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The National Corn Exposition has
selected December 6th 10 18th MS the
dates for the National Corn exposi-
tioh OF 1909 It Will be held at Omaha
Thar Goose island. lying in the Mis-
sour river between Kansas City Mo.
and Kansas City. Kan belongs to the
state Of Kansas is the decision of the
Supreme Court OF the United States
The recent blowing up OF the Crur
AleHe powder works near Wallace
Idaho. by which three men were killed
and one seriously injured, is believed
BY the company to have been the work
OF An assassin.
Winnipeg Manit oba. has decided to
have worlds exposition in 1872 A
committee Of citizens sent to ST. Louis
Chicago. Seattle and Portland report
81 favorsbly on the project and II Was
decided to raise a fund of s. .Ooa 600
for il
A report emanatinS from Boston
that MIS-. Katherine Tingley head OF
the Theosophical Institute on Point
Iona, near San Diego. Cal. was 10
make her future home In the Massa-
chusetts metropolis has been denied
hy Mrs Tin2lpy.
The cloud upon the title of Gov.
Charles 5. Deneen OF Illinois to sic
coed himself was removed when The
suh"rnatpriaI contest brought by Ad
lai T.. Stevenson was finally disposed
of by The Legislature in john session
i'll favor of the governor.
II is stated that $500 900 will be
expended this season for improve
mcnts on the Missouri Pacific railroad
he ween Kansas City and Pueblo, the
work being in line with the general i'm
proyement of Could roads looking TO
taeir final extension to the coast
Several survivors Of the Fifteenth
PENNSYLVANIA Volunteer cavalry. who
are now living in Los Angeles. Cal,
have passed resolutions on the death
OF Gen. William j. Palmer. who was
commander Of the regiment during he
Civil War.
Under the auspices of the Aero Club
of Seattle. Henry H. Clayton Of the
Blue Hill Observatory. will undertake Il
balloon voyage across the breadth of
the United States. He believes that
IA, orable air currents viii be found at
the height of about TWO miles.
G. l. Mayhem. in jail at Boulder
Cote. charged with The murder OF
William Collier. near lonsmenr. last
January hanged himself ou 1he 21si
ms in the corridor of lht. Jail aud was
found dead. 1t has developed since
that he made fall confession ten days
previous to his suicide.
The will of the late Gen William j
Palmer OF Colorado Springs gives the
bulk of his property, estimated in the
neighborhood of s5,poO.eoo. to his
three daughters Legacies to other rel
atiNes and friends amount to s142 .ooo
No public bequests are made, the gen
eral having attended to public and
charitable benefactious before his
death
Acting Governor MAY vetoed the bill
passed by the Washington Legisla ure
aut horized the issuance by the state
board of hotels of 30 rooms or more in
frst-class cities licenses to sell intox
ican1s and liquors with meals on sun
das- The governor expressed the view
that the bill was unjustly discriminat-
ins between cities and classes, man $
thirst having nothing TO do with the
size OF the town.
Bills passed by the Arizona Leeis-
lature which has just adjourned. in
clude those for the creation OF a rail
road commission. Il territorial good
roads department local option by a
majority vote. municipalities to have
separate vote II demandad: creating
the office of territorial historian: ex-
enuting new railroads from taxation
if noti}e be filed in fifteen days All
railroad rate legislation failed Woman
Suffrage. was defeated. as was the EN-
pfoyers' liability bill urged by the
unions. but vetoed by the governor as
leveled only against corporations as
employers. The separate negro school
hill was passed over the governors
veto