The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
Secular News Of the Week.

Eighteen extensions of the Canadian
Northern Railroad under the name of
the Canadian Ranch Lines Company
are planned for construction in the
Canadian Northwest this year. The
new lines will connect with the Great
Northern Railway at a number of
points on the United States boundary,
and will give direct connection over
the Canadian Northern lines to the
starting point of the Dominion Gov
ernment's Hudson Bay Railway.
The U. S. Department of Justice
has prepared 900 suits and have about
700 more under way in an effort to
recover thousands of acres of val
liable lands and timber, said to have
been fraudulently taken from the
White Earth tribe of Chippewa In
dams in Northwestern Minnesota.
The department attorneys who con-
Quoted the investigation contend that
illegal means were resorted to in the
purchase, and that insignificant sums
of money, whisky, trinkets, and unful-
filled promises were the prices which
secured these valuable lands.
The United States government will
accept the compromise offer of $780,
900 in full settlement of the draw
back cases in which the sugar trust,
at the port of New York, defrauded
the treasury of large sums of money.
A new ocean mail bill has been in
troduced in Congress. It provides for
mail services on routes to South
American ports. The purpose of the
bill is to serve the new commerce
which the Panama Canal will open for
the Southern States.
Restitution to the amount of $780,
600 has been made to the State of
Pennsylvania by those indicted in con-
nection with the State Capitol frauds.
The railroads of Portugal are held
up by strike and the mails are being
carried in automobiles. Antonis AL
media, Minister of the Interior, who
made an unsuccessful attempt to set
tie the strike, has resigned.
The revolutionary army in Hondu.
ras under Provisional President b.
ni11a, is marching along the sea front
road toward Ceiba, while the Cruiser
Hornet conveying a large fleet of
schooners is proceeding abreast of the
troops by water. The sea coast gar
risons and hundreds of natives are
joining the standard of Bonilla. Ceiba
is the objective point where meet
ing with Government troops is ex-
pected. Before the town is attacked
the Government forces are to have an
opportunity to surrender.
Judge Willard of the United States
District Court issued an injun
last week restraining w. e. Johnson,
Special Agent of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, from interfering with the
liquor traffic in Minnesota under the
anti-liquor provision of the Indian
treaty of 1855.
The President has sent a special
message to Congress urging the for
/ LITIGATION of the Panama Canal, and
recommending an appropriation of
$4,000 to begin the work.
i At meeting of the Minnetonka
Fruit Growers Association held last
week at Long Lake, Prof. Arthur
Bracket of the state experimental
fruit farm, declared that with the
proper cultivation and care of the
trees, Minnesota can grow better ap-
pies than Oregon" The meeting re-
suited in the formation of an asso-
citation which will conduct a scientific
, investigation along the lines of soil
preparation, cultivation of trees. Sc
lection of varieties, etc. The associa-
ton will also study the improved
methods of packing and shipping
. adopted by the apple growers of Ore
gon.
Iowa Retail Dealers are waging war
on the Parcels Post. They declare