The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-17
What is alleged to be the skeleton

sion which he afterward repudiatel
during the Haywood trial at Boise
Idaho.
The first organization ever known
in the spice trade has been effected
in New York Fiftysix of the most
important concerns in the country are
in the association.
For fear the cardinals would be In
suited in Rore. the pope counter
manded all receptions planned In
honor of the anniversary of his cor
onation.
During the recent trouble at Casa
Blanca. Morocco. the Jewish quarter
of the city was sacked and many per.
sons were massacred in tha city.
A temporary restraining order hag
been issued against members OF the
coal miners union at Chattanooga.
Tenn. to prevent them interfering
with the business OF the Mont Lake
Coal company.
Gov Conner and the officials OF the
Southern railroad have reached an
agreement and the license of the rail
road in Alabama will be reinstated.
Sixteen coal mines in Colorado
have been closed on account of the
railroad. More than $500 miners are
idle.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Earnest A. Mottsmith to be secre-
tary of Hawaii.
Telegraph operators employed by
the Western Union in many of the
western cities have gone out in SYM
pathy with the Chicago and Los
Angeles strikers. In Kansas City,
the entire force except three women
went out.
In an attempt to again invade Casa
Blanca, more than 1000 of the Moroc-
can rebels were slain.
The government has chartered II
steamers to transport 100000 tons OF
coal to the Pacific coast.
w. C. Quantrell. leader of the band
of guerllas which sacked Lawrence.
Kansas, during the Civil war. was
recently reported alive on Vancouver
Island. Those in the best position
story.
The Alabama legislature has for
mally elected Joseph f. tombstone to
succeed the late Senator Pettus.
The explosion of car OF dynamite
at Essex. Ont, killed seven persons
and broke every window in the town.
Israel Munson Spelman. the last
surviving member of the Harvard
class OF 1886 and the Oldest alumnus
Of the college is dead at Marblehead,
Mass.
DIR. Simon Flexner. head of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search, claims to have discovered a
serum for the cure of spinal menin
gifts.
The subcommittee OF the Missouri
state board of agriculture has decid-
ed to recommend that two state roads
be built between Kansas City and
st. Louis. The southern route, south
of the river, wilfs cost $96O,OOO and
the central route is to cost s1193 600
French and Spanish warships bonn
barded the Moorish villages surround
ing Casa blanca, Morocco. killing $50
of the native tribesmen. The battery
of Casa Blanca fired on the warships
and was demolished.
Negro soldiers OF the 25th infantry.
the organization that created the
trouble at Brownsville. Tex, started
a riot at San Francisco and Is Of
them were arrested.
Attorney General Bonaparte is
quoted as saying that criminal pro-
ceedings will be instituted as the re-
suit of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission investigation OF the Hartman
railroad system.
The entire business section of Port
land. Ark, has been destroyed by fire.
A dispatch from New York says
Commander Peary has abandoned he
idea OF going north this year. The
delay in the repairs on his vessel,
the Roosevelt, is the cause.
Gov. Hoke Smith. of Georgia, has
signed the prohibition bill which be-
comes effective January 1, 1908.
In accorance with the imperial de-
cree recently issued all the opium
dens in Canton. China, have been
closed.
Herbert Knox Smith. commissioner
of corporations has submitted a re-
port to the president on the petroleum
industry in which the Standard Oil
company is severely criticised for in
When a powder house containing
1000 pounds Of dynamite burned at
Boulder. Col, the explosion threw
hundreds Of spectators to the ground,
fatally injuring two men and causing
a property loss of $250,000.
Failure to complete the repairs on
his ship has compelled Commander
Peary to postpone his proposed trip
in search Of the north pole until next
year.
A federal grand jury in the western
district Of New York has again in
diatad tho Ctandard Oil non,nanu ox,