The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-16


 grave of Miss Chapman's mother, Mrs. Lydia Potter Chapman.
 The population of Texas is 3,32G,- 342, as compared with 3,04S,71O in 1900.
 In majority report of the investi- Gatlng committees in the Ballinger- Plnchot controversy the secretary of the interior is declared blameIess.
 Two daring robbers at Kankakee, ILL, held up two pedestrians. rifled the parsonage of St. Patrick's Catholic church and d grocery, and escaped all within half an hour.
 James Wilson, secretary of agri- culture, in his annual report for 1910, submitted to congress, says that a; no time in the worlds history has country produced farm products within one year with value reaching 926,000,000, which is the value of the agricultural products of this coun- try for 1910. The value of farm prod ucts from 1899 to the present year has been progressive without inter- ruption.
 The National Rivers and Harbors congress opened in Washington An endorsement of President Taft's avoWed intentions to do away with the pork barrel" appropriations of the federal congress will bring a pres sure to bear which will tend toward successful legislation in this direc- tion.
 President Taft, addressing the dele gates to the seventh annual Congress of Rivers and Harbors, apparently said the last word on waterways. There is no longer any doubt as to his antagonism to other waterway projects as well as that of the Missis- sip2i-lakes to the gulf movement spe- specifically.
 Brigadier General Oliver r. Wood, U. s. A, retired, GG years old died at the Johns Hopkins hospital Balti- more, following an operatioa for acute stomach trouble.
 Recommendation that an annual rivers and harbors bill should be passed carrying not less than $50,000,- 900 and fayoring the enlargement of the powers of the interstate con- merce commission, the seventh an- nual convention of the Rivers and Harbors congress closed at Washing tos.
 Thz constitution for the state of Arizona was completed when the sixty days allowed by congress for the con stitutional convention expired, and the engrossed copy has been read, adopt- ed as whole and signed.
 One hundred of the Christian resi- Tents of Kevak. southeast of the Red sea, as well as the Turkish garrison of the toWn have been massacred by hOrdes of BeduOins, according 10 re- ports that have reached Jerusalem.
 All records for the transaction of business and passage of important bills by the house of representatives, before the Christmas holidays will be broken this year if the present pace is maintained
 c. NJ. Smith, a wealthy land owner from Sikeston Mo-, was released from the federal prison Leayenworth, has.. having completed a sentence for violating the federal peonage laws.
 Sentimental considerations in re- stricting immigration should be waived in lieu of the economic prob lens arising from adverse conditions which the many aliens have had in recent years by their entry into basic industries, according to the final re port of the immigration commission transmitted to congress.
 Deputy Sheriff Bryan and Hacker Marshall were killed and John Bolin was wounded in a pistol battle near Saxton, Ky. Bryan attempted to ar rest George Stanger. Bryan was killed almost instantly,
 The trial of John F. Dietz, the ia nous Cameron Dam defender, for the alleged killing of Deputy Sheriff Oscar Harp during the siege of the Dletz cabin, was called fore Judge Wick ham at Hayward, Wis.
 Plans on the part of leading rail roads for a concerted attack upon the validity of the 2 cent fare law, both in Illinois and Iowa, are nearing compile tion, and an announcement IS expect ed within a short time.
 The total amount of which the llll-
 ,,,1I1oIa6 thrO1Ub al legged car repair frauds was fixed al se 500. .OOO in the declaration of suit to recover filed by Mrs. Jennie Edgar, stockholder in the railroad com pany.
 The cotton ginning report an nounced at the census bureau shows 1O1399S6 bales, counting round as half bales, ginned from the growth of 1910 to December 1, compared wlth 8 S76 SS6 for 1909, 11,00S,661 for 1908 and S,343, 3,396 for 1907.
 A negro who attacked lmo Gilbert eighteen years old, at Centralla, Ill.,. has escaped an infuriated mob of citl zens bent on lynching him, and efforts to trace him have been III Valn.
 big tobacco shew, fair and expo sition is the novelty opened at St. Jo' seph, Mo-, by the Western iooacco crowers' association, and it is attract ing large crowds of interested per cons Liberal prizes in gold were ot fored and expert speakers and demon .aotore were on the three days pro gram.
 The estimates of appropriations re