The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-04-11
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

While at Toxic last month, Jacob H.
Schiff, the New York banker. was dec
GRATED with the order of the Rising
Sun by the Emperor Of Japan.
Senator Tillman has announced that
he will make his campaign in South
Carolina on the issue that the state
liquor laws must be amended.
Representative Jones of Washing
ton has introduced bill to compel all
vessels to carry oil and machinery for
distributing it during storms.
Count Zeppelin is to build another
airship. Despite his failure, the Ger
man army will furnish him with the
funds to continue his experiments.
At University of Wisconsin demon
stration in indignation over the faculty
hostility to football, leading anti-foot-
ball professors were burned in eftigy.
| Mrs. Marietta Chaplin Pearsons, wife
| Of DR.. Pearsons, who has given mil
lions of dollars to aid small colleges,
lied at Hinsdale, Illinois, on the Both
alt
A fishing boat struck floating mine
March Goth on the coast of the prov
tnce of Echizen, Japan, and was blown
up. Seven of her crew of ten men are
missing.
l
| kegee Institute, Alabama, by the will
| Of the late Andrew T Dotger. retired
4 merchant of New York City, who died
! two months ago at his home, South
Orange, New Jersey.
The date for the national encamp-
ment of the United States war veter-
ans in Washington has been fixed for
October sth, and throughout the week
| The President will address the veteT-
ans and review the parade.
When Joe Transfer, an old offender.
was brought before the police Judge at
Bennington. Kansas. on the charge OF
having been intoxicated, the judge
fined him 50 and ordered that he be
confined to his bed for a week. Mar
shall Horath took Transfer home and
put him to bed.
| Fifteen hundred Russian students Of
both sexes are starving in Paris as an
indirect consequence OF the Russian
revolution. The majority have been
living on remittances received from
been without news.
BY storm uprootiug an apple tree
at English, Indiana. $4,000 of the treas
urs hidden by George Patten forty
years ago was unearthed. This hnd
caused the search to be renewed by his
family, and a few days since the dis
'covery of $4,000 more was made.
Baron Loicq De Lobel, in order to
meet the wishes of the Russian ma
tional defense committee, has altered
his Boring strait tunnel and Siberian
railway project TO make the railroad
run due east from Kansk 10 the 11Oth
degree of longitude and thence north
easterly to Yakutsk.
After a protracted session at Des
Moines the representatives of the clubs
In the Western Baseball League agreed
upon a schedule. A resolution was
passed requiring each club to post a
$4,000 guarantee that it would finish
III eseason. The paunant was voted TO
the Des Moines team.
Mai. II. p. Hersey, director of the
weather bureau at Milwaukee and In
lspector of the western stations, re-
Gently received a telegram from Wash
ington instructing him to report as
soon as possible'a t Washington to pre-
pare 10 accompany the Weiiman eX-
petition in search of the north pole.
Minister of Public Work Hyman of
lCanada has announced federal policy
for water power which will prevent the
expectation of power from the Niagara
Falls TO an extent which would starve
Canadian industries. IL is also the In
tention of the government to prevent
1.-the spoliatiun of the scenery of the
,lfalls.
The Official returns of births in Ber-
lin last month throw some light on the
l.size of German families. One OF the
children bonn was the twenty-first in
the family. the mother being forty
| years old. One woman forty-four years
old presented her husband with his
sixteenth son. and one ten years
younger had her fifteenth child.
An official dispatch received at Der
lin from German Southwest Africa con
firms the reported disaster to Ger
man detachment consisting OF an OIL
Ger and sixteen men. The dispatch
says that on March Goth the Hottentots
| attacked train of wagons between
Ukamis and the eastern frontier and
killed Lieutenant Keller and ten troop
| ers belonging to the escort and burned
the wagons.
The Los Angeles City Council has
granted a franchise which is believed
TO be covertly for the use of Gould's
| Western Pacific for terminal facilities
| in Los Angeles. The franchise was for
a steam railroad with switches, side
| tracks, space for sections, etc. along
| a stretch of territory running from the
eastern limits of the city along the
| Los Angeles river bed TO Also street,
| a distance of three miles.
| The United States government has
accepted the offer of the Washington
| Irrigation Company to sell the sunny
| side canal, and lateral works, the lars-
| sst private irrigation system in the
Northwest, located in Yakima and Ben
ton counties. Washington, for S25O.OOO.
| The government, which already has
approved the Tieton and Yakima irri-
cation projects. will water 125.O0O
| .res of arid lands in that state.
spending s2,50O,O00 within the next
three years.
The British war Office is issuing
fresh regulations for the education of
soldiers in the army. The curriculum
| is to be SO framed that when the SOL
der returns to civil life he will pos
sess a knowledge of subjects which
can not fail to be of use in wage-earn-
ing. Under the new regulations SOL
iier will be taught shorthand and type