The Ordway new era., 1906-12-07
-" ORDWAY COLO. FRIDAY, DECEMBER Z, 1906

VIII De asked to appropriate se.177 Goa
% 70 pay the running expenses Of the
state and make repairs and imnrova.
hents on tho state institutions
A revised list OF the casualties re-
suitihg from the recent explosion of
.he Wltten roburit factory shows
that 80 persons were killed. 90 se.
vereiy injured and 1870 were less seri.
ously hurt.
ihe Guif Pipe Line company which
mas a capital stock of s3,5OO,0OO has
iiied It's charter In Texas and proposes
TO construct an oil pipe line from tho
ihdian territory oil fields to Port Ar
thur. Tex, a distance Of nearly 500
miles.
a mob OF 300 men rode into Prince.
ton. KY, and set fire to two large to.
bacco factories and prevented any at.
tempt being made to extinguish the
IRE. The work OF the mob Is believed
TO be a furtherance of the agitation of
inc growers against the tobacco trust.
Inc birthday OF Queen Alexandra
OF Great Britain. who was born in
1874 was celebrated at Sandringbam
by an unusually large gathering of
the royal family.
The express car attached to a Cot
ton Belt route train was robbed near
Redwater. Tex, and the express mes
senger was thrown from the moving
train. The robber had disappeared
when the train stopped at the next
station.
An attempt viii be made to have
drafted into the constitution of Ok.
lahoma clause. prohibiting the pip.
Ing OF natural gas outside the bound
aries OF the new state.
A reward OF $500 is offered for the
arrest and conviction Of the person
who shot and killed w. p. Dilworth.
In Oklahoma City.
The auditor for the war department
has admitted the claim OF Col Will
liam J. Bryan's regiment, the Third
Nebraska volunteers. for s2S.2iO ex.
ira pay during the Spanish war.
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 Lyncnbure
Va. All the occupants OF President
Spencer's private care. with the eS
ception OF porter and Mr.. Spencer's
secretary. lost their lives.
AT Kansas City the sixteenth an
nual football PANE between the Kan
sas and Missouri university tennis re-
suited in neither side being able to
score.
F. d. Columns annual crop sum-
mary for Kansas has been issued. Tho
total wheat crop for the year was 93.-
292. $50 bushels. Sumner was the
banner county. raising i,S9o,GG5 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
In Utah and Wyoming. by a special
government agent during the recent
Interstate commerce investigation at
Salt Lake.
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 Interstate Commerce commits
sion has begun an investigation at
Pueblo, Col. into alleged land frauds
and the relations existing between the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company, and
the various railroads in that section,
The robber who shot and killed w.
p. Dilworth, merchant, in his store
at Oklahoma City. Ok, has been cap
tured.
The keel plates of another Dread
naught, larger and more powerful
than the first, were recently laid ut
Portsmouth, Eng.
The United States supreme court
has dscided against Meyer, Haywood
and Pettibone, the Western Fedora.
tion of Labor officials, who are
charged with completely In the mur'
der of ex.Gov. Steunenberg. of Idaho.
and they must remain In jail until
tried for the crime.
The equity suit of the city OF Phiia
delphia against the contractors for
the construction Of the city's filtration
plant. involving $5,OOO.O0O has begun
In that city.
Gov. Hagerman, Of New Mexico.
has gone to Washington to combat
charges made there against his ad-
The reports Of the illness OF King
Of Abysslnia, which nave
been attracting considerable atten-