The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-03-29
FORECAST. MADE
Of WEEKS NEWS
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & PUGET
SOUND WILL DRIVE LAST
SPIKE IN PACIFIC COAST Ex-
TENSION FRIDAY.

Mise OIL COuSlucrdDle uuMDoT OF
and important news
events, both at home and abroad.
The wrestling of congress with the
Payne tariff bill will continue to oc-
cupy first place in the attention of
the public at home. Other interest
ing bits OF news that may be expect
ed to emanate from the seat of the
national government during the week
will relate to important diplomatic
and other appointments.
President Taft has promised to be
one of the guests at the annual din
ner of the Harvard club at the Raj
eigh hotel Teusday night. Other
guests will be the retiring president
of Harvard, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, and
Senator Root, DR.. Edward Everett
Hale and others prominent in public
life.
Progress of Hamburg.
Before the end of the week the
steamship Hamburg, with Col. Roose-
welt and party aboard, will touch at
Gibraltar, and Sunday the ship is due
to reach Naples, where the Roosevelt
will transfer to the steam
ship Admiral, leaving the next day
for the east coast of Africa.
Events of special interests in the
industrial world will be more or less
to judge fro mthe present
outlook. The situation with regard
to the threatened strike of the coal
miners will be watched with interest.
A reduction in wages is announced
by several of the steel companies to
coem into effect with the first day
of the new month, on which date
some important changes in railroad
rates and regulations also will come
into operation.
Drive Last Spike.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound railroad has fixed next Fri
day as the time for driving the last
spike in the new Pacific extension
of their system. The event is of
more than ordinary Importance as
the completion Of another
transcontinental railroad line.
The convict lease system, which
has come in for much severe criti-
cism of late years because of the
graft and cruelties it was alleged to
have fostered, will come to an end
in Georgia next Wednesday, when
the law passed by the last legisla-
ture to abolish the system will come
into force. Under the new system
the convicts are to be used on the
roads of the state and other public
works and also on prison farms. 1t
is anticipated that under the new law
Georgia in a few years will have a
magnificent system of public high
ways.
Conventions and conferences that
will attract public notice during the
week will include the biennial inter-
national meeting of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and the
council meeting of the General Fed
Grafton of Women's clubs, both OF
which are to meet in San Antonio.
Texas; the annual convention of the
National Dental association, at Bir-
mingham, Ala, and conference
called by Governor Sanders of Lou
isiana, to meet in New Orleans to
take action looking to the establish
ment of uniform child and women
labor laws and the possible better
ment of conditions in this respect
throughout the south.
Balkan Situation.
In the foreign field the ever-pres-
ent Balkan problem will continue to
occupy attention and the efforts max
ing to avert actual hostilities will be
watched with interest.
The popular demonstration that Is
scheduled to be held next Friday In
the city of Mexico. in favor of the
reelection of President Diaz promises
to be the greatest and most spectacu-
lar affair of it's kind ever held In
Mexico. The parade, which VIII be
the chief feature of the demonstra-
ton, is expected to embrace $4,000
representing all parts of the
republic.
The annual race between the Cam
bridge and Oxford crews will be
rowed over the regular Thames
course from Putney to Mortlake next
The Cambridge crews, &C
cording to the latest advices from
the other side, is expected to rule
slight favorite in the betting.
Parliament to Meet.
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