Ordered for
JETTY WILL GET Submarines
Pacific Coant Fleet
FULLY MILLION
Action of Committee Assures
Big Appropriation.
•
,
Dredge Issue Still In Doubt— Ques­
tion Whether Continuing Con­
tract Cannot De Had.
Washington, D. C. — The fact that
the house committee on rivers and
heritors agreed to an appropriation of
91,000,000 to continue work on the
north jetty at the mouth of the Colum­
bia river makea It practically certain
that an appropriation of at least that
amount will be carried by the river
and harbor bill when It bsccmes a law.
Whether thia appropriation can be
increased by the senate and whether
the project can be placed on a continu­
ing contract basis remains to be deter­
mined.
The uncertainty, so far as
the mouth of the Columbia la con­
cerned, centers around the Lane bill,
proposing an appropriation of 91,600,-
000 for the construction of a sea going
dredge.
In all reasonable probability the
senate committee on commerce will
accept the amendment pn>j«jsed by
Senator Chamberlain,
making the
north jetty, project a continuing con­
tract The senate undoubtedly will
place several projects on the continu­
ing contract basis and with Senator
Chamberlain on the commerce com­
mittee it la to be presumed that the
north jetty project will be ao treated.
It will be extremely difficult to se­
cure authorisation this session for a
91.900,000 dredge for use at the
mouth of the Columbia river, because
Colonel Burr, acting chief of engin­
eers, is unequivocally opposed to a
dredge and has already made one ad­
verse report on the Lane bill. This
report In itself makes it Impossible to
pass the laine bill as an emergency
measure, and If the dredge is secured
It must be by an amendment to the
river and harbor bill. Senator Lane
now intends to offer his bill as an
amendment to the general river and
harbor bill.
No Limit Placed On
Parcel Post Extension
Washington, D. C. — AH attempts
to limit the authority of the post­
master general to change the rates,
weights, or sones in the parcel post
service were defeated in the senate
during consideration of the postoffice
appropriation bill.
An amendment to the bill as It
passed the house, proposed by the sen­
ate postoffice committee, to prevent
the postmaster general from making
these changes was defeated 39 to 24.
Then Senator Bankbead, chairman of
the committee, sought to forestall a
proposed Increase In maximum weight
of packages to 100 pounds by an
amendment
providing
that postal
funds should not be used to transport
packages of more then 60 pounds. This
was defeated by one vote, the roll call
standing 28 to 27.
When Senator Rankhead asked for
a limitation of 60 pounds for packages
on star routes, Senator Clark, of Wy­
oming, who had fought for the orig­
inal committee amendment, asserted
this would be unjustifiable discrimina­
tion against rural patrons.
The
amendment was voted down 81 to 18.
Senator Clark attacked a provision
of the bill granting 92000 to the legal
representatives of special employes of
the postoffice service killed while on
duty and succeeded in having stricken
from the list certain employes not en­
gaged in the railway service. He
said if the bill as presented were
passed the government would have to
insure the lives of employes in every
other department of the government
service.
Suffrage Move Blocked.
Washington, D. C. — Attempts by
Senator Ashurst to get an agreement
for a vote March 28, on the constitu­
tional amendment for woman suffrage
were blocked Saturday and the Ari­
sons senator announced he would move
for immediate consideration, after
passage of the bill now pending. He
also had a wordy clash with Senator
Reed, who objected to fixing a date.
"If the senator would talk less,” de­
clared Mr. Ashurst, "we might finish
some of this legislation the country is
waiting for."
Several senators urged Mr. Ashurst
to withdraw the remark but Hte re­
fused.
Revenue Cutter Fires on Launch.
San Diego—During'the progress of
a thrilling race between the United
States revenue cutter Manning and a
Japanese smuggling launch loaded
with contraband Chinese, it is report­
ed that two shots were fired at the
launch, the second tearing away the
foremast of the vessel and bringing
the frightened Orientals to a halt.
All night the cutter’s searchlights
played about the islands and every
fishing craft that came up from the
south was thoroughly searched for
smuggled Chinese.
4000 Killed in Battle.
Peking — Four thousand men were
killed in two separate battles between
government troops and the White Wolf
brigands on the Konan Anhui border,
according to official telerams. Aero
planes were employed by the govern­
ment forces to locate the rebels, who
afterwards were attacked and dis­
persed.
