The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-12-15
THE WORLD
NEWS NOTES

That corruption is rife in San Fran.
CISCO police courts is the charge of a
committee of attorneys appointed by
the Bar Association.
An order has been issued by the
postof1lce department that after the
iirst of the year letters coming ad.
dressed to general delivery will be
held five days only instead of 30 days,
as is the custom at present, unless
the envelope bears return date.
That the fruit industry of the state
OF California is In imminent danger
OF destruction due to the rapidly near
ing presence of the dread Mediter-
ranean fruit fly was unanimously &C.
claimed by the state fruit convention.
The Panama canal, when com
pleted, will become a commercial
competitor of the Suez route, and will
commence that competition with a
rate war. A toll OF 81 a ton net reg
lister is suggested as against a CORE
spending toll of $16S charged by the
Suez canal.
Government officers. at the instance
OF the postoffce inspectors, broke up
the San Antonio, Texas, cowboy fac.
tory. which has been doing a land
Office business all over the United
States. For 81, according to the ad-
vertisement of the factory" real cow
boys would be made and placed on
the Great Rincon Ranch"
Charles A. Prouty, interstate COM
merce commissioner, has positively
refused the chief judgeship of the
new court Of commerce.
James J. Gallagher who shot
Mayor Gaynor of New York, may
never be tried for the crime. Physi.
clans now observing Gallaghers
movements will return a report that
he is demented.
United States Ambassador Thomas
]. O'Brien will return to his Toxic
post, according to his emphatic decla.
ration. He does not credit the rumor
that Charles w. Fairbanks, former
vice-president. is to succeed him
there.
Battling Nelson has announced that
he had not the least intention of quit
ting the fighting game. He does not
consider his recent defeat in San
Francisco the final decision"
George w. Perkins has announced
his retirement from the firm of J. P.
Morgan & Co. to devote his time to
extending the principle of profit
sharing and other benefit plans for
solving the conflict between capital
and labor.
Merchants Association of New York
Secretary Knox granted the request
Of Italy for the surrender of Porter
Charlton. charged with the murder OF
his wife at Lake Como.
That Japan must prepare Tor war
with the United States is the text OF
an article published by the Toxic
Nippon.
More than two-thirds, or 400 mem
bers, Of the new British house OF
commons have been elected and the
political parties stand virtually as
they we're at the dissolution of Par
lament.
A thousand or more representative
farmers of Canada are to meet in
Ottawa Friday to meet the members
of the Dominion government and Par
lament and present their claims on
the tariff questions and several other
matters of importance to the farmers
Of Canada.
1t seems safe to announce that the
ancient absolute regime in China will
exist only historically after the Chi
nese New Year in January, 1911. 1t
is stated that the throne has decided
to accede to the resolution of the
imperial senate praying for the i'm
mediate creation Of q constitutional
cabinet.
CYL En- CLINT