The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-04-23

ported Thursday by the House Com
mittee on Indian Affairs. The law
which it modifes forbids the sale
of homestead lands until rs years
after entry and forbids the sale of
surplus lands until five years after
ratification of allotment agreements
with Indians of the five civilized
tribes-Cherokees, Choctaws, Chick
asaws, Creeks and Seminoles. The
bill agreed on removes the restric-
tons from all lands held by persons
not of Indian blood that is, freed
negroes and white adopted full
bloods, and becomes effective upon
surplus lands held by Indians, ex-
cept full bloods, and becomes eff
fective upon passage. Between s.
100000 and 100000 acres of land
i'll Oklahoma will become legally
salable if the bill is enacted.
81 am literally driven from Chi
cago where l came on Monday for
a weeks rest, by oversolcllous
friends and citizens and newspaper
reporters, and l am obliged to leave
Chicago at once," declared Robert
Koch, the German scientist, Thurs
day night. He packed his five
large trunks and had them shipped
to st. Louis by express, tagged "hold
till called for within two or three
weeks" paid his bill, bundled his
wife and brother from st. Louis into
carriages and cab was driven to the
Union station, where ne boarded a
train for Milwaukee.
An encounter occurred early Thurs
day afternoon in the lobby of the
Driskell hotel at Austin, Tex, be-
tween John Dowell, president of the
Austin Bar Association, and Mason
Williams, a prominent lawyer Of San
Antonio, in which both were slightly
wounded. The former was shot
through the fleshy part of both legs
and the latter received three buck
shot wounds in his side, narrowly
missing the abdomen.
The efforts which have been made
for two years by Howard Gardner
to raise Rhode Island oysters IN
South American waters have failed.
Mr.. Gardner took with him to
Buenos Ayres twenty barrels OF the
best Rhode Island oysters. After
repeated attempts, all of which were
unsuccessful, to propagate the oys-
tiers, Mr.. Gardner abandoned the
experiment.
The Senate Committee on Post
offices and Post Roads Thursday
voted to report favorably the postal
savings bank bill drafted by a sub
committee of which Senator Carter
was chairman. An amendment was
adopted changing the names of the
proposed institutions to postal de-
positaries,- which meets the objec-
tons raised against the bill by bank
erS.
The intimate personal friends of
Assistant Secretary Of State Bacon,
formerly of Boston, have received
information which leads them to be
lieve that Mr.. Bacon will become
secretary of war about July 1 next,
succeeding Secretary Taft, who is
understood to be DESTROYS of retiring
from the cabinet at that time.
Joseph NJ. Giordani, an agent of
the Firmin revolutionists in the
United States, was sentenced at
New York Tuesday to six months
hard labor in Sing Sing prison for
having counterfeit Haytian money
on his person. Giordani was having
the Haytian notes printed in New
York to finance revolution.
Senator Landrum, a Cherokee
Indian, introduced a bill at Guthrie,
Okla, Thursday prohibiting the use
of Indian figures as cigar or tobacco
store signs. The bill is certain to
pass both branches of the legislature
and become a law, as all political
parties considered the large Indian
vote as the balance of power.
Without discussion, dissent or
division, the Senate Thursday with
il "A hours after the winding up of
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