The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-08-03
WARRINGTON.

Plenty of rain throughout the cour
try is prophesied by the Weather Blu.
reau.
President Simon OF Hayti appears
doomed to follow President Diaz OF
Mexico. and give way to a revolution
ary government. according to advices
reaching Washington.
BY a vote OF SO to % the Senate
passed the Canadian reciprocity bill
without amendment. which settles
this question so far as the Congress
is concerned.
More than two billion dollars In re
deemed bonds. representing the major
part OF the governments Civil Wa
debt is being fed to the furnaces IN
the Bureau OF Printing and Engraving.
The woman credited with havinS
first expressed the idea of a general
memorial day. Mrs. Sue Landon
Vaughn, is dead At the home OF the
Eastern Star. Masonic order In
Warrington, on which she was depend
ent.
President Taft has signed the reci-
procity bill Secretary OF State Knox.
Secretary OF Commerce and Labor Ma
gel. Secretary to the President Lilies
and Representative Littleton. several
newspaper men and 4 battery OF pho
tographers witnessed the signing.
In a special message to the Sena-e
President Taft shoulders full respon-
sibility for opening for settlement and
development 1880 acres Of the Gu
gach national forest reserve in Alaska
an incident which has come to be
known as the Controller Bay Affair :"
To explain the use of lard money
in the Lorimer election, heads Of big
stock yards companies In Chicago Will
be called As witnesses. Witness James
Keeley said representatives Of the Ar
mour, Swift, Morris and other con
Germs might enlighten the committee.
A favorable report from the Senate
public lands committee on his bill
granting the state Of Colorado an ad-
ditional million acres of public lands
for use under the Carey desert land
act, was secured by Senator Gugsen-
helm. who also secured the passage OF
the bill through the Senate.
The federal government scored in
Its effort to break up the alleged
wire trust" when thirty-seven men In
dicted withdrew the plea Of mot gull
ty" and accepted sentence without
trial. Judge Archibald. in the United
States court in New York. imposed
fines of from $1,000 to $1.7o0 in each
case.
Pass the House wool tariff revision
bill or enact no wool legislation at all,
is the slogan OF a strenuous fight be-
ing made by House leaders among
their party associates in the Senate.
conferences has been q growth Of SEN
timent among Democratic senators In
favor Of this policy, which may mean
no wool legislation at this session.
purported pooling agreement be-
tween the Carnegie Steel Company
and ten other kindred concerns for
percentage apportionment Of the steel
output of the cOuntry-an admittedly
illegal document supposedly long since
destroyed-stirred a recent meeting OF
the House "steel trust" investigating
committee. The original agreement
provided for the formation Of the steel
plate association OF the United States
and Notwithstanding that the agree
ment was burned and only came to
light because a Pennsylvania printer
had saved a copy from the flames, the
committee sought corroborative evil
dence that the steel plate association did
exist after the incineration Of the tell
tale documents.
To begin In the autumn Of 1914.
when the big canal opens, Postmaster
General Hitchcock has ordered the es-
tablishment of a fast ocean mail serv.
ice between the principal ports on the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans and Pana-
ma and Colon.
The Standard Oil Company and the
tobacco trust and other big corpora
tions are going to be split up into
number OF separate and distinct parts.
without connection or monopoly pow
er. This was the prediction in an adj
dress by Attorney General Wicker
sham.