j: INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS URGES CONSERVATION OF T^e annual convention of corn they would relieve the railroads or supplement INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. the public domain, the area of the homestead growers and stockmen and the free tbem In respect to the bulkier has been enlarged from MSG to 120 and cheaper commodities is a matter of school, for. housekeepers opened at acres has resulted most beneficially In conjecture. No enterprise ought to b» the extension or "dry farming" and in the University of Illinois in Champaign. PRESS PUB. CO., Publishers. THE NATION'S RESOURCES undertaken the cost of which is not definitely the demonstration which has been made and an4 of the possibility, through a variation In ascertained the benefit Arbitration of the wage dispute between of are INTERNATIONAL FALLS. MINN. the character and mode of culture, of advantage which not known and other raising substantial crops without the the Illinois Central railroad and assured by competent engineers and a of presence of such a supply of water as authority. When, however, project its telegraphers was taken up in Chicago MP0I1TANT NEWS has been heretofore thought to be necessary a definite character for the improvement by I. G. Rawn, president of the sothat for agriculture. of a waterway has been developed Monon J. A. Newman, vice-president But there are millions of acres of completely the plans have been drawn, the cost arid land in the public domain definitely estimated, and the traffic of the Order of Railway Telegraphers President Taft Sends Special Message to Congress which, by the establishment of reservoirs which will be accommodated is reasonably and Prof. B. H. Meyer of the University it of NOTES OF A WEEK for the storing of water and the irrigation probable I think is the duty of Wisconsin. of the lands, may be made much congress to undertake the project and Recommending Prevention of Land A great conference on uniform legislation more fruitful and productive than the make provision therefor in the proper appropriation bill. best lands in a climate where the moisture by the states, called by the National comes from the clouds. Congress One of the projects which answers the Civic Federation, opened in Frauds, Control of Water Power, Fostering recognized the importance of this method description I have given is that of introducing Washington, President Taft making of artificial distribution of water on the dams into the Ohio river from. arid lands by the passage of the reclamation Pittsburg to Cairo, so as to maintain at LATE8T HAPPENINGS THE WORLD the first address. of of Soils and Kindred Subjects act. The proceeds of the public all seasons the year, by slack water, A conference on the subject of OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED of lands creates the fund to build the works a depth nine feet. Upward of seven measures to eradicate the hookworm needed to store and furnish the necessary of these dams have already been constructed FORM. water, and it was left to the secretary and six are under construction* was held in Atlanta, Ga„ many southern of the interior to determine what while the total required is 50. The remaining physicians and health officers and projects should be started among those cost is known to be 163,000,000. Washington, Jan. 14.—Following Is to legislation to meet conditions or a number of prominent insurance men suggested and to direct the reclamation It seems to me that in the development emergencies as they arise. EVENTS HERE AND THERE the complete text ot the special message taking part. service, with the funds at hand and of our inland waterways it would be Properly to Classify Lands. on the conservation ot the nation's through the engineers in its employ, to wise to begin with this particular project Charles R. Helke, secretary and of the In construct the works. and carry it through as rapidly as may resources sent to the senate One most pressing needs treasurer of the American Sugar Refining of Condensed Into a Few Lines for tht No one can visit the far west and the be. I assume from reliable information tho matter public-land reform Is and house of representatives by President Company, was indicted by the country of arid and semi-arid lands without that it can be constructed economically that lands should be classified according Perusal of the Busy ManLatest Taft to day: to their principal value use. This being convinced that this is one of in ten years. I recommend, therefore, federal grand jury at New York on Personal Infor- the most important methods of the conservation ought to be done by that or department that the public lands, in river and harbor Tq the Senate and House of Representatives charges of conspiracy to defraud and of our natural resources that whose force is best adapted to that bills, make provision for continuing matlon. of making false entries. Harry W. work. It should be done by the Interior the government has entered upon. It contracts to complete this improvement, In my annual message I reserved the department through the geological would appear that over 30 projects have and I shall recommend in the future, if Walker., assistant