The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-11-11

honor the present home OF the insti-
tuition was built.
The corwning event of the visit to
Washington OF the Commercial Com
missioners from Japan, headed by
Baron Shibusawa, came at the end
of the three davs'. festivities here,
| when Mr.. Matsui, counselor and
charge d d'affaires of the japanese
Embassy, gave an elaborate dinner
in their honor at the Willard Hotel
Wednesday night. The dinner was
given on the birthday of the japanese
Emperor.
The question of granting natural-
! zation to Turkish subjects is for the
This is the attitude OF the State De-
partment as defined in a statement
issued Wednesday and is taken to
indicate thai the deparetment is not
| prepared to accept without question
| the conclusion of the Bureau of Nat
uralization that Turkish subjects are
not entitled to naturalization.
On the ground that they have sent
circular matter through the United
States mails exploiting the Hamburg
State lottery, fraud orders have been
issued by the Postoffice Department
against Franz Steinbeck and c.
Schweedt. both of Hamburg. Ger
many. Loewenherz & CO., of Ham
burg, and Louis Gyrard, of Paris,
have also been placed under the ban.
Rich mineral deposits, principally
coal, have been discovered by Gov
ernment agents on large tracts of
public land i'll New Mexico. and the
Interior Department has withdrawn
from public entry class in that State
approximately 162,440 acres pending
| classification.
A postal deficiency of $17.479,770,
an increase of $569,491 over last year
was announced in the annual report
of Merit o. Chance, auditor of the
Postoffice Department. made public
Wednesday. The audited revenues
for the fiscal year ended June 80 last
amounted to $203, ,562 ,3S3, an increase
Of 6.31 per cent. over the preceding
year. The audited expenditures in
creased COZ per cent, including
losses by fire, burglary, etc.
| A whirlwind tour of the city, a
pilgrimage to Washington IS tomb at
Mount Vernon, and a swift to the
Congressional Libarry and the Cap
itol filled the first day at Washington
of the honorary commercial COM
missioners of Japan. The commits
sioners and their party were espec-
tally pleased with the Congressional
Library and the Capitol, which were
especially illuminated in their honor
Monday night. The flag on the Cap
itol flew at half-mast out of respect
to the memory of the late Prince ITO
| People who have recently delighted
in the fact that the hook worm dis
ease was prevalent in the South. got
a good hard jolt here Wednesday
when it was reported that at least
one hundred cases exist under the
very shadow of the Capitol dome.
The commander-in-chief of the
| Pacific fleet reports by cablegram the
| following deaths in the fleet en- route
from Honolulu to Manila. where It
arrived Sunday: Roy f. Vermilyea,
Henry j. Smith, Otto Doerr.
"In the Western part of the Unit
ed States the present demand for the
refrigerating cars exceeds anv pos
sible SUPPLY says Vice President
c. II. Schlacks, of the Denver and
Rio Grande, in a dispatch to the In
terstate Commerce Commission, which
has been calling the attention of some
of the Western roads to complaints
of inadequacy of transportation facil-
tiles for perishable fruit.
Imports into the United States
from the Philippines during Septem-
ber, 1909, the first full month under
the new tariff, amounted to only
1921 ,O36, against $1,631 ,976 in Sep
tember of last wear. All the imports
last month entered free of duty ex-
! cept 1926 worth. No sugar produced
in the Philippines was imported into
the United States during the month
though in September, 1908. the guam
tity was 35,168,000 pounds. The
August import statement showed o.
S56,000 pounds Of sugar coming in
from tho Philippine Islands free Of
duty under the new tariff, as against
24,640,000 pounds dutiable in August
of the preceding year.