The Reclamation Service announces that the Pathfinder dam in Wyoming, which has cost $1,200,000 and has been three and one half years in the building, has been completed.
President Eliot of Harvard was invested last week with the decoration of the first class of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan, by Baron Takahira, Japanese ambassador, acting for the Mikado.
The New York Legislature has passed an act broadening the conditions under which the public service commission may grant franchises for rapid transit lines.
Two hundred and twenty-six commercial organizations, representing a membership of several hundred thousand merchants, manufacturers, and business men of various lines throughout the country, have joined in a movement to stop the present tariff agitation and provide for a board of experts to study the whole question and revise the schedules in the light of their researches.
There is no longer any necessity for polluting American cities with volumes of smoke, as practical smoke-consumers can be obtained at reasonable prices and operated with economy.
The Utah Fuel Company has pleaded guilty in the United States court to the fraudulent acquisition of 1,440 acres of coal land, paid a fine of $8,000, also $192,000 for the coal extracted, and relinquished the land.
One of the largest competitive examinations ever held under the civil service commission is now in progress, and will continue in all the principal cities of the United States and at Ponce, Porto Rico, and at Honolulu, until April 27.
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.
A settlement has been effected by the Secretary of the Interior of the Government suit against the Union Pacific Railway, involving coal lands in Wyoming estimated as worth a million and a half dollars.
