The seventeenth annual report of the United States Civil Service Commission shows that during the past year 46,763 were examined, of whom 35,025 passed and 9,889 of these received appointments.
Arrangements are being made by the Postoffice Department and Weather Bureau whereby the farmers living on the free rural delivery routes can have the benefits of the Weather Bureau's forecasts.
Lone Wolf and other Indians made application to the United States Court in Oklahoma for an injunction restraining the Government from opening the Kiowa-Comanche lands for settlement.
Attorney General Knox and Solicitor General Richards are of the opinion that the Secretary of the Treasury has no power to refund the duties on imports from Porto Rico which had been collected between the date of the ratification of the treaty of peace and the enactment of the Foraker law.
