ITEMS OF INTEREST March 27, 1909 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

President Taft, having learned from the experience of his many official trips thatfirst-hand information is the best, will expect his cabinet officers to make frequent tours of inspection, and in accordance with this view Secretary of War Dickinson will make an early visit to the Isthmus of Panama to inspect the canal, while Secretary of the Interior Ballinger will go to Alaska to investigate conditions in that territory, particularly in regard to public lands. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson expects to visit the various state experiment stations this summer, and Secretary of the Navy Meyer probably will visit the various navy yards of the country to acquaint himself with existing local conditions.

The naval establishment is to be furnished under contract with wireless apparatus which will transmit messages for a distance of three thousand miles day or night, and two ships are to be furnished with similar apparatus capable of sending messages for a distance of one thousand miles. The apparatus, it is said, will be thirty times as powerful as that in ordinary use. The department will be able to communicate with its vessels practically across the Atlantic ocean, and the achievement, if successful, will be one of the greatest in naval practice.

The Federal Court at Buffalo has denied the motion of the Standard Oil Company for a new trial and imposed a fine of $20,000. The case hinged on the Standard Oil Company's accepting concessions from railroads in the shipments of oil from Olean, N. Y., to Rutland and other points in Vermont. There were in all 346 counts found against the oil company, but thus far only forty have been considered. The railroads involved are the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, and the Rutland.

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