Times-promoter., 1909-02-11

Ndudi IIGSiISnt HOOSSNSll HAS lIllultl
ed that he would fight the issue to a
finish and that unless the agitation
ceased he would send a special mes
sage to congress, in which the attitude
of the United States would again be
made clear to California, the entire
country and to Japan.
A. A. Shelton, telegraph operator
in the employ of the Southern railway,
was injured in an accident at Tyner
Station, Tenn, and was told by the
surgeon he could not live. While dying
he wired the officials for pass for
himself, wife and mother to Philadel-
phia. His request was granted
The next session in the hearing Of
the suit instigated by the federal gov
ernment to dissolve the alleged pow
der trust will be held in Chicago on
February 16. The hearing was to
have been resumed at Wilmington,
Del, but counsel for the defense was
not ready to complete the cross-exam.
ination of Robert S. Daddell, president
of the Buckeye Powder company Of
Peoria, Ill.
1t is learned that the protocol drawn
up by w. l. Buchanan, the United
States special commissioner sent to
settle outstanding disputes between
the United States and Venezuela, had
been found unsatisfactory to Venezue-
la and would not be signed in it's
present form. The hitch has occurred
over the case of the New York and
Bermudez Asphalt company, for the
arrangement reached with regard to
the arbitration of the other claims ap:
parently is acceptable to Venezuela.
News of the passage by the Califor
MIA assembly of the bill providing for
the segregation of Japanese school
children was received in official cir.
cles in Washington with surprise and
CONSERVATION.
Vice-President Fairbanks is prepar.
ing to join the notables who annually
migrate to California to escape the
rigors Of winter in the East. He has
just completed purchase of the in.
terest of the H. l.. Drew estate, in the
2O0-acre Drew-Fairbanks ranch, near
Redlands. The purchase price was
between 10000 and $4,000.
In tests made at Fort Caswell, N. c.,
February l and 2, of the new system
OF first control for rapid-fire guns, the
coast artillery corps made an average
of so per cent of hits in night firing at
moving target at ranges of from
1,70O to 1000 yards. The projectiles
We're provided with light tracers and
the target which was 10 feet by "a
feet, well Illuminated by searchlights.
Richard Blanton, farmer, was way.
laid near Layman, Bell county, KY,
and shot from ambush, IL shots being
fired into him and the horse which he
was riding, both dying.
Maj. Harvey w. Salmon, former
treasurer of Missouri, who has also
been chairman of the Democratic
State committee, escapes the three
year term in the penitentiary i'm
posed by the circuit court of Benton |
through an opinion handed
down in the Missouri state supreme |
court, which reversed and remained |
the case, with instructions to the trial |
court to quash the indictment
Leaders of the house of represen-
tatives indicate that the resolution
providing for the observance of Lin
coins birthday February IL as passed
by the senate will not receive the ap-
proval of the house conferees in it's
present form. They seriously object
to the action of the senate in tacking
a $4,000 appropriation onto the reso-
luton as it passed the house provid-
ing for a survey of Lincoln memor-
lal road from the White House to the
Gettysburg battle field.
More than 200 negroes were arrest
ed in Pittsburg in an effort by the
police to render the Heron Hill resi-
1ence section of the city safe. In the
asst few weeks negroes have made
numerous attacks upon young women.
The police force was increased, but
he attacks continued and raid was
made on the negro quarter, and every
negro man who could not show that
le was employed was arrested as a
yagrant.
During the circumnavIgation cruise
If the battleship fleet $12,3O1 was re-
luired for entertainment purposes, of
which S4,S01 was used during the
,ruise to San Francisco. The re-
nainder was allotted for the return
ruise to the east cost of the United
states. Other expenses which have
'een met out Of the naval contingent
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