The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-17
MIsceIInn eoun.

miscellaneous.
1t is reported on reliable authority
that the Mexican Central railroad has
been purchased by the Chicago Rock
Island and Pacific and will become a
part of the Rock Island system.
Preliminary estimates of the princi-
pal crops of the United States made
by the department of agriculture show
them to be greater in Qsantity and
aggregate value than in any previous
year
The Kansas supreme court has held
that assistant attorneys general have
all the authority of a county attorney
in instituing and maintaing injunc-
ton proceedings under the prohibitory
law.
By decision of the Kansas SUI
preme court the M. K. ct. railway
company is declared to be entitled to
a right of way 200 feet wide from
Junction City, Kan, to the south line
of the state in place of the usual width
OF 100 feet.
Medical men and scientists of San
Francisco have succeeded in charging
an electrical circuit with human elec-
tricity to such an extent that external
sound waves were transmitted and
heard through an ordinary telephone
receiver. tl--
/ Firemen on the Erie Railroad sys-
TEN, who have made a demand on the
management for reduced working
hours and been refused are voting
upon the question and strike may
follow.
The defeated republican candidates
for state offices in New York have
asked the supreme court to pass upon
the validity of certain ballots cast in
the recent election.
BY the election of ]. T. Harahan as
president of the Illinois Central rail-
road e. H. Hartman, who controls the
Union Pacific system OF roads has OBJ
tanned control of lines which will ex-
tend from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and from the lakes to the gulf.
Unofficial returns indicate that the
democratic state ticket was elected in
Missouri by about 5000 majority.
A fire at Canton, China, destroyed
over 500 houses and caused a loss of
more than s1,O00,O00.
A decision by Judge Garland, of the
United States court of South Dakota,
express companies are declared to be
common carriers and subject to the
orders of the railroad commission OF
that state.
Kan, were defeated by the football
team of the University of Texas at
Austin by score of 2S to O.
The president has appointed Attor-
ney General Moody as justice OF the
supreme court to succeed Justice
Brown who retired some time ago.
The Aero club of America an
pounce that next years balloon race
for the James Gordon Bennett cup
will be held at st. Louis.
The bureau of insular affairs has
invited bids for a $2,000,000 bond Is
sue for the city of Manila. The bids
to be opened Dec. 10.
A secret mutiny of dissatisfied lib
erals was held in Havana recently
to protest to Gov. Magoon regarding
his recent appointment of mederates
to office.
The national assembly OF Panama
has approved bill prohibiting gam
bling in the republic.
The new Bixby hotel in course of
erection at Long Beach, Cal, col
lapsed and about 100 worlxmen were
carried down in the wreckage of the
seven story building. Seven men
are known to have been killed and
many others were injured.
Complete returns from the new
state of Oklahoma show that the
democrats elected 9S and the repub-
licans 13 delegates to the constitu-
tional convention.
Incomplete official returns show
that Gov. Hoch of Kansas was re-elect-
s4 by plurality OF about 1000.