superintendent of subject of the conservation of our national PERSONAL. been undertaken, and that a few of survey. Much of confusion, fraud, and it be necessary, that bonds be issued tocarry the Williamsburg docks of the Amercan resources for disposition In a special these are likely to be unsuccessful because contention which has existed In the it through. message, as folio ws: company, was also indicted. of lack of water, or for other reasons, What has been said of the Ohio river present has arisen from the lack of For the purpose of teaching college In several departments there Is presented but generally the work which has is true in a less complete way of the improvement John R. Walsh, former banker of an official and determinative classification the necessity for legislation looking students the evils of intemperance, been done has been well done, and many of the upper Mississippi from of the public lands and their Chicago, signed the papers turning to the further conservation of ouY Herman Yerkes of Bordentown, N. Y., contents. important engineering problems have St. Paul to St. Louis to a constant depth national resources, and the subject is one over to the Chicago banks, which took been met and solved. It. is now proposed to dispose of agricultural of six feet, and of the Missouri, from has giveu $10,000. of such importance as to require a more Funds Inadequate for Service. charge of the affairs of his banks at lands as such, and at the Kansas City to St. Louis to a constant detailed and extended discussion than Max Pam of Chicago has offered a same time to reserve for other disposition depth of six feet and from St. Louis to the time of their financial difficulties, can be entered upon In this cominunlca/tion. One of the difficulties which has prize of $1,000 to the students of Notre the treasure of coal. oil. ashphalturn, Cairo of a depth of eight feet. These arisen Is that too many projects in For that reason 1 shall take an more than $14,000,000 of securities. natural gas and phosphate contained projects have been pronounced practical Dame university for the best thesis view of the available funds have been early opportunity to send a special message This about closes his financial therein. This may be best accomplished by competent boards of army engineers* set on foot. The funds available under dealing with the subject of religion to congress on the subject of the by separating the right their cost has been estimated and there troubles. the reclamation statute are inadequate improvement of our waterways: upon the in education. to mine from the title to the surface, is business which will follow the improvement. to complete these projects within President E. H. Jennings and VicePresident reclamation and Irrigation of arid, semiarid giving the necessary use of so much of Henry S. Graves, director of the reasonable time. And yet the projects and swamp lands: upon the preservation .A. Griffin of the Columbia the latter as may be required for the As these improvements are being made,, Yale school of forestry, was appointed have been begun: settlers have been of our forests and the re foresting National bank, County Delinquent Tax extraction of the deposits. The surface and the traffic encouraged by them shows: invited to take up and. in many in of suitable areas upon the reclassification chief forester of the United States might be disposed of as agricultural itself of sufficient importance, the improvement Collector and former Republican City stances, have taken up, the public land of the public domain with a view of to succeed Gifford Pinchot, removed. land under the general agricultural of the Mississippi beyond. within the projects, relying upon their separating from agricultural settlement Chairman Max G. Leslie, former Councilman statutes, while the coal or other Cairo down to the gulf, which is now Mr. Graves was from 1898 to 1900 assistant prompt completion. The failure to mineral, coal and phosphate lands Hnd Charles Stewart and F. F. Nicola, mineral could be disposed of by lease going on with the maintenance of a depth complete the projects for their benefit chief of the division of forestry sites belonging to the government bordering on a royalty basis, with the provisions of nine feet everywhere, may be changed, a capitalist and real estate operator, is, in effect, a breach of faith and on streams suitable for the utilization in the agricultural department under requiring a certain amount of development to another and greater depth if the necessity leaves them in a most distressed con were arrested at Pittsburg, Pa., on of water power. each year and in order to prevent for it shall appear to arise out of the Pinchot. dition. I urge that the nation ought In 1860 we had a public domain of 1,055.911,288 warrants issued by District Attorney the use and cession of said lands traffic which can be delivered on the riverat The widow of Gen. Franz Sigel and to afford the means to lift them out of acres. We have now 731,354.081 with others of similar character so as Cairo. W. A. Blakeley, charging them with the very desperate condition in which grandmother of Elsie Sigel, murdered acres, confined largely to the mountain to constitute a monopoly