The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02

 and the delegates openly declare that they intend to push the project vigor- ously and to demand that the federal government recognize the Mississippi river as the main waterway trunk line of the United States and deepen it Immediately before the minor rivers are taken care of.
 The indicted members of the so called beef trust will be placed on trial December 20 Counsel for the government and for the packers ap- peared before Judge Carter in the United States district court and Agreed on this date.
 In the new districts of Alberta, largely settled by persons from the United States, there has been trouble over the singing in the schools of Brit 1sh national airs, particularly Rule Brittania."
 Owing to a sudden flood in the An namese province and in Kwang-Ngai, 1000 natives are dead or missing. Four hundred boats are reported lost, and the death toll is expected to | mount even higher. The property loss is immense.
 James K, Polk Taylor, a former slave, Fl years old, and his wife, have given 460 acres of land at Calhan, 40 as a site for national tuberculosis sanitarium for negroes.
 Senator Lafayette Young, appointed by Governor Carroll to succeed the late Senator J. P. Deliver, has an nounced his candidacy for election by the legislature fer the unexpired sena- tocial term.
 The Trans Mississippi Commercial congress convened at San Antonio, Tex, Tuesday. This congress is re- garded as important because of it's in- fiuenee on governmental policies and commercial and industrial projects that affect especially the west. Forty-five race horses, valued at $30,000, were burned in the stables of the Wichita and Southwestern Fair association, at Wichita, Kas.
 Dozens of experts in the growing oL II ui1 etliI IO"SIo, lIlCilIDSlo Ol luC Horticultural Society of Southern Hi nois, met at Centralia, H., in the | thirty-seventh annual convention of that body, the president of which is J. c. B. Heaton of Burnside There was an attractive exhibition of fruits and vegetables. for which cash prizes were offered.
 Lord Hardinge, the new viceroy of India, has reached Calcutta and has received the seals of his office from | Lord AIinto, the retiring viceroy.
 In raids so important that Postmas- ter General Hitchcock took charge in person his inspectors closed two con- cerns at New York, which they charge with sWindling the public out of more than $40,000, ,000 by fraudulent use of the mails. The concerns are the l Continental Wireless Telegraph and Telephone company and Burr Broth CTS
 The total population of Kansas, ac- cordmg to the hgures of the census bureau is 1,690,949. Ten years ago the total was 1,470,49S
 James K. Polk Taylor, a former slave, n years old, and his wife gave AGO acres of land at Calhan, 40 miles east of Colorado Springs, as a site for national tuberculosis sanitarium for negroes.
 The coal operators and miners in the East announce that the price Of chestnut anthracite coal, the size most generally used in stoves, will be ad- vanced 25 cents ton.
 J. George Wright, commissioner of the five civilized tribes, reports on the first sale of unallotted Indian lands in Oklahoma. F'ifty-one tracts were sold of the 70 ordered. They were bought chiefly by farmers and brought from $2.50 to $47 an acre. These sales are to be conducted at the differ ent county seats in Oklahoma, and will continue during the next 60 days
 In a letter John Edgerton of Helena, Mont. says he sent the poison to Dr. R. c. Hyde, convicted of murdering Colonel Swope at Kansas City. rms statement is considered of vital inn portahce to Dr. Hyde, as it may bridge what was claimed to be the weakest point in his defense.
 Octave Chanute, the father or the aeroplane," died at his home III Cnl- eaeo after an illness of several weeks.
 A campaign expense bill Of AZ cents was filed in the county clerks o1flce ,t New York by James P. Cullen, who ran on the Independence league tlcket for senator from the Fourteenth dls- trct.
 The presidents Panama canal sneech at Richmond, Va, was listened to with the greatest interest. lie en- deavored. in a brief way, to describe the conditions as he found thenl' anu aroused great enthusiasm by ms pre- d;ction that the canal would be opened well in advance of the official date or onening. January 1, 1915. He de cIared that if necessity demanded, ne believed American battleships could he sent through the waterway py Jan uary 1, 1913.
 Welcomed by salutes from the big guns of the Presidio and the Ameri- can cruisers anchored in the harpor' o Iananese training squadron has ar rived at San Francisco
 The Federation of Labor conven' ton in St. Louis defeated a resoiu' ,ion indorsing the Socialist policy
 The armored cruiser Tennessee' hearing the president home from Fan anna barely escaped collision at sea- 150 miles south of Cuba