The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-04-10

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views on those points have not
changed.
Montana's anti-gambling law has be-
come effective and all games of chance
4 in that state are prohibited.
The trial of Meyer. Haywood and
Pettibone in Idaho has been set for
| May 8.
An indictment against George X.
! Favrot. charged with murder in
Baton Rouge, La, has been quashed
because one member of the grand jury
was unable to read or write.
| An amendment to the postal con-
! vention with Canada requires that
second class matter going there must
( pay one cent on four ounces or frac-
ton, payable in stamps affixed.
The supreme court of Minnesota
has handed down a decision uphold
ing the right of the Great Northern
railroad to issue the S65,0O0,00O OF
stock authorized by the directors
| some months ago.
A sensation was recently created
throughout the country by the publica-
ton in New York of a two-year old
| ltlltl SiSiitu ny II. IL iAs'i
| ing a personal attack on President
| Roosevelt The president Immediate
ly issued reply declaring the state
| ments of Hartman willful and de-
| liberate lies
The department of agriculture is
making preparations to begin prosecu-
lions under the pure food law.
Both houses of the Minnesota legis-
lature have passed the two-cnnt pass
enger fare bill.
The New York Central railroad, Ira
A. Mccormick, general superintendent,
and A. H. Smith. vice president,
have been indicted for manslaughter
in connection with n recent wreck on
the road.
The airship brought to this country
by Santos Dumont for exhibition at
the St Louis exposition. was sold re-
Gently by the New York customs Of
ficials for non-payment of duty. 1t
brought $50.
Communicating chief Robert b.
Brown, of the Grand Army of the Re
public, has issued the usual Memorial
day proclamation, calling on the men,
DeTS 10 ODSeINt Ahas oV'
by decorating the graves of the dead
soldiers.
Harry X. Thaw has been declared
sane by the commission in lunacy ap-
pointed by Justice Fitzgerald. The
verdict of the commission was unani-
nous.
A passenger train on the NJ. X. &
T. railroad ran into an open switch
at Bartlesville, I. T., injuring several
passengers. An investigation showed
that the switch had been tempered
with.
1t is authoritatively declared at the
White house that the Hartman
Reconsideration combine have
raised fund of 100000 to defeat
the policies of President Roosevelt
1t is stated there it no lack of evil
dence to prove the plot.
Frank w. Hill, a stenographer. who
Is alleged to have stolen and sold the
Hartman letter which caused the re-
cent sensation throughout the country
has been arrested in New York.
The threatened strike of railroad
trainmen and conductors has been
amicably adjusted through the media
ton of Commissioners Knapp and
Neill. Mutual concessions were made
by both sides.
The Farmers Cooperative Ship
ping association, with exchanges in
Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska has
decided to wind up its affairs at once.
A deficit of $4,000 in last years bust
ness is given as the cause.
| Violent earthquake shocks prevailed
recently in the Azore island OF St
Michaels.
Russia has issued an official note to
the powers regarding the Hague con-
ference in which notice is given that
Russia. Germany and Austria reserve
the right to abstain from discussion
of armament limitation.
San Francisco was recently plunged
into darkness by the partial distruc-
ton of the power plant of the Gas G.
Electric company. The loss is esti-
mated at $500, 900.
Gov. Folk has comn;utel the SEN
fences of Emil Hartman and Julius
Lehman, convicted of boodling in
st. Louis, to expire on June Is. They
We're sentenced in 1904 to six and
seven years respectively.
After consulting the law and au-
thorities. District Attorney Jerome
decided not to apply to the appellate
court for writ of prohibition to pre-
vent Justice Fitzgerald continuing
the Thaw trial.
Martha E. Smith, aged II. who with
her sister founded the George r
Smith college for negro children, is
dead at her home in Sedalia, Mo.
A tornado recently swept across
portions of Louisiana, Mississippi aud
Alabama. causing the death of 10 PER
sons. and the partial destruction OF
four towns. The damage to properly
is estimated nj 100000.
Republicans made sweeping gains
in the recent municipal elections in
Oklahoma and Indian territory.
The Nebraska legislature has passed
bill making it unlawful for brewers
and wholesale liquor men 70 own
saloons in the state.