The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-10-01

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have no effective plan Of their own
to bring about peace in Mexico and
that the situation there 10 drifting.
The bill passed by the house ad.
hitting free Of duty all foreign goods
for exhibit at the Panama.Pacific ex.
position In San Francisco In 1916 has
also been passed by the senate.
A countervailing duty on dried or
candied fruits and combed wool or
tops from Australia. equivalent to the
bounty granted 70 those products by
the Austrian government. has been
ordered by the treasury.
An official from. tie reclamation
service will soon visit southwestern
Nebraska to Investigate and report
upon the feasibility OF improving the
water supply for irrigation purposes.
This is the assurance. given to Rep.
r%esentative Barton. who has been
working on the matter.
David Lamar. conspicuous figure In
the senate lobby investigation and
now under indictment in New York
for im~personating members OF con-
gress. was arrested by order OF Attor-
ney General McReynolds. He was
released on $4,000 bonds.
President Bordas, Of the Dominican
republic has cabled the legation here
that the revolution was confined to
the cities of Puerto Plata, SANTANA
and Moca; that 1t was not general In
the northern part of the country. and
that he had taken personal command
OF his troops.
AS the climax of the vigorous re.
publican condemnation of democratic
legislative methods which has marked
the currency debate, Representative
Sidney Anderson of Minnesota, on
the floor Of the house, resigned as a
member OF the powerful ways and
means committee.
Former Representative James e.
Watson of Indiana, before the house
lobby commission made a gen.
eral denial of Martin Mulhall's gen
eral charge that he was one OF the
active friends Of the national associa
ton of manufacturers in congress for
many years.
Congressman Towner of the Eighth
Iowa district has classified forty
eight letters received from bankers
In his district who have written him
! respecting the proposed currency bill.
Two of them are in favor, three are
noncommittal and %forty-three are
against it.
Chicago police reports that a so
called "black book" containing evi.
dence of Chinese and opium SNUG.
Cling of traffic in white slaves had
| been seized in a Chinese restaurant
in that city were denounced by the
bureau Of immigration as 1.-The purest
fabrication"
Democratic %conferees Of the senate
and house have made rapid progress
on the tariff bill approving the earth
enware and glass schedules with
slight changes the sugar schedule
with Its free sugar provision and the
date for the new rates extended to
| March 1, 1914. the tobacco schedules
with the exception of the proposed ba
mana tax and the countervailing duty
on wheat.
DOMESTIC.
Philadelphia proposes to spend %.
00O, 900 In the erection of school build
ings to meet immediate needs.
Women strike sympathizers al
Calumet. Mich, have organized ar
auxiliary to the Western Federation
Of Miners. They plan q vigorous
campaign in behalf Of the strikers.
Representative Johnson Of Washing
ton has introduced . resolution re
questing the president to negotiat,
with British and Canadian govern
ments for railway connections be
tween the United States and Alaska
The number Of scholars enrolle,
In the West Point schools on tho OF
ening day was 800. an increase of on,
over last year. OF this number nine
ty-two are pupils OF the high school.
Representative Timothy d. Sull
van. who disappeared from his broth
er's home at Williams Bridge, Sci
TENDER /. IL still missing. Report
that he was In q sanitarium at Brew
ster. N. Y, under the care of q Ne,
York physician. declared by tn
physician to be unfounded.
Falcon. and Hope islands Of tn
Friendly Tonga group in the Sout
Pacific have disappeared from view
With them several hundred native
and a few white men also has dissJ
Deare1.