The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-12

Congressman Shepherd OF Texas
has introduced a bill providing for a
world temperance conference.
Independent oil producers all over
the country are planning wal on the
oil industry of Mexico. One producer
declares that tariff must protect
Americans.
That the interior department, in its
investigation of land frauds, has sui.
fered by the legislative limitation on
the use of the secret service OF the
treasury department, was not admit
ted by Secretary Garfield when he re-
Gently appeared before the subcom-
mittce of the house committe on ap
preparations.
One of Nebraska's solons proposes
to introduce a bill in the state legisla-
ture which if it becomes a law will
s~egregate all Japanese employed in
packing houses.
A. A. Shelton, a telegraph operator
in the employ of the Southern railway,
was injured in an accident at Tyner
Station, Tenn, and was told by the
surgeon he could not live. While dying
he wired the officials for a pass for
himself, wife and mother to Philadel-
phia. His request was granted.
h next session in the hearing of
the suit instigated by the federal gov
eminent to dissolve the alleged pow
dor fr,rcf will hn hold IN China0n or,
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-
of the Buckeye Powder company of
Peoria, III.
1t is learned that the protocol drawn
up by w. /. Buchanan, the United
States special commissioner sent to
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 cas- 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.
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
CONSERVATION.
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
2OO-acre Drew-Fairbanks ranch, near
Redlands. The purchase price was
between 60, 900 and $4,000.
In tests made at Fort Caswell, N. c.,
February ! and 2, of the new system
of first control for rapid-fire guns, the
coast artillery corps made an average
so per cen of hits in night firing at
a moving target at ranges of from
''VO ~ -,VCO Soiuo- IL II OJCClliCo
were provided with light tracers and
the target, which was 10 feet by "a
feet, well illuminated by searchlights. |
Richard Blanton, a farmer, was way
and shot from ambush, II shots being
into him and the horse which he
was riding, both dying.
Maj. Harvey w. Salmon. former
been chairman of the Democratic
State committee, escapes the three
year term in the penitentiary. i'm
posed by the circuit court of Benton
country, through an opinion handed
Town in the Missouri state supreme
court, which reversed and remained
he case, with instructions to the trial
court to quash the indictment.
Leaders of the house Of represen.
atives indicate that the resolution
providing for the observance of Lin
birthday February IL as passed
~ the senate will not receive the ap-
)rOval of the house conferees in it's
form. They seriously object
o the action of the senate in lacking
$4,000 appropriation onto the reso-
ution as it passed the house prOvid-
ng for a survey of a Lincoln memoir
al road from the White House to the
battle field.
More than 200 negroes were arrest
ID in Pittsburg in an effort by the
,olice to render the Heron Hill resi-
section of the city safe. In the
few weeks negroes have made
attacks upon young women.
The police force was increased, but
he attacks continued, and a raid was
made on the negro quarter. and every
legro man who could not show that
le was employed was arrested as a
'agrant.
During the circumnavIgatiOn cruise
f the battleship fleet $12,301 was re-
uired for entertainment purposes, OF
which $4,S01 was used during the
ruise to San Francisco. The re-
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