Washington, D. C.—Formal approv­
al was given the administration’s two-
battleship program by the house naval
affairs committee, after the “small
navy" men had made their final stand
against It.
*
The Navy department’s construction
plans were changed so as to provide
for six instead of eight destroyers and
for additional submarines. As report­
ed to the house, the bill carries an ap­
propriation of 9140.200,000, exclusive
of amounts to be spent for armor and
armament, end fixes the building pro­
gram for the coming fiscal year as fol­
lows :
Two first-class battleships of the
highest speed and largest possible ra­
dius of action, to rank among the
world's dreadnoughts, 91.800,000 each,
exclusive of armor and armament.
One powerful 4200 ton 12-knot sea­
going submarine, 91.100,000.
Six torpedo boat destroyers, 9926,-
000 each
Three coast defense submarines of
600 tons, each, 962,000, designed for
use on the Pacific Coast.
Four harbor defense submsrines of
smaller type, 9376.000 each, intended
for use on the Gulf coast and Panama.
The bill provides that the defense
submarines shall be built and main­
tained on the Pacific Coast, provided
they can be built there as cheaply as
they can be built on the Atlantic Coast
and "laid down" on the Pacific Coast.
The two-battleebip program was ap­
proved, 14 to 4.
“Bleached Flour” Wins
Supreme Court Decision
Washington, D. C. — Millers and
food manufacturers generally through­
out the country won a decisive victory
over the government Wednesday when
the Supreme court held that Federal
inspectors could not condemn under
the pure food law “bleached flour”
unless they proved that the flour con­
tained enough poisonous ingredients
added in bleaching to make the flour
injurious to health.
Officials of the department of agri­
culture have fought the case bitterly,
contending that the adding of any
quantity of poisonous ingredients was
in violation of the law.
The case just decided originated in
the District court of Western Mis­
souri. The government sought to con­
demn 625 sacks of flour bleached by
the Lexington Mills company by the
so-called "Alaop process.“ The gov­
ernment contended that In bleaching
the flour to give it a color to bide its
Inferiority, certain nitrates, or poison­
ous ingredients, were added and that
thia violated the law, no matter what
the quantity.
In announcing the decision of the
court, Justice Day pointed out that
the government complained only that
1.8 parts to 1,000,000 of a poisonous
character was added by bleaching.
Mighty Awakening Seen
by Secretary of Commerce
Dayton, O.—An industrial awaken­
ing that will revolutionise the nation’s
business, minimise the possibility of
wrecked and wasted lives and elevate
working men and women to positions
that will keep them in safety and de­
cency was predicted by William C.
Redfield, secretary
of commerce,
speaking on the human side of fac­
tory, commercial and industrial life
before the Greater Dayton association.
*’I speak of this not in criticism;
not as finding fault that more is not
done, but rather as opening the door
to a mighty hope," Mr. Redfield said.
“Good as our schools are, they leave
much undone. We are not teaching
out boys and girls how to work. We
turn them out—speaking of the coun­
try as a whole—at 14 years of age,
the larger part of them with a certain
amount of academic knowledge, but
without any training whatever for
the real work of life. The boy suffers
in bis pay and in his product a good
many years before he can pick up by
questioning here and there or learn
from mistakes how to support himself
at a definite trade.
The girl suffers perhaps worse, with
a terrible cost to the
nation in
wrecked womanhood.
“It la one of the real tragedies that
has its pitiful reactions in every in­
dustrial home. The mechanic would
have his son learn a trade well and not
to struggle as his father did. A moth­
er would have her daughter taught
something which will keep her alive
in decency and in safety, and without
the risks young working women so
often must run.
“The thought of the nation has been
too supine in this matter, but it is
now beginning to awaken."
Company Sued for Smoke.
FARM
ORCHARD
Note» and Imlructium from Agricultural Collri/tl and Experiment Station»
at Oregon and Watblnyton. Specially Suitable to Pacific Coatt Condition»
Growera Hold Diacuaaion
On Orchard Subjects
Washington State College, Pullman.
— A rousing horticultural meeting
closed the “farmers’ week" program
here. Orchard fertilisers, cover crops
and Insect pests each came In for dis­
cussion.
“Before applying a fertiliser ascer­
tain by noting the action of the plant
growth if a fertiliser Is needed," said
Professor R. J. Barnett. “Other con­
ditions being right a poor growth of
wood and foliage denotes that nitro­
gen is lacking in tbs soil.
