ITEMS OF INTEREST December 1, 1906 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

By an executive order issued by President Roosevelt relative to the Panama Canal Commission seven executive departments have been created in place of the three which have formerly existed. The heads of these seven departments are all to be directly responsible to Chairman Shonts of the Commission. They are as follows: Chief engineer, John F. Stevens; general counsel, Richard Reid Rogers; chief sanitary officer, Colonel William C. Gorgas; general purchasing officer, David W. Ross; general auditor, E. S. Benson; general disbursing officer, E. J. Williams; manager of labor and quarters, Jackson Smith.

Flying the flag of the United States which has been placed nearer the pole than any other national standard, weather-beaten and somewhat disabled, the Peary arctic steamer Roosevelt arrived on the 23d at Sydney, Nova Scotia, under sail and steam, after sixteen months' vain effort to reach the pole. The expedition reached 87 degrees 6 minutes north latitude, a point two hundred and three miles from the pole.

Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock admits that charges have been submitted to him that through alleged favoritism on the part of some person or persons in authority the Union Pacific Railroad Company had come into control of large coal land holdings in Wyoming. It is understood that there will be interesting developments in connection with the Wyoming land frauds in the near future.

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