The Green Forest tribune., 1913-07-25

Cuxhaven, Germany with the British steamer Mozart,
 The United States circuit court of appeals has granted the application for release under $150,000 bail of Al bert w. Freeman, convicted March IA, last, with Julian Hawthorne and pr. William J. Morton, of using the mails to defraud investors in mining stock.
 The presentation by Edward T. Will liams charge d'affaires of the Amer ican legation, of the formal recogni- tion by the United States of the Chi nese republic was made an occasion of much ceremony at Pekin.
 Bills providing for the direct elec- ton of United States senators in H. linois and amending the primary law to include this office were passed by the senate and sent to the house.
 
 Gov. Sulzer's primary bill was de- feated in the New York senate by vote of 8 ayes to 43 notes.
 
 An expenditure of $300O,000, 900 for good roads, $1,000,000 ,00O being for construction and $2,0O0,O00 900 for maintenance, the investment to extend over a period of 50 years, was proposed in a plan submitted to the IOi, l eral aid in the construction of post roads by former Senator Bourne of Oregon
 Secretary Lane announced the se- lection of Prof. Adolph c. Miller of Berkeley, Cal, to be first assistant secretary of the interior department. The nomination will be sent to the senate in the near future.
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 Mrs. Jonathan Bourne, wife of ex- Senator Bourne of Oregon, now serv- ing on commission in Washington, obtained a divorce decree in Port land, Ore, on the grounds of abuse. William Harmony Lamar of Rock vile, Md. was appointed assistant at torney-general for the postoffice de- partment to succeed Russell P. Good win of Aurora, H., resigned.
 
 Insurgent forces evacuated Elm palme, Mexico after which the Mex ican gunboat Guerrero began shelling the California gulf town preliminary to a land movement from Guaymas where the federal garrison was rein forced strongly.
 The Progressives' old age pension bill to provide $1 to $4 a week for all those more than 65 years old whose incomes are under $10 a week was in troduced by Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania.
 The managers of the 52 Eastern railroads f1atly refused to grant the demands for increased wages and notifications in working conditions made by the conductors and trainmen Ol lle
 Eleven lives were lost ill the flood backwater at Natchez, Miss. Two res cue boats returning from the flooded interior reported they were forced to look on while two families perished. The damage suffered by the Penn sylvania Railroad company through the recent floods in the Middle West is put at $3,610,00O according to a statement issued by the company.
 Mississippi flood water pouring through a break in the dike near Gib- sons landing had formed a lake 15 miles in length and many miles wide in Tansas and Concordia parishes, Louisiana.
 President Wil-- nominated George D. DOwney of i.-~-ana to be comp troller of the treasury, and Lewis T. Erwin of Alaska to be United States marshal for the Fourth district of Alaska.
 Louis w. Hill has announced off, ficially that Carmi Thompson, for mer Limited States treasurer, had been appointed general manager of the Great Northern and Hill ore prop critics, with offices in the Great Northern building in St. Paul.
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 The Missouri supreme court en blanc granted restraining orders against the 1S2 companies in the Western Bureau Fire Insurance asso- citations, preventing them from can ceiling their present policies.