The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-02-04
louis r CLAWS continued his testi-

spite the fact that he was directed by
Mr. Ballinger. as commissioner or the
land office on December Is, 1907. TO,
make complete and thorough ex.
animation of all the Alaskan coai
land cases. sparing no one. the Gun
ningham claims were ordered clear
listed for patent in less than month
thereafter. On his protest by wire
and mail, CLAWS said the clear listing
was revoked.
An application by the Armour car
lines to the interstate commerce COM
mission for reparation against the
Southern Pacific Company on snip
ments of ice was rejected. The COM
mission held that the granting OF the
request would "open the door TO the
grossest forms of favocitism and re-
batting"
Independent oil producers in SEES
sion at Minneapolis say they VIII
bring suits to recover $2S1,5OO.OOO
from the Standard Oil Company Ac-
tions will be based upon decisions OF
various state courts that the Standard
is a combination in restraint OF trade.
The postal savings bank bill was
favorably reported to the senate by
the committee on post offices and post
roads, practically in the form submit
ted by the subcommittee.
Attorney General Wickersham re-
ported to the president against the
abandoning Of the Union Pacifc-
Southern Pacific merger suit and IL
can be said on the highest authority
that President Taft has approved
this recommendation and that the Is
sue will be pressed in the courts TO
q conclusion.
That a six-inch pipe line from Tulsa.
Okla, to Houston. Tex. will be built
by the Uncle Sam Oil Company II the
company can obtain the necessary
rights from Oklahoma is announced.
Regulations to prevent interference
with official and commercial wireless
telegraph and telephone business are
provided In a substitute joint resolu-
ton introduced at Washington by Rep
resentative Burke of Pennsylvania.
To arouse sentiment for making
New York a city beautiful. the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects has offered
two medals which are to be awarded
to the owners of the most beautiful
two tenements erected in New York
in the next year.
A statement issued by the Japanese
foreign Office sets forth that Tokyo is
fully convinced of the good intentions
of the United States in connection
with the Knox Manchurian proposal.
The most influential Nicaraguans as
sert openly now that Nicaragua faces
utter ruin to-day because of the atti'
tude of the United States toward her.
They say business is dead here, com.
merce at a standstill. the mines idle.
crops ungathered, men who should be
working in the fields to prevent starv-
alton throughout the country next
year are in the ranks of one or the
other army and being killed off by
wounds or disease.
Moved by the number OF convicts
who have violated paroles from Michi-
gan prisons in the winter. several De-
troit men. one of whom is Judge Will
liam f. Connolly. have formed the
Jean Vatican club. the object of which
is to assist paroled men.
Although she is less than II years
old. Florence Kneipp of Newark. N. j..
is under arrest. charged with bigamy.
The police say she has admitted mar
riage with two men in the last year.
Because the United States is not in
sistent upon the admission of its meat
to Germany, the tariff negotiations
with the empire are expected to be
simplified.
President Bowling of the Northern
Miners federation has been sentenced
at Sydney. N. s. W., TO a year in pris-
on at hard labor for obstructing work
at the mines during the strike.
BY the consolidation OF the Boston
Consolidated Copper Company and the
Nevada Consolidated Copper Company
by the Utah Copper Company. the
final steps have been taken in the
formation of the second greatest in
dustrial combination in the United
States. which embraces all the copper
companies and have a combined cap
italization of at least. S700.0O0.000' II
not billion dollars.
During an election reform riot at
Brunswick. duchy of Brunswick, the po-
lice charged a crowd of socialists with
sabers. wounding is, who we're re-
moved to hospitals.
Two hours after she had been lured
away from her mother while waiting
for train at East st. Louis. ILL.,, Eliza
beth Fricke, q four-year-old girl of
Belleville. H.. was found half frozen
In the rear of saloon. stripped of all
her clothing.
The specter of pestilence is the
great haunting fear of Paris II al
most overshadows the present peril
of destruction by food. commits
sion of doctors was summoned to per-
feet plans to avert what they fear will
be an epidemic of plague when the
waters subside. Countless dead cattle
have been swept along in the cur
rent and the great sewerage systems
are damned. This dreadful burden
has been borne into the great under
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