The midland journal., 1908-06-12
WASHINGTON

According to DulleLln issued ny
the Department of Agriculture, the
condition of spring wheat on June
1 was 95 per cent. of normal.
President Roosevelt appointed a
national conservation commission, di-
vided into subcommissions, on lands,
waters, forests and minerals.
William R. Wheeler, of San Fran
cisco, was inducted into the Office of
assistant secretary of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor
Charles Niehaus, of New York, has
been selected as The sculptor for the
John Paul Jones monument.
Secretary Metcalf announced that
the two new battleships will be
named Florida and Utah.
Preparations are being made to
carry the new Currency Law into
effect.
The President requested the pres
ent members of the Inland Water
ways Commission to continue their
work. with the exception of General
Mackenzie, and added Senator Alli-
son, Representative Ransdell and
Professor Swain, of the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology.
The International Lodge of Good
Templars decided to allow each of
the various grand lodges to decide
the dancing problem for itself.
Plans have been perfected to send
the gunboat Yorktown to the Bering
Sea to patrol the seal fisheries this
summer.
Col. Baron de Bode, military at
tache of Russia to the United States,
formally was presented to Secretary
Root
Bernhard Bettman was appointed
by President Roosevelt as internal
revenue collector at Cincinnati.
President Roosevelt appointed
John F. O'Brien collector of customs
at Plattsburg, N. Y.
President Roosevelt directed Gov
will result in the construction of
waterworks and sewer system for
Cienfuegos, Cuba.
Bishop Charles Henry Brent, of
the Philippines, declines to accept
the bishopric of Washington, declar-
ing that God bids him to stay in the
Philippines.
Major General Leonard Wood has
been designated as the representative
of the United States at the tercen-
tennial celebration of the University
of Saragossa. in Spain, September 20.
Ratifcations of three treaties re-
Gently drawn up between Great Bri-
| tain and the United States we're ex-
changed by Ambassador Bryce and
| Secretary Root.
The Honduras Minister of Foreign
| Affairs has ordered the arrest of F.
Export Shipping Company of New
Jersey.
The President is reported to be
planning to go on hunting trip to
British East Africa after he has laid
down the presidential cares.
Members of the board of visitors
to West Point found upon their ar
rival at the academy that they had no
legal status.
Miss Susan Rivire Hetzel, charter
member of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, died of pneu-
monia.
/ MAIL dQNlCGS HUH LAO NdA0A EOhS
| describe the premature explosion by
lightning of 26 tons of dynamite at
| Caimito Mulato, in which two Ameri-
| cans were killed.
| Admiral Dewey is to attend flag
! raising at the Francis Scott Key man
sion, in Georgetown, s. c., June 13.
In Washington and London an
nouncement was simultaneously made
| of an agreement for two-cent postage
between Great Britain and the United
| States.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf has
practically declined a request to re.
| open League Island Navy Yard to
the public ON Sunday.
The President appointed Roy H
| Chamberlain, Representative Hep
burns son-in-law, general appraiser
| at New York