The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-01-07
NEWS NOTES OF
NATIONS CAPITAL

Taft and two members of his cabinet
will participate in the meeting Of the
Southern Commercial congress to be
held March 8, 9 and 10, in Atlanta,
Ga. The president has chosen for his
address A Greater Nation Through
a Greater South;o Secretary Dickin-
son will have for his subject, "The
Enforcement of Law in the South, -
and Secretary Wilson will talk on
"The Agricultural Obligations of the
South" Others on the program for q l.
dresses are Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
Surgeon General Walter Wyman, T. v.
Powderly, Governor-elect Woodrow
Wilson and Duncan u. Fletcher, U. 8.
senator from Florida, who is member
| of the executive committee of the
Southern Commercial congress. Sena-
tor Fletcher will speak on the "South-
ern Renaissance. George w. Perkins,
of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
will speak on Business Efficiency
and VIM. G. McAdoo will give an ad-
dress or Corporations and the Pub
| lic'
1t is expected that there will be a
big attendance at this meeting and
that the governors Of all Southern
states VIII be there.
Counsular Notes.
The expectation of fruit from Cape
Colony has increased from nearly CO.,
900 boxes in 1906 to 201,871 in 1910.
The expectation consists chiefly of
pears, with grapes next in Importance,
followed closely by plums and peaches.
Other fruits exported, but in much
smaller quantities, were nectarines,
melons, apricots, apples and pine
apples.
Consul Mason Mitchell, at Apia,
Samoa, reports the appearance of a
beetle, which is greatly injurious to
cocoanut trees. The islands the great
| ly dependent on cocoanuts, and the
ravages of the beetle are looked on
with alarm.
Consul General Hill, at Frankfort,
reports a decreased production of
alcohol in Germany.
! Concul Jesse E. Jackson, writing
from Aleppo, Turkey, deprecates the
methods used in cleaning rugs and
carpets and recommends that carpet
sweepers, which are practically un-
known, be introduced although the
people of the country are skeptical
concerning all new articles.
The honey industry, which is COM
paratively new there, is making steady
growth in Hawaii. The honey yield
at present is worth about $4,000 an
nually Hawaii sends out 100000
cases of pineapples every year, the
acreage of that fruit being $500 acres.
Two companies have been incorporated
in Hawaii to grow tobacco, and one of
them shipped 5000 pounds this year.
Cotton was grown this season for
the first time at Columbus, Tamauli-
pas, Mexico. The results have arous-
ed considerable enthusiasm over the
prospects. Seed was imported from
Georgia, and the production has been
very satisfactory, the yield being one
bale and more per acre.
1 1t is estimated that 55,000,000
pounds of cotton will be exported from
Peru for the current year. Growing
conditions were exceptionally good.
Last year the exports were 47,641,- ,-776
pounds. About 125,000 acres are un-
der cultivation.
The 1910 cotton crop in the Saloniki
district in European Turkey is 4,000,-
600 pounds, or 20 per cent less than
last year.
Among foreign trade opportunities
indicated by the Consular Reports, are
demands for disinfectants, horn but
tons, carriages and carriage stock,
shoe leather, Epson salts, magnesium
sulphate, bridge material and con-
struction, silk dress goods and shop
ping bags, tramways and other con-
cessions, American boots and shoes,
patent medicines, Photographic chem,
icals, limitations of animal hair, q ma.
chine for pairing leather for book bind
ing, and general Office appliances.
Political Notes.
Congressman who did not get their
hands into the pork barrel at the
last session have resignedly abandon
ed hope of ever doing so. With Re.
publican president and a Democratic
house, they anticipate contest for
Economic Sweepstakes which will put
crimp in all the approaching bills.
That Champ Clark is receptive
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
ton for president is welcome news to
his many staunch friends in Washing
ten and elsewhere. The news, however,
is something of a surprise in the camps
of other candidates, where booms of
more or less strength are being care
fully nurtured Clark belongs to the
''plain people" type and neither he
nor his family put on any "frilis. :
In that respect, at least, he is an ex.
ponent of ",Jeffersonian Simplicity. -
1t is reported that Senator Crane, OF
Massachusetts, will get out into the
field to line up Taft delegations in
various states.
A representative from Texas, who
didn't "come back dropped into
town the other day, drew his mileage
and headed precipitately for the Union
station, remarking that he didn't pur-
pose shaving away at is desk here when
his constituents didn't appreciate his
efforts.
Appointment Of Judges.
Among senators the disappointment
over President Taft's selection OF
Judges is still ranking. The president
has his own method of appointing mer
IN vacancies on the bench. When the