The Colorado statesman., 1906-02-03
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

| by bomb on the 29th ult.
Sir Edward Thornton, the former
| British minister at Washington, died
IN London January 26th after long
illness.
The Supreme Court of the United
States granted the motion to advance
the case of Senator Burton of Kansas
and set the hearing for April I'd next
Frederick VIII. was formally pro-
claimed King of Denmark, January
goth. to succeed the late King Chris
tian TX. He was received with much
enthusiasm.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt has been
sued for 100000 by Edward Kinsella,
London solicitor, as a commission for
securing her present American engage
ment for her.
The first passenger train. CARRYING
notables and officials, passed through
the Simplon tunnel January 25th amid
artillery SaluteS. There were no
other noteworthy incidents.
The Duke of Abruzzi, cousin of King
Victor Emmanuel, has almost com
pleted arrangements for tour of ex-
ploration into the heart of Africa. The
duke will start early in the spring.
The Pennsylvania Central railroad
is considering plans to do away with
the celebrated horseshoe bend and it's
steep grades by tunnel nine miles
long under the Allegheny mountains.
Representative Burke of South Da-
kota introduced a bill in Congress au-
thoriZinS the secretary of the interior
| TO lease 5000 acres of public domain
| to be used exclusively as pasture for
| the native buffalo
President and Mrs. Roosevelt. have
issued the invitations to the wedding
of Miss Roosevelt and Representative
! Longworth of Ohio, which is to take
place at noon February 18th, as al
ready announced.
Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl-
vania has approved joint resolution
of the special session of the Legisla-
| ture providing for sweeping investi-
CATION of charges of illegal retention
| of fees by insurance commissioners for
years past.
party of Santa Fe railway engi-
neers have started from Los Angeles
to locate a direct line of railroad into
Searchlight, Nevada. The proposed
route will be a feeder from Barnwell
about twenty-six miles. The proposed
, line will be rushed.
Former President Cleveland was
asked about report that he is think
ing of giving up his post as arbiter of
rebates for the insurance companies
and dictated this statement: There
| is not particle of truth in the re-
port, nor any excuse for its circula.
| ton"
Gustave A. Conzman, former cashier
of the Vigo County National Bank at
! Terre Haute, Indiana, has been SEN
fenced to eight years in the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
on his plea of guilty to embezzling the
funds and falsifying the books of the
bank.
The transport Sheridan sailed from
San Francisco January 25th for Hon
olulu, Guam and the Philippines, with
the officers and men of the Twenty
fourth infantry, colored men. The
steamer also carried a number of
| cabin passengers and full cargo of
mill supplies.
The Melbourne correspondent of
the London Chronicle says: Bush
fires are raging throughout Victoria
and great stretches of country have
been devastated. A wall of fire hun
dred feet high, which was driven by a
gale, passed with appalling swiftness
over Mount Fatigue, killing at least
| fifteen persons.
The proposed race from San Fran
cisco to Honolulu, matter of 2,100
! nautical miles, is fixed to start May
| 5th. The contest is open to yachts
4 from forty to ninety feet over all.
| Contestants are required to belong to
some recognized yacht club and there
will be no restrictions as to sails, num-
ber of crew, professional sailors or
navigators.
In the past six months taps have
| been sounded over the graves of 26,-
006 pensioners of the Civil War, ac-
| cording to statement of Pension
Commissioner Warner. This, he says,
is an evidence of the rapidity with
which the veterans are diminishing.
The total number of pensioners on
July /, 1905, was 6S460S. On Decem-
ber it 31st it was 679,234.
Fear among Chicago University Off
cials that Prof Frederick Starr, the
| noted anthropologist, had been eaten
by African cannibals whom he was at
tempting to study, has been relieved
! by the receipt of letter from him
written on the Kasai river steamer
and mailed at Leopoldville, which is
about 1,200 miles from the sea. He
will investigate several cannibal tribes
and the Batwa pygmies.
The United States Steel Corporation
has just declared quarterly dividend
| of one three-fourths per cent. Net
earnings for the quarter ended Decem-
Der 31st last were $35, ,72S ,6SS, an in
crease of $13,S19,954, as compared with
the same quarter a year ago. Untilled
orders on hand December 3fsJ last
were 7,605,0S6 tons, an increase of 81
OOS, 1888. The untitled orders December
| 31st broke all records of the corpora