The Colorado statesman., 1905-10-07
CONDENSED IELEGRAMS


York City resulted in the graz ing OF
their demands.
Richard Clarkson, pension agent for
Iowa and Nebraska, and for thirty
years manager of the Iowa Sta-s Reg
lister, died October Sd.
As the result of arbitration 6. 100 un-
ion. carpenters in Boston and ricinity
had their wages increased IS cents a
day on Monday, October I'd.
Secretary Taft has undertake. TO de-
liver a speech in Ohio during tn pres
ent campaign, at time and place to
be fixed by the Republican stare com
mittee later On.
J. J. Hill, president of the Great
Northern railroad, has ordered that all
operators on the system who afused
TO 90 out during the recent stril shall
have their salaries doubled.
The decennia1 census just COMPLETED
shows the population of Kansas as en-
rolled BY the assessors in Marcel. 1905,
TO be 1,543,S1s, an increase OF 23g.0S4
over the population as shown by the
census in 1895.
The publication of the October bu-
reau report showing the condition Of
cotton to be 71-2 per cent against 72.1
last month and 1913 per cent. las year.
was followed by sensational break
in the cotton market
The appraisement at over s15,0OO,-
coo of the estate of the late Adrian Ise-
lin of New Rochelle. New York, has
been filed in court. The appraisement
showed s1,4O7, $50 CT real estate and
| s14,925, ,906 of personal property.
A Moscow dispatch says that Lieu
tenant General Stoessel, who com
manded the Russian forces at Port
Arthur, is suffering from a stroke of
paralysis which affects his entire left
side. The generals recovery is hoped
for.
Passenger fares in upper Michigan
have been voluntarily reduced by the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road.
the reduction being from cents mile
to cents. Similar action on the part
on the Chicago & Northwestern was
recently announced.
AT Magnolia, Missouri, Bessie Per
kins. a white woman, has been sen
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary
for marrying and living with a negro.
Judge Wilkinson. in passing sentence,
said he regretted that he could make
the punishment no heavier.
Mr.. De Thai. secretary of the Rus
/ sian embassy at Washington, has been
temporarily transferred to Mexico as
charge d'affaires of the Russian lega-
| ton there. Prince Kudaeheff, who was
with Baron Rosen at Toxic, has been
attached to the Washington embassy.
The figures show that 90,772 immi-
grants landed at Ellis Island last
month as against S2,70S in September
| 1904. The last month has, according
to Commissioner Watchorn, been the
heaviest immigration September in
the history of the immigration bureau.
Orders for 100000 tons of shipping
have been placed with ClydessWilders
during the past month, while $4,000
tons of new ships We're launched dur
ing the same period. This boom is due
to the expectation of a great increase
in the far eastern trade, now that the
war is over.
The North American Commercial
| Company, lessee of sealing rights off
the Pribyloff Islands, shipped 14,36S
fur sealskins during the season of 1905,
against 1928 shipped in 1904, accord
ing to figures made public to-day by
w. |. Lembky, agent in charge of seal
fisheries of Alaska.
The socalled Great Berlin Street
Railway Company, owner OF most OF
the surface lines in the city of Berlin,
has decided TO increase its capital by
'S15, 100000 and construct underground
| lines under Potsdamer, Leipsiger and
,Unter den Linden streets. provided, as
seems probable, that a ninety-year con
cession can be obtained.
Tho Nov, Vor1- Cta+o nor,r+,,,ont NJ
Labor calls attention to marked i'm,
provement in trade, which began in
the middle of 1904 and has continued
almost uninterruptedly. The depart
ment says that now there are rela
lively fewer idle wage earners in New
York than there were even in 1902, the
most prosperous year of the decade.
The report of Francis A. Dodge, the
paymaster general of the army points
out that the enlisted men have now
ievery chance to put away money for
their own savings by the deposit sys
TEN, which guarantees them absolute
safety. During the year the year the
amount deposited by the men was ST.,
531 ,020, making the total amount since
the establishment of the system, $26,
i294,326.
Mail advices from the South Seas
include disastrous typhoon and tidal
wave in the Marshall group, causing
the loss of 120 lives. a wave nearly
six feet high swept the islands of ia
luit. The settlement is on an island
| about mile long and where The Euro
peans are gathered is about 100 yards
wide. The top story of the hotel, in
which the foreigners lived. was blown
off and several had narrow escapes
from falling debris.
BY direction os the President the
State and Navy Departments have be
gun the preparation of plans for recep
zion in this country of Prince Louis oil
Battenburg. The English squadron
will arrive at Annapolis NovembeI