The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-02-16
NEWS CT THE WEEK
Eost Important Ea1re1:r.1 8 -
Past Seven Days.
9nterestinE Items Gathered from, Az
parts of the World COnGensco
Into Small Space for the
Beneht of Our Readers.
Per4OAAl.

Castro, has landed in Venezuela and is
gathering an army.
Charles w. Oldrieye, equipped with
wooden shoes, walked on the water
form Cincinnati to New Orleans in 40
days winning the worlds championship
and a bet of $4,000.
The estate of Edward Rosewater.
founder and editor of the Omaha Bee.
as appraised under the inheritance
tax law, Is valued at siSG,5o4.
The New York Life Insurance COM
pany announces that its assets have
increased $4,000 coo during 1906.
Howard Robb, an Arkansas state
senator is dead
Isabelle Urquhart. the actress, died
recently in Rochester, n. Y.
Emperor Wilhelm, of Germany, is
planning a visit to King Alfonso OF
Spain this spring.
Mrs. Drusina Morrell. whose hus-
band fought in the war of 1872. Is
dead in Brooklyn, n. Y. at the age OF
102
DR. George z. I.add. who for ten
years has been director of the MIS-
souri, state school of mines at Rolla,
has resigned his position to engage
In the mining business.
Richard w Morgan. OF Boulder
county, Col, has been expelled from
the state senate for accepting l.
John B. Mcdonald, who constructed
the subway in New York, has been
elected president of w. J. Ollyers
Panama Construction company.
Former Congressman Benjamin w.
Harris. known as the father of the
new navy" is dead at his home In
Massachusetts.
Preston II. Leslie, a former govern
OF of Kentucky and later governor or
the territory of Montana, is dead at
his home in Helena.
John d. Rockefeller has announced
a gift of $4,000, 900 to the general
education board.
COnxressiOnal.
President Roosevelt has sent spec
ial message to congress asking that 90
days time be given the intermarrled
ments on the land they must vacate.
The president has signed the gen.
eral service pension bill recently
passed by congress.
The provision in the Indian appro'
priation bill which allowed the full
bloods to sell their lands has been
defeated in the senate by vote OF
81 to o. The provision to sell the
surface Of mineral lands was also de.
feated.
Representative Murphy, OF Mis-
souri,, has introduced bill In the
house to repeal the act admitting Okla
homa to statehood on the ground that
the constitutional convention at
Guthrie has failed to comply with the
the conditions of the enabling act.
The scarlet fever and diphtheria epi-
denies which have been raging in
Chicago have broken out with renewed
violence. All records were broken re-
Gently when 407 new cases were re-
ported in one day.
The senate has agreed to appoint
committee to consider the revision OF
the land laws OF the country.
The house committee on judiciary
has submitted a report declaring that
congress has no jurisdiction or au-
thority to suppress abuses or anchor
ate conditions surrounding woman or
child labor The committee holds
that the subject is within the police
power Of the various states.
The senate has passed the Indian
appropriation bill.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate to give the president absolute
control of the Panama canal
The house has passed the river and
harbor bill carrying an appropriation
of $83,0O0,O0O. A survey OF the Mis-
souri, river from its mouth to Sioux
o. is provided for.
The house recently passed 725 pri-
vate pension bills in 80 minutes, max
ing new record.
Misc~llao
The president has asked Postmaster
General Cortelyou if it is possible to
print the full disgusting details OF
the Thaw trial
The approximate value Of the Mar
shall Field estate is placed at $4,000
600 by the executors of the will.
A meeting of the National Mckinley
| Memorial association was held In
Washington recently to hear the re-
ports of the various officers.
Stanford White threatened to kill
Harry Thaw. according to a witness
in the New York murder trial who
notified Thaw of his danger.
Sapulpa, I. T.. has offered to fur
| nish 100 acres of land and give $780,.
| 600 in cash If the capital of the new
state is located there.
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