The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-06-09

The president has authorized the
commissioner of internal revenue 10
examine the systems governing the
manufacture and sale OF denatured al
cohol !nEuropean countries with a view
to formulating rules for the same pur-
pose here
TIL crop estimating board of the
bureaG ri statistics of the agricultural
department finds the area planted to
cotton this year to be 2S,6S60oo acres
an increase of 1,GS6 900 acres as
compared with the estimate for last
year
About 10000 coal miners. who have
been on strike in Illinois have re-
turned to work. an agreement having
been reached with the operators.
Labor union are not allowed by tho
laws Of Mexico and an attempt is to be
made 10 organize Mexican unions in
Arizona and New Mexico.
The president has declined to enter
| tain proposition to delay proceedings
in the suit against the alleged drug
trust
Spain is to be drawn upon for labor
ers for the Panama canal, a represen-
tative having gone there to investigate
labor conditions with Il view to OBJ
tanning workmen
Police officers owen and Hill, Of
Richmond, Mo. who killed two mem
/ bers of a Wild West show in a battle
which resulted from an attempt to ar
rest the Snowman, have been eXonSr-
. TOD 1,r ;,L t,,,r ii
gated the case.
! The California state legislature has
! convened in special session to con-
-. slider measures made necessary by the
! San Francisco earthquake and fire.
| Fortv-tive Chinese students repre-
senting good families are coming to
the uited States to enter various col
| leges
| A man believed to be the anarchist
| Morales who threw the bomb at King
Alfonso in Madrid. shot IA guard to
avoid arrest but when he found he
could not escape he shot himself.
A delegation of the liberal party Of
Panama have arrived in New York
on mission soliciting the assistance
of the United States in securing a
fair election on the isthmus.
| A bench warrant has been issued
for Webb Covington. president of the
last state senate who is charged with
boodlins during the last session of the
legislature of Arkansas
Harry Simmons and Franklin Ever
hart, Americans, charged with selling
fraudulent mining stock in England,
| have been convicted in London.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
again under fire. This time he IS ac-
cused of an absolute disregard of the
law authorizing the construction of a
new building for his department
The level of Lake Michigan varied
as much as four feet in one day at
Chicago recently. The sudden change
was thought to have been caused by
the wind.
Lightning struck In crowd of spec
tators at the ball grounds at Mobile,
Ala, killed five people and injured
about 25 others.
A new Information has been drawn
by st. Louis officials against r. NJ.
| Snyder the Kansas City capitalist,
charging him with bribery in connec-
tion with the ST. Louis city council.
Two street cars and an automobile
were entirely destroyed and several
persons injured in collision at Gin
cinnati recently.
Representative Robert Adams, of the
Second Pennsylvania district COM
mitted suicide by shooting in his
| ~, al, ,,h
at Washington. 1t was Mr.. Adams
who drafted. introduced, reported and
passed through the house Of represen-
tatives in one hour the declaration of
war against Spain.
The South McAlester, l. r. Daily
Capital has been sold to a corpora
| ton of 20 influential citizens.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany at Goldfield. New, has called upon
the governor for protection, its striking
messengers having warned the com
pany its office would be closed by force
| if necessary.
Nine men were burned. two of them
seriously, in gas explosion in a mine
at Monongahela, Pa.
The supreme court of Missouri has
made an order ousting the Delmar
Jockey Club of st. Louis, ordering the
| corporation dissolved and it's affairs
wound up. A fine of $1,000 was also
imposed. This is victory for the
state against the St. Louis race track
gamblers.
In baseball game at Kansas City,
Howard Newton, II years old, one Of
the players, was struck over the heart
by pitched ball and died almost in
stantly.
A fraud order has been issued
against the National Bond company
of St Louis, with branch Offices at
various other cities, denying 1t the
use of the mails.