The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-10
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= "N 'ONtIlIIS lue dSSdsSlDdJ1 or President Roocevelt, the Mikado and others in authority.
 Former Senator Caffrey, of Louis- Jana, and Former Senator Bowen, of Colorado, died on the same day.
 United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey won sweeping victory in the election, held in Comanche county, special flor or against" Bailey pri- mary election. He regards his re- election to the senate as assured.
 Kinya Shima, Japanese, has cor nered the potato crop in California, and will dictate prices until spring. He will clear about S250,000.
 One of the two alleged murderers of City Marshal Frisbie, of Lamar, Colo, was captured in the school house at Astor, Kas.
 In 1897, the year before annexa- tlon, the trade between United States and Porto Rico was less than S4,O00,000 annually. Now it will run over $40, 0,00O,00O.
 Frank Lanham, youngest son of Governor and Mrs. Lanham, and Nils Sigie Wooldidge were mar ried at Austin, Tex. The wedding was complete surprise to friends of the couple. The bride is daugh- ter of Colonel A. P. Woodbridge, member of the state board of par dons. The wedding of Miss Grace Lanham and Edward Conner, of Dallas, took place at the executive mansion few evenings later, and was a brilliant society event.
 At Terra Gotta, a station on the Baltimore X Ohio railroad, in the District of Columbia, a freight train going 50 miles an hour plunged in- to the rear end of local passen- ger train. The engine plowed through three coaches heavily loaded with humanity, so crowded the peo- pie were standing in the aisles. Thir- weight people were killed and over 60 injured. Among the injured sev- eral will die. The evening was fog gy and the engineer of the freight says he did not see the danger sig nals.
 Sitting in her home conversing with number of callers, Mrs. T. H. McGregor, of Houston, Tex, at 3 o'clock in te afternoon, barely es- capped being the mark of a bullet of an assassin, fired from the door of the servants room in the yard. She had had a dispute with her negro housewoman and she and her hus- band are being held pending an investigation. The bullet passed di- rectly over Mrs. McGregors head and imbedded itself in the wall. She is the wife of T. H. McGregor, a member of the legislature, and they formerly resided in Arkansas.
 President Roosevelt and James R. Garfield, prospective secretary of the interior, have approved the plan of Francis E, Leupp, commissioner of Indian affairs, for the management of Indian property by the modern cooperation or so-called trust meth cd of doing business. Commissioner Leupp has drawn up a bill, to be submitted to both houses when con- gress reconvenes, which provides for the management of the Choctaw and Chicasaw coal lards-property prob ably worth $100,000-by a joint stock company, of which the board of directors will be composed of off, cers of the government and repre- sentatives of the tribes. The propo- sition of Mir. Leupp has attracted much attention. The government under his plan would be actually op- erating a business enterprise in com- petition with private business.
 Failure at this ti- .e to increase materially the compensation of post office employees, thus keeping pace with advancing wages in other lines of employment, will seriously jeop- ardize the efficiency of the service 7 This statement is taken from the an nual report of First Assistant Post master General Hitchcock. The need of new legislation to make the postal service more attractive ln or der to retain present employees and as an inducement for good men tc enter the service is treated extensive lv by MT. Hitchcock, who has plar for the consideration of congress Higher wages in other classes of em. ployment, taken with the increased cost of living, have rendered pro- nounced the inadequacy of postotfice salaries. As result the resigna.