The Colorado statesman., 1906-09-29

Ca, which caused the militia to be
called out, four mounted policemen
were fired upon from ambush by ne
groes and two of them killed and an
other injured Negroes also killed
two men in the suburbs.
DR.. l.. D. Brown, territorial veter-
marian, stated that there is an cpl
demic of glanders at McLoud, Ok,
where four horses have died of the
disease and four more were killed by
DR.. Brown.
The latest consultations of medical
advisers of the Sultan of Turkey
have established that Abul Hamid was
suffering from cancer of the kidneys,
which does not permit of an operation
being performed, and is usually fatal
within a year.
Fire started from a natural gas ex-
plosion in the basement of the the
ater destroyed the Crawford opera
house at Topeka, Kan.
An application has been filed In
the Kansas supreme court asking a
mandamus to compel Acting Mayor
Laughlin, of Kansas City, Kan, to
call special election to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation Of
Mayor Rose.
Revised estimates of the dead in
consequence Of the dynamite explo-
sion of Jellico, Tenn, show only ten
fatalities onstead of II, as at first re-
ported.
Samuel Bland Arnold, who con-
fessed that he was a party to con-
spiracy to abduct President Lincoln
just before the assassination of the
president by John Wilkes Booth, died
recently at the home of a relative in
Waverly, suburb of Baltimore. He
was 72 years old.
An edict has been issued at Peking
ordering the abolition of the use OF
opium, both foreign and native, in
China. within decade.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
has awarded contracts for the
construction of 12,4OO freight cars, at
an estimated cost of s15, 100000.
The Missouri state fair board has
designated October1 as children's day,
when all school children will be ad-
mitted to the fair free
The cruiser Des Moines with Secre-
tary Taft and Assistant Secretary Of
State Bacon on board arrived i'll Ha-
vana harbor on time and the officials
Immediately began the investigation
of the causes of the Cuban trouble.
H. j. Bone, United States district
attorney for Kansas, has announced
that five of the 13 cattlemen indict-
ed for fencing government land in
the western part of the state will be
required to stand trial, as they have
not shown that the fences have been
removed as ordered by the courts.
Attorney General Hadley, of Mis-
souri,, has secured from H. Clay
Pierce an admission on the witness
stand that the majority stock of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company is owned
by the Standard Oil company.
Customs dock No. at Buenos
Ayres. Argentine republic has been
destroyed by fire causing a loss Of
more than $1,OOOOOO
William H. Ritter. of Denver, one
of the witnesses whom the state re-
lied upon in the Snyder Doodle case
in st. Louis has been arrested. He
Will be held pending an investigation
into the charge that he was bribed
to stay away.
Survivors Of the famous Iron
brigade" held reunion recently on
Snodgrass Hill near Chattanooga,
Tenn, where they fought in 1868.
The normal school at Stanberry,
Mo-, was destroyed recently by fire
causing a loss of $4,000. Incendiar-
ism is suspected.
Every department of the army has
made arrangements to meet any
emergency that may arise should in
tervention in Cuba become necessary.
BY a decision of Judge Kohlsaat
in the federal court of Chicago mem-
bers of the four ticket brokers' asso-
Citations, controlling the greater part
of that business throughout the
United States have been perpetually
enjoined from "scalping"
President Roosevelt has extended
the eight hour law to apply to all
public work under the supervision of
any department of the government.
The books of the Peoples bank Of
Sedan. Kan, which have been exam
ined following the disappearance of
Cashier Stollard. show a shortage of
S17,700.
The National Dental association
has elected Dr. A. H. Peck, of Chica-
go. president, and DR.. D.. j. McMil-
Ian, of Kansas City, as vice president.
The next meeting will be held in
Minneapolis. Mimi
Gov. Mcdonald, of Colorado, has
called a dry" farming congress to
be held in Denver November %, %
and "a next.