The engineers' calculations as to the sufficiency of the water supply in the Panama canal have been amply vindicated by the figures just reported from the isthmus.
All thirty-three so-called Cunningham Alaska coal land claims, involving alleged fraudulent blanket patents which contributed to the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, have been disposed of finally by the interior department.
First details of the four-million-dollar preliminary development of the Bronx river, which means a parkway fifteen and a half miles long, comprising an area of eleven hundred and thirty acres, extending from Bronx park in New York to the new reservation for the Kensico reservoir and connecting park lands with watershed properties that aggregate, exclusive of the Catskill project, nearly thirty thousand acres and represent an expenditure of over one hundred and thirty million dollars, have been given out by the Bronx Parkway Commission.
For the simplification of pleading and practise and the correction of any unnecessary delay or unreasonable cost resulting from practises under the rules as they now exist, the Supreme Court of the United States will revise the equity rules of the minor federal courts during the next term, which begins in October.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock has submitted to the House and Senate conferees on the post-office appropriation bill a recommendation that the House parcels post proposition be substituted for that of the Senate.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher submitted to the House committee on public lands last week a proposal to lease government coal lands to cities which will operate coal mines under regulations making it possible for consumers to enjoy the use of fuel at reasonable prices.
The department of justice is on the point of beginning a second great suit against the Southern Pacific railway and its transferees for the recovery of thousands of acres of oil land in Southern California.
People who are trying to economize are to be shown how to save fifty million dollars a year when the report of the marketing committee of the New York state food investigating commission is out next month, according to a prediction made by the counsel for the committee.
