Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in London in the time-honored manner by a reunion of leading Americans at a banquet in the Grand Hall of the Hotel Cecil.
The Postmaster General has completed and forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury the estimates for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907.
With the purpose of offering a permanent career in the diplomatic and consular service to competent young men, and of improving those branches of the Government service so as to make them more valuable than they are now to the business interests of the country, the President announces that hereafter any applicant for appointment as Secretary of Embassy or Legarion must possess a knowledge of at least one other language than English, and must be otherwise examined as to his competency; and an examination will be required of such consular officers as are limited in compensation to the maximum of $2,500 per annum and a minimum of $1,000.
A petition signed by fifteen hundred summer guests at the White Mountains and asking that a special session of the State Legislature be called to consider "the best methods of preventing the impending devastation of the forests on the Presidential Range," has been sent to Governor John McLane of New Hampshire.
As the result of the vigorous prosecutions of land fraud cases in Oregon about twenty thousand acres of school land situated in the Blue Mountain forest reserve in eastern Oregon have been abandoned by locators, who forfeited in the neighborhood of $10,000.
