The state herald., 1907-04-26

i"'h lcSeHtiy dt WHICH Wllllhm j.
Bryan and Samuel Gompers were
among the prominent speakers.
The supreme court of the United
States has granted leave to the state
OF Kansas to file an answer and cross
Dill to the suits brought against 1t
by the state of Missouri to settle
boundary dispute.
The Usage Indian boarding school
FOR boys situated in Oklahoma, near.
Arkansas City, Kan, was recently
destroyed by fire. All the inmates
escaped. The loss Is $4,000.
Secretary Wilson threatens to
publish list of manufacturers who
deceive the public by misrepesenta-
tion regarding their products unless
there is an immediate change In their
| tactics
The United States court Of appeals
has affirmed the conviction of the
Chicago G. Alton railroad and John
NJ. Fathom and Fred A. Wann,
former officials of the road, for grant.
ing rebates.
A colony OF newspaper men is to
be established in Routt county, Colo
rado, on land thrown open to settle
ment by the state. The plan is to
make the colony an up.to-date farm
ing community.
The supreme court OF Illinois has
dismissed the suit Of the state against
the Illinois Central railroad for an ac-
counting and recovery OF share OF
the gross receipts of the road.
Roy Sing Stevens. Of Shell City,
Mo-, has been acquitted Of the charge
of killing Dora Bright in rooming
house at Wichita. Kan.
Tn red hat was conferred upon six
of the seven cardinals recently Gre
ated at a public consistory held in
st. Peters at Rome. The pope con-
ferred the emblems Of their office
upon the candidates.
Henry Ach. counsel for Abraham
Ruef. was recently stricken in the
court room at San Francisco with
ptomaine poisoning. He will recover.
Gov. Haggerman. OF New Mexico,
has resigned and the president has
appo nted Capt. Geo. ge Curry, now
governor Of Samar province. Philip
pine islands. To succeed him.
During the year which has passed
since the great disaster San Francisco
has expended $75.000.O In the work
OF rebuilding and permits have been
granted for new fire proof buildings
to cost s5O.000.000 more.
District Attorney Jerome has be-
gun an investigation OF the report
that members of the Thaw jury had
been approached" while the trial
WIS in progress.
In speech at the banquet
In Buffalo. N. Y. w. C. Brown.
vice president OF the New York Cen.
tral railroad. declared that the people
had right to regulate the railroads.
The New York n sembly has passed
u toi wv Nthh hat9
on railroads In the state.
The defendants In the suit for an
accounting OF the property OF Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy have filed their
answer In court making n general de.
NAL OF all the allegations In the com.
plants.
Regis II. Post has been inaugurated
governor af Porto Rico In succession
to Beekman winthrop. who becomes
assistant secretary OF the treasury At
Washington.
With % OF the delegates present
and not voting the constitution fot
the proposed new state Of Oklahoma
as framed by the convention was
finally adopted.
Arrangements are being made for
the celebration in 1903 at Geneva Of
the fourth centennial OF the birth Of
John Calvin.
A fast mail train on the Illinois
Central railroad ran down hand car
neir Ellis. In, and killed five Aus.
trian employees Of the road.
Robbers recently dynamited the
safe In the bank NJ Bixby. !. 7. se.
curing several thou and dollars In cur.
renty.
Great loss and mucn suffering 10
being caused In Jamaica by the
drought which has prevailed for som,
time.
The government bureau of stats.
ties reports that the international
commerce Of the world now exceeds
10000. 100000 Annually.
The city OF llollo. capital Of the Is.
lard OF Panay. and the second port 10
importance In the Phi lppincs, was
recently destroyed by fire.
In the unitci States district court
at Topeka Judge J. c Pollock hnf
granted the petition OF the complain.
Ing stoekho.dcra OF the Uncle Sam OIL
company for receiver II. II. Tuck.
or. jr. sccretnry-if~asufe OF the
company. was recently indicted fof
using the mails TO dcfraud.