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the state bank examiner. Comptroller of the Currency Ridge ley, in connection with the Kansas and Oklahoma situation, holds that national banks under the present banking laws may not lawfully pay out money on a plan to guarantee depositors. I The state insurance commission of Oklahoma has canceled the license of the Great Western Life Insurance company of Kansas City to do business in that state. Judge Smith McPherson, in the United States district court at Kansas, has rendered a decision declaring void and unconstitutional the Missouri law forbidding foreign corporations from transferring suits brought against them from state to federal courts. Japanese immigration to America is decreasing according to reports recelved by the immigration bureau, The falling off for December, 1907. was 2,234 as compared with 1906. Secretary Garfield of the interior department is attempting to annul the Oklahoma law forbidding piping gas out of that state. The action is taken in the interest of Indians who have gas to sell. The Missouri River Navigation congress, at Sioux City, Iowa, adjourned after choosing Yankton, S. D. as the place for next year's meeting Congressman Ellis, of Kansas City, was elected president. In the federal court at St. Louis, Judge Garland ordered the jury to acquit four officials of the American Bond Reserve company, who have been on trial on charges of fraudulent use of the mail. At Clarksville, Tenn., two negroes were killed while attempting to set fire to a tobacco factory. A third no gro escaped. but was thought to have been wounded. The dead men had enough dynamite on their persons to have destroyed the building The new battleship Mississippi has been turned over to the naval authorities at League Island. She will be commanded by Capt. John C. Fremont The battleship fleet under Admiral a Evans has sailed from Rio Janeiro on its way to the Pacific. President Bochemohle, of the Bank of Ellenwood, Kan., has been arrested, charged with having sworn falsely concerning the bank's condition Four business houses, with their contents. were recently destroyed by fire at Geuda Springs, Kan., causing a loss of $11,000. The application of George W. Austin of New York for an order restraining Secretary Cortelyou from allotting Panama canal bonds, has been denied by Justice Gould at Washington Another collision between police and unemployed men occurred recently in Berlin in which many of the rioters were wounded. 9 The Missouri suit to oust the Har e vester trust has been continued to 3 the April term of the supreme court. a Two small banks at Pittsburg. Pa., were recently closed by the state au thorities. The home of Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough Rapid Transit company of New York, was recently searched by customs officers with the result that several hundred dollars worth of foreign goods were found on which no duty had been paid. Personal. Mayor James C. Dahlman was re cently ejected from the waterways congress at Sloux City. Iowa, because of an attempt to Inject politics into the discussion on the resolutions. Dr. Ellot, president of Harvard uni versity. advocates that American boys and girls be "sorted out" by agents of authority and forced by law to study trades assigned to them. Miss Georgia A. Smythe, a Boston waitress, has fallen heir to $200,000 by virtue of being a great-great-grand3 daughter of the notorious Mrs. Fitz herbert, one of the favorites of King George IV. of England. John Mitchell, president of the Mine Workers' union. who retires April 1 next. declares he would not accept I government position If offered him. Mrs. Emily Yznaga, mother of the dowager duchess of Manchester and of Lady Lister-Key. of England, is dead at her home in Louisiana. Former Gov. D. R. Francis, of Mis souri, was recently presented with the Swedish Order of the North Star. in recognition of his services as president of the Louisiana Purchase Expo sition company. Miss Miriam De Vore, a wealthy Chicago heiress, recently eloped to St. Louis and married her chauffeur. Mrs. Frank B. McKenna, daughter of Richard C. Kerens of St. Louis, is dead in Paris. Charles M. Smith, widely known , among Grand Army men as a lecturer on the story of his escape from Andersonville'prison, is dead at Wor-