forbidden by Cheap Rail Rate Necessary. they now are. conspiring to cause the selection of ranges and the arid and semi-arid plains. by a Chinaman, is near death in New law, the lease should contain suitable This condition does not indicate any the Columbia National bank as a city We have, in addition, 3fiS,035,975 acres of I am informed that the investigation provision subjecting to forfeiture the York. She was never told of her excessive waste or any corruption on land in Alaska. by the waterways commission in Europe depositary. interest of persons participating in the part of the reclamation service. It grandchild's fate. Disbursement of Public Lands. shows that the existence of a waterway such monopoly. Such law should apply Representative Mondell of Wyoming, only indicates an over-zealous desire by no means assures traffic unless thereis Jared Starr Babcock, inventor of t« Alaska as well as to the United The public lands were, during the earliest to extend the benefit of reclamation chairman of the house committee on traffic adapted to water carriage at States. the game of roque, died at his home administrations, treated as a national to as many acres and as many states cheap rates at one end or the other of public lands, has declined to stand Statute Difficult to Frame. tn New York. asset for the liquidation of the public as possible. I recommend, therefore., the stream. It also appears in Europethat sponsor for President Taft's bills designed debt and as a source of reward for our It is exceedingly •difficult to frame that authority be given to issue, not Harry Hilden of Biloxi, Mass., 14 the depth of the streams is rarely soldiers and sailors. I..ater on they were exceeding $30,000,000 of bonds from a statute to retain government control to carry out his program for more than six feet, and never more thannine. years old, rescued Theodore Ryan, donated in large amounts in aid or the time to time, as the secretary of the over a property to be developed by conservation of natural resources. He But it is certain that enormous aged 12, from drowning. It was the construction of wagon roads and railways, interior shall find it necessary, the private capital in such a manner as quantities of merchandise are transported offered to introduce the measure "by in order to open up regions in the proceeds to be applied to the completion to secure the governmental purpose fifth rescue of the kind by the boy. over the rivers and canals in Germany request," but the proffer was declined. west then almost inaccessible. All the of the projects already begun and and at the same time not frighten The biggest, quietest election Boston and France and England, and it is also their proper extension, and the bonds principal land statutes wore enacted more away the investment of the necessary certain that the existence of such methods ever knew resulted in the choice than a quarter of a contury ago. The running ten years or more to be taken capital. Hence, it may be necessary of traffic materially affects the rales Dispatches from Madrid indicate homestead act, the pre-emption and timber-culture up by the proceeds of returns to the of John F. Fitzgerald, former congressman by laws that are really only experimental which the railroads charge, and it is the that the government thwarted a military act, the coal land and the reclamation fund, which returns, as to determine from their practical and former mayor, as best regulator of those rates that we the years go on. will increase rapidly mining acts were among these. operation what is the best conspiracy, fomented by the have, not even excepting the governmental mayor under the new charter by 1,326 in amount. The rapid disposition of the public lands method of securing the result aimed at. regulation through the interstate friends of Juan de Lacierva Penaflel, plurality. There is no doubt at all that if under the early statutes, and the la* The extent of the value of phosphate commerce commission. For this reason, former minister of the interior, against these bonds were to be allowed to run methods of distribution prevailing, due. I is hardly realized, and with the need J. A. Stobe, state treasurer-elect of I hope that this congress will take such ten years, the proceeds from the public that there will be for it as the years the Liberal cabinet. The building occupied think, to the belief that these lands steps that it may be called the inaugurator Pennsylvania, was found dead in bed lands, together with the rentals for should rapidly pass info private ownership, roll on and the necessity for fertilizing by the military club was surrounded of the new system of inland waterways. that in his home at Schoeneck. Heart disease water furnished through the completed gave rise to the Impression the land shall become more acute, For reasons which it is not necessary by the police and 80 armed enterprises, would quickly create a caused death. the public domain was legitimate prey this will be a product which will probably here to state, congress has seen sinking fund large enough to retire officers in the building were arrested. attract the greed of monopolists. for the unscrupulous and that it was not fit to order an investigation