The Colorado statesman., 1906-01-27

On January 21St the people of Pan
ANA celebrated the 233d anniversary OF
the founding of the city by De Cor
dova.
combine is being formed to inc
clude all the big breweries of New
York City, with paid up capital OF
S10,000,00O.
Former State Senator Harry Bunk
ers of California has been committed
to the state prison at San Quentin to
serve term of five years.
Former residents of the Rocky
Mountain and Pacific coast states are
taking steps to organize Rocky Noun
tain Club in New York City.
1t is reported that the French gov
ernment has decided to send Miss
Alice Roosevelt magnificent piece of
gobelin tapestry as wedding present.
Robbers January 21st wrecked the
safe of the Bank of Dale, at Dale, a.
small town forty miles east of Okla
homa City, and escaped with about
$4,000.
The sentence of Lieutenant Pendle-
ton at Manila, who was condemned to
life Imprisonment for murder, has been
reconsidered and changed to impri-
sonment for twenty years.
The Supreme Court of Missouri
has upheld the constitutionality of the
usury law, which makes it a misde-
meanor to charge interest at a rate
greater than per cent. month.
Manuel Algara de Torreros, a men,
ber of distinguished family of Mex
leo City, shot Sonora Maria Reig, an
actress, and then himself in the Pala-
cia hotel, Chihuahua, after a lovers
quarrel.
Ensign Charles T. Wade, charged
with responsibility for the explosion of
the gunboat Bennington, in San Diego
harbor, California, some months ago,
has been acquitted by the court mar
tial in his case.
At Hotel Ormonde, Florida, January
2Sd, in the fourth annual Ormonde>
Daytona automobile tournament, Fred
Marriott drove steam racer one mile
in 81 40 seconds, breaking all previous
records.
Over 100 students left Talladega col.
lege (colored) because a Southern
white man was employed as superin-
tendent of the college farm. The stu
dents demanded his discharge and the
president refused.
The Dominion government, in receiv-
ing the surrender of Monte Christi,
permitted the revolutionary governor,
General Arias, to depart for Porto Rico
and granted general amnesty to the
other revolutionists.
Miss Helen Gould gave to an inves-
tigator an analysis of a sample of the
weeks mail received by her showing
the number of requests and what and
how much they were for. The total
asked for was $1,5O0OOO.
The Suez Canal Company has begun
widening the canal to enable the float
| ing dry dock Dewey now on it's way
| from the United States to Manila, to
pass. Traffic will be stopped during
the passage of the dry dock.
About $50 members of the Life I'm
derwriters' Association of New York
met and pledged themselves to organ
| lie an anti-rebating bureau, to prevent
the practice of giving or accepting re-
! bates on life insurance premiums.
e. w. McClintie of Washington, D..
c., received the static from $4,000 volts
of electricity at the General Electric
works at Schenectady, New York, but
will recover. He was unconscious for
eight minutes and it was at first be-
| lieved that he was dead.
A. Palencsuk, who is 103 years old,
was released from prison at Agram,
Hungary, after fifty years confinement
He protested tearfully against his re-
! lease, but in vain, and he Immediately
committed another crime in order to
be reimprisoned.
The Wellman-C Chicago Record-HeralE
Polar Expedition, a corporation whoss
| object is the carrying on of a scientific
xyr,10 10 hn
pole with the aid of balloons and air
ship, has been organized and incor-
porated at Augusta, Maine.
| A fire at Pittsburg a few days ago
| with a monetary loss of about $780,
600, completely destroyed the old mar.
ket house, one of Pittsburg's most IA
nous landmarks. During the Civil war
the sanitary commission cared fol
$4,000 soldiers within it's walls.
Gen. Bartolome Mitre, former presi-
dent of the Argentine republic, died
at Buenos Ayres, January 18th. Gen
eral Mitre was eighty-three years old.
He was president from 1867 to 1871
and general in chief of the army of
Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay in the
three years war with Paraguay.
The secreary of war has sent let
ter to the speaker of House of Repre-
sentatives calling attention to the mat
ter of post schools for the children of
enlisted men at remote military posts,
where no other educational facilities
are available. Such schools were
formerly maintained and Congress is
asked to reinstate them.
Baron Rosen has presented to the
United States ship, Mayflower, in be
half of Count Witte, himself and the
other delegates to the Portsmouth
peace conference, handsome Russian
silver punch bowl in recognition OF
hospitality which was extended to the