Poorly de­
veloped and misshapen fruit often in­
dicates lack of phosphorus, while a
poor akin color most often means that
the soil is deficient in potassium. If
it is necessary to supply nitrogen use
cover crops or barnyard manure. Oth­
er elements also are added by the ma­
nure, but not to so great an extent by
the cover crops. Use commercial fer­
tilizers only when manure and cover
crops are Impracticable because of pe­
culiar conditions or entirely out of the
question from other causes.”
The growth of cover crops in orch­
ards was advocated by W. S. Tborn-
ber, of Lewiston, who pointed out that
the kind of a crop to be used varies
according to local conditions.
Some
orchards need a nitrogen producing
crop, while others need a cover crop
that will conserve the nitrogen al­
ready in the soil.
“ Keep your orchards free from lit­
ter and reduce the loss from insect
pests and infection," said Professor
W. O. Ellis, in dealing with the sub­
ject, “Insect Hybridization in Or­
chard Litter».” Orchard litters, ac­
cording to Professor Ellis, are one of
the greatest sources of insect infec­
tion and the money spent in keeping
the orchard free from litter will pay
big dividends in increased profits."
In his talk on “Farm Sanitation"
Professor O. L. Waller, vice president
of the college and professor of mathe­
matics and civil engineering, advanced
the idea that the sewage from the
cities and towns can be used to good
advantage for irrigation purposes on
the farm. This sewage, could be made
sanitary by the use of septic tanks.
The speaker cited examples of the
success of this plan, including Paris and
Berlin.
“No farm where the use of a septic
tank is possible should be without
one," said Professor Waller, who ex­
plained the purpose and construction
of the tanks.
The contention that an automobile
may be put to good use for power pur-
pses on the farm was objected to by
Professor I. D. Charlton, professor of
farm mechanics, who based bis objec­
tion on the assertion that investment
is too great for the character of work
performed and that oftentimes the
power would be greater than is act­
ually needed to perform the work.
The added wear and tear on the high-
power automobile engine over that of
the farm enine of leas horsepower was
another objection made by Professor
Charlton. The use of gasoline for
farm power was discussed by Profes­
sor Charlton, who explained the con­
struction of the engines and mentioned
many good uses to which they may be
put.
________
Many Problems Confront
The Market Gardener
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
vallis—“Many inexperienced garden­
ers who expect to take up the business
of truck gardening for the first time
do not begin to realize the many diffi­
cult problems that confront them,”
said Professor A. G. Boquet, who is
in charge of vegetable gardening at
the Oregon Argicultural college. “The
average goods, and the average meth­
ode of selling are not enough to con­
stitute success.
There has got to be
something superior.
“I am convinced that many who
have signified their intention to em­
bark in the business for the first time
next spring, have lands that have not
yet demonstrated their ability to grow
commercial crops.
While in a good
many instances their soil may be quite
suitable for growing the crops se­
lected, in many others the reverse is
likely to prove true. Apparently the
future gardeners do not always appre­
ciate the importance of proper soil
adaptability to the crop in hand.
It
is surely as necessary for truckers to
distribute their crops over the right
kind of soils as it is for the fruitgrow­
ers, who have taken so much pains to
harmonize their trees with their soils.
“The selection of the right crop is
another matter that requires very
careful consideration.
Not
only
should they be adapted to the soils
where they are grown, but also to the
demands of the market they are des­
ignated to fill. Only when we encour­
age the growing of the right crop on
the right land in the right way, are
we doing any good for the vegetable
industry.
Seattle—John Mills Day, an attor­
ney, has filed in the Superior court a
suit against the Puget Sound Traction,
Light A Power company for 92500
damages, and a permanent injunction
to prevent smoking of tobacco on the
streetcars of the company.
Mr. Day
declares that frequently the stench of
tobacco in the cars has made hie wife
ill. In his complaint he declares that
Wants Union Wages.
the company is responsible because it
First Domain Dosser—Did you get
has posted signs in the cars, reading:
“Smoking in and behind the three that job, Henery?
rear seats."
Second Domain Dosser—I wouldn’t
take it. I arst ’im wot he was a-going
Bigger Air Fleet Urged.
ter give me, an* ’e said as much as I
Washington, D. C.—A 916,000,000 was worth. I told ’im to his face that
aeroplane fleet was proposed in a bill wouldn’t do for me.—Sidney Bulletin.
by Representative L’Engle, of Flori­
Meaning of Trough of the Sea.
da. He painted a picture of cities be­
ing destroyed by bombs from invading
Maiden—What’s this “trough of the
air craft, and compared the foreign sea" we read about?
air fleets with that of the United
Corney — Oh, I guess that is what
States, which he said was composed of the ocean greyhounds drink out of—
“12 obsolete, man-killing aeroplanes." London Tid-Bits.
