Four hundred shingle mills in the
Puget Sound country, cutting half the
American supply, have completed their
combine, and will dictate prices to the
east
J. M. Barrie, English author and
dramatist, has an income of $40,000 a
year from royalties on his plays, all of
which have been successful.
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LATEST MOVE
BY COLOMBIA
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Preparations' Made for the Subjuga
tion of Panama.
HER ARMY TO BE INCREASED
Should Mission of Gen. Reyes iu
Washington Prove Frnitleas, Gov
cember 7 Unless Upper Branch
to 100,000 Hen.
Colon, Nov. 2CA telegram from Bo
gota, dated November 21, says that the
government has issued orders to raise
the army footing to 100,000 men in the
even that Gen. Reyes' mission to Wash
ington should prove fruitless. The sub
jugation of Panama is given as the rea
son for the government's action.
To Rash the Treaty.
Colon, Nov. 26.It is proposed, when
the messenger bearing the Panama
canal treaty reaches Colon, December 1,
to have a special train ready to trans
port him quickly across the isthmus to
Panama, where the treaty will be imme
diately signed by the members of the
junta. The train, meantime, wilLbe
kept waiting, and when the treaty has
been signed, its bearer will be promptly
brought back to Colon. The steamer
Yucatan, due to sail December 1 for New
York, will be delayed until the mes
senger arrives, when he will embark on
the -Yucatan, thus starting for New
York on the same date that he arrives.
This proposal is meeting with some
ATHLETICS ARE TOO EXHAUSTING FOR WOMEN, SAYS HARVARD'S PRESIDENT.
And So They Are, Especially When Taken by the Hour.
