The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-03-24
CONDENSED TElEGRAMS

held, Missouri, $4,000 without any
condition.
Andrew Carnegie has given $45 900
10 Coe College. at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The college Will erect = 100000 sci
ence hall.
King Edward has sold to . dealer
the 10000 collection of $50 etchings
presented to Queen Victoria in 1887.
by Whistler. the artist.
Three hundred independent tele-
phone companies in Iowa are perfect
ing an organization to fight the Bell
Telephone Company in that state.
The total loss in nineteen provinces
OF Russia investigated by special com
missions inquiring into the axrarian
troubles OF last year was $l5.50O,O0O.
There was great rejoicing at Okla
homa City. Oklahoma. over the passage
Of the statehood bill by the Senate and
universal concurrence IN the amend
meuts.
A severe earthquake is said to have
occurred at kagi, Formosa. March
18th. hundreds OF buildings were de-
stroyed and many hundreds OF people
Were killed.
The new child labor law, passed by
the Iowa Legislature and signed by the
governor. prohibits the employment or
children under eighteen in any occupa-
Iiun injurious to health.
Gross earnings of s42,51s,O0O, a de
crease of sl,l75,OoO as compared with
the preceding year. are shown by the
annual report of the Missouri Pacifc
Railway Company for 1905.
Andrew Carnegies spelling reform
ri with Rrlt-
ish authors. Charles Algernon Swine
burne describes the movement as
'monstrous, barbarous absurdity."
Both houses of Congress have
passed the bill to give the Soldiers
home at Hot Springs, South Dakota,
200 acres of government land for
park in connection with the home.
4 military train armed with machine
guns and quick frers and intended for
use in punitive expeditions, which has
arrived at kieff Russia, is said to have
developed 4 speed of 100 miles an hour.
1t is stated at Berlin that the Rus
sian loan that will be issued after the
Moroccan question is settled VIII
amount to $250000,0O and possibly
more. New lork's percentage Will be
small.
President Roosevelt is now honorary
member of the United Veterans, haN-
ing been elected by the camp at Poplar
Bluffs, Missouri. The organization is
composed of Union and Confederate
soldiers.
The leader of the Chinese rebels OF
Kuang ST province and three others
who were implicated in the attack on
the house of the Rev. DR.. Andrew Beat
| tie he American missionary AT Fatl
| in February, were beheaded March Il.
An aiship company, having for its
| definite object to conduct an expert
| mcnt with war craft, has been formed
at Berlin The directors are hard
headed persons who take up the mat
| ter from patriotic impulses and with
the patronage of the emperor.
Robert l.. Gregory, wholesale gro
Ger, is the Democratic candidate Tor
mayor at Kansas City. The platform
| advocates municipal ownership of all
| public utilities. and urges that no iran
| chiscs shall be granted or extended
! without adequate compensation to the
| city.
The right of a labor union to CON
| duct Il strike was sustained by Judge
| Howard Ferris of the Superior Court
| in Cincinnati The case was that or
| the Perkins Campbell Company against
| The United Leather Workers, the com
pany seeking to enjoin the union from
striking.
S. II. Kaufman, president of the
| Evening Star Newspaper Company OF
| Washington City, president OF the Cor
coran Gallery of Art, former presl-
dent of the American Newspaper Pub
| fishers Association and one of the
| best known men in Washington, died
! March 18th.
The sugar war between Claus
| Spreckels' Western refinery in Cali
{ fornia and the Sugar Factory Company
| of Honolul has caused the former COM
| pany TO bring raw sugar to the coast
| from Cuba. Mr. Spreckels has put IN
a line of sailing vessels for this pur-
pose He also will get cargoes from
Java and the Philippines.
Frank Culver, an attorney, has filed
| Il bill in Chicago in which he complains
| of alleged excessive rates on insurance
| Instituted last May by the supreme
| council of the Royal Arcanum and asks
| that the order be prevented by an In
| junction from placing the rates IN e1-
feet. The suit is similar in character
to actions that have been filed IN other
| states.
Options were recently closed on q
| AGO acres of ground adjoining Indian
| apolis at a cost OF $G50,OO0. Six hun
| dred and forty acres will be used by
| the New York Central system for cen
| trail repair shops TO employ 5000 men.
| The other land will be used for
! model railroad city. The New YORK
Central system has appropriated 3d.
| SOC, 900 for the work.
When the news OF the defeat OF joint
| statehood reached Tucson, Arizona
whistles were blown, firecrackers ex'
| ploded and crowds cheered on the
streets. A procession headed by Mayor