“It is also reasonable to suppose
that many beginners who do not under­
stand the proper methods of handling
their soils, crops, fertilizer and other
problems of production will not be
able to make a success of it.
“The result will be a discontented
frame of mind and a tendency severely
to criticize climatic conditions and soil.
It is suggested as a simple precaution
that these
important
details
be
mastered in a small way before they
are applied on a large, commercial
scale. We ail desire to see this phase
of the horticultural interests grow and
to have the growers satisfactorily get
their rightful share of the profits of
the business.
Successful market gardening is not
possible without giving careful atten­
tion to these problems, which are only
a part of the large number to be
solved, and the inexperienced had bet­
ter make small beginnings."
Feeding Young Piga.
Pigs begin to nibble
at
their
mother's feed when about four weeks
old, and should then be fed all they
will eat of feed that encourages
growth and develops the digestive sys­
tem without impairing digestion. If
they are weaned when seven weeks
old this allows but three weeks in
which to accustom their nutritive or­
gans to the change from natural to
artificial nourishment The principle
involved in making this change of
feed is explained by Professor G. R.
Samson, swine specialist of the Ore­
gon Agricultural college Animal Hus­
bandry department, as follows:
“The proportion of water in the
little pig’s body is greatest at birth.
Thia water is gradually replaced by
dry matter as the pig grows older and
any undue hastening of the tranposing
process interfere with the pig’s entire
organism.
“The rate of substituting dry mat­
ter for water may be retarded by di­
luting the solid part of the feed with
water which is incorporated into the
pisr- '
“The digestive tract of the small
pig is larger in proportion to hie body
than that of the older pig. While the
more common mistake is underfeeding
at this time, it is also possible to over­
feed. At this time the pig may eat
and digest mere food than he can take
care of in his body and in such cases
much of the value of the feed is
wasted. Another ill which may result
from overfeeding is the impairment of
digestion efficiency so that the gains
in later life are secured at greater
cost than would otherwise be neces­
sary.
“When the little pigs begin to nib­
ble at the feed they should be provid­
ed with a trough inside a creep where
they may have feed especially suited
to them. To start with there is noth­
ing better than skim milk into which
about one-tenth by weight of mid­
dlings or oatmeal is stirred.
If oats
are used the coarser hulls should be
sifted out.
The proportion of the
middlings or ground oats may be in­
creased until at weaning time the pigs
are getting about one part of solid
feed to two parts of skim milk.
“When the little pigs are first being
started on artificial feed, care must
be taken that no feed be left in their
trough to become sour, for scours al­
most surely will result if they eat this
left-over feed. Therefore give them
but little and remove what is left and
give it to their dams. Then thor­
oughly clean their trough and if possi­
ble scald it and set it up to dry. At
any rate make sure the trough is left
clean and is clean when feed is put
into it again.
A good start makes
success possible; a bad one makes suc­
cess very uncertain. The advantages
of the creep are that cleanliness is
more easily secured and a smaller
amount of higher priced feed is neces­
sary as the sow does not require such
expensive feed.
“If it is considered too much trouble
to provide a creep for the little ones,
they may be allowed to continue eat­
ing with their dam. and her ration
may be made suitable to th? pigs.
Milk production is stimulated by slop­
py feed and the sow requires concen­
trated feed which is easily digestible.
For this method of feeding Dietritch
suggests one-fourth to one-fifth pound
digestible protein and } to i digestible
carbohydrates per one hundred pounds
live weight of the sow and litter. The
same amount of nutrients is all right
per 100 pounds live weight of the sow
if she is fed separately from the pigs.
But it may contain more coarse feed
in the latter case.
“In terms of the feeds used on our
farms the ration may be made up as
follows : For a 260 pound sow with
seven pigs weighing seven pounds each
—300 pound live weight in all—this
ration requires six pounds middlings
and three pounds skim milk; or six
pounds barley and 8 pounds skim milk;
or six pounds barley and four pounds
tankage; or six pounds middlings and
.16 pound tankage."
Horae Sense Defined.
“Come and have a drink, old man."
