The Elbert County tribune., 1907-03-21

A five inch pair of surgeons scissors
were removed from the body of Mrs.
w. r. White at a Wichita, Kan. hos
pital where they had been left at the
time OF an operation for tumor four
years before
Gov. Folk has announced his pur-
pose to call special session of the
Missor-' legislature to consider mat
ters which he considers essential and
which were not acted upon at the reg
, MAR session just closed.
President Roosevelt has appointed
commission to consider a comprehen.
sion system for the development OF
water transportation as means to
assist the railroads to keep abreast of
the business OF the country.
The national Civic Federation which
called the trust conference at Chicago
in 1899 has announced its intention to
arrange for another in May.
Business is being resumed at Gold
Held. New, where mine operators and
business men had locked out members
Of Industrial Workers of the World
nearly all employees having withdrawn
from the organization.
The Oklahoma convention which
has been in session at Guthrie for 115
days drafting a constitution for the
new state has completed its work and
adjourned sine die.
By the explosion of the powder
magazine on board the French battle
ship lena, while in dock at Toulon,
the captain in command, the chief of
staff of the Mediterranean squadron
and from 40 to 80 blue jackets were
killed. while several hundred other
officers and men were injured.
Plans have been completed for the
construction of torpedo factory at
the Newport naval station. This Us
the first time the government has un
dertaken to make its own torpedoes
on a large scale
The Union State bank of Hunnewell
Kan, was recently wrecked by safe
blowers. Posses of citizens followed
the robbers to Caldwell where one OF
the gang was captured.
The fourth annual convention of
the American Road Makers associat-
lion met recently in Pittsburg, Pa.
with $500 delegates representing SO
states in attendance.
NJ. Casimir Perier, ex-president of
France, died recently at his home in
Paris of disease of the heart He
was in his sixtieth year. The senate
and chamber of deputies adjourned
as sign of mourning.
A. B. Stickney, president OF the
Chicago Great Western railway, in a
recent interview at Washington de-
clared the people are now laying the
foundation for tremendous financial
panic"
One of the largest land deals ever
consummated in Mexico was made
recently when the famous Cedros
hacienda comprising 1,775,000 acres
with all its live stock was transfer
red to the Continental Mexican Rub
ber company. The purchase price
was $S,00O,00O
The claim agent of the Rock Island
railroad is in Mexico settling the
claims of the relatives of the 30
Mexican laborers killed in the col
lision at Voiland, Kansas. in Janu-
ary
While the police were searching
the room occupied by student of
Kharkavo. Russia, bomb exploded
killing an officer, three policemen
and two civilians.
The attorneys for Harry X. Thaw
sprung surprise on District Attor-
ney Jerome recently by refusing to
cross-examine any of the six alien
lists who testified for the state that
Thaw was sane when he killed Stan
ford White.
The supreme court of California
has denied the applications of Mayor
Schmitz and Abraham Ruef for writs
of habeas corpus.
The railroad committee of the Ne
passage a bill cutting sleeping car
rates SO 1-3 per cent and express
charges 20 per cent.
Commissioner of Pensions Warner
states that $4,000 applications for
new service pension law recently en-
acted by congress.
The San Francisco board of educa-
ton has adopted resolutions rescind-
their action in segregating Japanese
pupils in the public school.
The suit OF Frank Rockefeller.
brother of John D. Rockefeller, to re-
cover $26o.000 invested in zinc mine
in Missouri has been dismissed in the
circuit court at st. Lous on demurrer
by the defendant.
Panicky conditions reigned in Wall
street recently and prices of stocks
tumbled in one day from Is to 20
points. Call money was quoted at %
per cent. Frantic appeals were made
to the president and secretary of the
treasury to come to the rescue of the
railroads and SPECTATORS.