Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1909 — GOVERNOR SMITH TO RESIGN [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR SMITH TO RESIGN

Will Quit Philippines and Return to United States. San Francisco, April 2.—lt is reported here that 1 Governor General Smith of the Phllipplpes will resign his position and Sall for this city May 15 to resuihe the practice of law, which he abandoned when the SpanishAmerican war began. Governor General Smith was a partner of Judge Frank Muraaky when he left for the scene of hostilities In the Islands as colonel of the First Regiment of the National Guard of California. i