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  chosen regularly in August, 1911, and e. elected in another convention in March of the following year.
 The committee also seated the Taft delegates in the Second district of Ala bama. It gave the Roosevelt delegates ir the second the right to go before tht c5hvention in advance. The vote Wal unanimous in both decisions.
 The two Alabama delegations appeared before the committee as the Long and Thompson delegations. They took the names of the respectively rival state chairmen. Chairman Rosewater of the na- sional committee called upon the RooJe- welt attorneys to open the arguments as the credentials of their delegates were filed first.
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Transports Ready

Newport News, Va, June 7.-The or- der today from Washington, direct ing the placing into commission of the army transports Meade, Mcclellan, Sumner and Fitzpatrick for possible service in placing an army in Cuba, found the big ships practically ready for sea. Each had had skeleton crew aboard for months, the furnaces were ready for the touch of a match and all that remained was to complete the crew list of each vessel and take aboard stores for which bids already had been secured. The local quartermaster de- partment had been anticipating such an order and yesterday five days ad- ditional supply of coal was placed aboard each vessel. Today the work of fitting out the Meade, Sumner and Me Clellan with stalls sufficient for the accommodation of 100 head Of horses each was completed. greater part ol the supplied and subsistence stores were put aboard and the crews signed on. All of the vessels are in splendid shape, each having recently been given thorough overhauling.
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COMMERCE COURT IS OVERRULED BY
 THE SUPREME BODY
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Decide Cincinnati Case

ure before the Senate for a vote. N action on the resolution was taken.
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tion of the United States to send troops to Cuba.
 The government still is without news from the zone of hostilities in Oriente beyond reports of trifling skirmishes Torrential rains are making the move ment of troops impossible and greatly impending the telegraphic communica- tion It Is rumored that General Mon teagudo. commander in chief of the government forces in Oriente, is dis gusted with the futilty of his attempts to force the insurgents to accept com bat, and intends to resign.
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Other Decisions

Washington June 1.-The New York law requiring foreign corporations to pro- cure certificates of incorporation from was declared constitutional today by the supreme court.t The United States has practically the same law. A Philadelphia tea company sued for breach of con tract and won.
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the convention where all could attend and the electors had to protect their own rights by organizing a new com mittee and calling new convention.
 Negro Present
 A negro delegate was present with the Roosevelt representatives in pre- senting the First district case. This is the first time this question was ever presented to this committed. declared MT. McHarg. land 1t must be decided if the republican party Is to live"
 Called upon by MT. McHarg. the col ored delegate, A. P. Millar. declared: "colored folks were afraid to go to Paragould, where the convention was held"
 Wallace Townsend. representing the First district Taft delegation. declared the republicans had followed scrupuous- ly the call of the republican national com mittee,' in calling and holding the district convention
 He declared the contestants claim "ab- surd,' and that they were made only in order to give some ostensible ground for contest.
 MT. Townsend declared he did not know negroes were not allowed in Paragould.
 This is the first intimatlon I have had of that fact, he said
 He and other members of the Taft del- egation. answering questions by Commit- teeman Kellogg of Minnesota. admitted that none were present at the convention, but claimed that several had given their proxies to white men.
 Isn't it strange" asked Mr. Kellogg, that none of them attended if they were allowed to?"
 Nothing Strange
 The Arkansas men would not admit that there was anything strange about the absence of the negroes.
 MT Remmel said that negroes would not have been molested if they had gone to the regular convention He said there were many negroes living in the community .
 The two Taft delegates from the First district were seated by vote of 49 to 2 (kellogg of Minnesota and Thor son of South Dakota In the negativel. The Taft delegates seated are Charles R. French and Charles T. Bloodworth.
 The contest in the Second district, next taken up. hung upon the ques ton of whether or not the Roosevelt faction had received proper considera- ton. J. A. Conner of Little Rock again represented the Roosevelt delegates and H. l.. Remmel the Taft faction.
 The arguments were briefly submitted, following substantially those in the case of the delegates-at-large.
 The committee voted unanimously to seat the Taft delegates. H, H. Meyers and R. s. Coffman. The vote was 47 to 0.
 The committee at $40 D. m. adjourned until 10 a. m. tomorrow.
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WEST VIRGINIA

adjourned until Monday without an nouncing it's decision in the so-called hard coal trust case. It may be decided then.
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ARMY PREPARES TO
 TAKE HAND IN CUBA;
 EVERYTHING READY

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Washington. June 1.-The Indiana pure food law of 1907 was upheld today as constitutional by the supreme court of the United States. The principle was an- nounced that states may enact such mat ters without interfering with the federal pure food and drugs act of 1906 as now defined
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ALABAMA CONTESTS
 ARE DECIDED FOR l PRESIDENT TAFT
 IN EVERY INSTANCE

