Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
DENVER-With forty delegates in
attendance the supreme lodge of the
Fraternal Union of America convened
here.
AKLEY, Minn.-Robbers entered the
Bank of Akley, blew open the safe and
secured $4,000 and escaped.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.-The Hoo
Hoos are in national convention The
fight for the next national meeting
place is growing keen. Norfolk, Little
Rock, Atlantic City and Baltimore are
entered.
PORTLAND-United States Attorney
w. c. Bristol spoke for two hours in
opening the argument of the govern
ment in the trial of State Senator
Mays, Willard N. Jones and George
Sorenson.
MUSKOGEE. I. Cicero Davis, a
wealthy stockman, was killed by an
ASA ssin four miles west of Forum. 1.
T., being shot from ambush while go
ing along a road near his home.
ARDMORE, 1. TAT Chook, James
Martin, a stockman, was shot and
killed as he was riding along the high
way. Troubles with stockmen was the
cause.
SALT LAKE CITY-Nathan w. Nor
ton, aged 20, whose home is in New
York City, said to be a strike breaker
from San Francisco, was shot after he
had held up a saloon at First South
and Sixth West streets. He was shot
by Max Domm, owner, as he was run
ming away after holding UP the barten-
der.
CAPE GIRARDEAU. Mo.-The trial
of Charles NJ. Smith, James e. Smith
and Rex Smith, brothers of Sikeston,
IL, ,f hnT-
before Judge Pollock of Kansas in the
United States district court Three
hundred witnesses came in from the
swamps The charge against the
Smiths is that they have held forty
two negroes in practical slavery and
made them work on 1000 acres of re-
claimed swamp land.
NEW YORK-James L. Colgate, head
of the banking firm of j. B. Colgate &
Co. of this city and holder of a $780,
900 policy in the Mutual Life Insur-
ance company, has made public let
ter supporting the administration"
ticket of the Mutual.
PHILADELPHIA with her in
fant child in the house in which she
occupied rooms, Mrs. Morris Lewis,
an attractive woman, 26 years, wife of
travelling salesman, was brutally
murdered. Her body with bullet
wound in the throat was found in a
hall closet.
RUSHVILLE. Ind.-Three men were
killed by coming into contact with a
barbed wire fence that had been acci-
dentally charged with electricity from
the plant of traction company.
NEW YORK-Heinrich Conried di-
rector of the Metropolitan opera. and
George j. Gould were among the pas
sengers arriving on the Kaiser Will
helm II.
WASHINGTON-Th commissioner
of the general land office has decided
to invite sealed bids for the lands COM
prised in the famous big pasture in
Oklahoma, of which there are about
500 900 acres.
PORTLAND, Ore.-B. o. Velguth,
an employe of the Portland Gas COM
pany, was arrested, charged with the
enbezzlement of $4,000 of the COM
panys funds Velguth has confessed
to the embezzlement of S6OOO He was
collector.
PITTSBURG-Her erman Staab and
John Anderson, the two private detec-
tives who figured in the Hartje di-
vorce case and testified for Augustus
Hartje that they broke open the trunk
of Thomas Nadine, the coachman, have
been indicted by the grand jury on the
charge of entering "A building with in
tent to commit a felony.