The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-10-23

Stuyvesant Fish has secured a tenn
| porary injunction to prevent e. H.
Hartman voting stock controlled by
him in the Illinois Central Railroad
company on the ground that state laws
prevent one railroad company owning
stock in another.
Hampton G. Westcom testified at
the hearing of the federal suit against
the Standard Oil company that the
company found it "expedient" to sell
much of their product through socalled
independent companies that were real
ly owned and operated by the Standard.
The Commercial Ielegraphers by a
referendum vote have declared their
intention to continue the strike.
A difference of opinion has arisen
in Porto Rico between the insular au-
thorities and officers of the United
States courts over the payment of the
expenses of the latter.
| The Wall street stock market was
recently thrown into turmoil by the
collapse of prices of United copper
company stock. The stock dropped
from $50 to $40 in one day. Two large
brokerage firms suspended and F. A.
Heinze was compelled to resign from
the presidency of the Mercantile bank
of New York.
A meeting between King Edward of
England and the car of Russia is
to take place at Copenhagen.
The passing of sentence on the
Santa Fe railroad convicted of rebat-
ing at Los Angeles. Cal, has been
postponed until November 4.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Telegraphers' union has sus-
| pended S. J. Small as president of the
organization.
The stock market of Montreal, Can
ada, was recently thrown into a panic
by the passing of the quarterly divi-
dend of the Detroit United Street Rail-
way company. most of the stock of
which is held in that city.
The Nebraska railway commission
has issued an order limiting the
speed of trains on the Missouri Pacific
in that state to rs miles an hour until
the roadbed has been repaired.
Five persons, two men and three
women. have been arrested in Joplin.
Mo-, suspected OF blowing up the
News Herald printing plant with dy-
Mantle.
The lat Indian pow-wow was re-
Gently held in Collinsville, l. T. &C.
ronimo. the old Apache chief. was the
principal figure.
j. N. Sapp has employed counsel to
aid in the prosecution of S. F. Whit
low, charged with the murder of May
Sapp at Moran, Kan.
A dollar a bushel was recently Of
fered for wheat at Arkansas City. Kan.
BY cavern in the ballast quarries
of the Mexican Central railroad at
Victoria 16 laborers were killed and
II others fatally injured.
The trial of George A. Pettibone.
charged with completely in the assas-
sination of ex-Gov. Steunenberg, of
Idaho is set for October % at Boise.
The failure of Haller, Sochle & Co,
an old banking house of Hamburg,
Germany, has been announced. The
liabilities are estimated at s7.000.0 900.
Commercial business between Glace
bay. N. s.. and Clifden. Ireland. is now
being accepted by the Marconi Wire
less Telegraph company.
The first carload of buffalo from the
New York gardens have been turned
loose in the government reserve in the
Indian territory.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane is authority for the statement
that the Southern Pacific railroad has
continued to give rebates to shippers
in defiance of the Hepburn law. The
facts will be laid before the depart
ment of justice.
Attorney General Hadley of Missou-
ri has given an opinion in which he
holds that the state railroad commits
sioners have the power to reduce the
rates charged by express companies
in that state.
The Santa Fe Railroad company has
announced a voluntary raise In salary
to all telegraph operators in the en-
ploy of the company.
Fifty persons were killed and 600
injured and every building in the town
of Fontinet. Ind. was wrecked recent
ly by the explosion of the Dupont Pow
der companys works there. The shock
of the explosion was felt 200 miles
away and buildings two miles distant
were destroyed and the occupants in
jured
Judgment has been entered in the st.
Louis courts against John Morton,
Joplin. Mo-. mining promoter. for
$537 ,030.22. He was charged with
selling paper" mine in the zinc dis
trict.
The State Savings bank of Butte,
Mont. in which F. Augustus Heinze is
the principa! stakeholder. closed its
doors on account of a run caused by
the failure of Heinze brokerage firms
in New York.
The farmers AMI their wives from
all parts of the country to the number
of 5000 attended the National Farm
ers' congress recently held at Oklaho-
ma City.
Robbers dynamited the safe in the
postoffice at Kiefer, |. T.. and secured
$500 worth of stamps and a small
amount of money.
The Modern Woodmen of America
have closed a deal for 1000 acres of
land adjoining Colorado Springs on
which it is proposed to erect sanitar-