The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-30
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS


nominated Tom l.. Johnson for third
term as mayor.
The losses in the recent big fire at
Butte are now estimated at $600,000,
with insurance of $685., 900.
The Russian battleship Retvizan,
which was sunk at Port Arthur, has
been refioated by Japanese engineers.
The California Supreme Court has
decided that the anti-trading stamp
law passed in 1904 is unconstitutional.
The board of review has fixed the
total cash value of real estate and per-
sonal property in Cook county, which
contains Chicago, at S2,014, ,425.
1t is stated that while the visit of
King Alfonso of Spain to Berlin has
been fixed for November 9th the date
will be changed should cholera spread
in Germany.
In his annual report Brig. Gen. Will
lam S. McCaskey, commanding the De-
partment of Colorado, recommends the
re-establishment of the canteen fea-
ture of the exchange.
A Copenhagen dispatch says that
Mylius Erickson is preparing Danish
ship and sledge party for an expedition
to the hitherto unexplored regions of
the northwest coast of Greenland.
The work of the civilian physicians
in examining recruits of the army has
proved so unsatisfactory that their ser
vices Will be entirely dispensed with in
that capacity after September 3Oth.
Reports from the famine districts in
Spain show that the workmen threaten
to burn and sack if they are not fur
nished with food. Appeals have been
sent to the government to distribute
rations.
The sixth game of the chess match
of eight games at Nuremburg was be-
gun by Tarrasch and after seventy
moves was declared draw. The
score: Tarrasch, 2; Marshall o;
! drawn, A.
The students of the st. Petersburg
University have decided by a large ma
| jority to resume their studies be
cause an open university will be more
dangerous to Imperialism than a uni
versity on strike
The Mexican branch of the Y NJ. C.
A. has oeen inaugurated at the City of
Mexico with Vice President Corrall as
There Is also a branch for English
speaking young men.
United States Senator ]. r. Burtons
trial has again been postponed. Wit
nesses for the government have been
notified that the case will be called
! October 24th The first subpoenas is
sued in the re-trial were for October
3D.
Within a year from now the Rock
Island system will have the entire
length of its main line TO Colorado
laid with S5-pound steel and heavily
ballasted That means that it will
have to relay probably about $50 miles
of steel.
The census bureau has issued bull
letin on central light and ppwer sta
tions for the year ending June 80,
1902, showing there were in the United
States 1920 such stations, with cost
of construction and equipment of $780,
740,352.
The control of the National Car
Wheel Company at Pittsburg has
passed into the hands OF James ID.
Rhodes of Pittsburg and William Bon
nell of Cleveland. This company owns
four plants, and is capitalized at nearly
S2,000,000
Fifty Filipino students arrived in
Chicago from Washington few days
ago, preparatory to registering in va
rious western colleges and dniversi-
ties. The students were in charge OF
w. A. Sutherland, an attache of the
Department of the Interior. .
On Beatty's ridge, in Switzerland
county. Indiana, on September Goth,
George Ford, who is believed to be
insane, cremated his wife and three
children by setting fire to the house in
which they were asleep. All four per
ished in the flames.
The London Daily Telegraph's To
kio correspondent says the British far
Eastern squadron will assemble in To
kio bay early in October after the rati-
fication of the Russo-Japanese peace
treaty, and that the japanese fleet will
also assemble at the same place
Much damage was done to the bust
ness section of Spokane, Washington.
September Goth by a fire which de-
stroyed 100000 worth of property,
the heaviest losers being the Booth
McCllnctock company, Wholesale gro
ceries, two-story building and contents,
100000; the Cudahy Packing Com
pany, stock, 100000.
The next great ship that is to come
from the Meclilenburg yards, where the
North German Lloyd keels are laid,
Will be named after Washington in
stead of some German prince, as has
been the invariable rule of the COM
pany heretofore. The Washington is
to be 17,O0o-ton ship, one of the larg-
est afioat, and will be completed in the
fall of 1907. 1t is declared that some
of the interior plans will startle the
shipbuilding world.
Commanding officers of the Catholic