“Nothing doing!"
“What’s the matter? Sworn off?”
“Net directly; but I’ve resolved
that this year I’ll exhibit a little hone
sense, and that is the ability to say
neigh."
Scientific Management.
Waitress (to the other, a newcomer)
— You must keep your eye on that
professor. He never gives a tip, but
he always pays for his coffee twice
over.—Fliegende Blatter.
Senator Says Someone
“Stole $200,000,000”
Washington, D. C. — Charges by
Senator Norris, of Nebraska, that
someone had stolen 9200,000,000 from
the stockholders of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad pre­
cipitated a warm discussion in the
senate, several of the New England
senators insisting that Senator Norris
was guilty of loose and unwarranted
language.
Senator Norris retracted nothing,
however, Insisting that his statements
were warranted and that the adoption
of his resolution under debate would
have a salutary effect.
The resolution asks specifically
whether :ny contemplated agreement
between the attorney general and the
railroad provides for immunity from
prosecution to any one connected with
the railroad and whether it contem­
plates the surrender by the railroad
company or any of its stockholders of
the right to bring action for damages
on account of past misappropriations
of funds.
“I object to such loose statements
as that ’somebody has stolen 9200,-
000,000,' ” declared Senator Lippitt,
of Rhode Island.
“If the senator
means to say that the directors robbed
the stockholders of the road, he is in
great error. At the most there were
only errors of judgment. The adjust­
ment cannot go on satisfactorily if
unwarranted statements of that kind
are made.”
Senator Norrie said that if the sen­
ate bad reached the point where it was
unwilling to “throw the light on the
depredations of a lot of pirates" it
ought not to wonder at the existence
of anarchists in the country.
PARCEL POST “RIOT’ IS
PREDICTED BY SENATOR
Washington, D. C.—Warning that
unless the postmaster general was
checked “bales of hay and bushels of
potatoes” would be going through the
mails was given the senate by Senator
Bankhead, chairman of the postoffice
committee. Mr. Bankhead said that
the Postoffice department was running
riot in the question of parcel post bus­
iness, and that the government was
operating the new service at a loss.
The senator’s remarks came in the
course of a deh»te on the annual post-
office appropriation bill.
Senator
Sheppard had made a point of order
against a pending amendment to pro­
hibit the postmaster general from
changing the existing weight limits,
rates of postage or zones for the par­
cel post service.
The point was un­
decided when the senate adjourned.
Transcontinental Roads
Only Joy-Riders’ Lanes
Washington, D. C.—Transcontinent­
al highways proposed by the American
Automobile association were charac­
terized as “lanes over which the mem­
bers of this high-browed, joy-riding
association may strut” by Representa­
tive Shackleford, of Missouri, attack­
ing what he called the “editorial
canning factory” maintained by the
organization to promote the measures
it favored.
With funds the association collected
from its 461 subordinate automobile
dubs and the like, Mr. Shackleford
declared, a “nefarious" lobby was
maintained in Washington and the
“all-essential long green” was provid­
ed to fight the re-election of opponents
of motor road bills. He read a letter
from the president of the association
to a member in Kansas City urging
that support be withdrawn from the
Shackleford 925,000,000 good roads
bill now before the senate, having
passed the house.
The measure provides for dirt roads
in rural free delivery districts.
RADICALS DELAY
POWER SCHEMES
Attack Legislation Which Would
Aid Development
Revocable Permit and Forfeiture of
Plants Demanded—Capital
Is Discouraged.
Washington, D. C.—The theoretical
conservationists have begun
their
assault on the Wilson administration.
The secretary of war a short time ago
favorably reported a bill permitting
the development of water power on
the Roanoke river, Virginia.
That
bill did not meet the approval of the
theorists and they straightway began
a contest either to kill the bill or
force the administration to change its
attitude.
The opponents of a practical and
reasonable water-power policy, en­
couraged by their first success, ar»
now making demands even more pre­
posterous than some they made a few
months ago.
Not only are they asking that the
Federal government shall supervise
and control development of water
power, both on the public domain and
on navigable rivers, but they are in­
sisting that whenever permission is
given to private corporations to de­
velop water power, such permits shall
extend for only 60 years and shall be
revocable at the will of the President
or some member of his cabinet and,
furthermore, they insist that at the
end of 50 years the power plant and
appurtenances erected and installed
under government permit shall revert
to the government for such disposition
as future administrations may deem
wise. This latter demand of the the­
oretical conservationists is meeting
with stout resistance on the part of
Western senators and congressmen,
for they maintain that such a policy
would be absolutely prohibitive.
