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report confirms the rumor which 

 reached the United States the latter 

 part of June to the effect that Everett 

 and Wakeley, together with four FiH- 

 pinos, had been murdered l)y natives 

 while crossing the Island of Negros. 

 The party had been missing for six 

 weeks at the time the report was re- 

 ceived of the assassination. 



H. D. EVERETT 



Mr. Wakeley was a native of Chicago 

 and was acting as Superintendent of the 

 native schools in the Island of Ne- 

 gros. Everett was a graduate of the 

 literary department of Cornell Univer- 

 sity and of the forestry department of 

 the University of Michigan. He en- 

 tered the Forest Service in 1904 and 

 was engaged in various lines of forest 

 work throughout the United States dur- 

 ing the succeeding two years, when, at 

 his own recme^t. he was transferred to 



the Philippine Bureau of Forestry. 

 Here he received rapid promotion until 

 he became assistant director of the Phil- 

 ippine Bureau of Forestry. The three 

 years which he had contracted to re- 

 main in the Philippines had nearly ex- 

 pired and he had just decided to remain 

 wdth the work another year just before 

 starting for Negros. As part of his of- 

 ficial duties, Everett had charge of for- 

 estry matters in five islands of the Phil- 

 ippine group, including the Islands of 

 Panay, Negros, Cebu, and Bobol. The 

 party consisting of Everett, Wakeley, 

 and the four Filipinos were engaged in 

 surveying and mapping the Island of 

 Negros and in making an investigation 

 of its natural resources. As soon as the 

 report of the murder of the party 

 reached Manila, Capt. George P. Ahern, 

 Director of the Philippine Bureau of 

 Forestry, started out with a party to 

 make an investigation. The cable just 

 received by the Bureau of Insular Af- 

 fairs states the result of Captain 

 Ahern's trip. 



Everett was a man of unusual abil- 

 itv and his death will be a serious blow- 

 to the cause of forestry in the Philip- 

 pines. He is the son of O. M. Everett, 

 of Malone, N. Y., and was born in 



1880. 



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Declares for Government Regulation 



THE Delta County, Colo., Republican 

 convention in its platform declares 

 for "Government regulation as against 

 Government ownership. Liberal ap- 

 propriations for the improvement of 

 waterways and harbors, under a gen- 

 eral plan that shall be comprehensive 

 and just to all portions of the country, 

 the conservation of our natural re- 

 sources by a proper and effective regu- 

 lation of their use ; liberal provisions to 

 continue the work of reclaiming and 

 agricultural lands of the West." 



