The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-18
Secular News Of the Week.

Secular News Of the Week.
The Manitoba government at cab
met council meeting last week de-
cided to commence next year the erec-
ton of new Parliament buildings in
Winnipeg to cost 100000.
The Swedish Academy of Stockholm
has awarded the Nobel prize for liter
allure for 1911 to the Belgian author,
Maurice Maeterlinck
Gable advices received by the Chi
nese daily papers of San Francisco
state that an American college grad
uate has been given a post of honor
by the new republic at Shanghai. He
is Wong Chong Wal, who took his
degree some years ago at the Univer-
sity of California, and is now associa-
ted as foreign secretary with WI
Ting-fang, former ambassador to this
country, and Wen Chuong Yeng, re-
Gently diplomatic representative OF
China in Tibet. The three will advise
the new republic in all matters relat-
ing to foreign governments.
The Twenty-eighth Infantry return
ed from San Antonio, Tex, to Fort
Smelling last week just eight months
to day after its departure for the
mobilization on the Mexican border.
The regiment arrived in three special
trains from Kansas City over the Chi
cago Great Western, with Colonel
Plummer in command. There were
$50 privates in the party and thirty
seven officers.
At the instance of Walter Williams,
dean of the School of Journalism OF
Missouri University, the Columbia
Commercial Club has started move
ment for transcontinental highway
connecting all the state capitals d.
rectly north of and south of Missouri.
The club appointed a committee to
communicate with city and state off,
Gals in the capitals regarding the
project. The road proposed would
link Baton Rouge, La; Little Rock,
Ark; Jefferson City, Mo-; Des Moines
and st. Paul, passing through Colum-
bia.
Patents to $4,000 acres of Yakima
reservation land, valued at approx
mately $3,000,0O0, and not included in
the present boundary of the reserves,
which was enormously granted to the
Northern Pacific Railway many years
ago, have been Cancelled by the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals ALI
this land will revert to the Indians,
The suit was originally started in
January, 1907, to cancel the patent
because of an alleged erroneous sur
vey.
The Virginia & Rainy Lumber Com
pany sent to the shipping docks at
Duluth last week over the Duluth,
Missabe & Northern the largest train.
load of lumber ever shipped from one
I - Viz 4ISA 5Got 90 A41Ao Ill tHG WOTtU.
There were 100 cars in the train.
averaging 10000 feet to the car, max
| ing about 100000 feet in all. Dur
Ing the past month 21,O0O,000 feet OF
lumber have been shipped from the
local mills of the company and 15,00O,.
600 feet were sawed during the month
The local mills OF the company are
the only large plants which will con.
tinue running through the winter in
Northern Minnesota, the mills at Clio
quet and Bemidji having been shut
down. The mills OF the company EN-
ploy 1000 men on day and night shifts
in the mills and about 1000 men in
the woods north. It is said that there
! is enough timber owned by the com
pany in the woods north to keep the
mill going for twenty years.
George Welsh, State immigration
Commissioner, and Al. e. Nelson. q
member of the State Board of Immi
grafton, represented Minnesota at q
i meeting of Commissioners of Immigra
ton or similar officers OF the various
states held at Washington this week
to provide means for procuring more
uniform distribution Of the alien inn