The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-08

\ Il. h. Hartman was to give this prop
erty to the state to be used forever as
a great public park, free to all people.
New York-So much interest in Soc
Ger football was aroused in the west by
the visit of the Pilgrims of England,
who We're brought out by the Interna-
| tional Soccer association of ST. Louis,
that arrangements are being made to
have team of Irish players come here
| IN the spring. An invitation has been
sent to the Irish Football league by the
Peel challenge cup commission of Chi
cago, of which Joseph G. Davis, for
mer New York cricketer, is the secre-
tary. Charles Comiskey, president of
! the Chicago White Sox, is interested in
the undertaking. The schedule will be
made up for the months of March and
| April.
Washington.-No official news of the
| recognition of Madriz as president of
| Nicaragua by any of the Central Amer
lean governments has been received
here. President Zelaya having aban-
| doned his post, the state department
| regards Madriz as leader of a faction
and does not consider him entitled to
any recognition beyond that.
A continuation of relations between
ministers from Central American gov
ernments and Madriz for the purpose of
conducting necessary business is re-
garded as entirely proper without for
| NAL recognition of him as president
Berlin.-The North German Gazette
publishes figures to illustrate the ex-
pansion of recruiting for the navy, es-
pecially in parts of Germany more or
less remote from the sea. The number
of volunteers, in particular-4,0 or III the
year 190S-09-has increased by 696 in the
last five years. Taking the country ac
cording to its division into army corps,
the sphere of the ninth army corps
(Schleswig Holstein, the Hansatowns
and Mecklenburg) now yields 2,513 men,
the sphere of the Tenth army corps
(Hanover) now yields 1856 men, the
sphere of the Seventh army corps
corps (Scettin) 1,041 men, and the sphere
of the Fourth army corps (Magdeburg)
1,O96 men. The army corps districts of
Konigsberg and Saxony (two army
corps each yield over 900 men. Five
years ago only a single army corps dis
trict (AIecklenburg, etc) yielded over
1000 men. The semi-official organ ar
CUES from the latest statistics that the
German navy has no lack, notwith-
standing the growth of the personnel
that inland districts are yielding an in
creaSing proportion to recruits and that
1.-The press of young Germany to the sea
finds eloquent expression in the increas-
ing number of volunteer applications"
Dublin.-The fact that the Irish par
liamentary leader has unanimously de-
cided to support Premier Asquith in the
general elections has given general sat
isfaction. AS John Redmond put it in
a speech urging action, Premier AS
quith's declaration gives us the greatest
chance we have had in the last century
of tearing up and trampling under foot
the infamous Act of Union. Our OPP
ponentS are no longer millions of the
British population, but few hundred
gentlemen in the house of lords. Rose
berry has declared that the lords veto is
the sole remaining obstacle to home rule.
Premier Asquith is asking the British
people for a mandate to deal with Irish
self-government in the next parliament
Therefore the Irish leaders advise their
people in Great Britain to vote Liber-
ais" 1t is confidently believed here that
the Nationalist not only will gain sew
eral seats in Ireland, but that their
votes will mean Liberal success in many
an English constituency.
Rathowen, West Meath. recently out
lined a new plan for breaking up the
ranches" Referring to the defects of
the new land act. ne said: 1t had never
been intended that the act should do
any good, and the people should return
to the old methods. If the landlords did
not sell to their rack-rented tenants at
a fair price, their plan for the present
was to pay no more rent, but to lodge it
in the hands of private trustees, less
the reductions which purchase at fair
price would have given them. If the
landlord refused to sell at that price,
the money could be used for fighting
purposes. As to the ranchers, who had
been tolerated too long, the cattle at
given signal should be hunted off the
grazing lands for miles in single
night. The next morning, while the po-
lice were searching for the animals,
twenty or thirty plows could be brought
into the grazing land and broad belts
of sod turned over here and there. This
would put an end to ranching. No
crime would have been done, no blood
would have been split, nothing but a
trespass would have been committed,
for which the owned could sue at quar-
ter sessions if he liked, but he would
probably prefer to sell the land at once
for distribution. The pillow and the
hazel, blessed instruments of old, would
be doubly blessed by posterity if they
were now successfully used to release
Ireland from the landlords and grab
bers.
During last week two cattle drives
have taken place in County West
Meath. In one instance eighty head of
cattle were driven five miles away from
the farm on which they had been graz
ing, and in the other fifty animals were
scattered. At a meeting of the Mullin-
gar rural council the chairman, NJ. Re-
nan, said that he had been asked to sub
NIT the following resolutions: THAT we,
the Mullingar rural district council, |
congratulate the men of Multyfarnham
~
off the ranches. " rnere was no objec- |
ton to the resolution, which was signed
by the chairman.
A scheme for a land bank in Ireland. !
organized somewhat after the Bank of
England, is being agitated by the Lib
eral press. The idea is to assist small |
landholders in ireland by an institution
that shall be partly public company
and partly a state organization the cap
ital to be $5O,O0OO0O, with 8 per cent in
terest guaranteed by the state.
Aughrane castle, County Roscommon, |
and 300 acres of land surrounding it, |
have been purchased by T. W. Russell, |
NJ. p, for the Irish agricultural depart |
ment. The castle and demesne formed |
a portion of the Bagot estate, the great
err part of which was recently taken |
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