The Springfield herald., 1907-01-31
The Oklahoma Constitutional CON

pTeSlUeuL urging MIN 10 CduCeI eAo Va
der OF Secretary Hitchcock providing
for a forest reserve of portions Of In
dian land.
The carnation league OF America
has sent out an appeal to all patriotic
men and women to observe the BIRTH
day OF William Mckinley. January 20.
by wearing a carnation, the favorite
flower of the murdered president.
Gen. Gomez the liberal presidential
bans were fined $50 each In Havana
for cock-fighting on Sunday.
An investigation OF public land
frauds has begun at Pueblo. Col, at
which sensational disclosures are ex-
pected to be made. The inquiry will
probably last for two months.
Judge Oscar Hallam, in the district
court at St. Paul has issued an order
enjoining the officials of the Great
Northern Railway company from
making the proposed increase Of
$6O,OOO,OOO in the capital stock of
the company during the pending lit
igation.
The trial of Harry X. Thaw for
the murder of Stanford White has
begun in New York. The entire
first day was consumed in securing
two jurymen.
The National Farmers Union, In
session at Atlanta, Ca, has adopted
resolutions indorsing the presidents
action in discharging the colored
troops for completely in the Browns
vile. Tex, affair.
The British government has re-
ceived report from Gov. Swetten-
ham, of Jamaica, regarding the Da-
Wis incident but refuses to make 1t
public at the present time.
The resignation of Theodore P.
Shonts as chairman of the Isthmian
canal commission, to take effect on
March 4. has been announced. Mr..
Shonts has accepted the presidency
of the Interborough-M metropolitan
company which controls the street
car system of New York.
The Academy of Music. popular
priced theater of Washington, has
been destroyed by fire
Announcement has been made in
Washington that the offices of chair
man and chief engineer of the 18th
solidated and that John F. Stevens
will be given the appointment.
American refugees from Kingston
arriving in New York are unanimous
in condemning the inactivity and
utter inefficiency of the English au-
thorities on the stand during the first
days following the disaster.
Prof. Crookes, of London, an
nounces that he has discovered a pro-
cess of extracting nitric acid from
the atmosphere, which 1t is claimed
will revolutionize the nitrate indus
try and the worlds food problems.
Fire at Phillipsburg, Kan, recent
ly caused loss of 100000. State
Bank Commissioner John @. Royce's
newspaper plant was almost total
loss.
The main building of the Japanese
department of communications at To-
kio was recently destroyed by fire
causing loss of 100000. Many
public documents were destroyed.
Secretary Root has received a ca
blegram from Gov. Swettenham of
Jamaica expressing the profound
gratitude" of the people for the aid
rendered during the recent disaster
break in the Wabash river levee
near Terre Haute, Ind, Inundated the
country for miles and rendered more
than 1000 people homeless.
The Trans Missouri Dry Farming
congress effected a permanent organ
izatiin at Denver, with Fisher Harris,
of Salt Lake as president. The next
meeting will be held at the Utah cap
ital
The Rock Island has been granted
the fast mail contract between Chi
cago and Omaha. For 20 years the
Burlington has held the contract
A complete blockade of railroad
traffic exists in North Dakota caused
by the unprecedented depth of snow
The jury in the Shea conspiracy
case at Chicago after 55 hours deliber-
alton reported disagreement.
A jury at Muskogee, |. T., has re
turned indictments against number
of wholesale liquor men in Missouri
and other states charging them with
introducing liquor into the territory
Five thousand barrels of whisky
were recently destroyed by the burn
ing of a Newport, KY, distillery.
The French chamber of deputies
has adopted the bill providing for the
automatic granting of divorces If
either party persists in a suit for
three years.
The department of commerce and
labor has began an Investigation of
the harvester trust
Dispatches from London state that
there is good reason to believe that
the resignation of Gov. Swettenham
is on its way from Jamaica to the
British Colonial office.
The government won a decisive vie
tory in the recent general election for
members of the new German Reich
stag.
King Peter of Servia, denies tha.
he has any intention of resigning or
permanently leaving the country
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