The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-03-22
GENE RAl.
Missouri

No president of the Missouri
Pacific 10 succeed George Gould
has yet been chosen, and II no selec-
ton has been made for the place by
March 21st. when the meeting OF di-
rectors is expected to be held in
New York. 1t is probable that Gould
will continue In office.
President Taft and Representative
Martin w. Littleton OF New York
played an interesting game of golf
In way It was heralded as
contest between the Republican
and Democratic parties. and the Presi-
dent. as the representative of the
former. Unexpectedly won.
Failure to fortify the Panama canal
would be an act OF criminal folly" de-
ciared Theodore Roosevelt at the
Dallas Chamber of Commerce. He
said that only two treaties relative to
the canal existed. those with England
and Panama. and hence any other ma
ton would be at liberty to destroy 1t in
case OF war.
The Milwaukee Socialist City Council
decided to buy stretch Of 500 acres
along three miles of the upper river
front for a public park at a cost of
81 900 900. to be paid in twenty annual
installments. The Republican and
Democratic minority fought the propo-
sltion on the ground that the city has
already reached its bonded debt limit.
May LIST. long unpopular because OF
the Inconvenience suffered by tha1
~ ha rx-h lob oh
its residence annually. will be ter
ror to the flat dweller and the family
man for the last time this year. 1t
was so decreed at a meeting of the
Chicago Real Estate board recently
and ratified by the Cook County Real
Estate board. A resolution was adopt
ed by each of the boards providing for
the making of leases from any time in
one year to any time Of the next year.
The action in both bodies was unani-
nous and was accompanied by cheer
ing.
President Taft has followed with in
terest the discussion of the last few
days In the English parliament on the
international arbitration treaty pro-
posed by him. He is delighted with
the manner in which the proposal has
been received in Great Britain. The
President is hopeful that the treaty
may be adopted by both countries and
believes it will be a great step toward
the abolition of war. And. with war
practically impossible between the two
great English speaking nations, there
is every reason to hope. according to
the Presidents view that other ma
lions may come into such an agree
ment and thus make for universal
peace. The treaty is broad one, and
proposes that all disputes including
even those of national honor and ter
ritory shall be settled by arbitration.
The grand jury has begun an inves-
tigation into the affairs of the Carne-
gle Trust Company. closed by the sup
erintendent of banks, February LIST.
At Grand Canon. Ariz.. Col. Theodore
Roosevelt lunched beside the boiling
waters of the Colorado river. 1920
feet below the rim of the Grand canon.
1t was his first visit and he is the
first occupant of the White House
who ever made the fourteen miles
round trip to what is often declared
to be the most striking sight nature
has provided in all the world.
That the transplanting of human
kidneys from a dying to living man
is simply like plumbers job, is the
declaration of DR.. A. NJ. Shipley. pro-
fessor of surgical pathology at the
University of Maryland.
Pardons have been issued for
Charles W. Morse. now serving a 15-
year sentence in the federal prison at
Atlanta. Ga. and John r. Walsh, who
was sentenced to five years in the
federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan.
both for the misuse Of funds entrusted
] to their banks.