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court IN which ths United States was q
party. the government fipre1ented By
Mr.: Davis. was suecesSfdI 10 l9. or
the cases taken up to the Supreme
Court by IitigantS other than the gov
eminent. only seven were decided
against the government.
The national forest reservation COM
mission has recently approved for pur-
chase tract Of 5000 acres Of land in
Randolph and Tucker counties, and 80
acres in Hardy county, These tracts
bring the total purchases along the
headwaters of the MonongaheIa river
in West Virginia up to a, 1887 acres.
and along the Potomac headWaters up
to SO. 405 acres. The total acreage in
the State approved for purchase is 1866
48O acres. The average price paid for
these lands lands is less than IS an
acre.
DIR. Thomas E. Hodges, president of
the West Virginia University, who was
nominated at the Democratic State
convention at Parkersburg last month
for Congressman at Large. spent q
day in Washington last week, confer
ring with Senator Chiffon, Congress
man Brown and others. lt was stated
by persons in close touch with him that
he had decided to accept the nonina-
ton rendered him and that il a few
days he will make definite sStatement
to that effect. g .
Congressman Brown is fortunate. in
living so close to the Capitol that he
can make frequent trips to his home
without loosing any time in Washing
ton He speut the fourth of July at
home returning in time for all the .du-
ties of the last week, and then went
out again last Saturday to enjoy the
cooling mountain breezes over Sunday.
Mr.. Brown is seldom absent when mat
ters of Importance are up. but likes to
get breath of West Virginia mountain
air when he can.
Congressman Brown has introduced
a bill providing for the payment of a
pension to Charlotte L Arnett, Of
Charles Town
Hon. William Campbell, of, Charles
Town, who is largely interested in
fruit growing in West Virginia. passed
through Washington on his way to
Southern George. where the peach
crop is now being shipped out.
1t begins to look little as though
George M. Bowers, of Martinsburg,
who it was thought was slated for the
Republican nomination for Congress
man in the Second District, will not
get the nomination without hard fight.
W. Taylor George. of Philippi. who
was here last week to help substantiate
the charges against Judge Dayton. and
who is understood to have severely ar.
raigned Judge Dayton IN his testimony,
announced while here that he is a can
didate for the nomination for Congress
oD straight, out and out StaDd-Pa
ticket, with no ambition to have the
Progressive endorsement. In addition
to this he is said to have severely criti-
cised Theodore Roosevelt while here,
showing that he has no desire to be
aft iated with the Progressive party.
L. j. Formap, of Grant county, is I'm
derstood to be candidate also, while
Tracy L. Jeffords, of Harperss Ferry,
is understood to have put q feeier out
last week with a view to entering the
race if his replies are favorable. There
are almost as many Progressive can
didates for the nomination as Republic
can. Among the number aresaid to be
Jack Henson, of Martinsburg; D. H.
Courtney. of Morgantown; N. g Keim.
of Elkins, and Sam B. Montgomery, of
Preston county, In fact it looks like
there would be hot fight over the
nomination in each. of the parties which
have not yet named candidate.