The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-02-08

Roosevelt says he is a progressive
and could not be anything else.
President Taft expects to visit Kan
sas the week of September "a to 30
next.
The senate confirmed the presi-
dents nominees for the court OF CON-
merce.
Money appropriated to raise the
Maine has run out and work has been
stopped.
New York and Iowa legislatures
show no signs of agreeing on senator
ial choice.
Twenty deaths from the plague
have occurred in the Chinese hospi-
tai at Tien.
A movement is under way to form
state branches of the national repub-
lican progressive league.
American Ambassador Leishman.
who has rad holidy in America. re-
turned 10 his post in Rome.
The Hartman lines are to- do much
double tracking. Pullman berth rate
reductions are now in effect.
Athletic Manager Eager says 1t Is
not certain Michigan and Nebraska
will clash OF the football field.
Congress is showing considerable
anxiety over the embarrassment caus-
ed by the proposed reciprocity pro-
gram.
Speaker Kuhl of the Nebraska
house was presented with new gavel
made of the OLD flag pole of old Fort
Kearney.
The California state senate passed
bill providing for the initiative and
referendum and the recall for NUM-
Qualities of California.
President Taft has accepted the
resignation from the army Of Captain
Peter c. Hams, Jr., coast artillery
corps. effective January %.
The committee on foreign affairs
of the Austrian delegation adopted
resolution in favor Of President
Taft'S disarmament proposition.
AS president Of the national conser-
walton association, Gioffrd PinchOt is
sued statement commencing Presi-
dent Taft's water power policy.
J. c. Sunny of Waterloo. Ia, who
claims TO be an athlete OF Ames col
lege, was taken into custody at Chi
cago pending examination as to his
mental condition.
Captain Bellanger of the aviation
corps of the French army, began a
n
monOplare from Paris to Pau, a dis
lance OF about 500 miles.
A man giving the name Of Charles
Smith was arrested in Oklahoma City.
charged with implication in the blow
ing up of the Los Angeles Times.
Smith is from Joplin, Mo.
1t is reported that Geo. J. Gould,
the president of the Missouri Pacific
railway company. the only one OF the
great Gould system of railroads in
which he is still dominant will retire.
President Taft has decided to ap-
point Judge Martin, of the court of
common pleas of Lancaster, O., to the
United States court of customs ap-
peals. to succeed Judge William H.
Hunt
Juan Sanchez AZcona. whom the
Mexican government sought TO extra
dite for trial Oh the charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses. was
set free by the supreme court Of the
District of Columbia.
Chancellor Allison decided at Nash
vile, Tenn, against the negro
knights of Pythias, holding that they
have no right to the name. regalia.
badges, etc. This case will be ap-
pealed TO the supreme court.
Thirty-two individual defendants in
the so-called bathtub trust criminal
federal court in Detroit Monday af-
ternoon. 1t was expected the case
would come up for trial in March.
Mrs. Mary Celia jumped to her
probably fatally burned in a spec
tacuiar fire which destroyed four
story tenement building at Thirty
seventh street and Sixth avenue, New
York
Sheriff r. E. Martin OF HansfOrd
county. Texas. was shot and killed by
a man named Fifer. Sheriff Martin
and a United States marshal went to
arrest Fifer for unlawfully holding
state land twenty miles northwest Of
here. The men entered Filters barn
and struck match. Fifer fired and
escaped.
A caucus of the supporters of La
fayette Young for United States SEN
ator was held at Des Moines. When
the caucus adjourned it was an
nounced that every man present had
pledged himself to vote for Young
until the end of the session, unless
special primary bill shall pass in
the meantime.