Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-08
IMPORTANT CASES IN SUPREME COURT
Foremost Is That of Waters Pierce Co. Involving Right
 to do Business in Texas.

WASHINGTON, ID C., April IA number of important cases were talk en up by the United States supreme court when that body reassembled to- day. Foremost on the list is the case of Bradley w. Palmer vs. the state of Texas, involving the right of the Waters-Pierce Oil company to do business in Texas.
 During the week the American bat tleship fleet will conclude its target practice at Magdalena bay and pre- pare for the final lap of the long trip to San Francisco. According to an nouncement of the navy department stops will be made at San Diego. Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz.
 The political activity of the week will be confined principally to the re- publicans. State conventions of that party for the selection of delegates to the national convention Nare to be held in New York Massachusetts, Vir- ginia and South Dakota.
 The insurgents" led by Governor Crawford, will control the convention in South Dakota, and it is expected the eight delegates chosen will be for Taft. Virginia also is looked upon as favorable to the Taft movement
 The New York convention will, of course, indorse Governor Hughes for the presidential nomination and will bind its delegates to vote for him. Governor Hughes will be permitted to make his own selection of the four delegates-at-large and it is expected that General Stewart l.. Woodford, State Chairman Woodruff, President Schurman of Cornell university, and ex-Governor Frank S. Black will make up the ''big four"
 There will be a heated contest in the Massachusetts republican conven- ton, which will meet in Boston Fri day. The Taft men will fight for in structions, the opposition will oppose them, and there may be compro- mise under which Secretary Taft may be mentioned in a merely compliment tary way. Or 1t is regarded as possi- ble there may be no mention made at all. In that event it will be regarded as something of a setback for the Taft boom. More than ordinary i'm portance is attached to the action of the Massachusetts convention be- cause of it's probable influence on the conventions to be held later in other New England states.
 Secretary Taft and William J. Bry- an, regarded to date as the leaders in the race for the presidential nomina- ton on the republican and democratic tickets respectively, will be active on the stump during the week. Secre- tary Taft, who has been in the mid dle west for several days, will pene, trate as far as Nebraska and will be heard in Omaha and other large cit ies. MT. Bryan is scheduled to spend four days of the week touring New York state. This will keep him there until the eve of the democratic state convention and is intended to give en- couragement to his followers who will take part in that gathering. It is hardly expected, however, that it will result in any very strong indorse- ment of the Nebraskan from the state convention.
 Governor Johnson of Minnesota, an other of the candidates for the presi- dential nomination, will take a trip south for the purpose of speaking at the dedication of the Minnesota mon- ument on Shiloh battlefield. Before returning home it is expected he will be heard in political addresses at sev- eral points.
 Events of the week that will in terest followers of sports and ath. letics will be the fight between Jim. my Britt and Packie Mcfarland in San Francisco, the amateur court tennis championships in New York, and the opening of the baseball sea, son of the South Atlantic league.
 A carnival and pageant in ce1ebra. tion of the tenth anniversary of the l first introduction of automobiles in New York opens in that city today and continues through the week