The Lamar register., 1910-11-23
GEN ERAL-

S6.s15. according to the thirteenth
census statistics.
The population of the state of Flori.
da is 751 .139. an increase of 42.1 per
cent. or 222.597 over 52s,542 In 1900.
Arizona, according to the new Gen.
sus has a population of 204,354, a
gain in ten years of sixty-six per cent.
The known death roll at the
Delagua. Colo, mine disaster now
reaches the appalling total of seventy.
nine.
]. Ogden Armour of Chicago, says
the whole tendency in the prices OF
stock yard products is toward lower
schedule.
When the next New York state Leg
islature convene sat Albany bill will
be introduced legalizing public boxing
exhibitions.
According to indications retail
prices of meats in Chicago and sur
rounding territory will suffer
marked decrease.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook has finally
decided to emerge from his retreat"
and press his claims as the real dis
coverer OF the North Pole.
A premature explosion of dynamite
killed two men and injured three
others. one probably fatally. at camo
No. IL in the town Of Lebanon, Wis.
The population OF the state, OF Ala
bama Ia 2.13s.09a, M enumerated in
the Thirteenth census. This is an in
crease of 309,596. or 16.9 per cent over
.s2s. 697 In 1900.
After an Illness of several months,
a minor operation performed
in New York last spring, John La
Fargo. the famous artist. died at the
Butler hospital in Providence. R. 1.
The mining town OF Clifton has won
over Duncan in the fight for county
seat honors Of the new county OF
Greenlee. Arizona. which borders on
Grant county. New Mexico.
A negro named Walker, who killed
Charles X. Bush Of Montezu.
ma. Ca, two weeks ago, was taken
from the Macon Jail by a mob and
lynched.
A<hbhhhs oti ahu 0duhB
will participate In a loan Of fifty mil
lion dollars which an American syndt
cate will make to China. An agree
ment to this effect has been signed.
Entering Ell Paso as silently as an
Arab troop. the construction crew OF
the Paulson Wireless Telegraph Com
pany. with a force of twenty men, is
m IN iNo al x.str t.Is
graph station in that city.
Twelve hundred school teachers
from all parts OF Luzerne county.
Pennsylvania. have voted to unionize
and Join the American Federation OF
Labor In an effort to obtain higher
wages and better conditions.
The Lawson mine. at Black Dia-
mond. Wash. In which fifteen men
were killed by a dust explosion re-
Gently. is apparently hopelessly
wrecked and 1t is not likely that the
bodies Of the dead will be recovered.
Robin J. Cooper was given verdict
OF not guilty in the criminal court OF
Nashville. for the alleged murder OF
former Senator Edward w. Carmack
Thus was brought to a close the final
chapter in one OF the most celebrated
cases in the annals of the courts OF
Tennessee.
Oklahoma City lost in the state CAPT.
tol fight when the Supreme Court de-
cided that the seat of the state gov
eminent must remain in Guthrie. The
court held that the election on the
amendment to remove the capitol to /
Oklahoma City was void. because OF
defects In the title of the ballot
The Panama canal VIII be completed /
December ]. 1913. within the s375.- /
100000 already authorized. This in
formation was given to President Taft !
while inspecting the famous Gatun .
dam. The official date OF the open |
ing remains January /. 1915. Lieuten-
ant Colonel Cocktails desiring one year
in which to get the machinery work |
ing smoothly.
Aerial navigation has proven that |
II is a factor which must be dealt with |
in the naval tactics of the future, II /
the successful flight made by Eugene !
b. Ely In Curtiss biplane from tho |
utCh vi tut CTulStT blTmlnEnam at ]
Fort Monroe. Va. can be taken as a
criterion. From Hampton Roads. the |
scene forty.five years ago of another |
epoch in the history of naval warfare.
when an ironclad proved its superior
ity over the former type of fighting
vessel. the aviator flew across the
lower end OF Chesapeake bay. landing
on the shore opposite from Fort Mon
roe.
Race suicide is given as the cause
for Baltimore dropping from sixth to
seventh place among American cities.
It was race suicide. not of the foreign
born element. but of native Americans.
Thus. in the Eleventh ward, where na.
tive born Americans preponderate to
the extent of 95 per cent, there were
only ISL births from Jan. 1 to Sept
80.
The recall proposition as recon.
mended by the majority report of the
committee. was adopted by the Ari-
iona constitutional convention, 81 to
IL.