The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-12-08

state and make repairs and improve
aents on the state institutions.
A revised list OF the casualties re
sulting from the recent explosion of
the Witten roburit factory shows
that 80 persons were killed, c. Sc
verely injured and $50 were less seri-
ously hurt.
The Gulf Pipe Line company which
has a capital stock OF s3.500,000 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
tempt being made to extiuguish the
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 vas born in
lS44 was celebrated at Sandringham
| by an unusually large gathering Of
the royal family.
ton Belt route train was robbed near
Redwater, Tex. and the express mes
senger was thrown from the moving
train. The ro5ber had disappeared
when the train stopped at the next
| station.
An attempt will be made 70 have
drafted into the constitution of Ok
| lahoma a clause. prohibiting the pip
| ing OF natural gas outside the bound
aries of the new stale
A reward of $500 is offered for the
arrest and conviction Of the person
who shot and killed W. 2. 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,2i0 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
a rear end collision near Lyncuburs
| Va All the occupants of President
| Spencer's private care, with the ex
ception Of porter ana 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 $50 bushels. Sumner was the
| banner county, raising 4,390,GGj 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 We're
charged with interfering with the in
vestigation of coal and land frauds
in Utah and Wyoming. by a special
government agent during the recent
interstate commerce investigation at
Salt Lake
Four men were burned to death,
several fatally injured and many
others badly hurt in fire In the
Salvation Army hotel at ST. Louis re,
Gently. Five hundred men were
asleep in the building when the fire
was discovered. Those injured were
hurt by jumping from the windows
| to the sidewalk.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has begun an investigation at
| Pueblo, Col, into alleged land frauds
| and the relations existing between the
| Colorado Fuel & Iron company. and
the various railroads in that section,
The robber who shot and killed w.
P. Dilworth, merchant. in his store
at Oklahoma City, Ok, has been cap
tured.
The keel plates OF another Dread
naught, larger and more powerful
than the first, were recently laid at
Portsmouth. Eng.
The United States supreme court
has decided against Meyer, Haywood
and Pettibone, the Western Fedora.
ton Of Labor officials, who are
charged with completely in the muir
der of exGov. Steunenberg, of Idaho,
and they must remain in Jail until
tried for the crime.
The equity suit of the city OF Phila
delphia against the contractors for
the construction of the citys filtration
plant. involving $5,000,00O has begun
in that city.
Gov. Hagerman, OF New Mexico.
has gone to Washington to combat
charges made there against his ad-
ministration.
The reports OF the illness OF King
Menelik, OF Abyssinia. which have
been attracting considerable atten-
tion in Europe, are authoritatively
denied.
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