into the interior Public Land Along Streams. the bonds within the time specified. I contrary to good morals to circumvent Paul Redieske, deputy commissioner department and the forest service hope that, while the statute shall provide the land laws. This prodigal manner of GENERAL NEWS. With respect to the public land of the agricultural department. The results of public works at Chicago, whose that these bonds are to be paid disposition resulted in the passing of which lies along the streams offering of that investigation are not needed out of the reclamation fund, it will be name has been mentioned in connection large areas of valuable land and many the opportunity to convert water power to determine value of, and the necessity Two persons were hurt when the drawn In such a way as to secure interest with alleged graft unearthed by of our national resources Into the hands for, the new legislation which I into transmissible electricity, another at the lowest rate, and that the St. Louis-New York express on the of persons who felt little or no responsibility the Merriam commission investigation, Important phase of the public land have recommended in respect to the public welfare credit of the United States will be for promoting the national Vandalia road was derailed at Woodland, question is presented. There are valuably lands and in respect to reclamation. I has resigned. pledged for their redemption. through their development. 4j» water power sites through all earnestly urge that the measures be taken 111. A broken frog caused the I urge consideration of the recommendations The assertion is made that both Fraudulent Titles. the public land states. The opinion tip and disposed of promptly without of the secretary of the •wreck. Two sleepers were overturned. of the Thomas Swope, the multi-millionaire, The truth is that title to millions Is held that the transfer of sovereignty awaiting investigation which has been interior in his annual report for acres of public lands was fraudulently from the federal government to the determined upon. and his nephew of Kansas City, Mo., amendments of the reclamation act. WILLIAM H. TAFT. territorial governments as they become A new universal language, known obtained and that the right to recover a proposing other relief for settlers on were poisoned and that the author of states, included the water power in large part of such lands for the government these projects. as "Ido," has appeared in New York. the crime also inoculated the entire long since ceased by reason of statutes the rivers except so far as that owned A Bird's Savings Bank. New Law Requisite. It is said to be superior in some respects of limitations. There has developed by riparian proprietors. do not Swope family, consisting of eight people In California the woodpecker stores Respecting the comparatively small to Esperanto. Prof. Jesperson In recent years a dee-) concern in the think it necessary to go into discussion with typhoid germs in an effort to acorns away, although he never eats timbered areas on the public domain not of this somewhat mooted question of public mind respecting the preservation of the University of Copenhagen is included in national forests because of them. He bores several holes, differing exterminate them. The bodies of the and proper use of our natural resources. law. It seems to me sufficient to say said to advocate it. their Isolation or their special value for This has been particularly directed that the man who owns and controls slightly in size, at the fall of the two dead Swope's have been exhumed agricultural or mineral purposes, it is apparent The alleged confession of Ray Lamphere, the land along the stream from which toward the conservation of the resources year, invariably in a pine tree. Then and their stomachs are undergoing from the evils resulting by virtue the power Is to be converted and transmitted, of the public domain. A vast amount or reported to have been made to he find an acorn, which he adjusts to of the imperfections of existing laws analysis. owns land which is indispensable discussion has appeared in the public a Laporte man by the former hired for the disposition of timber lands that one of the holes prepared for its reception. to tho conversion and use of that Many senators and representatives prints in generalized form on this subject, the acts of June 3, 1878, should be repeated man of Bell Gunness, the murderess, power. I cannot conceive how the but there has been little practical declare that the administration's federal and a law enacted for the disposition power in streams flowing through public while he was confined in the Laporte suggestion. It has been easy to say that But he does not eat the acorn, for, incorporation bill, if passed as of the timber at. public sale, the lands can be made available at all the natural resources in fuel supply, in county jail, and printed in a St. Louis lands after the removal of the timber to as a rule, he is not a vegetarian. His except by using the land itself as the now tentatively drawn, will afford a forests, in water power, and in other paper, found very few believers in be subject to appropriation under the site for the construction of the plant