Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-22
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because OF the scarcity Of fruit
Forest fires are sweeping tn ough
Southern California, destroy ing
ranches and crops.
Secretary OF Agriculture Wilson,
after a trip through the West,p
nounces the crops bully"
Thomas Nelson Page, a prominent
Virginia writer, is to be vice. chan
cellor OF the University OF the South
at Sewanes.
Former Secretary OF the Navy
John d. Long complains to Secre.
tary OF the Navy Meyer that sailors
on shore leave break the Sabbath in
New England towns.
The election of J. P. Morgan, Jr..
in the place of E.. Fl. Hartman on
the board Of the National City or
Standard Oil Bank is regarded by
Wall street as OF the greatest sig.
nihcance as to the future OF the
Hartman roads.
The State OF Virginia has OBJ
tanned from the United States gov.
eminent the large fgurehead which
formerly adorned the prov Of the
battleship Virginia. but the State
officials are at a loss to make ap-
propriate use OF the ornament now
that they have it in Richmond.
There seems to be an attempt to
renew the agitation for annexation
of the Isle OF Pines TO the United
States, and the extraordinary state
ment is made in connection with it
that the Isle OF Pines never was a
part of Cuba enthusiastically and
was recognized as a separate ISL
and"
A bill to prohibit racial intermar-
rage in New Jersey is being pre-.
pared by a justice of the peace OF
Bayonne, aad he will eudeavor to
have it passed at the next session
OF the Legislature. The action is
the outcome OF marriage at Silver
Lake last week of white boy to q
negro woman.
Senator" Bob Taylor OF Tennessee
back in Washington after a lecture
tour through the Middle West,
brings word that everywhere he
found Republicans disgruntled over
the new tariff bill and cold if not
angry toward President Taft, while
the Democrats are in good spirits
and confident OF winning majority
of the House OF Representatives
in next years election.
Alexandria Gazette: W. p. Kent,
would-be governor of Virginia, is
making canvass OF the State. He
is the Republican candidate TO. that
position. His guns, so far, seems
to be of the same Chinese frecrack-
err calibre used eight years ago by
the late John Hampton Hoge. He
plays mostly on one fiddle strisg
and seems unable to turn his tune.
Mr.. Kent is engaged in a public at
tempt to prove to a majority OF the
voters of the Old Dominion that the
Democratic party is guilty of vast
expenditures of money from which
there are no apparent result.
That the railroads are confronted
with a shortage in the supply OF
timber for ties, and that they will
take measures to support The forest
conservation movement, is indicated
by the warning sounded by the
Roadmasters' aud Maintenance OF
Way Association of America, which
is holding its convention in Wash.
ington. The committee said: Con
fronted as we are with q rapidly de-
pleting supply OF suitable tie timber,
it is obligatory that the railroads
aid in conserving as far as possible
the present limited area in which
tie timber exists"
A dispatch from Peking, China,
says: Forty.seven Chinese STU
dents, some OF them members OF the
noble families OF China left Peking
today for America, where they will
enter various schools. The stu.
dent body is in charge OF Tong Kai,
she,son Of a Yale graduate. The
party is going to American schools
under an agreement between this
country and america by which a
portion Of the Boxer indemnity, re-
turned to China by America, shall
be expended annually by the Chi
nese government in educating some
OF its young men in America and
other foreign countries.
President Taft started his $4,000
mile launt around the United States
by motoring in from Beverly, his
summer home, a few days ago, to
Boston. and attending big ban
quet in Mechanics Hall that even
ing. The President made his speech
at the dinner the occasion for saying
a good word for Senator Nelson w.