Fair play., 1910-10-01
Notes From Foreign Lands, through
~, out the Nation and Particularly
the Great Southwest.
RACES FoR THe pENNANTs.
National League.


Governor Haskell of Oklahoma ap-
proyed the new charter which gives
the city of Kingfisher a commission
form of government.
E Robert Winthrop Chanler has re-
vol1ed the power Of attorney he gave
Lima Cavalieri to collect the income
from his estate under the famous an
s.tenuptial agreement.
Baltimore, which was sixth city In
the United States in 1900, has lost
4 her position according to the 1910
census and now is seventh. In ten
years she has been outstripped by
.Cleyeland, which takes sixth place.
Contrary to general opinion, the
Indian race is not dying out, accord
ing to Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, United
States medical inspector of Indian
schools, who is in Denver attending a
conference of Indian school inspect
,ors. The death rate among the red
skinned race is about 80 in every
1000, while the birth rate is about 81
in every 1000.
John Il. Gilman of Boston, for COM
mander-inchief, and Rochester, y. Y,
for the next place of meeting, was the
winning combination in the national
!, sencampment of the Grand Army OF
the Republic. Other officers elected
We're: Senior vice commander-in-chlei,
Charles Burrows, Rutherford, n. j.;
Junior vice commander-in-chief, VIII
liam James. Jacksonville, Fla; sur
geon general, John l.. Smith, Spokane,
Wash. chaplain-in-chief, Rev. Thomas
F.. Harwood, Albuquerque, n. NJ.
Engineer John Dugan and Fireman
o. e. Ostenberg were killed and a
mail and baggage car wrecked on the
ST. Louis & San Francisco road, TWO
miles north of Olathe, Kans., when
the locomotive blew up.
In a statement in which he declares
that the crusade which he feels i'm
3 PEELED to wage against the liquor in
terests of the state and nation over
Il shadows a personal and political
n friendship of twenty years, William
x~J. Bryan announced he had bolted the
of the Democratic state ticket In
l,;;si1ebraska, and would not support Jas
&C. Dahlman for governor.
Il NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the town of Dera
.vHhazi Khan India, have been inundat
y sfGd by an overflow of the Indus river
~ II is feared that hundreds have been
y afowned. The town has population
4 *0k 10000.
It is learned the appeal of DR.. B
E2fxcJark Hyde of Kansas City, to the su
A 5pfeme court will not be heard by thai
x body until January. This delays the
zone hope Hyde has of gaining free
aoin.
The Burgomaster of the thriving
K toHn of Hattersheim Germany, has
ydeclared war on scandal-mongerine
women He has issued municipal
proclamation calling attention TO the
B lfrequency of prosecutions for libe
s and slandering resulting in bitter en-
.emies and costly litigation.
M The trial of Former Governor b. F
Carroll charged with criminally libel
ing John Cownie, a former member o
the state board of control, started il
The Polk county district court in Des
Moines, la.
At Oak Grove, a village in the wes
end of BOWS county, Texas, Mar
Ross, Jr., and Butler Ross, his brother
engaged in duel with Jim and B
O'Rear, also brothers, the weapons
used being rifles and shotguns' Wher
the smoke of battle lifted b. O'Real
Law dead. while his brother was fount
r to be seriously wounded with a riiit
ball Just below the heart
In Columbus, o., attempts wer'
made to blow up three street cars
hut only one attempt WAS successful
The crew escaped injury and took ou
another car.
Republican State Chairman jim
Harris, of Wagner, Okla. is beint
boomed for secretary of the interior
when Ballinger resigns.
Emperor William of Germany ha
been the guest of Emepror Francs
Joseph at Schoenbrunn.
Republicans of the Third Tennesse'
congressional district nominated Chas
r. Evans. nephew Of II. Clay Evans
for congress
The men who were charged VIII
plunderlng the Illinois Central out 0
nearly $2,OO0,000 by means OF padde'
rlyac gnea making in-ta.c--f
The city of Chicago gained 2s pc
cent from 1900 to 1910, according u
the statement of the census bureau
The bureau announced that Chicago
population in 1910 is 2,ls6,2sS. a
against i.6sS,575 in 1900. and l'o9s'sS
In 1890.