The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-11-10
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE.AGE.
WESTERN.

A great motor driveway along the
Pacific coast from Alsaka to Mexico
is the object sought by the Pacific
Highway Association. which is arous-
ing enthusiasm in the movement and
distributing literature.
Federal indictments charging con-
spiracy to defraud the government OF
more than 10000 acres of Alaska coal
lands. valued at 100000. 900 have been
returned by the federal grand jury
against six men who control three
groups in Alaska. which represent 12l
claims of 16O acres each.
All the unallotted lands OF the five
civilized tribes OF Indians in Oklaho-
ma, amounting to 1.650.000 acres. and
the forested area in the Choctaw ma
ton. amounting to about 1.365.ooo
acres. are to be sold at public auc-
ton. according to decision reached
by the secretary of the interior.
At Albuquerque, N. NJ. 1t is estimat-
ed that there will be $4,000 worth OF
cotton sold from the fields around
Carlsbad by the end of the present
season. the crop ginned at Carlsbad
running. on an average. 11s bales to
the acre Cotton growing is no longer
an experiment in the Pecos valley but
has been demonstrated success.
The American consul at Acapulco
and the Mexican authorities are con-
vinced that one OF the men arrested
there on suspicion of being implicated
In the dynamiting OF the Los Angeles
Times building is Wilson b. Evans.
said to be wanted In Los Angeles for
embezzlement. and that the others are
not the parties for whom search has
been made.
In a signed statement Isidoro Armi-
10, chairman of the committee on the
boundaries of the New Mexico con-
stitutional convention, declared the
state OF Texas must relinquish 100000
acres OF land valued at 312.000,O00 to
New Mexico. Armijo asserts that au
investigation has convinced him that
the true Texas-New Mexico boundary
is the 103rd parallel which is some dis
tance east Of the present line.
Holding that 1t has no Jurisdiction
to grant relief from the operation o.
the grandfather clause" amendment
to the Oklahoma constitution. the fed
ernl court has dismissed the applica-
ton OF Daniel Sims. former slave. who
asks a writ OF injunction that would
permit him and other negroes to vote
at the general election. Nov. s. This
decision makes the grandfather clause
operative for the election Nov. 8, dis
franchising several thousand negroes.
as the various precinct election boards
throughout the state are given final au-
thority to pass on voters qualifica-
tons.
After winning a fight for lower
freight rates by two years constant
effort, Western shippers are to be
pushed back to their starting point
through action taken by the railroads.
because the limit of the Interstate
Commerce Commissions control IL
about to expire. Now the railroads
have filed schedules with the commis-
sion setting the rates back at the old
point and the fight must be conduct
ed again. The rates affected were in
cluded in the Missouri river rate case.
Shippers throughout the middle West
banded together early in 1908 to fight
rates between the Mississippi and Mis-
souri, rivers on freight from the At
lantic seaboard.