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washington. June 7.-The supreme court
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Washington. June 1.-The supreme court of the United States reserved this morn- ing the commerce courts decision which would have allowed railroads to carry railroad fuel coal at lower rates than commercial coal The interstate com | merce commission was sustained.
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Factions Were Defeated

He said the faction was defeated to in the election.
 'I saw President Roosevelt later" said MT Remmel and asked him who con- stituted the republican party in Arkan- sas
 You do,' he said'
 Mir Remmel declared the selection of state and district delegates had been en- tirely regular and proper. In the country where Mir. Conner alle1ed fraud and .'rascality" had occurred, the Roosevelt forces did not even take their contest to the state committee or before the commit tee on credentials.
 In 2I counties. said MT Remmel, no of- ficeholders at all were represented in the so-called regular convention. In other counties, he declared, the offieeholders were but minority of the total
 For l3 years this gentleman on the other side was postmaster of Little Rock dee Jared MT. Remmel waving his hand to- ward Mir Holt of the Roosevelt delega- tion.
 Because he did not get it again he is up
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case of a serious accident to a ship in
one of the locks.
The report shows a most satisfact Dry
state of progress of the whole great
work, though in view of the fact that
il is dated September 10 last the fig
ures regarding excavation, placing If
concrete, erection of dams and locks
and subsidiary works are not as recent
those contained in the regular
monthly reports. Naturally the most
interesting feature of the report re
lates to the operations in the great
Culebra cut. Here great land slides,
many ranking with an Alpine ava
lanche in magnitude, have so increased
the amount of material to be eXca :
waited that were it not found possible
to steadily reduce the cost per yard
of dredging and steam shoveling
through the growing expertness of the
employees and improved engineer 6
methods the total cost of excavation
would have been vastly greater than
the estimates. During the last year
nearly 16,500000 cubic yards of earth
We're taken out of this cut, leaving
nearly 12,000,000 to be displaced before
the canal can be opened. The damag
caused by the slides may be appreci-
ated from the fact that nearly 5000, 900
yards of earth excavated was so COM
posed, or nearly SO per cent of the
total excavation.
There is only one way to deal with
these slides and that is to dig them
out as they occur, though some help
is gained by terracing the upper banks.
That is because the geological forma :
tion changes so frequently and sud
denly that no other effective treat
ment has been found. So unstable is
thethe earth that the material in one
part of the cut begins to move on an
inclination as low as ! in I, owing to
the mass of stratified rock sliding over
a layer of Ignite. One slide now in
motion near the bridge of Culebra
which 2,710,00O yards have already
been removed, leaving 100000 still to
be handled.
Then there is another little slide Of
no less than so acres on the opposite
side of the canal. The result of these
earth movements, which are quite eX-
ceptional in Engineering practice, has
been to leave the canal in its deepest
portions with only very flat slopes The
encouraging feature of the heavy work
at that point is found in the statement
in the report that none Of the slides
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OF MONOPOLY

WASHINGTON, Nov 19-In an epoch
making decision in the so-called bath
tub case, the supreme court laid down
the broad principle that there can be
no monopoly in an unpatented product
of patented machine without its be
ing violation of the Sherman anti
trust law. Justice McKenna delivered
i. as the unanimous opinion of the
court. In accordance with this decision
the court struck down as illegal the
license agreement" by which manu-
facturers of S5 per cent of the sani-
tary enameneled ironware of the
United States were bound together in
a combination. Officials in the depart
ment of justice are highly elated as
scrting that the decision will have an
important bearing in the suits against
the moving picture trust and the
United Machinery company.
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which occurred during the year would
have interfered with the passage of
/ ships had the canal been in opera
ton"
Already the appropriations made by
congress for the canal have run into
; big figures, the total up to June 80
last being $293, ,561, ,46S; and since that
date there have been additional appro-
priations, exclusive of those for forti-
fcations,' amounting to $2S,9S0,O00,
making the grand total 1922, 2,541, ,46S.
June so, of all these appropriations,
the engineers had expended 50 per cent
of the total estimated cost of the ca
| nal.
! OF even greater interest from an
! engineering point of view than the
vast but commonplace work of exca-
walton in Culebra cut, was the work of
constructing the great locks at Gatun
| and Miraflores and Pedro Miguel for
their many novel problems have been
| solved, and lock machinery constructed
of special designs of a magnitude
never before heard Of. For instance,
so big are the valves at the side of
J the locks that a test showed that it
required a pull of more than 10 tons
, valves. All this work is done electri-
cally and here again the engineers
| were confronted with new difficulties.
Owing to the peculiar climatic condi-
tions on the isthmus, with tropical heat
and extreme humidity, and the deter
iorating effect of these conditions on
| the insulation of electrical machinery,
the ordinary insulation proved unre-
| liable and the engineers found it ne
| cessary to make a great number Of
| experiments, no less than 16 sample
| m otors being pitted against one an
| other. 1t an awful test for dyna-
| mo and motor builders to have their
machines required to operate for a
/ period of 10 days in a building filed
| with steam at a temperature of 50
degrees centigrade and having the mo-
| tor cases filled with water for five
| hours at so degrees. But finally the
American motor builders responded and
| suitable apparatus is being installed
| Thus electric motors under tests are
| now swinging the great gates of the
! canal, each weighing very many tons
| and as tall and broad as great sky
| scraping building in the remarkable
time of l minute As seconds Inciden-
| tally, it appears that to make these
| gates the iron workers must drive and
| head 5,750,000 rivets. The pivots of
| these great locks are being made of
| special grade of steel and bronze
| not only for strength, but to protect
| them against corrosion, a very neces-
| sary precaution in view of the fact
! that they will always be submerged in
| sea water after the canal is open. To
! guard against galvanic action, zinc
rings are also placed on the bronze
| bushings.
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DEMOCRtT NOT United

