Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-03-24

pa h' iOi many years PiOpSASy
has been rented to a dairyman.
After a mighty struggle lasting for
26 hours, In which he vainly sum
moned to his aid all the tremendous
resources Of his power, Speaker Can.
non is seeking peace In compromise.
The insurgents have signifled that
they are willing to try to work out an
agreement with the regulars on the
question of the new rules committee
which the sensational struggle has
assured. If negotiations fail the fight
will go on.
In the prohibition campaign now
under way in Honolulu two drivers Of
automobiles have been indicted for
carrying liquor to the military reser.
walton. ..
Dill creating a permanent home
stead commission which shall pur.
chase tracts of arabic land In cities
and towns where manufactures are
carried on, for the accommodation Of
employees, has been favorably reported
to the Massachusetts legislature.
The northwest mounted police ex.
petition arriving from Fort McPher
son. at the mouth of the Mackenzie
brings word to Dawson, Y. T., that rs
Fort Rae Indians of the Dog-rib tribe
In the vicinity of Great Slave lake,
died this winter of starvation.
One hundred dollars per head was
paid at Fort Worth. Tex, for a herd
Of $50 Oklahoma beef cattle. This is
said to be the highest price for this
class OF cattle ever paid In the United
States.
After two days argument before
the United States supreme court on
the constitutionality of the corpora
ton tax provision Of the Payne-Ald-
rich tariff act the court took the cases
under advisement.
The conservation of credit and a
warning against the riotou' abuse Of
private and public wealth was the
theme Of an imprisoned address by
James ]. Hill. chairman Of the Great
Northern railroad directors. before
the Minnesota conservation congress.
After three days of sightseeing and
entertainment in and about Khartum,
former President Theodore Roosevelt,
accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and
their son Kermit and daughter Ethel,
left there on a special train on their
way to Cairo.
In a speech before the Chicago
Traffic club during the st. Patrick's
Days celebration President Taft said:
Il am against railroads only when
they violate the law. But every man
must have his day in court would
be coward If did not consider
every interest affected before passing
upon legislation. I am not afraid Of
the people Of the United States.
They are fair when you can get the
facts before them. But sometimes it
Is difficult to do this"
Paris Judges have ordered Anna
Gould to pay lump sum of $4,000 to
the parents of Count Boni de Castel-
lane. and also $500 annuity.
One Of the two American woman
tourists in the holy land who were
shot by fanatical Afghan, has lost
an eye. The Afghan. who has been
arrested. has confessed the attack.
A manual of economy in cooking
the cheapest cuts of meat has been
prepared by the department of agricul-
ture at Washington and may be had
by housewives for the asking.
Beth Lawson. fishing from a skin
off the ocean end of the San Pedro
(Cal) breakwater, hooked 6o-foot
brown whale. which later made for
the open sea. carrying pole and line
with II. ST
With President Taft as a guest OF
tho city, St Patrick's day In Chicago
will go down N the annals as one long
to be remembered by the Irish Eel.
lowship club which claimed the great.
er share of the Chief executives at.
tention after his arrival
Allied "insurgent" Republicans and
Democrats on one side and Speaker
Cannon and the 'stalwarts" OF his
party on the other are deadlocked in
the house of representatives in the
bitterest fight over the Cannon rules
that congress has known in many
years
AS ardent an advocate of wise con-
servation as the most radical, was the
way in which Secretary Ballinger of
, interior department, in a speech
before the Minnesota state conserva-
ton convention, expressed his policy
in regard to the public-land question.
But he added. ut must be wise con-
servation to appeal to me-"
Pending the announcement of the
secret verdict in the death inquiry at
Manila, P. l., the widow of Lieut..
Clarence M. Janney has been request.
ed by the authorities to defer her
return to america. She will testify
at the inquest.
All legislation imposing educational
tests and head taxes on immigrants
was ordered deferred until next ses-
sion of congress by the house commit
| tee on immigration. This action was
taken to await the report Of the i'm.
migration commission.
Nicholas Tschaikowsky won his re.
cent Russian acquittal from charges
| of sedition by the testimony of Yale
university men who proved he deliy.
cred an address In New Haven on the
night he was alleged to have planned
| q conspiracy.
After paying a second visit to Om-
durham. Col. Roosevelt. accompanied
| by Slatin Pasha, proceeded to the
American mission at Khartum and ad-
| dressed the students. numbering more
than 200 and several hundred old
Syrian Protestant collegians. The
former wore tarboeshes. red silk caps
with tassels. while many OF the latter
were picturesquely attired.