| Show PAN AMERICAN CONGRESS assemblage will convene in panama in january new york nov 25 secretary guiteras of the pan american congress lias nearly completed arrangements for the fourth annual meeting of that body in panama from january 2 to january 6 next it is expected that about physicians from this country will attend one party sailing from new york and another from new orleans the panama government has appropriated for the entertainment 01 the Je legates after the congress ends most of the delegates are expected to attend the meeting of the public health association in havana a week later the congress in panama will discuss questions of hygiene largely and matters pertaining to quarantine the afternoons ter will be devoted to scientific sessions and the mornings and evenings to trips and social luncheons the program in panama hlll be a reception on the first day by president amador of the panama republic and the formal opening session of the congress the same evening on the second day there will be an excursion to the canal in the morning meetings of the various sessions in the afternoon and a banquet in the evening on the third day there will be an excursion down the bay to taboga island where a panama breakfast be served scientific sessions in the afternoon and a ball in the evening on the fourth day there will be an excursion to the united states army barracks in the morning section meetings in the afternoon and the formal closing session in the afternoon LAND FRAUD TESTIMONY portland ore nov 25 another support in the superstructure of the governments evidence in tho trial of the land fraud cases was supplied today in the testimony ot robert C pierce one of the surveying party which accompanied A W barber on his tour of examination of tho claims his testimony was an exhaustive account in detail of the trips made by the party during the six days they scrambled through the virgin forests of township 11 in search of homestead improvements which certain documents on file in the land office make it appear were made the testimony of pierce was corroborative of that of barber given yesterday but it was stronger in the respect that the witness today testified that for ten years he had resided on a homestead of his own in fathis secluded territory and during that time saw not one sight which led him to believe that any such personages as those choso whoso names now figure in court ever lived on be claims to which they are accredited by patents issued by the sea oral land office |
