Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-06-03


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IIo Springs, Ark, will never be-
come an ideal health or pleasure re.
sort unless the United States can eX-
| ercise complete administrative juris-
diction over the entire region now
covered by the city of Hot Springs,
it's contiguous territory and the GOV
eminent reservation. according TO a
| report to Secretary Ballinger by Glenn.
ent S. Ticker, chief clerk of the In
terror Department, who recently in
vestigated the conditions at Hot
Springs. ECKER added that steps in
the direction of such reform must
originate with the State of Arkansas.
The divided responsibility, he contin-
Jed, resulting from the national gov
eminent controlling the reservation
and the municipal government admin
istcring the affairs Of the. city has
given rise to an administrative situa-
ton r~edounding to the disadvantage
Of the visitor and patient.
Time was when it TOOK nearly six
years to build a battlcship in private
yards in the United States; but the
construction of the Connecticut at the
government yard at Brooklyn set a
pace which has steadily accelerated.
The Mississippi, whose trials took
place as recently as October, 1907, took
forty-tour .Months TO construct. ~The
New Hamps:. ire, December, 1907, was
built in 1hirty-siX months; the North
Carolina lCruiserD, January, 1908, n
thirty-six months; Michigan tbattle-
Ship, 1909, in ~thirty-four and One-halt
months; the Delaware lbattleship),
October, 1909, in twenty-sev"n months.
Eighty-twO mail clerks were injured
last ear by engines humping INTO
trains standing at railroad stations, ac-
cording to the report OF T. J. Mast"n,
chairman Of the claims committee, SUB
mitted at the session of the annual
convention Of the Railway Mail CLERKS
Association of America, held in Kansas
City. He said the greatest number OF
accidents was due to collisions Of
trains, 143 clerks having been hurt in
collisions last year. TWO hundred diff
ferent kinds of accidents were men
toned in the report.
In a new book prepared by Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson entitled
Habit Forming Agents. various
widely advertised soothing syrups,
medicated soft drinks, cough, catarrh
and consumption remedies. tobacco
c,,roc ofo pi11nrioJ &c 6onopr0nS
to health because of the opium. CO.
caine or other habit forming drugs
they contain. He find that the amount
of opium consumed in this country,
exclusive of smoking, has doubled in
forty years, and that the use Of CO.
caine is increasing at an alarming ex-
tent.
That the United States will receive
a million immigrants during the tis-
cal year ending June 80 is the predic-
ton of the officials. During April
1926 arrived, making a total of
Sol .225 thus far this year. The last
million immigrant year was in 1907
Figures received at the immigration
bureau show that 4,246 Chinese enter
ed Canada from July l, 1906, to Dec.
81, 1909, the revenue from which on
account of the head tax was s2,123,O00.
Uncle Sam has proved such a huge
success with the cook book that Sen
ator Shelby Cullom, of Illinois, is in
favor of going one further and estab-
fishing a bureau Of domestic science
so that Uncle Sam may show the
American women how to keep house
properly. Senator Cullom proposes
that the government appropriate $780,
600 to maintain the bureau and run it
in connection with the department Of
agriculture.
1t would be unlawful for the Post
Office Department to print the name or
address of a business firm on stamped
envelopes after June so, 1911, if a bill
introduced by Representative Tou
Velle, OF Ohio, and reported favorably
from the House Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads is passed. The
bill would discontinue the present prac-
tice of the department in doing a gen.
eral business in printing return adj
dresses On stamped envelopes.
t-:-:
The census bureau has secured eX-
ira floor space for carrying on its
work with the e~numerator's schedules
from all over the country. 1t now
utilities a total floor space of 100000
square feet I'M employs a force of
5000 clerks, who, with 800 tabulat-
ing machines, will be employed night
and day.
One vote was lacking to make the
necessary two-thirds in the House for
the adoption of the Henry resolution
to fix the date of presidential inaugu-
~rations on the last Thursday in
April.
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The whole question of the Thanking
privilege and its alleged abuses is to
be investigated by the Senate Com
mittee on Post Offices, the Senate hav-
ing adopted the resolution of Senator