One theory, and the principal object
of Federal control of water powers, is
to prevent monopoly and to regulate
rates. If a power company receiving
a permit from the government is re­
quired, at the end of 50 years, to sur­
render its plant to the government, it
must, in order to earn interest on its
investment, sell its power at an ab­
normally high rate, or it will operate
at a loss. The mere fact that the
government proposes to regulate rates
would prevent a power company from
imposing such charges as would enable
it in 50 years to recover on cost of in-
sallation.
Use of Drugs Among
“Upper” Classes Serious
Albany, N. Y.—A plea for the re­
lief of drug victims was made by Dr.
Charles A. Towne, of New York, be­
fore a legislative bearing here on bills
designed to restrict the sale of habit­
forming drugs, principally cocaine and
its derivatives.
“The drug problem in the under­
world is one for the police to cope
with,” Dr. Towns said. “But drugs
have worked greater havoc in the
’upper world’ than in the underworld,
and here the havoc has been wrought
on men and women who are really
worth while, whom it is the duty of
the medical profession, the drug trade
and of everybody who lays the slight­
est claim to decent humanity to con­
serve.”
A feature of the proposed laws is a
provision designed to treat those who
obtain drugs in violation of the law
as victims of disease and not crim­
inals.
This provision would give a
magistrate authority to commit habit­
Non-Resident Right Asked.
ual jsers of drugs to hospitals or sani­
Washington, D. C.—Senator Jones,
tariums instead of to prison.
of Washington, has introduced a bill
providing that private landowners
Massive Building Doomed.
holding lands within government irri­
Seattle,
Wash.—Fungi growing un­
gation projects may acquire water
rights from the government without der the bark of the massive fir col­
being compelled to reside on their umns of the famous forestry building,
land, provided they irrigate the full erected by the state in 1909 for the
area and their holdings do not exceed Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition and
the size of an established farm unit. now used as a museum by the Univer­
Before their water right becomes per­ sity of Washington, cannot be exter­
manent, however, such landowners minated and within two years the im­
must show irrigation and cultivation pressive building will be an unsightly
for five successive years.
decaying structure. This is the opin­
ion expressed by Professor Hugo Win­
Automobile Tax Stands.
kenwerder, dean of the college of for­
San Francisco — Owners of automo­ estry. James J. Hill recently donated
biles in California—more than 100,000 95000 to help save the building.
of them—will have to pay a horse­
Laundresses Rout Rivals.
power tax on their cars, ranging from
95 to 930, to the state, and drivers of
Nogales, Mex.—Anti-Chinese riots
machines for hire will have to pay a are reported in Cananea, Sonora, as
license fee of 96.
They will have to the result of a washer-woman’s war.
start in right away, too, for the law to The Woman’s protective League of
that effect will be enforced forthwith, Cananea, organized by women who
the Supreme court of the state having earn their living by the washboard,
decided that the law is constitutional was responsible for the attack on the
in all particulars.
Chinese, who were accused of usurp­
ing the women’s employment. The
Eye of Dead Put on Film.
women led the rioting which resulted
Aurora, Ill.—Authorities have pho­ in the flight to the hills of practically
tographed the eye of Theresa Hol­ all of the Chinese laundrymen.
lander, killed here a week ago. State's
Rural Cupid Finds Favor.
Attorney Tyler admitted this, saying
it was the hope that the retina of the
Washington, D. C.—A favorable re­
murdered woman retains the image of port was agreed to by the senate com­
the murderer. The picture was taken mittee on public lands on the bill of
at the suggestion of an oculist, who Representative Kincaid to provide that
said the retina of the slain girl’s eye the marriage of a homestead entryman
would show the last object before her to a homestead entrywoman shall not
conscious vision. The result was not prevent the right of either to a pat­
made public.
ent, if either has complied with the
law for a year.
Nations Mark Speeders.
Berlin—Germany and France, from
March 1, will communicate to each
other the names, residences and other
details in regard to all automobilists
who have been convicted for violations
of the traffic regulations in the res­
pective countries.
Ulster Men Well Armed.
London — The Dublin correspondent
of the Times ¡earns on good authority
that the Ulster volunteers have more
rifles than volunteers in some coun­
ties, and that they possess 60 machine
guns.