The Montgomery tribune., 1907-04-26

drawn and that he was persona non
grata to this government. The action
was taken week ago by the presl-
dent. Mr.. Ekstromer was notified at
once, and started for Washington. He
arrived there Moiday and attempted
to have the matter reopened and the
displeasurs of the administration
against him Modified. From every in
dicatiofn there seems little chance Of
success on bis part. The direct cause
of the action Nsssainst Mr.. Ekstromer is
the personal displeas'Te pf the presi-
dent of the United Sta}SS, to whom he
addressed letter which the president
considers impertinent, uncalled for
and discourteous.
At mass meeting of Payne county
farmers and cattlemen held at Perk-
ins, Okla. addresses were made by
DR.. Cooper Curtis of the buerau of
animal industry at Washington and
DR.. Leslie J. Allen head of the bureau
work in Oklahoma. The farmers were
given to understand that unless oppos-
ition to tho campaign of clearing the
county of Texas fever ceases, Payne
county will be placed below the federal
quarantine line, with all privileges
taken away An organization has
been formed to oppose the work Of in
spection.
The six grand larceny cases against
DR.. G.. Y. Salmon, senior partner in
the defunct Salmon & Salmon bank,
were continued by the court on ac-
count of the defendants physical con-
dition, he being too i'll to come into
court.
Interstate commerce commission de-
clares many elevator charges" are
rebates. Railroad companies must not
pay more than actual storage charges.
Frank Ingram, Bose owens, Clarence
Dellmon and Puck Darby of Pine
Bluffs, Ark, are under arrest charged
with burglary. They are charged
with robbing the wholesale whisky
house of L. & E. Wertheimer. They
climbed to the roof of the building and
lowered opo of the party through the
skylight, the police say.
The navy department is informed
that the gunboat Princeton left Am
apala on Saturday with President
Bonilla of Honduras aboard. 1t was
stated that President Bonilla would
be landed at Salina Cruz, Mexico. His
departure is in compliance with an
agreement entered into between Presi-
dent Zelaya of Nicaragua and Presi-
dent Figuera of Salvador that the
Honduran president shall quit Central
America.
For the first time in the history of
the American navy there has come in
to existence "the Pacific fleet" COM
prising three squadrons, one with
headquarters at San Francisco and
two in Asiatic waters. Admiral j. H.
Dayton to-day cabled the navy depart
ment from Manila that he hoisted his
flag on the armored cruised West
Virginia as commanGer-in-chief of the
the new fleet will correspond to the
Atlantic fleet, under command of Ad-
miral Evans.
A colony of newspaper men is to
be established in the Little Snake
river valley, in Routt county, Colorado,
where the state of Colorado will throw
open for settlement this summer, un-
der the Carey act, $4,000 acres of
land.
Corporal Edward L. Knowles, Co. A,
25th, regiment, who is charged with
shooting Capt. Edgar A. Macklin at
Fort Reno Dec. 81, 1906, will be tried
by general court-martial at Fort Sill.
Meager advices received at Valpa-
raiso indicate that southern Chilli is
in the throes of a volcanic horror al
most as terrifying as the earthquake
disaster last year.
First Lieut.. Louis F. Buck, artillery
corps, was dropped from the rolls of
| the army on account of desertion. He
| was serving at Fort Monroe and dis
appeared about three months ago.
Charged with manslaughter for their
| alleged carelessness in allowing the
negro Charley Straus to be lynched,
| Deputy Sheriffs ]. E. Keegan and ]. J.
Salmon were arrested at Marksville,
La.
| DR.. Oliver Crook Haugh, of Dayton,
| O., convicted of the murder of his
father mothers and brother on the
night of Nov. 1, 1905, was electrocute1
in the annex at the Ohio penitentiary
a few minutes after midnight Thurs
day.
| Regi H. Post was inaugurated gov.
ernor of Porto Rico in succession to
| Beekman Winthrop, who retired 10 be-
come assistant secretary of the treas
ury at Washington.
Harry B. Hutchison, formerly money
order clerk at the Peoria postoffice,
convicted of embczzlement, was sen.
fenced by Judge Otis Humphrey to
two years imprisonment at Leaven-
| worth.
Members of the Anglican church
in western Canada are unable to find
enough rectors to fill the pulpits.
Eleven hundred houses are burned
| In, arc xuh he 1.-Two