The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13

at Lacey, Wash, is rapidly nearing
and will be ready for oc-
cupancy about the first of October.
For Catholic Colony in Idaho.-The
Catholic Colonization Society of
America has applied to the State
Land Board of Idaho for permission
to purchase $4,000 acres of farm land
in Clearwater County with a view to
settling 100 Catholic families there.
Catholic Legislative Committee
The Legislative Committee of the
Federation of German Catholic Soci-
cites of Illinois has issued a report
of its activities at the Springfield
Legislature. The Legislative Com
mittee is made up of members of the
German and English Federation, CO.
and sharing the pro rata
expense of the legislative campaign.
A permanent secretary was elected
whose duty it is to secure copies of
all bills. During the session just
closed, over 1000 bills were intro
duced in both houses. The local mem
bers of the committee were kept busy
studying these bills from January 29th
until the close of the session. The
report covers action on school legisla-
ton, legislation on divorce, charitable
institutions, registered nurses, labor.
Election of Illinois Knight.-At a
meeting of the new legislative refer
ence bureau, held in Springfield last
month in the executive Offices at the
state house, Finley F. Bell of Chicago
was elected secretary. Governor
Dunno is ex-officio chairman of the
commission. Mr.. Bell is well known
to the public, prominent knight of
Columbus and has been closely identi-
fed with all the charitable and philan-
thropic, efforts of the order in recent
years.
Appointment of Father o'caIIaghan.
The Rev. Peter J. O'Callaghan who
lectured on temperance in the ST.
Paul home of the Knights of Column
bus last July, has been named
by William Jennings Bryan, Secretary
of State, as one of the American dele
gates to the fourteenth international
Congress on Alcoholism at Milan,
Italy this month. Father O'Calla-
CHAN is president of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of America,
and also of the Citizens League of
Chicago.
Priests With the Deal. Three
priests were in attendance at the
tenth triennial convention of the Ma
tional Association of the Deaf, which
was held in Cleveland the last week of
August. These priests are the Rev.
Ferdinand Moeller, S. j., of Chicago,
a brother of Archbishop Moeller: the
Rev. Michael R. Mccarthy, S. J., of
New York, and the Rev. Michael
Comerford, of Flint, Mich. Father
Moeller has about 800 deaf under his
care. Father Mccarthy about 1000,
and Father Comerford is Catholic
chaplain to State institution for the
deaf at Flint. There were about 100
Catholics in attendance at the conven-
ton.
Many Requests in WiII.-Several
Catholic institutions of Columbus,
Ohio, are beneficiaries under the will
of the late Anna M. Fitzpatrick. filed
for probate recently. The Sisters of
the Poor of st. Francis at St. Francis
hospital get $500, the hospital proper
$3.50, st. Anthony's Hospital $3.50 and
st. AIMS Infant Asylum $500. Rev.
M. M. Meara of ST. Joseph's Cathe-
dral is given $1,000 to say Masses for
the deceased, her parents, brother and
sisters and the same amount is given
for identifying the interior of st. Jo-
seph's Cathedral
"Ryan Mobile, Alabama,
has honored the late Abram J. Ryan,
the poet priest of the South, by plac-
ing his statue, of heroic size, in one
of its public parks named for him,
Ryan Park"
Wife of Austrian Ambassador
Mrs. Frederic CORTLAND Penfeld, wife
of the recently appointed ambassador
to Austria, was made a marchioness
by Pope Plus in 1909. Mrs. Penfield
inherited $60,0O0,0OO from her father,
a Philadelphia chemist, and has con-
vast sums to Catholic char
tiles.
Negro congratuIates CARDINAL
Among the letters of congratulations
received by Cardinal Gibbons on his
recent birthday was tribute from
Harry s. Cummings, colored, city
for the Seventeenth ward,
Baltimore, who mentioned the Car
iinars constant championship of the
rights of the oppressed everywhere.
Ventura BY the Seattle old mis-
sion town of San Buenaventura in
California on November "a next will
celebrate the second centenary of the
birth of Padre Junipero Sierra, the
sanity pioneer Of California. The
oldest landmark of the town is
typical pioneer adobe home. This was
owned by a Chinaman, Sing Hing,
who, when he learned that the citizens
wished to make of the property an
historical YnusolIn surrenderod IL for