The Globe-republican., 1909-04-01

levy and collect taxes, graduated or
otherwise, on any or all classes Of in
come"
The opinion of the millers at their
meeting at Wichita, Kan, was that
not five per cent of the old wheat crop
remains to be marketed and the mill
ers expect difficulty in getting suffi-
cient wheat to keep their mills run
ming until the new crop can be mar
keted.
The Crown Prince of Servia and
his younger brother each have re-
nounced their right of succession to
the throne.
An effort is to be made to organize
the teachers of the United States and
Canada under the auspices Of the
North American Teachers league.
The Farmers & Stock Growers
Railroad company is the latest addi-
tion to the concerns chartered in Kan.
sas to build road through the south
Weol COuHlleS Ol lne state.
Officers who went to .he Hickory
settlement near Guthrie, O.. 70 arrest
cattle thieves met with resistance
from the negroes who live there and
after fight lasting one night and part
of day two negroes were killed and
40 taken prisoners.
The secretary of war has appointed
the board of inquiry authorized by the
Foraker resolution to investigate the
discharge of the colored troops fol
lowing the affair at Brownsville, Tex.
Willie Whitla, the boy kidnapped at
Sharon, Pa, and returned to his faith
er after the payment of $4,000 has
positively identified the man and wom-
and arrested at Cleveland as the par
ties who took him away and held him
for ransom.
The statehood bill granting seperate
statehood to Arizona and New Mexico
which failed to pass the senate at the
last session of congress will be rein
troduced at the special session.
A heavy fall of rain and wet snow
caused damage to the amount Of $780,
900 in Denver and cut off all wire COM
munication and tied up all street cars
and disabled the telephone service.
The resolution adopted ten days ago,
placing an embargo on the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway, was rescind-
ed Friday by the transportation
bureau committee Of Kansas City.
A resolution to ask President Taft
to appoint a commission to arbitrate
their difference with the operators
was adopted by the anthracite coal
miners at their convention held at
Scranton, Pa.
A delegation of Porto Ricans Is in
Washington to lay before the presi
dent and congress their views regard
ing the government of the islands
which they declare to be worse under
American administration than under
Spanish rule.
Executive and traffic officials of all
railroads in Missouri have asked for a
conference with Gov. Hadley regard
ing the passenger rates.
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress to promote the safety of pas
sengers on railroad trains One Of
the provisions calls for the construc-
tion of passenger coaches with
frames of steel.
A mistake of the enrolling clerks
may require the Kansas legislature
to convene in special session to pre-
vent the closing of the State Normal
school as the appropriation bill was
so bungled as to make it invalid.
The six persons who made the bal
loon ascension from Pasadena, CAL,
landed on one of the Sierra Madre
mountains and were in a snow storm
two days before they succeeded in
reaching camp from which they
could notify their friends.
Gov. Stuart of Pennsylvania has is
sued a proclamation offering a re-
ward of $4,000 for the arrest and
conviction of the kidnapers Of Willie
Whitla.
A despatch from Colegue, Germany,
expresses the opinion that former
President Castro may use the fortune
he is supposed to have taken with
him to Europe to finance revolution
to place him again in power in
Venezuela.
The water in the harbor at Vera
Cruz, Mexico, has become SO shallow
following recent earthquakes as to
make it impossible for vessels draw
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