Semi-weekly herald., 1909-04-08

WASHINGTON, April 5.-Secretar
Ballinger OF the department of III
interior has approved regulations III
der act of congress. providing for Ell
larged homesteads in Colorado, Mon
tana. Nevada. Utah, Washington, Wy
oming. Arizona and New Mexico.
The regulations provide for making
OF entries for 800 acres of land of non
mineral. non-timber, nonirrigable pub
lie lands in above states and terri
tories. Non-irrigable is construed t.
mean land which as rule lacks suffi
cient rainfall to produce agriculture
crops without the necessity of resort
ing TO unusual methods of cultivation
such as dry farming. Lands contain
ing merchantable minerals. land oil
lands which may be irrigated at rea
sonable cost from any known source
of water supply may not be entered
under this act, and no one entry shall
embrace in the aggregate more than
forty acres of land susceptible of irrl
CATION from natural sources.
WINCHENSDON, Mass. April. s.
A three word cable from the barren
isle of Molokai, Hawaii, announces the
death of Mrs. Walter r. Brinkerhoff,
formerly Miss Nellie White of this
city, who three years ago. gave up
the pleasures that wealth and as
sured social standing can bring and
took her place beside her husband to
assist him in caring for lepers among
whom he had cast his lot. She died
martyr to wifely devotion and to
the slowly dying creatures on the
island. 7 he cablegram contained only
the terse message, Nellie is dead"
Mrs. Brinkerhoff was the daughter
Of the late multi-millionaire Nelson D.
White and niece of Ex-Governor John
d. Long. Her marriage took place in
August, 1907. The bride, an heiress to
the millions of her father, journeyed
5000 miles to wed the young patholo-
gist who had devoted his life to lepers
of the Pacific in the heroic effort to
discover a cure for the loathesome
affliction.
CARACAS, April 5.-Assured that
Castro. whom he deposed as president
of Venezuela, is really on the high
seas with the avowed intention of re-
turning to Caracas and selling the
reigns of tie government, j. Vincen-
to Gomez, who took the position when
Castro went TO Europe, suddenly de
cided he doesn't care to be president
any longer and is planning a sea voy
age to some of the British possessions.
He believes a change of air will pro
long his present excellent health. In
the announcement President
Gomez says he is merely going away
for awhile, and will turn the govern
ment over to ]. A. yelvtini, second
vice president.
NAPLES, Italy, April 5.-Naples Is
intent today extending an enthusias-
tic welcome to Theodore Roosevelt,
who arrived here at minutes past l
this afternoon on board the steamer
Hamburg on his way from New York
to Mombasa.
Fully 5000 foreigners have come
into the city especially from Capri,
Sorrento and Amalf. in the hope of
catching glimpse of the distinguish
ed traveller The Hamburg was given
a noisy and hearty greeting from the
ships and shore as she steamed into
the bay and dropped anchor. Amer
lean flags are flying from the con-
sulate. all hotels and many private
houses in honor of Mr.. Roosevelt, and
the ships In the bay are gayly dec
Grated. Prominent among the yachts
in the port is the Nahma with Mrs.
Robert Goelet on board. The Ameri-
can gunboat Scorpion. made a bril-
liant showing with lines of fluttcring
flags from stem to stern.
Mr.. Roosevelt will leave the Ham
burg at this port and transfer TO the
Steamer Admiral on board of which
he will continue his journey to the
East African coast. All celebrities in
Naples boarded the Hamburg. Herr
Steifesand and the German consulate
at Naples were among the first to
come out TO the Hamburg. He greet
ed MIR. Roosevelt in the name of EN-
peror William and the German govern
menL The former president had not
left the ship at 3 O'Clock. This may
mean that he will not go ashore but
will be transferred to the vessel that
sails for Africa tonight.
DENVER, April with not one
platform pledge redeemed the seven
teenth legislative assembly adjourned
sine die at 1:15 O'Clock this morning
Just before midnight, after :he CON
ference committees had been busy all
evening. the bank guaranty bill, the
primary bill and the railway commits
sion bill were killed in spite of the
desperate effort by the governor and
platform Democrats to save them.
One hundred and six bills were fin
ally passed at the last days session,
making total of 24S enacted. Among
the bills killed during the closing
hours was the eight-hour bill for laun-