The Delta independent., 1907-03-29

tlLle VI All OPSialioA ioA euAoA ANN
years before.
Gov. Folk has announced his pur-
pose to call a special session OF the
Missouri legislature to consider mat
tiers which he considers essential and
which were not acted upon at the reg
ular session just closed.
President Roosevelt has appointed
a commission to consider comprehen-
sion system for the development OF
assist the railroads to keep abreast OF
the business Of the country.
The national Civic Federation which
called the trust conference at Chicago
in 1899 has announced its intention to
arrange for another in May.
Business Is being resumed at Gold
field. New, where mine operators and
business men had locked out members
Of Industrial Workers OF the World
nearly all employees having withdrawn
from the organization.
The Oklahoma convention which
has been in session at Guthrie for lis
days drafting a constitution for the
new state has completed its work and
adjourned sine die.
One OF the largest land deals ever
oonsummated in Mexico was made
recently when the famous Cedros
hacienda comprising 1.775,000 acres
with all its live stock was transfer
red to the Continental Mexican Rub
ber company. The purchase price
was sS,000.O00.
The claim agent OF the Rock Island
railroad is in Mexico settling the
claims OF the relatives of the 30
! Mexican laborers killed In the col
lision at Voiland. Kansas. in Janu-
| AIRY.
While the police were searching
the room occupied by student OF
! Kharkavo. Russia, n bomb exploded
killing an officer, three policemen
and two civilians.
I The attorneys for Harry X. Thaw
| sprung a surprise on District Attor-
ney Jerome recently by refusing to
cross-c1amIne any OF the six alien
I lists who testified for the state that
/ Thaw was sane when ne killed Stan
ford White.
The supreme court OF California
has denied the applications OF Mayor
Schmitz and Abraham Ruct for writs
OF habeas corpus.
The railroad committee OF the Ne,
passage bill cutting sleeping car
rates 30 l-3 per cent and express
charges 20 per cent.
The San Francisco board o: educa
lion has adopted resolutions rescind.
heir action in segrega,ing japanese
+ Ipils in the public school
The suit of Frank Rockefeller
brother OF John d. Rockefeller, to re
cover s2G5 900 invested in zinc mine
in Missouri has been dismissed in tn,
by the defendant
Panicky conditions rciEncd In Wal
street recently and prices of stocks
tumbled in one day from Is to 2C
points. Call money was quoted at .:
per cent Frantic appeals were made
10 the president and secretary of the
treasury to come to the rescue of the
railroads. and spectators.
During the height OF the flood n,
] fllleuuEE llle uEbht out III lUt
Twenty.seventh ward and before 4,
burned itself out had destroyed 25
business houses and residences.
The four railroad presidents who
were to visit President Roosevelt and
confer with him regarding the gen
oral railroad situation of the country
have decided not to go to Washing
ton.
During a sharp clash between mem
bcrs OF the senate committee which
"a investigating the Brownsville AZ,
fray at Washington. It developed that
Senator Foraker is gathering evidence
at his own expense In defense OF the
negro soldiers involved.
~he town OF Majorsvillc. neal
Wheeling. w. Va. consisting OF &C
houses was entirely swept away in a
recent flood and every house destroyed
Tho Harvard ovcrsecrs have dc.
cidcd that football under certain
restrictions will be played by the
university this year.
Tho situation between tho cattle,
men and sheepmcn of Wyoming has
reached n crucial stage and notices
have been posted throughout that sec.
tion ordering the hcrdcrs to remove
their flocks from the country. The
shccpmcn will resist.
Ono hundred and three bodies have
been recovered from the interior of
the battleship lena. which was re
Gently wrecked by the explosion OF
n powder magazine at Toulon. France.
Western PENNSYLVANIA and eastern
Ohio arc suffering from the annual
spring flood
In the suit OF Wichita. Kan. NOR
chants against the Rock Island rail.
road charging discrimination in rates.
Judge Pollock instructed tho Jury to
| hrip,, n yCrlirf In f,ypr Of th,