The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-12-21


1t has been reported to the United
States government that two regi-
ments of Japanese completely Off
cered are in Honolulu.
Attorney General Hadley- of Mis-
souri, has filed a motion In the SUI
preme court for rehearing { ,he az
ti-pool selling case. He contends that
the courts recent decision is in con-
flict with the act of the legislature
of 1905.
Andrew Carnegie. in a speech be-
fore the National Civic Federation at
New York. declared that the greater
portion of the estates of enormously
wealthy men should go to the state
upon the death of the possessor.
The attorney general of Minnesota
has rendered an opinion that the re-
cent increase in the capital stock of
the Great Northern railway is invalid
under the state laws.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has set the hearing of the Texas
Cattle Raisers' association against
the NJ X. & T. railroad for January
Z at Chicago.
Edouard Muller, vice president of
the federal council. has been elected
president of the Swiss confederation
in succession to NJ. L. Frerre.
Jesse Clyde Rumsey, who robbed
two trains near Glasgow, Mo-, plead
ed guilty and was sentenced to a term
of 20 years in the state penitentiary.
the minimum sentence under the Mis-
souri, law.
The famous divorce case of Angus
tus Hartje, the millionaire paper
manufacturer of Pittsburg, Pa, has
been decided in favor of the wife.
children. The costs of the trial were
assessed against Hartje.
Six of the negroes of the Twenty
fifth infantry. recently discharged
without honor for completely in the
Brownsville, Tex, affair, hare APP
piled to Secretary Taft for reinstate-
ment.
In an address before the Oklahoma
constitutional convention at Guthrie,
Oscar b. Colquitt, member of the
Texas railroad commission, declared
the railroad law OF his state was a
failure so far as the making of rates
was concerned.
An epidemic of robbery seems to
be prevalent in the southwest. Banks
at Morris, |. T., Ashen, Ok, and
Drexel, Mo, were dynamited and
robbed in one night recently. and the
safe in the post office at Zincite,
II Il
the building burned by the bandits.
Gov. Hoch brands the stories sent
out from Topeka TO eastern newspa-
pers regarding suffering in the south
western counties of Kansas as an
outrageous eXaggeration.
Complaints filed by shippers
throughout the west with the Inter-
state Commerce commission reveal
an appalling state of affairs broue hit
about by the failure of the railroads
to supply cars to transport freight.
In the southwest cattle are being
turned lose on the prairies. while in
the northwest grain lies rotting along
the railroad tracks. Much suffering
is reported in the northwestern states
by the shortage of fuel
A court martial has been ordered
to try Maj. Penrose and Capt. Mack
lin, who commanded the negro
trops at Brownsville, Tex, during the
recent trouble.
President Roosevelt has rescinded
his order to the public printe. 10 use
the simplified spelling in public docu-
ments.
Monsignor Montagnini, who was re-
the pope upon his arrival at Rome
and gave a detailed account of his ex-
pulsion. He presented rather dark
picture of the situation.
The president has consented to ad-
dress the National Editorial associa-
ton aj its meeting at the Jamestown
exposition in June.
A plan is under consideration by
the administration for the formation
of a big corporation by the govern
ment and the Indian tribes for the pur-
pose of holding and developing the
coal lands of the Indian territory.
Joseph L. Smith, president of the
Mormon church. and a director of
the Union Pacific railway and two
other officials of the road residing
in Salt Lake, have been summoned
to answer indictments in the federal
court for unlawful discrimination.
1t has been decided by a board of
engineers employed by the city that
the tunnel under the Chicago river
at La Sale street must be abandoned
permanently.
Ex-United States Senator Brown,
of Utah, who was shot in his apart
ments in Washington by Mrs. Anna