Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-01-24

ments Of japanese completely Off
cered are in Honolulu.
Attorney General Hadley, of Mis-
Eouri, has filed a motion in the SUI
preme court for a rehearing in the an
ti-pool selling case. He contends that
the courts recent decision is In con-
flict with the act of the legislature
Of 1905.
Andrew Carnegie, in a speech be-
fore the National Civic Federation at
New York, declared that the greater
portion of the estates of enormously
wealthy men should go to the state
upon the death of the possessor.
The attorney general of Minnesota
has rendered an opinion that the re-
cent increase in the capital stock Of
the Great Northern railway is invalid
under the state laws.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has set the hearing of the Texas
Cattle Raisers' association against
the M. K. e T. railroad for January
z at Chicago.
Edouard Muller, vice president Of
the federal council. has been elected
president Of the Swiss confederation
in succession to NJ. L. Frerre.
Jesse Clyde Rumsey, who robbed
two trains near Glasgow, Mo, plead
ed guilty and was sentenced to a term
of 20 years in the state penitentiary,
the minimum sentence under the Mis-
souri, law.
The famous divorce case of Angus
tus Hartje, the millionaire paper
manufacturer of P~ittsburg, Pa, has
Mrs. Hartje retains control of the
children. The costs of the trial were
assessed against Hartje.
Six of the negroes of the Twenty
fifth infantry, recently discharged
without honor for completely in the
Brownsville, Tex, affair, have APP
piled to Secretary Taft for reinstate-
ment.
In an address before the Oklahoma
, constitutional convention at Guthrie,
Oscar B. Colquitt, a member of the
Texas railroad commission, declared
the railroad law of his state was a
failure so far as the making of rates
was concerned.
An epidemic of robbery seems to
be prevalent in the southwest. Banks
at Morris, 1. T., Ashen, Ok, and
Drexel, Mo, were dynamited and
robbed in one night recently, and the
safe in the post office at Zincite,
near Joplin, Mo-, was blown up and
| the building burned by the bandits,
l Gov. Hoch brands the stories sent
out from Topeka TO eastern newspa-
pers regarding suffering in the south
western counties of Kansas as an
Outrageous exaggeration."
Complaints filed by shippers
throughout the west with the Inter
? state Commerce commission reveal
an appalling state of affairs brought
about by the failure of the railroads
to supply cars to transport freight
In the southwest cattle are being
, turned lose on the prairies, while in
the northwest grain lies r%otting along
the railroad tracks. Much suffering
e is reported in the northwestern states
' by the shortage of fuel,
A court martial has been ordered
to try Maj. Penrose and Capt. Mack
e lin, who commanded the negro
S trops at Brownsville, Tex, during the
= recent trouble.
President Roosevelt has rescinded
= his order to the public printer to use
1 the simplified spelling in public docu.
ments.
= Monsignor Montagnini, who was re-
Gently expelled from France, visited
= the pope upon his arrival at Rome
and gave a detailed acount of his ex'
e pulsion. He presented rather a darl
picture of the situation.
e The president has consented to ad
dress the National Editorial associa
b ton at its meeting at the jamestown
exposition in June.
A plan is under consideration b!
e the administration for the formation
e of a big corporation by the govern
ment and the Indian tribes for the pur
s pose of holding and developing thu
coal lands of the Indian territory.
d Joseph e. Smith, president of tn,
Mormon church, and a director o
e the Union Pacific railway and tive
o other officials Of the road residing
d in Salt Lake, have been summoned
to answer indictments in the fedora
court for unlawful discrimination.
1t has been decided by a board o
r engineers employed by the city tina
the tunnel under the Chicago rive
r at La Sale street must be abandoned
n permanently.
a Ex-United States Senator Brown.
of Utah, who was shot in his apart
g ments in Washington by Mrs. Ann'
IS M. Bradley, of Salt Lake, has dier
from the effects of the wound.
s The German society of wireless tel
It egraphy has succeeded in holding
9 wireless telephone communication be
IS tween Berlin and Nauen, "a mile
away.
The United States armored cruise
k Montana has been successful,