WASHINGTON, Nov 19.-The form
that tariff revision is to take before
the special session of congress mex,
spring has become a subject of strong
Individual opinion among Democratic
senators and congressman now here
Representative Underwood, Demo
cratic house leader, who will reach
Washington this week, has given nc
indication as to his own plans and
ii is expected that Democratic leaders
will confer a length over the situa-
tion before advising President elect
Wilson of tentative arrangements
Many members nowN favor a gen.
eral bill covering many or all of the
schedules of the tariff law, to be
framed as partial or complete sub
stitute for the Payne-Aldrich law
Those who advance this plan say il
would be the speediest way of full
filling tariff pledges. Others favor
combining in a single bill those meas
ures passed in the last two years, but
vetoed by President Taft; and the
preparation of other single schedule
bills to follow this measure
Unless the plan to revise the entire
tariff law in a single bill is adopted
1t is believed Democratic leaders will
urge the calling Of the special session
before April 10. That date was set
by President elect Wilson as the latest
upon which he would assemble the
new congress. Democrats here believe
the new house can begin work in
March soon after the present admins
tration retires from power, and be or
Garized and ready for tariff legisIa
tion early in April.
1t is expected short hearings VIII
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Holiday

oh, up and down the valley
Ny Soul she goes a-flving:
Sne does not dilly daily
Where the ragged sheep are crying,
Nor where the cuckoo seerls to be
A Swiss clock in the tufteG tree.
For she has stolen pinions
Clear golden like the sun;
And all the suns dominions
Are hers-yes. every one
OF yonder hills and glad green
meads,
And grottoes where the wild brook
speeds.
And every huddled farm house,
Gray walled and girt with green,
Dumb drowsy as a dormouse
Its drowsy fields between,
Where cows and wide backed
ducklings go
With sabbath manners, said and
slow
And all the roads she follows,
The hard white roads that wind
Across the heights and hollows,
AS dream roads in the mind
Spin out, and come to that long
sought
Anu cOZy NllldSe Oi-d tllouShl
Oh up and down and under
The hills whose shadows lean
Wide gloom to keep asunder-
The too blue from the green,
My Soul, she flies on sunny wings,
And through the twinkling thicket
sings
Oh, wind and sun and greenness,
And wings that flash in flying!-
Sweep free, my Soul, from meanness
And ugliness and dying
And learn, dear Soul, to fly and
sing
When work and winter shade thy
wing! FL
Fanny Stearns Davis, in Yale Re
view.
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FIRST VESSEL TO GO
THROUGH CANAL IN 1918

