A letter has been received from Yukio Ozaki, the mayor of Tokio, Japan, in regard to the two thousand cherry-trees which were presented by that city to Washington, and which are now at Seattle, Wash.
The sixth annual convention of the national rivers and harbors congress, the largest assemblage of representative men interested in the development of waterways ever held in this country, took place in Washington last week.
Secretary Ballinger of the Interior Department has made public a definite policy which is dependent for its execution upon comprehensive legislation by Congress.
The Government has won its suit against the Standard Oil Company and the United States Circuit Court has ordered the corporation dissolved as an illegal corporation.
That the organized conservation movement is preparing for a big national effort to obtain, at the coming session of Congress, revision of the national laws under which coal lands and water-powers are administered, is made apparent by the issuance of a statement by Dr.
President Taft, in his long tour of the country, which has taken him through the Northwest, the Pacific coast, and the Southwest, reached the Mississippi river last week.
The Supreme Court of the United States last week refused to take cognizance in a case involving responsibility for a note given to pay a debt assumed in connection with a speculation on the stock exchange.
The temporary legislation which was enacted to meet the conditions of the panic of 1907 will come up for reconsideration when Congress convenes in December.
The Governors of New York and New Jersey, officers of the Hudson-Fulton celebration commission, and the commission whose work made the event possible, participated on the 27th ult.
School yards in England are generally larger than in the United State, and fascinating school games, carefully supervised, shared by all, are made an educational factor.
