed e 100000 troops
in Manchuria, Russia has been fore.
ed to "evacuaate New Chwang, anc
Port Arthur has been isolated.
Missouri capitalists bought las