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Official figures of the Cuban 

 Eight treasury, recently issued, 



Months' show that the collections 

 Collections for the first eight months 

 of the present fiscal year 

 were $361,443.14 over the estimate, as fol- 

 lows : 



Estimated annual budget col- 

 lections $27,833,273.00 



Estimated fixed budget collec- 

 tion 6,944,407.00 



Total $34,779,680.00 



Collections in S months 23,747,896.46 



Pro rata collections for above 



8 months 23,186,453.32 



Surplus $561,443.14 



W. J. Beardsley, the archi- 

 Eleven tect, of Poughkeepsie, left 

 Modern Poughkeepsie for Havana, 

 Prisons Cuba, to look over the prop- 

 osition of building eleven 

 prisons on the island and a big prison in 

 Havana. He has been in communication 

 with the Cuban officials for over a year 

 relative to the plans for those buildings and 

 has had men working in Cuba on the pre- 

 liminary plans for a long time. 



The Cuban government proposes to erect 

 modern and up-to-date prisons on the is- 

 land at a cost of several millions of dol- 

 lars. 



The department of posts and 

 New telegraphs announces that 



Money Order postal money services will 

 Offices be started in connection 

 with the post office at Re- 

 mates, Pinar del Rio Province ; at Guaraca- 

 bulla, Santa Clara Province ; Mantua, Pi- 

 nar del Rio Province ; Ceballos, Camaguey 

 Province; Orozco, Pinar del Rio Province, 

 and at San Jeronimo, Camaguey Province. 



New post offices have been opened at 

 the sugar central "Reforma," Santa Clara 

 Province, and at Terry, Central Caracas, the 

 same province. 



Six more Cuban post offices have been 

 authorized to issue postal money orders for 

 Cuba, the United States and Germany. 

 These offices are those of Rincon and Santa 

 Maria del Rosario in Havana Province, 

 Cidra in Matanzas Province, Sierra Morena 

 in Santa Clara Province, La Fe in Pinar 

 del Rio Province and Santa Cruz del Sur 

 in Havana Province. 



Drs. Luis Montane and Sebastian Cuerve, 

 professor of anthropology in the Univer- 

 sity of Havana and director of Hospital 

 No. 1 respectively, have been commissioned 

 by the government to make researches in 

 the hills of Banao, in the caves of which 

 some very ancient human remains have 

 been found. 



The Cuban Agricultural De- 



.Inicrican ])artment has taken steps to 



Engineers consult American and En- 



Consnlted glish civil engineers about 



the best mode of installing 



a complete .system of irrigation for the 



Vuelta Abajo and Semi Vuelta region, and 



if practical plans should be forthcoming 



there is no doubt but that the money will 



not be wanting to carry out this absolutely 



necessary enterprise in order to save our 



tobacco crops from failure in the future 



through a prolonged drought. 



The names of David C. Henry and B. 

 M. Hall have been submitted by the Amer- 

 ican Minister to Cuba, Mr. John B. Jackson, 

 to the Cuban government, whose services 

 may be used in connection with the com- 

 mission that is to study a government irri- 

 gation plan for Pinar del Rio. 



These men are prominent American en- 

 gineers who have been in the United States. 



Dr. Frank E. Menocal, chief 

 Trachoma of the immigration depart- 

 Not ment, is planning to build a 



Curable hospital at Triscornia sta- 

 tion, Havana, to be equipped 

 especially to treat trachoma cases. His re- 

 quest for the institution has been acted 

 upon favorably by Secretary Varona Sua- 

 rez of the department of public health and 

 charity. 



He believes that trachoma in the most 

 cases is not curable, and in mild cases only 

 temporary rehef is possible. In the infant 

 stage a cure is possible. Cuba's campaign 

 to prevent the spread of the disease will 

 be strictly followed. 



By decision of the supreme 

 Alcohol court handed down March 

 Tax 27th, Decree No. 946 pro- 



Illegal mulgated by the president 

 of the republic October 12, 

 1910, providing that natural alcohol used by 

 druggists and perfumists should be taxed 

 under the excise act of February 27, 1903, 

 to pay the interest and principal of the 

 $35,000,000 loan, has been declared uncon- 

 stitutional. 



The court holds that the president in his 

 decree created a tax which could only be 

 applied by congress, and that any tax cre- 

 ated otherwise violated paragraph 8 of ar- 

 ticle 59 of the constitution. 



The decree was issued by the president 

 upon the recommendation of the treasury 

 department on the ground that "the con- 

 sumption of natural alcohol on the part of 

 druggists and perfumists was so excessive 

 that it was evident that the alcohol was be- 

 ing used for the manufacture of strong 

 liquors which are properly taxed under the 

 above-mentioned excise act." 



