The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-25

ternational law and precedent Miss.
Margaret A. Hanna of Salina, Kan,
has been selected to accompany the
delegates of the United States to The
Hague conference.
The United States supreme court
has held that regular army officer
holding volunteer commission is a reg
gular officer and not volunteer.
1t is believed by the war department
this will invalidate the decision OF
many court martials.
The big packing companies announce
that after June 1 they will only pay
about one cent per pound for COWS
and heifers found after slaughterina
to have been afflicted with tuber-
culosis.
A police census just completed gives
the population of the District of Col
umbia as 329,591, of whom 96,1SS are
negroes.
The total coal production of the
country in 1906 according to statistics
of the Geological survey amounts to
441039 ,S51 tons, or 21,12O,24O tons
more than in 1905.
The jury in the trial of George W.
Layne of Joplin, Mo-, charged with
receiving deposits when the bank,
with which he was imployed, was in
falling condition, has disagreed.
Custer proceeding have been filed
in st. Louis against the Laclede Gas
Light company and the Union Electric
and Power company, charging viola
tion of the Missouri antitrust law.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has made ruling that railroads
shipping supplies over lines not
owned by themselves must pay the
full legal freight tariff the same as a
private citizen.
There is serious lack of farm
hands in the Northwest, according to
reports received by the Great North
ern railroad. Farmers are offering
$35 and $40 a month for help.
Six men alleged to be the leaders
Of the mob that lynched a negro at
Sterrett, 1. T., March 81, have been ar
rested by United States marshals and
held on a charge of murder.
The insular bureau has selected l..
200 more American teachers foI
schools in the Philippines.
Abraham Ruef, who pleaded guilty
to extortion, went before the San
Francisco grand jury and testified
against those connected with the cor
ruption in the deal with the United
Railways company
In the submergence test at Newport
R. l., the submarines Octopus and
Lake remained under water for "a
hours continuously All hands were
well and contented when they rose
to the surface.
President Roosevelt has been pre-
sented with a solid gold folding caro-
conferring on him life membership in
the National Association of Profes'
sional Baseball Leagues, with the
privilege of admission to all games
played by the clubs composing the as
| sociation.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway company pleaded guilty to
rebating in the federal court at New
York and was fined an aggregate Of
$4,000 which was Immediately paid.
The Wisconsin senatorial deadlock
has been broken by the election OF
| former Congressman Isaac Stephen.
son, to succeed Senator Spooner. The
deadlock had been in existence since
| April 16.
k,l
| the deaths from the plague through
out India for the six weeks ending
May IL reached the appalling total OF
451,S92
Judge Pollock, in the federal court
at Topeka, has issued temporary in.
| junction against the authorities of
Kansas City, Kan, restraining them
from interfering with the delivery OF
beer by the Kansas City Breweries
company.
Fifty-seevn horses were burned in
fire which destroyed livery stable
at Independence, Kan.
Chairman Walter F. Brown, of the
| Ohio state republican committee de.
clares the rank and file of the party
In that state favor Secretary Taft for
president
Because one of their comrades was
Killed by terrorists Cossacks entered
/ the spinning mills at Lodz. Russian
Poland, and shot down As workmen
and officials.
Wheat prices took another jump
recently and July, September and
December options all reached higher
than the dollar mark in the Chicago
market.
The postoffice at Pasadena, Cal, was
broken into by burglars and stamps