Following the interstate commerce commission's scathing denouncement of the New Haven road for the recent North Haven Wreck, in which it was held that man failures, beginning with its high officials and ending with its trainmen, were responsible for the loss of lives, sentiment in Congress has begun to crystallize in a movement to take up the whole subject of legislation for train safety at the December session.
The Amazon exploration expedition sent out by the University of Pennsylvania several months ago has just reported reaching Caracari, a small settlement at the headwaters of navigation on the Rio Branco and near the borders of the Guianas, in South America.
During the last quarter of the fiscal year the federal government entered into cooperative fire-protection agreements with the states of Maine, New York, Minnesota, Montana, Washington, and Oregon.
New Hampshire, through its attorney-general, has presented conditions which, if enforceable, may seriously imperil the purchase by the government of forest lands for conservation.
With nearly two million five hundred thousand dollars yet to spend and one million dollars' worth of contracts in force, the United States engineering office in Kansas City, Mo.
Bids have been received by the forest service for three hundred million feet of timber advertised for sale on the Tongass national forest in Alaska, and an additional three hundred million feet from the same forest has been applied for.
The regulations of the United States department of agriculture, bureau of biological survey-fixing the seasons in which the shooting of migratory birds is allowed, authorized under the recently enacted Weeks-McLean migratory bird law, have just been made public by the department.
