The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-12-05

below decks while they pitched and
rolled in a gale which at times as
sumed almost the proportions OF a
hurricane
The auditor for the war department
has admitted the claim of Col. VIII
/, liam ]. Bryan's regiment, the Third
Nebraska volunteers, for $2S,24O ex'
ira pay during the Spanish war.
W. P. Dilworth. proprietor OF
hardware store at Oklahoma City,
Ok, was shot and badly wounded by
a robber in his store recently.
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 Lynchbure
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.
Thanksgiving day was celebrated by
Americans in most of the capitals OF
Europe. In London 500 guests sat
at the banquet table.
F. d. Coburn's annual crop sum-
mary for Kansas has been issued. The
total wheat crop for the year was 3d.
292 $50 bushels. Sumner was the
banner county, raising 4,390,665 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
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 Truckee, 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 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 president believes the Porto
Ricans are entitled to American
citizenship and will recommend that
1t be granted them in a special mes
sage to congress-
At the first cabinet meeting held
after President Roosevelt's return
from Panama all the members were
present for the first time since the
beginning of the political campaign.
Herr Won Tschirsky, German sec
rotary for foreign affairs. gave a
dinner recently in Berlin to the Amer
lean tariff committee. Many distin-
guished persons of both countries
were present.
The annual report Of DR.. s. N.
North, director of the census, shows
that the work cost the government
s235,GG7 less than the amount appro-
priated by congress during the past
year.
The executive committee of the
Kansas Editorial association has
adopted a resolution favOring an
amendment to the rate bill which
will allow railroads to trade transpor-
tation for newspaper advertising.
A bag containing about $25 in gold
and silver coins was unearthed at
Rulo, Neb The coins bore dates vary.
ing from 1929 to 1856.
The annual report of the military
secretary shows that there were 6,25s
assertions from the army for the year
ending June 80 an average of IA for
every 100 soldiers in the army. The
number of assertions has nearly doub.
led in the last few years.
An increase of five per cent In the
wages of the employees of the Berk.
shire Cotton Manufacturing company
at Adams. Mass. has been announced.
The japanese have decided to
bridge the Yalu river at Yongampo.
| Manchuria. The bridge will cost 81.
100000.
During the nine months of this
year the exports of lumber from the
trnie ed States amounted to SCI ,O00,-
600. an increase of 33 per cent over
the same time last year.
Four out of five men were killed
recently while being raised from the
shaft in a mine near Webb City, Mo.
| The tub which they occupied became
detached from the caoIe and fell
4, dis ance of 100 feet to the bottom
of the shaft.
A fine of $4,000 has been imposed
upon the American Sugar Refining
company in the federal court at New
York for accepting rebates from the
New York Central Railroad company.
A building leased for a negro
school by the board of education of
East st. Louis was recently destroyed
by fire. supposedly by incendiaries.
Two weeks before another building
leased for the same purpose was
burned.
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