The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-07

TO IOTnuidLe plduS LOT d udeiohoi Son
ference of attorneys general.
A conference between the presi-
dent and Secretaries Taft, Root and
Meyer was. recently held at Saga
more Hill. The topic under discus
sion was not disclosed Of when thu
conference ended.
Two women and two little girls
,re drowned recently willie trying
to cross a swollen stream near Oak
ley. Kan.
Since June 1S nine cases of bu-
boni; plague have been discovered In
San Francisco and seven deaths have
resulted from the disease.
The American Association of Mu-
tual Insurance companies, in session
at Denver, elected q. +. Danfortn, OF
Eoston, president, and w. B. Gasche,
of Topeka, vice president. The next
meeting will be held in Des Moines,
Iowa.
In the United States circuit court at
Chicago Judge Kohlsaat has issued
a temporary injunction against four
teen railroads and five express COM
fishing a new rate on shipments of
mill cream and butter.
Fifteen persons were killed and so
others injured in head-on collision
between interurban trolley cars on
the Mattoon e. Charlestown electric
line near Charlestown, ILL.,, recently.
A confusion of orders by telephone
was the cause.
A commission of three persons
headed by w. ]. Reynolds assistant
secretary of the treasury will go
abroad soon to study the tariff sys-
TENS of foreign countries.
Gov. Conner, of Alabama, has given
the railroads of the state until Octo-
ber 1 to comply with the new rate
law. After that date he will call the
legislature and urge the enactment Of
more draltic laws.
The final report of the investiga-
ting committee regarding the frauds
in connection with Pennsylvania
new capitol building has been sub
mitted to Gov. Stuart with a recon-
mendation that the attorney general
h instructed to begin proceedings
agairst the guilty parties at once
President James of the University
Of Illinois has announced the appoint
ment of e. r. Dewsnup as professor
of railroad administration and man
agement at that institution.
For the second time in two years
Emperor Nicholas appeared in public
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dedication. Elaborate precautions
were taken to insure his safety.
1t has been authoritatively stated
that President Roosevelt will not take
any action looking to a settlement OF
the telegraphers strike.
One young man and two young
| women were drowned by the capsiz
ing of boat at McAlester, 1. T.
| A clash between the marching un
ion labor men and strike breaking
street car employees resulted in the
shooting of two men at San Francis
CO.
| The breaking of a cable in the
zinc mine near Springfield, Mo-, lei
two miners fall 200 feet to their death
| Complaint has been made to the
railroad commissioners that the cars
can not be secured to handle the
large broom corn crop of Kansas.
A Chicago man, Henry Graves, ha:
provided in his will that $4,000 bt
expended on monument to a horse
he owned 90 years ago.
Interstate Commerce COMMISSIONS
E. e. Clark has agreed to act as trbi
traitor between the western railroad
managers and the Brotherhood o
Trainmen.
The American Agriculturist esti
mates that while the products o
American farms this year are ten pc
cent less than last, they are greater
in value to the extent of $1,000,000,
900.
A distant earthquake shock of ;
severe nature, lasting an hour and ;
half, was recorded at Washington
on the weather bureau instruments.
The Fifteenth National Irrigation
congress has opened at Sacramento
Calf.
At a banquet at Portsmouth, N. H
George E. Foss, chairman of the ma
val committee spoke of The Hagu
conference as devoid of practical re
suits and urged further upbuilding o
the navy.
A burglar was shot to death in
New York flat after he had attempte'
to murder a family of four persons b.
smothering them with illuminating
gas.
Edwin Gould is authority for tn
statement that Helen Gould will no
interfere in the telegraphers' strike.
A good flow of oil has been strucl
three miles southwest of Topeka