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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 14, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 14.

THE enactment of the enlarged homestead law has opened 211,000,000 acres of lands for entry and occupation under its provisions. These lands are principally in the states of Colorado, Montana, and Oregon. Lands that had been withdrawn in Wyoming and Idaho, to the extent of some 90,000 acres, have also been thrown open to homesteaders. By addressing the Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., full information can be received concerning these lands.

THE New York World offers the suggestion that a "state constabulary" should be organized to supplement the sheriffs and their deputies in dealing with the "now quite ordinary emergencies growing out of labor strikes and their disorders." The World thinks that a state constabulary would not be so obnoxious to the strikers, and that it would aid in preserving order without putting communities so frequently under martial law.

THE Japanese cabinet resigned March 24. The government issued a statement to the effect that the cabinet had resigned because their congress failed to agree on the budget, and that the pending naval scandal had nothing to do with it; while those opposing the government insist that the corruption among naval officers was the real reason.

A GERMAN aviator has established a new record for height, having reached an altitude of 20,564 feet. And on the same day, an aviator in France carried nine passengers, with an aggregate weight of practically a ton, in one of Belmont's self-balancing aeroplanes. With this load, the Belmont machine reached a height of 5,000 feet.

THE strike in the plant of the Gould Coupler Works at Buffalo, New York, reached such an acute stage on the evening of March 24 that martial law was proclaimed, and five hundred National Guardsmen, who had been on patrol duty, threw a line of pickets around the city.