The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-18

migrants landing In the United States
Upwards OF 100000 immigrants
come to the United States each year
and the largest portion of them have
been agricultural workers In their ma.
tive lands. They know little about
the various states. particularly the
Central and Western States and this
lack Of knowledge drives them into
the congested districts Of the East
where they remain aliens in fact for
generations.
Settlers on government irrigation
projects who find they have taken
more land than they are able to meet
the various charges on, may relin-
quish part of 1t and have the pay
ments already made credited to the
charges against the retained part, &C
cording to decision today by Secre-
tary of the Interior Fisher. The set
tier may relinquish a second tract If
he still finds himself overwhelmed,
but the minimum area he may hold is
ten acres.
Thomas Cooper, assistant at the
College of Agriculture, was appointed
director of the One-Hundred- Dollar
an-Acre Club of North Dakota at a
meeting of some of the members in
Minneapolis last week. Mr.. Cooper
has had active charge of the demon
stration farms in connection with the
Agricultural College. He will report
to the club officers at Fargo to take
over the active supervision Of the ten
acre farms planned by the North Da-
kota business men, as experimental
and educational enterprises.
Several hundred delegates to the
Transmississippi Congress opened a
four-day meeting in Kansas City this
week. Four thousand delegates have
been appointed to attend. The execu-
tive committee met today to discuss
resolution favoring the establish
ment of permanent headquarters. 1t
is proposed to have secretary and a
staff of assistants work throughout
the year. No final action was taken
on the resolution
Fourteen members of the Sparta,
Wis, high school were expelled in
definitely by Principal Anterior as a
result of the controversy between stu
dents and faculty over football. The
principal ordered all games Cancelled
for the season, because of injuries to
players and failures in class work. On
Saturday last the eleven, accompanied
by students as rooters, went to Elroy
and played the Elroy city team with
the above result. Feeling runs high
and parents threaten to cause the re-
moval of the principal, while others
defend his action.
F. w. Harwood, representative of
the Northwest Development League,
who has been sent in advance to ar
range for the trip of the governors
special, has sent word that the COM
mercial clubs or chambers of COM
merce of Chicago, Kalamazoo, Grand
Rapids, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland and
Buffalo will extend hospitable well
comes to the governors. The route of
the governors special, which will
leave st. Paul November q for New
York and return with ten governors
and four cars of exhibits of the North
west, has been changed so that ST.
Louis is on the route. There also
has been change in the routing so
the towns to the north will be visited
first, and the return trip will be made
over the Pennsylvania line to St.
Louis. This will bring the governors
into Detroit, Mich, for Thanksgiving,
instead of Indianapolis.
Details of a mutiny aboard the
steamship Minnesota, which resulted
in the death Of one of the vessels
crew and the injury of four others,
were received in recent letter from
the Orient. The mutiny broke out
early in October and as result of it,
and the inquiry which came as Sc
quel, the big ship was held for ten
days in Yokohama. The trouble &C.
CURED among Chinese f1remen on the
steamer. After quarreling with the
engineer, the report says, the men
mutinied. At Yokohama the rest of
the crew went on strike, demanding
that the heirs of the dead man be
recompensed and each of the wounded
be paid $50 yen. After a delay of
nine days the crew returned to work
when each of the injured men was
promised rs yen
Amendment of the Sherman anti
trust law at the coming session of
Congress is to be undertaken in earn
est by Democrats of the House, ac-
cording to a declaration by Represen-
tative Henry of Texas, ranking mem
Der of the committee on judiciary.
One of the biggest sales of state
land in Koochiching county was held
at International Falls last week by
State Auditor Iverson and Sales Man
n