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-Some time
being specified, a vessel will pass from
the Atlantic to the Pacific across what
is now the isthmus of Panama, which
consequently must disappear from the
worlds geography, and, by the same
human agency, the western hemisphere
will be divided into two continents. Tie
vessel will not be the Oregon or any
other famous ship. but will be one Of
the small water craft in daily use by
the canal builders; and probably the
only passengers will be Col George
w. Goethals and the staff of Ameri-
can engineers who for the past eight
years have been carrying on the great =
est engineering work the world has
ever seen. 1t will be later than that
anywhere from six months to a year
perhaps, before the formal opening of
the waterway will take place, and a
naval fleet, headed by the famous old
Oregon, will pass through into the
western ocean, and the canal may be
fairly said to be open to trade.
These facts are not of official record
as yet; the date of January l. 1915
still stands for the opening predicted ID
by Colonel Goethals. But that the
opening will be anticipated to a great
extent has been promised by the canal
builders in unofficial statements, and
now comes a clear intimation of their
purpose to advance the opening date.
in the annual report of the canal COM
mission, just published. 1t is disclosed
that while the completion Of the great
locks by January l next will not be
possible, owing to contract delays.
within six months thereafter the chan
mel will be finished, while to insure the
safe passage of the locks, the contract
or has been called upon to finish the
gates in one flight first, so that if
the rest of the work is in condition
passage of ships can be permitted with
out waiting for the completion of the
other flights. This statement will be
understood when it is known that the
great sIocks are being built in dupli-
cate, Side by side, not only to add
TO the capacity of the canal, but to
insure its continuance in operation in
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The undersigned does hereby certify
chandise business at Ell Centro, Imperi-
al county, California, under the iicti-
iOus firm name of Rumseys Depart
nent Store, and that said firm is com
posed of the following persons, whose
names and addresses are as follows
to wit: ROY L. RUMSEY. Ell Centre,
California.
Witness our hand this 1st day of No
vember, 1919
ROY l.. RUMSEY.
State of California, County of Imperial
SIS.
On this 4th day of November, in the
year nineteen hundred and twelve be-
fore me, Allen p. Nuffer, a notary pub
lie in and for said county, residing
herein, duly commissioned and sworn
personally appeared Roy L. Rumsey,
known to me to be the person whose
name is subscribed to the within instru-
ment and acknowledged to me that he
executed the same.
Witness my hand and official seal
ISEALl ALLEN z. NUFFER
Notary Public in and for the Said
County of Imperial, State of Califor-
mia. Mon. Nov. 25
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be given by the ways and means COM
mttee to industries vitally affected by
proposed tariff changes. The extent
of these hearings, according to Dem
ocratic members of the house who fa-
terfere with early action on the tariff
bills.
The plan of distributing the various
tariff schedules among subcommittee
of the ways and means committee,
which was resorted to last year, was
found to operate efficiently both in
saving time and in obtaining the in
formation necessary to the work Of
the committee, and it is expected this
expedient will be adopted again.
Senator Gore expressed the opinion
that the entire tariff revision should
be concluded before next July, permit
ting the Inauguration of the new
schedule with the beginning of the
fiscal year July 1. To secure perfect
cooperation between house and sen
ate, Senator Gore said he probably
would suggest a joint steering com
mittee of members of both houses to
act together during the approaching
short session in the formulation of
a tariff measure for the extra session.
1t is not the purpose of the Repub-
licans to allow the Democratic pro
gram to be put through without rem
onstrances. They will ask hearings on
many schedules and Republican sen
ate leaders expect to be able to make
effective opposition in many instances
"The Democrats cannot get free
sugar bill through the senate" said
Senator Smoot of the finance COM
mittee.
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KEPT SECRET FIVE YEARS

CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-Stephen Laporte
who gave his address as Tucson, Ariz.
when arrested as a suspicious charac-
ter. surprised the detectives by break
ing down and asserting that on the
night of August 8, 1907, he shot and
killed Walter Taylor, a ranchman for
whom he worked. The fellow carrie
the terrible secret for over five years
but it must have finally become too
much for him to longer hold from the
authorities and he found himself
forced to make admission.
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CAR FOUNDRY BURNS

TERRE HAUTE, Nov. 19.-The erect
ing plant of the American Car Foundry
company burned last evening. The loss
amounts to 100000 Two fremen were
seriously injured by portions of fall
ing wall
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Not Coal Lands.-Serial No. O625:.D
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office at Los Angeles. Cal,
October is. 1912. NOTICE is hereby
given that MARTHA ). STOCKTON, of
1910, made Desert Land Entry No,
06252, for Lot 5, VIZ SEA, SEA SWA
Section 8, Township 16 s., Range IA 81
being now adjusted by supplemental
survey TO Tract 141, Township 16 S..
Range IA E., S. b. Meridian, embracing
Lots s. and Z, SEA SWh, Section g.
filed notice of intention to make final
proof to establish claim to the land
above described, before the Cleark of
at Ell Centre, California, on the 29th
day of November, 1912, at 10 o'clock
a. IN.
Claimant names as witnesses: Samu-
Ell w. Stockton of Moorpark, Cal; John
W. Jones, Samuel Jones, John Norton,
all of Ell Centre. Cal
FRANK BUREN, Register
Nov "a
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WILSON CARRIES IDAHO

BOISE, Nov. 19.-Wilson carried Ida
no by 100 over Taft, according to the
official count.
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