The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-02

troduced a resolution to add hve ne"
members to the rules committee, CIV
ing the majority six members and the
minority three, and to removing the
speaker from the committee.
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 combined cap
italization of at least $700,0O0,000 II
not billion dollars.
Gov. Deneen, in special message
to the legislature Wednesday, answers
the critics Of the deep waterway pro-
ject. An important change IN plans IS
proposed whereby the state executive
figures that $2,500,000 will be saved
to the taxpayers. The governor estl-
mates that it will be advisable to con-
struct a nine-foot channel instead OF
one IA feet from Dresden Heights to
Utica.
The war department has taken up
! the charges made by Delegate WICK
ersham of Alaska, which are substan'
TALLY that the president and former
President Roosevelt and the army
board on Alaskan affairs have played
into the hands of the Guggenhelms
and others, who it is alleged were IN
a conspiracy to acquire coal lands IN
Alaska.
Members of a religious body at
South Norwalk, Conn, see signs OF
their impending doom in the fall OF
an aerolite near their homes ana are
praying constantly in anticipation OF
the end Of the world.
A lynching was averted at Granite
City, ILL.,, when Mrs. Hendricks, moth
err of a girl Of H. who said she was
attacked by white man, persuaded
Judge Riggs to give the suspect his
liberty The man escaped the mob by
leaving the Jail by a rear door.
The reply of the German foreign Of
flee to the request of the United States
that the application of Germany's gen
eral tariff to American imports be de-
ferred until March 81 is understood to
be a non-acceptance Of the suggestion
for delay.
Paul O. Stensland, convicted presi.
dent OF the defunct Milwaukee Avenue
; State bank of Chicago, and Henry w.
Herring, his cashier, were released
from the Joliet Qll) penitentiary.
,, President Taft will send a special
message to congress in the near fu-
ture which he hopes will relieve the
: people of some of the hardships OF the
present high cost of living. The pres1'
dent is getting his facts together now
and will soon begin to draft the docu.
ment to be transmitted to congress.
{ Warner NJ. Van Norden, president OF
r the Van Norden Trust Company Of
e New York city, was held up anc
r robbed of $4,000 as he was leaving the
C. Waldorf-Astoria. Bessie Roberts ant
Annie Williams of Chicago are held II
100000 bail on charge of stealing thu
money.
A mans conscience has at las
o caused the clearing up OF the mys
o terry that surrounded the killing las
). August of Anna Schumacher, youn'
j. girl of Rochester, N. Y. James X
II Hall, who has been in a cell on tn
prison ship Southery at the naval sta
S ton here on a charge of false enlist
It ment made complete confession.
a, The severed head of Mrs. Jenni
y Cleghorn, whose mutilated body wa
found in a negro resort at 81 Yves
n Seventeenth street, Chicago, was ols
N covered by boy in vacant lot. Llk
IS the body, the head was mutilated.
a. Commissioners of the Spring Lax
y drainage and levy district got ten
d porary injunction at Pekin, ILL.,, r.
straining Attorney General Stead
III al. from interfering with their plan
50 pending a hearing of the suit.
- Attorney General Major of Nilsson
" filed information against nine OF TT
. big packing house companies, allegin
~, they are operating in violation OF II
~ antitrust laws of the state and asklr
le that an examiner be appointed by TT
- supreme court to take testimony.
Criminal prosecutions are to
n+ brought against those comprising Il
-. beef trust. Action will be based {
for provisions contained in the Sherm;
na act. The prevailing high prices q
.ad manded for meat products is respon
nj, BILE for the institution of suit.
Managua is under the strictest
+,o martial laws and censorships pendi
no the coming battle between the EST
as dams and government troops. T
~ Madriz government has ordered t
net arrest OF all the conservative leade
,io in Managua. Granada, Mesaya a
tho Rives.
ret Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
ext his testimony before the compression
committee which is investigating
sts rise in the price of foodstuffs in
tito District of Columbia declared tt
.rv. American farm products are 81
cheaper abroad than they are in t
tod country. He intimated that the tru