The Ely miner., 1911-01-27

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government Of between 100000 and
s5.000,000 annually for the last five
years.
The Haitien and Santo Dominican
governments have both accepted the
proposal of Secretary Knox to submit
to arbitration the delimitation of the
frontier, which has been the cause OF
serious disputes between the countries
Luke Lea, Independent Democrat
practical owner of the Nashville Ten
| nesseean-Amercian, and youngest poll
tician in Tennessee with any degree oi
success, was named by the general as
| sembly of that state to succeed to the
seat held by U. 8. Senator James B.
Frazier.
Substitution of glass lens in an
eye of Dr. William Copley Winslow,
writer and clergyman of Boston,
Mass, is declared to have restored
his sight.
The Japanese who assaulted United
States Consul Williamson at Dalny
last month were reprimanded and as
sessed fine of $3.50 each.
Following the posting of notices
threatening all negroes if they did not
quit the town." the last of $50 ne
groes left Hominy, Okla. The trouble
started two months ago, when negro
tenants were given leases on cotton
lands
Following increased activity in the
Honduran government garrison, thir-
ty American bluejackets from the
United States cruiser Tacoma and
twenty English seamen from the Brit
ish cruiser Brilliant were landed at
Cuba, Honduras, and started building
barricades for the protection Of sub
jects of the two countries in the event
Of an attack on the town by Bonilla
revolutionists.
Five millions of Americans have
hook worm. This is the fact of pri-
mary Importance disclosed through
the investigation of the origin and
progress Of the disease by the crops
Of experts of the Rockefeller commits
sion.
Declaring that the right of the Unit
ed States to fortify the Panama canal
is incontestable, and championing a
policy looking to that end. President
Taft opened an active campaign on
that subject at the annual banquet of
the Pennsylvania society in New
York city. The president believes that
the present session of congress will
appropriate $5,O0O,O00 to begin the
work.
To exclude hydrophobia Gov. Edwin
L. Norris of Montana has issued a
proclamation establishing a quaran-
tine against all dogs from Oregon and
several counties in Washington and
Idaho.
Coal and coke exports from the
United States in 1910 aggregated $45,-
100000 in value and in addition to
this more than $2O,0O0,000 worth was
supplied to vessels engaged in the
foreign trade.
To provide sustenance for the men
who are expected to engage in gen.
eral strike at Los Angeles in the
spring in an attempt to unionize that
city, the California building trades
council adopted a resolution for the
purchase of an Industrial farm.
The commission of fine arts, which
was asked by President Taft to de-
eide whether the District of Columbia
should be allowed to build reforma-
tory near Mount Vernon, has decided
that 1t sees no objection to such ac-
ton on esthetic grounds.
The war department does not view
with favor the project for a joint en-
campment of the National Guard Of
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Okla
homa. and possibly of Iowa, in Sep
tember next at Lake Contrary, near
st. Joseph, Mo.
Mrs. Ella Service Bassindale, twen-
ty-two years old, fell dying into the
arms of Rev. r. s. Smith at the rec
tory of st. James Roman Catholic
church, Kenosha, Wis. A few minutes
before the young woman had swal-
lowed carbolic acid.
Officers of Canadian and American
express companies, after a conference
at New York, announced a reduction
in through rates soon to take effect
between all Offices of the United States
and many of Canada.
Andrew Carnegie announced at New
York city that he had given another
$10,000,000 to the endowment fund of
the Carnegie Institute of Research of
Washington. This latest contribution
brings the total of Mr.. Carnegie's gifts
to the institution to $25, 100000.
The police of Washington are look
ing for Mrs. Adiel w. Wade, former
school teacher, who is alleged to have
f1eeced over hundred citizens of the
national capital out of $4,000 or more
by an entirely new game"
II committee representing every
asylum in Michigan has any weight
with the state legislature, the word
asylum" will no longer be used in ref
erence to these state institutions. It
suggests the use of hospital" and also
opposes the word insane"
The New York Central railroad has
discharged Albert Seagrove, the
motorman in charge of the train
which Knocked over a bumper and in
directly caused the explosion at the
Grand Central in New York, in which
eleven people were killed.
It is announced that President Taft,
Governor Dix and Mayor Gaynor will
sit at the same table on the evening
of Washington's birthday as guests of
the Police Lieutenants' Benevolent