The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-10-19

persons aboard all OF whom were
drowned except the second mate who
drifted ashore on i raft.
The report of the United States EA-
press company filed with the Kansas
railroad commission shows gross earn
ings of $50. .l37.cs and operating expen,
ses of s53.53i77
A body supposed to be that Of Jack
Simpkins. the long missing member Of
the Western Federation OF miners.
was recently found in Shoshone coun-
ty. Idaho.
Mrs. Charles ]. Romadke. wife of a
millionaire manufacturer of Milwau-
kee, has been arrested in Chicago
charged with theft. She confessed to
many robberies which have baffied the
police.
Two prominent physicians Of Paris
created a sensation in the Academy
Of Medicine by report that they had
succeeded in removing birthmarks
with radium. The operation is en-
tirely painless and may be applied to
an infant while asleep.
The turbine steamer Lusitania
broke all records on her second west
ward trip from Queenstown to New
York. making the distance in four
days and 20 hours The fastest days
run was 6l7 knots,
Stuyvesant Fish has secured tenn.
porary Injunction to prevent T. II.
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.
Joseph Powers a Burlington opera.
tor at Waldron. Mo, has been arrested
by United States authorities charged
with Interfering with messages in or,
der to harrass operators who took
strikers places.
Hampton G. Westcom testified at
the hearing of tn, federal suit against
the Standard Oil company that the
company found ii "eXpedient" to sell
much of their product through socalled
independent companies that were real.
ly owned and operated by the Standard.
Passengers on liners going to and
from Europe may row enjoy a thea.
trical performance every night in the
week
The Santa Fee railroad has been con
victed in the federal court at Los
Angeles, Cal. of giving rebates TO the
Grand Canon Lime and Cement com
pany of Arizona The maximum pen
atty which may be imposed is 81 ,25O,-
900
A nev railroad has been chartered
to build from Englewood. Kan.
through Guymon, Ok. to Il junction
with the Santa Fe in New Mexico.
Federal Judge Lawrence has rend
cred a decision in which he holds that
all malt and fermented liquors re-
gardless of the amoGnt of alcohol con.
tanned are contrabInd n Indian terri
tory
The attorney general of Kansas Is
preparing a list Of questions the in
surance COMPANIES made defendants
in an antitrust suit will be asked to
answer.
Rumors that the Amalgamated Cop
per company were to close al their
mines Indefinitely cause a slump in
the price of stocks in Wall street re-
Gently.
The Nebraska food commission has
margarine sold in tina state must be
stamped with the net weight and must
specify the contents.
The Missouri state fair just closed
was the most successful in the history
OF the association.
The worlds pacing record for two
year-olds was broken at the Oklahoma
state fair by Stun Beauty. owned by
Frank 7. Nennum, of Newkirk. Ok
difference of opinion has arisen
in Porto Rico between the inSular au.
thoritics and officers of the United
States courts over the payment of the
expenses OF the latter.
The British homo feet assemble in
the North sea for practice exceeds in
naval strength the Immediately avail.
ably resources of any two other coun-
tries OF Europe.
Robbers dynamited the safe in the
postot.ice at kiefer. |. T.. and secured
$3.50 worth of stamps and IA small
amount of money
The executive committee of the Ma.
tional Telegraphers' union has sus-
pended S j. Small as president OF the
organization.
A meeting between King Edward of
England and the czar 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.
BY the accidental discharge OF a
rifle in the hands of her three-year old
son, Mrs. Milton Pond, of Trenton,
Mo. was recently killed.
Chicago wen the fourth game OF the