The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-10

lin properties among the assets of
the First National bank of Topeka
has been made by the receivers.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided the famous white
Mans Case" in favor of the Chero
kee Indians. Claims of 5000 white
persons TO land in Indian territory
were involved.
A mutinous outbreak OF 500 to GOO
British sailors at Portsmouth, Eng
land necessitated the immediate mob
ilization of the entire naval force at
the barracks to prevent the affair be-
coming serious.
One workman was killed and an
other seriously injured by the fall
of an eight ton iron column which
was being placed in position in the
new Grand Central depot at New
York.
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
way company has announced an in
crease in wages of ten per cent to al,
employees whose salaries are less than
5000 month.
The trustees of the Devlin estate
have brought. suit against the widow
OF c. j. Devlin in the federal court at
Topeka to recover S4T2,500 which she
is alleged to have received on life in
surance policies.
The receiver of the defunct First
National bank Of Topeka, Kan, has
amounting to 1925, 9,15S.1S. There will
probably be another dividend before
Christmas.
Four Japanese officials recently
visited Richmond, Va. for the pur-
pose of buying tobacco for their gov
ernment.
W. B. Woodbridge, st. Louis jew
elry drummer, was recently arrested
in San francisco on a Charge of for
gerry.
A private cablegram received at
Kansas City, Mo-, states that Col
Henry Olcott. president and founder
of the Theosophicnl society had been
badly injured i'll q railroad wreck in
Italy. Col. Oicott was a former news
paper man and represented the New
York Tribune at the execution of
John Brown.
In an address to company Of fol-
lowers Wilbur Glen Voliva recently
outlined plans for new Zion which
Is to be the greatest religious colony
of the world.
An examination OF the Cuban treas
ury shows more than $4,000 900 on
hand, mostly in American gold. The
books balanced.
Latest advices from the scene of
the wreck OF three electric cars near
Atlantic City. N. j.. place the mum.
ber Of drowned at SO. The coroner's
jury is now investigating the acci.
dent
The department of agriculture las
issued two bulletins regarding the
material and manufacture of de-
natured or industrial alcohol.
A violent storm which recently
swept over southern France did con
siderable damage along the coast.
Nice suffered severely.
The promrramme of receptions ana
| dinners at the White house for the
season of 1906-1907 has been announc.
ed by Secretary Loeb.
What is claimed to be the largest
lodging house in the world has largest
thrown open to working men in Bos-
| ton.
By his finger prints soldier in
prison at Leavenworth. Kan, was
| Identified as long lost English mur-
derer.
All the railroads operating in Okla
homa have been made defendants in
a complaint filed with the Interstate
Commerce commission by the attorney
| general of the territory.
The government receipts for Octo-
Der exceeded the expenditures by s2,-
| 624,211.
One man was killed and one fatally
Injured in an explosion in a coal mine
at Ottumwa. Ia. recently.
Judge Graham has decided that w.
H. Laigden was defacto district At.
| torney of San Francisco This in.
sures the Indictment and prosecution
of the alleged municipal grafters.
The bank of England purchased
nearly S5,OOO,O0O worth of gold in
one day recently.
The Carriage Builders National
association has adopted a resolution
declaring that the tariff question
| should be removed from, partisan
politics and turned over to a perma-
nent commission of commercial ex-
perts.
Count Katsura is to replace Marquis
Ito as resident general for Japan In
| Corea in December.
Charles Whitney Norton. said to be
responsible for extensive swindllng
operations in various parts of the
country, in which his victims were de-
| frauded out of securities amounting