The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-06-02


Buenos Ayres arrived at Havana and
was sen, TO quarantine owing TO two
cases OF illness aboard that are be-
lieved to be bubonic plague.
A new information has been drawn
by St. Louis officials against r. NJ.
Snyder the Kansas City capitalist.
charging him with bribery in connec-
ton with the ST. Louis city council.
The opening of a mine at Smith
field. O., with non union miners was
the signal for the beginning Of hos
tilities by the strikers in that field.
Many shots were exchanged but no
one was reported injured.
Thomas F. McCarry, former prom
inent attorney OF Grand Rapids, Mich,
serving a sentence in the penitentiary
for bribery. has been paroled by the
governor.
Erwin o. Bode. city treasurer OF
Falls City. Neb., has confessed to a
shortage in his accounts of $50 900.
He has been arrested on a charge OF
embezzlement
The trial of the rebate cases in the
federal court at Kansas City has de-
veloped that many of the western
jobbing houses have been receiving re-
bates on shipments Of goods for years.
The registration OF applicants fo-
lands in the Crow Indian reservation
in Montana will begin at Miles City
and Billings on June IA and continue
for two weeks. The drawings will be-
gin at Billings on July 2.
In baseball game at Kansas City,
Howard Newton, II years old. one OF
the players, was struck over the heart
by pitched ball and died almost in
stantly.
A fraud order has been issued
against the National Bond company
OF st. Louis, with branch Offices at
various other cities, denying 1t the
use of the mails.
The sheriff of Cowley county, Kan,
called upon Gov. Hoch for militia to
assist in protecting a prisoner. The
mob. however. failed to appear and the
troops were sent home
The directors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company have appointed a
committee to investigate the. allega-
tions that certain officers of the COM
pany hold stock in several coal COM
panies.
Charges have been made by the
Independent oil men OF Ohio that their
private kilograms are transmitted to
The Standard Oil headquarters at &c
Broadway, New York. The interstate
commerce commission will investigate
the allegation at Cleveland.
The grand jury which investigated
the Springfield, Mo-, lynching reported
that the two negro victims of the mob
| were entirely innocent of the crime
| charged. The report also severely
censured the sheriff and police author
| tiles
During the season of 1905 1874
Greer county, Ok, making it the second
best cotton county in the United
States.
George L. Thomas, of New York.
and L. B. Taggart, his clerk, were con-
victed in the federal court at Kansas
City of conspiracy to violate the in
terstate commerce laws. The demur-
rer to the evidence on behalf OF George
H. Crosby, Of the Burlington railroad,
was sustained by the court. Sentence
was deferred
| The entire Swedish cabinet have ten
dered their designations to King Oscar.
George w. Perkins, vice president
of the New York Life Insurance COM
pany, who had been held to the grand
jury on technical charge of grand
larceny in connection with campaign
contributions, has been discharged
from custody by the New York su-
preme court.
Representative Campbell, Of Kansas.
| has filled an application in the interior
department at Washington for permits.
sion to construct an Independent pipe
line from the Indian territory and
Oklahoma oil fields to Coffeyville,
Kan.
One dead and SO injured is the re-
suit of collision on a suburban eiec-
trio line near Lafayette, Ind, recently.
Nearly all the injured are veterans at.
tending the state G. A. r. encampment.
| The Offices OF the Mutual Reserve
Life Insurance company of America
Britain.
An earthquake shock was felt re-
Gently near Ogden, Utah. Buildings
we're shaken but no serious damage
resulted.
| The union Of the Cumberland and
Presbyterian churches was formally
announced in full force and effect by
Moderator Corbett at the Des Moines
General Assembly recently amid great
| enthusiasm.
COnEressfona1.
Within ten minutes after the con-
ferees on the railroad rate bill wera
appointed by the senate a meeting OF
the house and senate conferees oc-