The Socorro chieftain., 1906-05-12
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Condensed and Classified from Press
Dispatches for the Benefit of
Busy Readers.
FOREIGN, NATIONAL, TERRITORIAL
Such Things as Every Intelligent
Citizen of New Mexico Ought
to Know.

The Chieftain presents the news
of the week condensed and classi-
fed as follows:
NATIONAL.
The Standard Oil Company is
To- be prosecuted in Ohio.
Nearly all electric lines were
running in San Francisco Tues
day.
Senator German of MARYLAND
is critically i'll at his home in
Washington.
The anticipated great strike of
anthracite coal miners in Penn
Sylvania has been averted.
Members of the conference
committee on the statehood bill
say that statehood is still soak
ing"
The heaviest storm for the
month of May in many years
prevailed on Lake Erie Wednes-
dav.
Representative Sulzer of New
York has introduced bill pro-
viding for the removal of the
duty on hides.
Secretary Taft is urging Con-
gresS to appropriate an addition
al $500, 900 to meet conditions at
San Francisco.
1t is estimated that $50, ,000,-
900 will be needed in the work
on the Panama canal during the
next fiscal year.
The Senate leaders have reach
ed an agreement on a rate bill
that will probably be satisfac-
tory to the President.
Chairman Shonts of the Pana-
ma Canal Commission urges an
immediate decision as to the
type of canal to be built.
The government has caused
the dissolving of the paper trust.
The price of paper at once went
down to $1.85 from S235.
This mornings dispatches say
that the conference committee
may agree and report on the
statehood bill next week.
Speaker Cannon was 40 years
old Monday. He was greeted
with long continued applause
when he entered the House.
At Chicago the government
has just begun an inquiry into
the relation existing between
the Standard Oil Company and
the railroads.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of
the president of the Southern
Coufederacy, is dangerously i'll
| in New York City. Mrs. Davis
is 80 years OF age.
A complete Photographic pam
Drama of San Francisco has just
been taken from balloons and
will be placed on file in the war
department in Washington.
The pending naval appropria-
ton bill provides for the build
ing of 10000 ton battleship to
cost $lO,O0O,O00. This will be
the strongest battleship afioat.
Mr.. Bryan is reported to have
written a personal friend: II
shall not do anything to secure
another nomination and do not
want il unless circumstances
seem to demand it,"
Delegate w. II. Andrews is
trying to secure the passage of a
bill providing that more than
90 acres of the public land of
the Territory of New Mexico
may be sold or leased to one per-
son.
The drug trust of the United
States is TO be prosecuted in the
U. S. district court of Indiana
for combining to cotrol the prices
at which all proprietary medi-
cines and drugs shall be sold to
the consumer through retail
, druggists.
The government investigation
into the relations between the
: Standard Oil Company and the
railroads has developed the fact
that three grades OF oil have
{ been sold from the same tank at
I different prices. 1t is charged
l that the railroads give the Stand
2 ard rate of two cents a hun
J dred, when they charge indie
: pendent companies ten times
that amount for the same haul,