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.
Negotitations carried on between the Eastern Yacht Club of Marblehead and the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club of Germany, promise to result in a new perpetual challenge cup race.
A bulletin just issued by the Bureau of the Census shows that the number of teachers in schools, colleges, and universities exceeds the total number of clergymen, physicians, and lawyers.
The people of Dawson are reported to have organized, with a membership of two hundred, the International Society for Polar Research and Experiment, whose ultimate object is to launch an expedition for the North Pole.
On the 5th, on board the yacht Mayflower in Oyster Bay, Long Island, President Roosevelt completed his high task of bringing together representatives appointed by Japan and Russia to treat for peace.
