The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-04


fore the congressional investigating
committee. CLAWS declared that. de-
spite the fact that he was directed by
Mr.. Ballinger. as commissioner Of the
land Office on December Is, 1907, to
make a complete and thorough ex-
animation of all the Alaskan coal
land cases., sparfng no one, the Gun
bingham claims were ordered clear
listed" for patent in less b a month
thereafter. On his protest by wire
and mail, Claws said the clear listing
was revoked.
An application by the Armour car
lines to the interstate commerce COM
mission for reparation against the
Southern Pacific Company on ship
ments of ice was rejected. The COM
mission held that the granting of the
request would open the door to the
batting"
Independent oil producers in ses-
sion at Minneapolis say they VIII
bring suits to $2~S1,50o,ooo
from the Standard Oil Company. Ac-
tons will be based upon decisions OF
various state courts that the Standard
is a combination in restraint of trade.
The postal savings bank bill was
favorably reported to the senate oy
the committee on post Offices and post
roads, practically in the form suDmlt-
ted by the subcommittee.
Attorney General Wickersham re-
ported to the president against the
abandoning of the Union Pacific
Southern Pacific merger suit and 1t
can be said on the highest authority
h a President Taft has approved
this recommendation and that the is
sue will be pressed in h courts to
a conclusion.
That a six-inch pipe line from Tulsa.
Okla, to Houston, Tex, will be built
by the Uncle Sam Oil Company if the
company can obtain the necessary
rights from Oklahoma is announced.
Regulations to prevent interference
with official and commercial wireless
telegraph and telephone business are
provided in a substitute joint resolu-
ton introduced at Washington by Rep
resentative Burke of Pennsylvania.
To arouse sentiment for making
New York a city beautiful, the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects has offered
two medals which are to be awarded
to the owners of the most beautiful
two tenements erected in New York
in the next year.
A corporation which will devote it's
energies exclusively to raising pole
cats is being organized by Connecticut
men with B. M. Mills of New Boston
at its head.
A statement issued by the Japanese
foreign office sets forth that Tokyo is
fully convinced of the good intentions
Of the United States in connection
with the Knox Manchurian proposal.
The most influential Nicaraguans as
sert openly now that Nicaragua faces
utter ruin to-day because of the atti-
tude of the United States toward her.
They say business is dead here, COM
merce at a ~standstill. the mines idle,
crops ungathered, men who should be
working in the fields to prevent starv-
alton throughout the country next
year are in the ranks of one or the
other army and being killed off by
wounds or disease.
Moved by the number Of convicts
who have violated paroles from Michi-
a prisons in the winter, several De-
troit men, one of whom is Judge Will
liam F. Connolly, have formed the
Jean Vatican club. the object of which
is to assist paroled men.
Although she is less than II years
old, Florence Kneipp of Newark, N. j.,
is under arrest, charged with bigamy.
The police say she has admitted mar
rage with two men in the last year.
Because the United States is not in
sfstent upon the admission of it's meat
to Germany, h tariff negotiations
with the empire are expected to be
simplified.
Two hours after she had beer lured
away from her mother while waiting
for a train at East ST. Louis, ILL.,, Eliza.
beth Fricke, a f~our-year-old girl of
Belleville, ILL.,, was found half frozen
In the rear of a saloon, stripped of all
her clothing.
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 a combined cap
italization of at least $500. 600, 900 il
3ot a billion dollars.
During an election reform riot al
Brunswick, duchy of Brunswick, the pc
lice charged a crowd of socialists with
sabers, wounding Is, who were re-
moved to hospitals.
Representatives Fowler of New Jer
sey, one of the house insurgents. in
troduced a resolution to add five new
members to the rules committee, Civ
ing the majority six members and the
minority three, and to removing the
speaker from the committee.
The grand jury at Chicago returned
an indictment against II men-one
former city official and five subordi
ates a contractor and four employees
charging them with conspiracy tt
obtain 1854, 900 by false pretenses ant
three other offenses in connection with
the construction of the Lawrence av
enue sewer.
In its preliminary report submitted
to the National Waterwav VIC