The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-13


\. Mccormick, general superintendent,
and A. II. Smith. a vice president.
have been indicted for manslaushter
in connection with recent wreck on
the road.
The airship brought 10 this count -
by Santos Dumont for exhibition at
the ST. Louis exposition. was sold re-
Gently by the New York customs Of
flcials for non-payment of duty 1t
brought $50
Commander-in-chie Robert B.
Brown, of the Grand Army of the Re.
public. has issued the usual Memorial
day proclamation. calling on the mem
bers TO observe Thursday. May 80,
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. l. T. injuring several
passengers. An investigation showed
that the switch had been tampered
with.
1t is authoritatively declared at the
White house that the Hartman
raised a fund of s5.00o,O0 to defeat
the policies of President Roosevelt.
1t is stated there it no lack of evil
dence to prove the plot
Frank w. Hill, 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 20
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-
tion of the power plant of the Gas &
Electric company. The loss is esti-
mated at $500 900.
Gov. Folk has comniu.el the SEN
tences of Emil Hartman and Julius
Lehman, convicted Of boodling in
st. Louis, to expire on June 10 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.
The executive council of the Nation
al Civic Federation has decided upon
Chicago as the place and May 2s. %.
80 and 81 as the dates for holding
a national conference on combinations
and trusts.
Secretary Taft has issued an order
that the authority of governor OF the
canal zone be vested in Lieut.. Col.
Goethals chairman of the commission.
The largest gas pumping station in
the world is to be erected south of In
dependence, Kan. at the intersection
of the Kansas City and Joblin pipe
lines.
The Minneapolis carpenters union
has voted to strike to enforce demands
for an increase in wages. Seventeen
hundred men are involved and $500, 900
worth OF building is tied up.
Vandals entered the Carnagie libra
ry at Waterloo, Ia, and damaged the
books and furnishings to the extent
of thousands of dollars.
Nearly every vessel that has arrived
from Southern ports recently has
brought some story Of marine dis
aster wrought by the tornado off Hat
teras the last days of March.
A tornado recently swept, across
portions of Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama, causing the death of Is per-
sons, and the partial destruction OF
four towns. The damage to property
is estimated at 100000.
Miss Yea Carnes. prominent
church worker of Neosho, Mo-, was
shot as she was leaving the church
door recently and badly wounded by
Finis Stark, discarded sweet
heart.
The Nebraska legislature has passed
a bill making it unlawful for brewers
and wholesale liquor men to own