object is storing away the acorns exhibits public utilities, must be saved from shelter for every criminal combination agricultural or mineral land laws. by which the power is generated and Laporte because of the inaccuracies waste, monopoly, and other abuses, and foresight and a knowledge of in the United States. They assert What I have said is really an epitome converted and securing a right of way the general public Is in accord with this which it contains. According to the results more akin to reason than to of the recommendations of the secretary that unless amended so that charters thereover for transmission lines. Under proposition, as they are with most confession Lamphire went to the farmhouse of the interior in respect to the. future instinct. The succeeding winter the these condition, if the government truisms. The problem, however, is how may be forfeited when the holders conservation of the public domain In his at night with a woman, chloroformed owns the adjacent land—indeed, if the to save and how to utilize, how to conserve acorns remain intact, but, becoming engage in monopolistic enterprises, present annual report. He has given government is the riparian owner—it and still develop, for no sane person Mrs. Gunness, her three children saturated, are predjsposed to decay, close attention to the problem of disposition may control the use of the water power perpetual right will be given for restraint can contend that it is for the common and Jennie Olson. He and the when they are attacked by maggots, of these lands under such conditions are by imposing: proper conditions on the good that nature's blessings of interstate commerce. as to invite the private capital necessary woman then searched the house, finding disposition of the land necessary In the which seem to delight in this special only for unborn generations. Many theatrical people, most of to their development on the one hand, creation and utilization of the water Noteworthy Reforms. food. between $60 and $70. The house them scantily clad, were driven into and the maintenance of the restrictions power. was accidentally set on fire. Value of Water Power. It is than that the woodpecker Among the most noteworthy reforms necessary to prevent monopoly and abuse the snowy streets by afire in the Richmond Initiated by my distinguished predecessor The members of the royal family, from absolute ownership on the other. reaps the harvest bis wisdom has provided, The development in electrical appliances hotel at Chicago. Many were were the vigorous prosecution of land These recommendations are incorporated with the exception of Princess Louise, at a time when, the ground being for the conversion of the water frauds and the bringing to public attention rescued by the firemen. The majority in bills he has prepared, and they are at power Into electricity to be transmitted daughter of the late King Leopold, covered with snow, he would experience of the necessity for preserving the the disposition of the congress. I earnestly of those driven out were chorus girls. long distances has progressed so far that have arranged to do everything possible remaining public domain from further a difficulty otherwise in obtaining recommend that all the suggestions it is no longer problematical, but it is a Petitions to President Taft, asking spoliation, for the maintenance and extension which he has made with respect to these to avoid lawsuits and scandal in suitable or palatable food. certain inference that in the future the of our forest resources, and for for the release of Charles W. Morse, lands shall be embodied in statutes and, power of the water falling in the streams connection with the distribution of the enactment of laws amending the obsolete especially, that the withdrawals already the banker, from the penitentiary, to a large extent will take the place of His "Penitentiary Den." Leopold's fortune. statutes so as to retain governmental made shall be validated so far as necessary natural fuels. In the disposition of the "And now I must show you what I have been placed in hotel lobbies and control over that part of the public and that doubt as to the authority This statement epitomizes the formal domain already granted, many water domain in which there are valuable call my penitentiary den," said a popular other public places in Gotham of the secretary of the interior to withdraw announcement made public by power sites have come under absolute deposits of coal, of oil, and of phosphate, lands for the purpose of submitting author. "This," he continued, as Simon B. Chapin, head of the stock ownership, and may drift into one ownership, Gifford Pinchot, who was recently removed and, in addition thereto, to preserve control, recommendations as to future disposition he drew open a door, -is where I" occasionally so that all the water power under brokerage firm of S. B. Chapin & Co., as chief of the forest service. under conditions favorable to the of tbem where new legislation is needed private ownership shall be a monopoly. spend an hour or so when I public, of the lands along the streams in New York city, wa« suspended from shall be made complete and unquestioned. He declared the great moral issue that