The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-11-02
GEN ERAl.

The statement OF clearing house
banks for the week in New York.
shows that the banks hold SIS 5,203, $50
reserve in excess OF legal require
ments.
Secretary Fisher OF the Interior De-
partment has announced himself as
unqualfiedly in favor OF the retire
ment system for the civil employees OF
the government. He also favored an
increase in pay for employees in the
intermediate grades of the Executive
Departments.
The federal Supreme Court at Wash
ington has begun consideration OF the
famous Alaskan coal land case. In
which Charles F. Munday and Archie
w. Shlels were Indicted for conspir-
acy to defraud the government out of
Alaska coal lands. estimated to be
worth 3lo.000.o00.
Cotton ginning throughout the South
since the picking OF the crop OF 1siI
began has been carried on with great.
er activity this season than in any
year in the history OF the industry and
has resulted in the unprecedented
quantity OF 7.740.634 running bales of
cotton ginned to October 18th.
The annual meeting OF the boards
OF home and foreign missions OF the
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church
Will take place in Denver November
10 to 90. The bishops OF the church
as well as missionery authorities from
all over the United States will be in
attendance. The meetings will be held
in the Trinity Methodist Episcopal
church. The first session will be that
of the home board. Friday. Nov. 10.
George Dyott. an Englishman, fly
ing Duperdussin monoplane with
capt. Patrick Campbell Hamilton. an
English army officer. as a passenger.
at Hampstead, demonstrated the pos
sibilities Of an aeroplane for night fly.
ing. when with the aid of a powerful
searchlight attached to the running
gear of his aeroplane and connect ed
by electric wires, he flew all about
The vicinity of the Nassau aerodrome
and landed without even straining a
wire.
The governments long planned suit
to break up the so-called Steel Trust"
was begun in Trenton. N. j., in the
United States Circuit Court. 1t is the
most sweeping antitrust action ever
brought by the Department of Justice.
The government asks not only the dis
solution OF the United States Steel
corporation, but for the dissolution of
all constituent or subsidiary com
panies which are alleged to have com
bined in violation of the Sherman law
to maintain or attempt to maintain.
a monopoly of the steel business" /"
Thirty-six subsidiary corporations are
named as defendants. ]. Pierpont
Morgan, John ID. Rockefeller. Andrew
Carnegie, Charles NJ. Schwab, George
w. Perkins. +. II. Gary. John ID.
Rockefeller. Jr., Henry Frick. Charles
Steele, James Gayley, William II.
Moore. j. II. Moore. Edmund c. Con-
verse, Percival Roberts. Jr., Daniel G..
Reid. Norman B. Ream. p. A. Widener
and William p. Palmer are named IN
dividually as defendants.
DR.. B. Clark Hyde of Kansas City
Is for a second time on trial, charged
with numbering Colonel Thomas II.
Swope by poison. The verdict OF the
first jury which on May 16. 1910.
found DR.. Hyde guilty and fixed his
punishment at life Imprisonment was
reversed and the case remanded for
retrial by the Missouri Supreme Court
April IL last.
A bequest Of $4,000 for the care OF
an aged horse. with further directions
that 1t never be sold or worked, is con-
tanned In the will of Mrs. Ellen Null.
veil. filed in Chicago.