The Elbert County tribune., 1906-12-06

According to the estimates of the
state auditor the Kansas legislature
will be asked to appropriate s6.177.693
22 to pay the running expenses Of the
state and make repairs and improve
ments on the state institutions.
revised list of the casualties re-
sulting from the recent explosion of
the Witten roburit factory shows
that 80 persons were killed. 62 Sc
verely injured and $50 were less seri-
ously hurt
The Gulf Pipe Line company which
has capital stock of $3,500,000 has
filed its charter in Texas and proposes
to construct an oil pipe line from the
Indian territory oil fields to Port Ar
thur, Tex, a distance of nearly 500
miles.
A mob of 300 men rode into Prince
ton. KY. and set fire to two large to-
bacco factories and prevented any at
fire. The work of the mob is believed
to be a furtherance of the agitation of
the growers against the tobacco trust.
The birthday Of Queen Alexandra
of Great Britain, who was born in
1874 was celebrated at Sandringham
by an unusually large gathering of
the royal family.
The express car attached to a Cot
ton Belt route train was robbed near
Redwater, Tex, and the express mes
senger was thrown from the moving
train. The robber had disappeared
when the train stopped at the next
station.
An attempt will be made to have
drafted into the constitution of Ok
lahoma a clause, prohibiting the pip
ing of natural gas outside the bound
aries of the new state.
A reward of $500 IS offered for the
arrest and conviction of the person
who shot and killed w. P. Dilworth,
in Oklahoma City.
The auditor for the war department
has admitted the claim of Col. VIII
liam J. Bryan's regiment, the Third
Nebraska volunteers, for S2S,24U ex.
ira pay during the Spanish war.
Samuel Spencer. president of the
Southern Railway system, and one
of the most prominent railroad men
in the country, was killed recently in
rear end collision near Lynchburs
Va. All the occupants of President
Spencer's private care, with the ex
ception of a porter and Mr.. Spencer's
secretary, lost their lives.
At Kansas City the sixteenth an
nual football game between the Kan
sas and Missouri university teams re-
suited in neither side being able to
score.
F. D. Coburn's annual crop sum
mary for Kansas has been issued. the
total wheat crop for the year was 93,-
292,9S0 bushels. Sumner was the
banner county, raising 4,390,e65 bush
els.
United States Senators Warren and
Clark. of Wyoming, Commissioner
Richards, of the general land office.
| and George F. Pollock. chief of de-
partment B, interior department, were
charged with interfering with the In
vestigation of coal and land frauds
in Utah and Wyoming, by special
government agent during the recent
interstate commerce investigation at
Salt Lake
Mayor Eugene e. Schmitz, mayor of
San Francisco, was arrested upon
his arrival at Tr-ckee, Cal. under
the recent indictments charging him
with extortion in office.
Four men were burned to death,
several fatally injured and many
| others badly hurt in a fire in the
Salvation Army hotel at st. Louis re.
asleep in the building when the fire
was discovered. Those injured were
hurt by jumping from the windows
to the sidewalk.
The president believes the Porto
Ricans are entitled to American
citizenship and will recommend that
it be granted them in a special mes
sage to congress.
During the nine months OF this
year the exports of lumber from the
United States amounted to SCI ,000,-
600, an increase of SO per cent over
the same time last year.
A bag containing about s25 in gold
and silver coins was unearthed at
Rulo. Neb. The coins bore dates vary
ing from 1929 to 1856.
The Japanese have decided to
bridge the Yalu river at Yongampo,
Manchuria. The bridge will cost ST..
100000.
Herr Won Tschirsky, German sec
rotary for foreign affairs, gave a
dinner recently in Berlin to the Amer
fcan tariff committee. Many distin-
,al
were present.
Four out of five men were killed
recently while being raised from the
shaft in mine near Webb City, Mo.
The tub which they occupied became
detached from the cable and fell "a
distance of 10O feet to the bottom