If. hovveveT, the water power sites now which the fall of water can be made to am developing symptoms of that by no Disposition of Forest Reserves. the privileges of the stock exchange owned by the government—and there are now faces the country is not the loss generate power to be transmitted in the means uncommon malady among successful enough of them—shall be disposed of to by the governing committee for a The forest reserves of the United Of natural resources so much as whether form of electricity many miles to the private persons tor the investment of men called 'swelled head.' States," some 190,000,000 acres in extent, are period of 60 days, and his partner, F. point of its use, known as "water power" special interests or the people shall their capital in such a way as to prevent under the control of the department of The room was a charming little sites. D. Countiss, was suspended for 30 rule. their union for purposes of monopoly the agriculture, with authority adequate to The investigations Into violations of snuggery about seven feet square, the with other water power sites, and under days, as a result of the action of the The grand jury which has been investigating preserve them and to extend their growth public land laws and the prosecution of only remarkable feature of which was conditions that shall limit the right of use firm on December 27 last in executing so far as that may be practicable. The land frauds have been vigorously continued the defunct Citizens' State to not exceeding thirty years with renewal the wall-covering. "If you look closely," importance of the maintenance of our under my administration, as has orders during the sensational flurry bank of Edgemont, S. D., which closed privileges and some equitable means of forests cannot be exaggerated. The possibility explained the host, "you will see been the withdrawal of coal lands for in Rock Island common stock, which fixing terms of rental and with proper its doors three or four years ago, returned of a scientific treatment of forests classification and valuation and the temporary that my wall paper consists, on two means for determining a reasonable graduated culminated on that day in a semipanic. so that they shall be made to yield a indictments against the president, withholding of power sites. Since rental, it would seem entirely possible sides of the rom, of those too-familiar 1 large return in timber without really reducing March 4, 1909, temporary withdrawals of James A. Stewart, and the cashier, to prevent the absorption of these and unwelcome printed forms oa the supply has been demonstrated power sites have been made on 102 C. A. Grippen. As a contribution to the American most useful lands by a power monopoly. in other countries, and we should work streams and these withdrawals therefore which editors express their regrets at As long as the government retains control Bible society's $500,000 endowment toward the standard set by them as far An adroitly worded resolution commending cover 229 per cent, more streams than declining one's pet manuscripts." and can prevent their improper union the as their methods are applicable to our fund, a box containing several hundred were covered by withdrawals made ex-President Roosevelt, congratulating with other plants, competition must be conditions. prior to that date. President Taft and indorsing rare coins, many of them more maintained and prices kept reasonable. Zoological Puzzle. Upwards of four hundred millions acres The present statutes, except so far Soils Must Be Conserved. the policies puj-sued by Gifford than 500 years old, has been received of forest land in this country are in private Italian zoologists have a puzzle to as they dispose of the precious metals ownership, but only three per cent, Pinchot while chief forester, with reference from a farmer in Carroll county, Illinois. and the purely agricultural lands, are Tn considering the conservation of the solve, owing to the discovery on of it is being treated scientifically and not adapted to carry out the "modern natural resources of the country, the feature to the leasing of grazing land Mount Blanc of the body of a white with a view to the maintenance of the view of the best disposition of public that transcends all others, including and forest reserves to stockmen, was bear, which has been brought to Aosta. More than $4,000,000 is the estimated forests. The part played by the forests lands to private ownership, under conditions woods, waters, minerals, is the soil of the in the equalization of the supply of water adopted by the American Live Stock It was thought at first that the bear loss to datj in wages and profits offering on the one hand sufficient country. It is incumbent upon the government on watersheds is a matter of discussion inducement to private capital to association at Denver.. to foster by all available means must have died some three hundred of employers as the result of the and dispute, but the general benefit to be take them over for proper development, the resources of the country that produce A concurrent resolution introduced girl shirtwaist makers' strike in the years ago, aud must have b&en preserved derived by the public from the