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Show An Irrigation Convention. There was a meeting of the members of the chamber of commerce held last night to consider the subject of holding an irrigation convention in this cily, with delegates from all of the stales and te' ritories west of the Missouri Mis-souri ritr. The idea is to agree on some plan for getting congress to grant to the states and territories all of thu arid lands within their borders, so that they could devise some means for reclaiming re-claiming them, , Governor Thomas will sign a call for a convention find the chamber of commerce com-merce will attend to the arrangements. A motion was made that a committee be appointed for the purpose of calling the convention. Judge 1'mrtcli, John W. Donnellan, Fred Trimmer, W. C. I!. Alleu and the secretary and president of the chamber of commerce were named as the committee. |