The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-09-23
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
Dora Wilson was appointed post
master at Higbee, Colorado. vice +.
Warren.
Elinor l.. Church and Ruth d. Haw-
thorne OF Denver. were appointed sten-
ographers in the general land office.
The Senate finance committee at
Washington has maintained In the tar
IN bill the rates on collars and cuffs
provided in the present law.
Secretary Ballinger emphatically de-
MES that he intends to resign. Ball
inger is confined to his room on ae-
count OF throat trouble.
Shipbuilders in this country will
hereafter be allowed to build their
ships from foreign materials imported
free. This will enable our shipyards
to enter into competition with the
world in making battleships and 9TH
er vessels.
The fee for registration of mail will
be Increased from 8 to 10 cents after
der signed by Postmaster General
Hitchcock. the maximum indemnity
allowed for loss OF registered articles
has also been increased from @z5 TO
$50 by the order.
Additional appointments OF census
supervisors by President Taft were an
nounced by Census Director Durand.
Herbert J. Baird. = lawyer. has been
selected As supervisor for the Second
Colorado district. He has had previous
experience In census work. The Third
Colorado district will be under the d.
rection of Charles F. Hamlin Of Sa-
Ida, Colorado. registrar OF the United
States land office at his home.
According to Judge 8. H. Cowan OF
Fort Worth. Texas. attorney for the
National Live Stock Association and
the Texas Cattle Raisers' Association.
the country Is confronted with unheard
OF prices for beef this winter. Judge
Cowan says the cost OF living Will
show continued increase next winter
and points out that the cattle market
IL now short q million head of cattle.
THE price d1 beef said he. will In
crease the coming winter to a point
now unheard OF. for the demand u
much greater than the supply"
So widespread has interest in the
strange malady. pellagrA, become
among medical authorities. that Sur
geon General Wyman of the public
health and marine hospital service has
decided to issue q weekly bulletin deal
Ing exclusively to developments OF the
disease. While declining to go on rec
ord that pellagra is not communicable.
Su, geon General Wyman declared tha,
he had observed nothing in the disease
to show that 1t is a contagious one.
The opinion among the medical au-
thorities in Italy, where the disease
has existed for q long time. DR.. Wy
man stated. is that 1t is non-contagt-
GUS.
A story of an Illinois boy going
West. becoming 4 cowboy and making
a single-handed hold-up of a stage
coach with six passengers. figures In
pardon granted by President TAFT in
the case Of L. A. Potter. Potter lived
at Salem, ILL.,, and was convicted of
holding UP the stage. in Texas. he was
sentenced, May 20. 1885. He has
served almost twenty-four years. part
ly at Chester. ILL.,. and latterly at the
Leavenworth, Kan. penitentiary. J. w.
White, president OF the German Ma
tional bank OF Mason, Tex. and wife,
who were passengers. urged the par
don on the ground that the sentence
was excessive. that no one was hurt,
that the prisoner had been sufficiently
punished, and that he took only 50 and
watch from the passengers. Potter
is fifty years old and broken in health.
He will be released Immediately
Consul J. E. Haven OF Roubaix
France, in . report to the State De
partment. tells Of the International
Harvester Company Of Chicago pur-
chasing twenty-five acres in the sub
urbs OF Roubaix and of their begin
ming the construction of factories
there to produce general agricultural
implements for consumption in French
territory. The consul also says thai
another factory il being erected 1t
Neuss. Germany. and that the cost and
working capital of the two plants will
reach nearly $1,000. 900. ..s