The La Jara chronicle., 1906-12-07

will be asked to appropriate sG,117,693.
q to pay the running expenses of the
state and make repairs and improve
ments on tho state institutions.
A revised list of the casualties re-
sulting from the recent explosion of
the Witten roburit factory shows
that 80 persons were killed, c. Sc
verely injured and $50 were less seri-
ously hurt
The Gulf Pipe Line company which
has a capital stock of S3,500,000 has
filed its charter in Texas and proposes
to construct an oil pipe line from the
Indian territory oil fields to Port Ar
thur, Tex, a distance of nearly 500
miles.
A mob of 800 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
fire. The work of the mob is believed
to be a furtherance of the agitation Of
the growers against the tobacco trust.
The birthday of Queen Alexandra
of Great Britain. who was born in
1874 was celebrated at Sandringham
by an unusually large gathering of
the royal family.
The express car attached to 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 will be made to have
drafted into the constitution of Ok
lahoma a 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. Dnworth.
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 Lyncuburs
Va. All the occupants OF President
Spencer's private care. with tie ex
caption of porter and Mr., Spencer's
secretary, lost their lives.
At Kansas City the sixteenth an
nual football game between the Kan
sas and Missouri university teams re-
suited in neither side being able to
score.
+. D. Cnburu's annual crop sum
mary for Kansas has been issued Tne
total wheat crop for the year was 92.-
29g $50 bushels. sumner was the
banner county. raising 4,59o.6Gj 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 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. Diworth. 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 at
Portsmouth. Eng
The United States supreme court
has decided against Meyer, Haywood
and Pettibone, the Western Fedora,
tion of Labor officials. who are
c-arEed 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,0OO has begun
in that city.
Gov. Hagerman, of New Mexico.
has gone to Washington to combat
charges made there against his ad-
minisration.
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