The Green Forest tribune., 1909-02-12

anese legislation in California and Ne vada, President Roosevelt has inumat ed that he would fight the issue to { 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 bt made clear to California the entire country and to Japan.
 A. A. Shelton, a telegraph operator in the employ of the Southern railway was injured in an accident at Tynel Station, Tenn, and was told by the surgeon he could not live. While dying he wired the officials for a pass fol himself, wife and mother to Philadel phia. His request was granted. The next session in the hearing o the suit instigated by the federal gov ernment to dissolve the alleged pow 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 oi Peoria, H.
 It is learned that the protocol drawr up by w. I. Buchanan, the United States special commissioner sent tc settle outstanding disputes between the United States and Venezuela, had been found unsatisfactory to Venezue la and would not be signed in its 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. 1 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 consternation
 | 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 a purchase of the in terest of the H. L. Drew estate, in the 200-acre Drew-Fairbanks ranch, near Redlands The purchase price was between G0000 and $7O,000
 In tests made at Fort Caswell, N. C.. February l and 2, of the new system of first control for rapidfire guns, the coast artillery corps made an average of 50 per cent of hits in night firing at a moving target at ranges of from HOO to 1000 yards. The projectiles were provided with light tracers and the target, which was 10 feet by "A feet, we'll illuminated by searchlights
 Richard Blanton, farmer, was way. laid near Layman, Bell county, Ky, and shot from ambush, 12 shots being fred 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, inn posed by the circuit court of Benton country, through an opinion handed 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 coln's birthday February 12 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 $50000 appropriation onto the reso- lution as it passed the house provid- ing for a survey of Lincoln memor- ial 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- dence section of the city safe. In the last few weeks negroes have made numerous attacks upon young women. 1 The police force was increased, but the attacks continued, and raid was made on the negro quarter, and every negro man who could not show that he was employed was arrested as a vagrant.
 During the circumnaVIgatlOn cruise of the battleship fleet S12,301 was re- quired for entertainment purposes, of which $4,S01 was used during the cruise to San Francisco. The re- mainder was allotted for the return cruise to the east cost of the United States. Other expenses which have been met out of the naval contingent l fund include $1,666 for salaries mad expenses of secret-service operatives Developments in the libel suit the publishers of the New York World | indicate that when the case goes to | trial it will reveal that some other of. | ficial, possibly Elihu Root and not MT Roosevelt or his brother-in-law, is the person alleged to have been libeled Announcement has been made that | friends of Charles w. Morse, the con victed banker, are preparing peti ton to the United States circuit court | of appeals, asking that Morse be ad mitted to bail pending his appeal from Judge Houghs sentence of 15 years 1T prison for violation of the nationa banking laws.
 Following a lengthy conference be tween District Attorney Baker an( Messrs. Davis and Lindsey, of counse for the Press Publishing company publishers of the New York World, i