The Colorado statesman., 1905-04-08
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

Hay nave arrived safely In italy.
Ralph Voorhees, of New Jersey has
given 100000 TO the American Tract
Society.
The Kansas City police board has is
sued an order for the closing of all
saloons on Sunday.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, widow of
former president Harrison, and her
daughter, sailed from Boston April 1st
for Italy.
The report of the betrothal of King
Alfonso of Spain to Princess Patricia
of Connaught is officially declared to
be unfounded.
The Panama canal commission has
authorized the construction of ma
rine barracks at Ancon, Panama. at
cost of $65,000.
In the sixty-second annual boat race
between the Universities of Oxford
and Cambridge April list, the former
won by three lengths.
officers of Drake University at Des
Moines, Iowa, have received an offer
from Andrew Carnegie of $4,000 for
the erection of library.
Five men were killed and five more
were seriously injured by an explosion
in Senator Clark's United Verde mine
at Jerome, Arizona, on the End inst.
Fifty cents has been fixed as the
general admission price to the Lewis
& Clark Exposition. Communication
books will be sold at reduced rates.
Former Senator Stewart of Nevada,
after many years spent here in pub
lie life, left Washington city April End
to make his home in Tonopah, Nevada.
President Roosevelt will deliver an
address in Brooklyn May Both, at the
exercises in connection with the un-
yelling of the statue of General Slo-
cum.
Governor Mickey of Nebraska has
signed the bills providing for biennial
elections and prohibiting the manufac-
ture and sale of cigarettes and cigar
ette papers.
The correspondent at Toxic of the
London Times says: Reports from
Manchuria show that the Russians are
destroying the railway much NOR /
completely than hitherto. The evident
inference is that they do not contem-
plate recovering the situation"
Official announcement is made that
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad has decided upon an exten-
sion from Chamberlain. South Dakota,
west through Lyman county, South
Dakota, opening new region of
cheap lands and productive soil.
The California Legislature passed
bill which Governor Pardee has ap-
proved, fixing a fiat tax of $40 a year
on all corporations, foreign and domes-
tic, doing business in the state, which
is expected to yield the state 100000
in revenue during the next two years.
The Iowa Supreme Court has
handed down a decision sustaining the
amendment to the state constitution
providing for biennial instead of an
nual elections. By the adoption OF this
amendment there will be no general
election in Iowa this fall and terms
of all officers whose terms expire then
are extended one year
A Shanghai dispatch says the pro.
vincial mints have been issuing un.
limited quantities of debased copper
currency, whereby officials have
profited to the extent of $4,000 900
taels annually. AS a result of this de.
basement of the currency a financial
collapse is threatened.
Because of historical associations,
the members of the Mormon church
have purchased for $4,000 the old Jail
at Carthage, Missouri, where the first
prophet and the founder of the faith
met tragic death at the hands of a
mob. 1t is proposed to establish a mis-.
sion church in the building.
All arrangements have been com
pleted for the proposed rife match be-
q f-nn h1
ment New York National Guard, and
the Queens Westminster Volunteer
regiment of London. The first con-
test will take place at the Bisley
range, England, July 9th and 7th.
Governor Mickey of Nebraska ve
toed the bill for the regulation of the
practice of medicine in the state, bet
ter known as the anti-Christian Sci
ence bill. The governor says in his
veto that he believes the bill to be
in violation of the constitution, which
demands religious liberation and free
dom.
The Irish Unionists at a meeting
have resolved to withhold their sup
port of the government on all ques-
tions involving an expression of con-
fidence in it's Irish administration so
long as Sir Anthony Patrick MacDon-
nell is retained at his post as under
secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ire
land.
Senators who called on President
Roosevelt to consult with him as to
the probable time of the reassembling
of Congress were informed that it is
likely special session will be called
for October 18th. This will enable
members of Congress going on the
Philippine trip to return in time for
the session.
millionaire who three years ago at
tempted to kill his wife, must spend