Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-11-14
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ITO OOHbtlJutlOu Vi INC new
!. State of Oklahoma will be writ.
ten by Democrats.
i Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the
British Ambassadors to the United
States, bias resigned.
= The Supreme Court has decided
3 that white husbands Of Cherokee
; Indians have no right to psrtici-
, pate in the tribal fund.
Statistics of the Richmond police
department show that at least
three thousand people in that city
are daily users CT cocaine.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
, Co. has, it is reported, authorized
. the completion of the Potts Creek
branch by further extension Of
20 miles, 20 miles being now under
construction from Covington.
The Presidents trip to Panama
ls an absolute novelty in American
history. For the fret time since
the United States joined the soci-
ETY. of indeE endent nations, its
President has Get foot on foreign
soil.
General Stoessel, the defender
of Port Arthur, is reported to be
In such financial straits that he
has applied to a charitable insti-
tuition for wounded soldiers for
aid to enable him to employ a SER
want.
The people Of this county have
bad the spectacle, for the first time
in history, OF president bossing
the election of Congress, but il
may turn out that the American
Congress will be as intractable as
the Russian douma.
University Of Virginia alumni
are congratulating one another
that their Alma Mater has received
$5O0,000 from private sources,
and that the 100000, condition
ally given by Mr.. Andrew Car
negie, is now An assured asset.
Richard Z. Byrd of Winchester,
chairman of the school book inves.
tigating committee, appointed by
the Legislature to investigate the
cost of school books to furnish the
public schools of Virginia, has call.
ed a meeting of the committee for
November 10.
1t is said In Sen Francisco that q
California Representative in Con-
gress 10 almost certain to present
at the coming session q bill de.
handing the exclusion Of Japanese
from this country under practi-
cally the same terms under which
the Chinese are az present barred
out.
A three-year-old drunkard was
one of the cases reported by Sup
erintendent Parker at the monthly
meeting of the society for protect
ion of children, in Baltimore. The
boy was deserted by his mother.
and while wandering around the
neighborhood frequently was in
toxicated.
An engineering corps has been
at work since May last surveying
for a railroad through Allegheny
county. and have reached Doe Hill.
They have already covered about
one hundred miles, and it is stated
that this road will connect with
the Chesapeake & Western at
Stokesville, in Augusta county.
The commission appointed by
Governor Dawson, Of West Virgin
ia. to make arrangements for rep.
resentation of West Virginia at
the Jamestown Exposition has
adopted plans for the erection of
the State building at jamestown
to cost not exceeding $50, 900.
Work will be begun ut once.
The President tas made an order
again classifying deputy collectors
of internal revenue under the reg
uiations OF the civil service CON-
mission. There are about LOO
of these deputies in the service of
the govern ment. The action of
President Roosevelt brings oil em-
ployees of the internal revenue
service under civil service and
practically Classics all employees
Of the Treasury Department.
The State of Virginia has sold
an immense amount of rags, con-
sisting of old Uniforms issued to
the soldiers Of the State, the ac-
cum ulatiOn or years. They were
sold by the order CT the War De-
partment, and every garment has
been cut and slashed to degree
that made it impossible for any
piece to be utilized for wearing
garments. The sale occurred at
he cid Cavalry Armory, Rich
nond, last Thursday morning.
The giant sequOiss Of California
which are thousands of years
been preserved 10 this
lay because of heir enormously
blck tarF. From time to time,
n the course of pges, vast forest
Tres have swept through the big
rec lands, destroying every hing
n their path, yet barely scorching
he bark on tfese trees. The danes
lsving cerbonized thai much of
he bark, could not penetrate fpr
her, for the cssbonized bark form
d an absolutely freproof covering
or tho reynaindar of tina h6rk and