Semi-weekly herald., 1908-11-30
rELEoaAph BREvITIEs

New buildings costing $150,000 are
under way In Albuquerque.
Governor Cummins OF Iowa was
elected Tuesday to fill the unexpired
term OF the late Senator Allison.
The annual international live stock
exposition, which opens tomorrow. is
expected to bring 100000 visitors to
Chicago. nrrt
Another land bill is introduced in
the house OF commons by Secretary
Birrell. who says s900,o00.00O is need
ed to complete the work begun.
Secretary Wilson tells William E.
Curtis how the department of agri-
culture is striving to solve the prob
lem of the dry land beyond the reach
of irrigation.
Walter Wellman says President-elect
Taft wants the tariff revision to be
thorough and fair and believes that
the ways and means committee of the
house is engaged in farcical perform
ance.
Mrs. Harry p. Hynds has just been
voted the most popular woman in Wy
oming, winning the Cheyenne Leaders S
contest and a s1,500 automobile. The
contest has been on for several weeks,
and candidates were entered from ev.
cry city and town In the state. Mrs.
Hynds received more than 100000
| votes, and 100000 more than her next
closest competitor.
The De Chaulnes family has agreed
the Duke de Chaulnes' posthumous son
shall be named Shonts de Chauines.
| The baby Will be baptized next Sunday
at the Chateau Dompierre, which his
| father owned. The infant dukes
grandfather, Theodore p. Shonts, has
agreed to pay all the debts of his late
son-in-law. He asks only that the
creditors wait until the baby is bap-
tized. ...
Twenty carloads of fine Hereford
cattle are being driven overland, from
Holbrook, Ariz., to White River. on
the Apache reservation. The cattle
are sent out by the government to I'm
prove the breed of the Indians cattle
| II is hoped to awaken a greater in
terest in stock raising among these
once blood-thirsty Indians, and finally
make them self-supporting, and the ex
pertinent is being watched with great
interest by agents of the government
The Wyoming Wool Growers asso
citation is circulating 1000 petitions
among the business men OF the state
protesting against any reduction in
present duties on wool and hides, and
asking for higher schedule on WOO
of the third class, or the so-called
carpet wools. 1t is expected that the
signature OF more than 10000 resi-
dents of Wyoming will be secured
The petitions will be presented to the
ways and means committee of the
house at Washington Dec. 2 and 3.
BY special courtesy of the authori
ties in British East Africa Theodore
Roosevelt will be privileged to shoot
at any beast. bird or reptile that gets
in range of his gun, whether or not IL
is preserved against ordinary hunters
Mr.. Roosevelt will be privileged to
shoot at as many of each particular
species of beast. bird or reptile as he
pleases, whether or not the game law
forbids lesser nimrods to kill more
than a certain number. AS further
courtesy, the British authorities will
present a hunting license. which ordi-
narily costs $3.50, to Mr.. Roosevelt, and
will not ask tuppence for it.
That Speaker Cannon will soon car
ry the white flag of surrender to
President-elect Taft is the prevailing
opinion in political circle in Washing
ton, says Walter Wellman. Little else
is talked of In Washington than Mr..
Taft's open note of warning to Mr..
Cannon and the other reactionaries
that they must come into camp and
promise TO be good or have fight
on their hands with the new adminis-
tration. To say that the friends Of
MI. Cannon are amazed at Mr. Tafts
course is putting II mildly. They aie
simply dumfounded. They would not
believe that Mr.. Taft had So much
fighting blood In MIN