The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-07-08
NOTE AND COMMENT.

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many steel passenger cars, will, it is
said, get rid of $4,000 antiquated
freight ears within the next year,
substituting for them cars of the
steel-underbody type.
The Oklahoma state corporation
commission has begun making q val
uation of the physical properties of
the railroads of the state. There are
$685. miles of railroad in Oklahoma
and the commissioners will PERSONAL
.ly inspect every mile.
At Mays Landing, N. j., Sunday
afternoon, a speedy mOtorcyclist
ran into an express train at a Cross
ing and was instantly killed. The
train hands knew nothing of the &C
cident until told by passengers, who
had seen the man rushing toward the
crossing and knew that he must have
struck the train.
John Torrance writes to the "Bos-
ton Advertiser that the German am
bassador will stay in sultry Washing
ton until the new tariff comes out of
the works; "then he will go directly
to Germany, the bearer of personal
information regarding it's contents
and full of advice as to how Germany
had best meet the new tariff condi-
TONS"
Mrs. Sophia Mayer of New York. is
believed to be the first woman lawyer
to try a case in a foreign country.
Her client is a New York man who
was remembered in a will of an aunt
who died in Austria, leaving an estate
of more than 100000. The will is
to be contested and Mrs. Mayer has
received permission to appear in the
Austrian courts.
The clergymen of Columbia
ty, Pennsylvania, have not had to
bother with doctors bills. This fact
as brought out at a recent meeting
of the Columbia County Medical So
ciety, and at the same time a change
was ordered, the members deciding
that hereafter bills for professional
services shall be sent to ministers the
same as to those engaged in other
work.
Statistics recently compiled show
that of 5000 Smith College gradu-
o&o, o,d onn D,do1iAco Oo11oro r,od,,
ates less than 16 per cent are engaged
in business occupations. Eight hum
dred Smith graduates are teaching,
900 have no regular occupations. and
500 are married. Three hundred
Radcliffe graduates are teachers, $50
are married and $50 have no regular
occupation.
Twenty-four million pounds of
steel will be used in the bridge which
the Canadian Pacific Railway is Du1ld-
ing at Lethbridge. The steel towers
forming the piers are practically
completed. The bridge is one mile
and f%orty-seven feet long and 312
feet high at its highest point. 1t rests
on s~ixty-seven steel piers with a nat
ural rock foundation at the bottom
Of the old Manitoba River. 1t will
cost $1,50O,0OO.
One thinks of the Grand Army of
the Republic as a steadily diminish
ing body, and so, taken as a whole.
It is and must be. But there is at
least n department, that of the
state of Washington, where the mem
bership is increasing. Perhaps there
are others. In Washington the mem
bership is now over $500. Two hun
dred and forty members died there
last year, but the net gain in mem
bership for the year was 291.
Joseph NJ. Brown is the only Geor-
gia governors son ever elected to the
governorship; only once-in the case
of Colquitts-have father and son
represented Georgia in the United
States Senate. The cheviot suit which
Governor Brown wore when he took
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office last Saturday was Georgia
made-a gift from Colonel j. Lind
sey Johnson, editor of the Rome
Tribune-Herald" and owner of the
fifty-five year old Concord wooden
mills in Cobb county.
Lord Cromer defended v%ivisection
at the annual meeting of the Research
Defense Society in London, at which
he presided. He said that evidence
presented to the British Royal Com
mission on Vivisection showed that
all Of the alleged cases of extreme un-
necessary cruelty cited by the Anti
vivisection Society broke down under
Icross-examination. Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle also defended vivisection, ask
ing: Which shall perish, the higher
or the lower ORGANIZATIONS Witch is