extension with restrictive conditions on the food of the people-. To this end the in the New York legislature proposes of forest lands on watersheds and the, by the ice, since it has always east. the other which shall secure to the conservation of the soils of the country promotion of the growth of trees In to put that body on fecord against the public that character of control which should be cared for with all means at the been held that white bears vanished Overproduction of gold rather than places that are ROW denuded and that will prevent a monopoly or misuse of government's disposal. Their productive federal income tax. The resolution is from the Alps three centuries ago. But trusts or the tariff is blamed for higher once had great flourishing forests, goes the lands or their products. The power powers should have the attention of our drafted along the line of Gov. Hughes' it has since been demonstrated that food prices by Prof. E. R. A. Seligman, without saying. The control to be exercised of the secretary of the interior to withdraw scientists that we may conserve the new special message, recommending the over private owners in their treatment death could only have taken place a the economist of Columbia university. from the operation of existing soils, improve the old soils, drain wet of the forests which they own is a statutes tracts of land, the disposition nonratification of the federal tax. soils, ditch swamp soils, levee river overflow few days previous to discovery. At matter for state and not national regulation. of which under such statutes would soils, grow trees on thin soils, pasture The interstate commerce commission this would seem to show that (here Thomas W. Lawson has offered 20 because there Is nothing in the be detrimental to the public interests. hillside soils, rotate crops on all in Washington began an investigation constitution that authorizes the federal are still white bears in the Alps, expeditions Is not clear or satisfactory. This power soils, discover methods for cropping dry cents a pound for the entire pooled government to exercise any control over has been exercised in the interest of of the subject of "milling in land soils, find grasses and legumes for are to be sent to test the crop of the Burley Tobacco society, forests within a state, unless the forests the public, with the hope that congress all soils, feed grains and mill feeds on transit" privileges accorded by railways theory. according to an announcement of the are owned In a proprietary way by the might affirm the action of the executive the farms where they originate, that the on many commodities. federal government. broker, made in Cincinnati. by laws adapted to the new conditions. soils from which they come may be enriched. Tcoly Lural! Improvement of River. The New York military academy at Unfortunately, congress has not His vocabulary saved a lusty New "How far is it between these two thus far fully acted on the recommendations Cornwall, N. Y., was destroyed by A work of the utmost importance to Inform 1 come now to the improvement of the York parrot from death in a fire. Firemen towns?" asked the lawyer. of the executive, and the question and instruct the public on this chief inland waterways. He would be blind fire. No one was injured. believed a human being was cry* as to what the executive is to branch of the conservation of our resources "About four miles as the flow indeed, who did not realize that the peo The Portuguese government has issued do is under the circumstances, full of ing for help and ascended to the top is being carried on successfully pie of the far west, and especially those cries," replied the witness. difficulty. It seems to me that it is a denial of the Lisbon police report in the department of agriculture: but it floor to carry the bird down a ladder. of the Mississippi valley, have been "You mean as the cry flows." the duty of congress now. by a statute, ought not to escape public attention that aroused to the need there is for the improvement of a conspiracy against King A series of woman-suffrage meetings to validate the withdrawals which "No." put in the judge, "he means, state action in addition to that of the department of our inland waterways. Manuel. for have been made by the secretary of the negroes is the latest development of agriculture fas for Instance as the fly crows." The Mississippi river, with the Missouri interior and the president and. to use Deaths and accidents were reported in the drainage of swamp lands) is essential of the suffrage crusade in on the one hand and the Ohio on thp And they all looked at each' othc.r. the secretary of the interior temporarily to the best treatment of the soils In Pittsburg and surrounding territory other, would seem to offer a g/eat natural New York city. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont feeling that something wag wro»\g to withdraw lands pending submission, in the mrsnner above Indicated. means of interstate traniportation of a storm followed In the wake and other suffrage leaders will act which, in semi-arid parts to congress of recommendations as Everybody's Magazine. The by of and traffic. How far, if properly improved by zero weather. speak.