The Dolores star., 1906-11-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK

! Most Important Happenings C The
| Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered frsn An
parts Of the World CoaaenseA.
Iato Snail Space for the
| DeneAt Of Our ResADrs.
| Henry Mills Alden for 81 years edD
or of Harper's Monthly has celebrat
ed his 10th birthday.
Mrs. Esther Sumner Damon, the last
surviving widow of soldier of the
revolutionary war, died at her home
| at Plymouth Union, VT. aged SO.
Speaker Cannon. OF the house Of
representatives, has been reelected
by plurality 1000 greater than he
received two years ago.
King Edward of England has cele.
brated his 65th birthday. He re.
ceived many congratulatory - mes.
sages and numerous valuable pres.
ents.
Secretary Root will deliver two ad.
dresses In Kansas City while on his
western tour. One before the Com
mercial club November 10. the other
before the Trans Mississippi CONNER
cial congress November 20.
miscellaneous.
Il Is reported on reliable authority
that the Mexican Central railroad has
been purchased by the Chicago Rock
Island and Pacific and will become a
part of the Rock Island system.
Preliminary estimates OF the princi
pal crops of the United States made
them to be greater in quantity and
aggregate value than in any previous
year.
The Kansas supreme court has held
that assistant attorneys general have
all the authority Of county attorney
in instituing and maintaing injunc-
lion proceedings under the prohibitory
law.
BY a decision of the Kansas su-
preme court the NJ. X. ct. railway
company is declared to be entitled to
a right of way 200 feet wide from
Junction City, Kan, to the south line
of the state in place of the usual width
OF 100 feet.
Medical men and scientists of San
an electrical circuit with human elec-
tricity to such an extent that external
sound waves were transmitted and
heard through an ordinary telephone
receiver.
Firemen on the Erie Railroad sys-
TEN, who have made a demand on the
management for reduced working
hours and been refused are voting
upon the question and strike may
follow.
The defeated republican candidates
for state offices in New York, have
asked the supreme court to pass upon
the validity OF certain ballots cast in
the recent election.
BY the election OF J. T. Harahan as
president of the Illinois Central rail-
road E. H. Hartman, who controls the
Union Pacific system Of roads has OBJ
tanned control of lines which will ex-
tend from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and from the lakes to the gulf.
Unofficial returns indicate that the
democratic state ticket was elected in
Missouri by about 5000 majority.
A decision by Judge Garland. of the
United States court of South Dakota,
express companies are declared to be
common carriers and subject to the
| orders of the railroad commission OF
that state.
The Haskell Indians, of Lawrence,
Kan. were defeated by the football
team of the University Of Texas at
Austin by score of 2s to 0.
Sewer laborers, while eating their
lunch around fire near Pittsburg.
Pa, placed ten sticks of dynamite
near the fire to thaw and the explo-
sion which resulted killed two of
them instantly and injured Is others
| more or less seriously.
After a search of five months by
agents of the United States immigra-
! tion commission, Giovanni Bruno, a
Sicilian, believed to be one of the
most dangerous of Italian anarchists,
was arrested at Keon, small sta
| tion near Denver.
A majority of the delegates electeu
to the constitutional convention Of
the new state of Oklahoma are demo-
Gratis. The Indians as general rule
having voted the democratic ticket.
The Aero club of America an
nounce that next years balloon race
for the James Gordon Bennett cup
will be held at St. Louis.
The federal grand pury at st. Louis
will take up the investigation of the
ST. Louis end of the alleged oil COM
bine with view to the institution
OF criminal proceedings against per
fuvolvod