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the coming extensive travels. He 10
to start from his summer residence at
Beverly. Mass, about the middle Of
exposition there, and making stops e1
route at Denver, Salt Lake, Spokane
and other places yet to be determined.
From Seattle he will go to San Fran
cisco, visit the Yosemite Valley and
see a sister in Los Angeles. Thence
he will go by way of San Diego
through New Mexico and Arizona to
Ell Paso, Tex, where he has accepted
an invitation to meet President Dias
Of Mexico. Later at New Orleans he
will attend the waterways conference,
after which he will tour the southern
tier of States to Georgia cities, and
stop on his way north at Wilmington,
N. c., and Richmond, Va, intending
to get back to Washington about the
middle of November.
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Commissioner Williams has been die
appointing a lot of the immigrants ar
irving at Ellis Island by a strict en-
forcement of the law regarding non.
admission of persons likely to become
public charges. He has taken the
stand that any one arriving at that
port with less money than $25 in his
or her possession must be held up and
deported unless friends on shore come
forward with bonds. Several hundred
would-be immigrants have thus been
detained under very trying conditions.
and several hy1n6ro1 hovna hann cnnA
back. Charges of brutal i'll treatment
Of those held have been made by them
and their friends, and a test case has
been taken to court to determine the
constitutionality of the proceeding.
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A ruling was made at Washington
by the Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion that zone carrier shipping fuel.
material OF other supplies Y the
lines Of another carrier must pay the
legal tariff rates applicable to the same
commodities shipped between the same
points by an Individual" II carriers
insist upon making or maintaining
preferential rates, it may be confident
ly expected that such voluntary action
will be accepted as evidence Of the
unreasonableness of higher rates.
So
The plan favored by Mr.. Powderly
of the immigration Bureau to have
the government transport free Of cost
immigrants to places where they can
get work and also to give such free
transportation to any of the unem.
ployed is opposed by the Federation
of Labor. A bill to authorize such
transportation is being urged by the
National Liberal immigration League.
The federation officials say that behind
the plan they fear that a scheme To
send strike breakers turks.
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Salem, Indiana, superintendent " INC
public schools in the Panama canal
zone; Fred H. Abbott, of Nebraska,
assistant commissioner OF Indian al.
fairs; Charles s. Sloane, now serving
as Geographer Of the census was APP
pointed permanent geographer under
the new census act.
Government printers and pressnien
have been shifted to a per diem basis.
There are about 1000 employees Ut the
bureau Of engraving and printing, and
the change from the monthly paS roll
to the new system carried out tho
ideas of Secretary of the Treasury
Mcveagh and Director Ralph, with .
view to placing the bureau OF O strict
ly business system.
At the request of the Most Rev.
Archbishop Ireland the United States
government has consented to make
the site of st. Charles, Minnesota, .
Monument Reserve" This will dedi.
cate the spot to the memory Of the
pioneers of Christian faith and civil.
zat1on in the Western country.
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Almost on the eve of his departure
for Europe. Samuel Gompers called
on President Taft. He said he would
return to this country in time either
to attend the annual convention Of
the American Federation of Labor or
TO 80 to jail.
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The failure Of MI. Herring to de-
liver his flying machine to the War
Department on July /, the last day Of
his time extension, has forfeited the
500 0O deposit, and this sum may bel
used by Gen. Allen In furthering the
plans for flying experimentation
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The 1sthmian Canal Commission hal
given to Secretary McVeagh Its est
mates Of the cost of work on thu
Panama Canal for the year 1911. Thu
total is $4S, 900, 900, or $4,000, 00la
more than the amount spent this year.
Among the prominent speakers VIII
addressed the Y. P. s. G. E. delegate.
at their convention in st. Paul. weIle
William Jennings Bryan. Of Nebrask: &
and Governors Davidson and Johnsoi 4
Of Wisconsin and Minnesota. ~
Famous French Soldier Dead.
Gen. Marquis de Gallifet. formess
minister Of war in France and head tfs;;