The Dolores star., 1906-10-12
A suit has been brought befor, the

determine whether George A. kim
me. former president Of an Arkansal
City, Kan, bank, Is dead or is a ma
MAC confinei In an asylum In New
York. The suit involves the pay
ment CT 5000 life insurance.
The army will shortly adopt new
bullet. which has a long, straight,
.apering point in place OF the rounded
point of the bullet now in use
President Roosevelt and family have
returned to the White house after
having spent the summer at their
home at Oyster Bay.
Practically all the gold offered in
the London market Monday totalling
about $4.500. 900, was secured for the
United States.
Announcement has been made mt
the White house that unless extra
ordinary conditions arise no session
Of congress will be called to deal with
the Cuban question.
Clifton II. Wilder, editor of the
Chronicle at Lajara, Col, was as
saulted recently by his son-in-law.
Jayson Cochran, postmaster OF the
town. and fatally injured.
A great sensation has been caused
at Essen. Prussia, by the discovery
Of the dead body of Madelaine Lake,
daughter of an English army officer,
in the city park. The police have
been unable to throw any light on
the mystery.
Before crowd OF 10000 people at
Springfield, ILL.,, Dan Patch recently
paced a mile in 1:59K.
A Chinese emigrant steamer re-
Gently foundered while on the way to
Hongkong and the captain and 60 pas
sengers were lost.
The coroner's jury at Danville, Ill.,,
has decided that Brakeman Hughes
threw the switch which caused the
recent Wabash wreck in which II per-
sons were killed and 40 injured. He
was not held criminally liable.
The disarmament OF Cuban insur-
gents is progressing as rapidly as
could reasonably be expected says Gov.
Taft. No opposition is manifested
anywhere.
An equestrian statue of st. Louis
was recently unveiled in Forrest park
In the Missouri metropolis. David r.
Francis made the presentation speech.
District Judge John I. Mullins, of
Denver, has decided that newspaper
cannot be enjoined from publishing
libelous matter. The only recourse he
says is a suit for damages.
Former Gov. Magoon, OF the Pana-
ma canal zone, declares that the ia
maica negro is the hest laborer yet
utilized on the canal work.
The British steamer Marion has
been secured as transport and will
take $50 United States troops to
Cuba.
The people Of San Bernardino, CAL,
have petitioned President Roosevelt
to save the big forests of that county
from timber cutters, alleging that the
destruction Of the timber has already
affected the rainfall and consequently
the water supply of the region.
Albert ]. Adams, of New York, who
has made large fortune as head of
policy gambling combine, has COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself.
Gov. Taft has ordered Cuba put in
first class sanitary condition without
regard to expense in order to guard
against an epidemic of yellow fever
of which threre are three cases now
in Havana.
New Orleans and vicinity was re-
Gently visited by three distinct tor
nadoes which caused the loss of six
lives and fatal injuries to nine others.
The property damage is estimated at
$1,O0O,OOO.
James B. Dodson, an attorney of
Springfield. Mo, was recently fined
$4OO in the federal court there for
making false affidavit in entering
government land.
By the collapse of a bridge at Ocon-
to, Wis, on which were so high school
pupils, one student was killed and IA
were injured.
Twenty-nine bodies have been re-
covered from the Pocahontas mine
disaster in West Virginia and con-
servative estimate places the totai
number of dead at 10.
Correspondence between the consul
general in Cuba and the state depart
ment. recently made public, shows
that as early as September President
Palma had asked this government
for aid in putting down the insurrec-
ton.
The international congress of cham
bers of commerce in session at Milan,
Italy, has adopted a resolution favor
ing universal penny postage.
John B. Moran, district attorney of
Boston, who was already the nominee
of the prohibitionists and the Inde-
pendence league, has been nominated
by the democrats for governor of
Massachusetts.
Six men were killed and several