The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-10-16


him was unrequited.
Railroad Commissioner Williams of
Nebraska, after an inspection of the
Missouri Pacific railway in that state.
pronounces the roadbed unsafe and
recommends restriction of the speed
of trains.
Growers, ..nufacturers and dealers
in cotton held an inter national confer
ence at Atlanta, Ga and 500 delegates
from all parts of the world were
present.
By a cave-in in the ballast quarries
of the Mexican Central railroad at
Victoria 16 laborers were killed and
IL others fatally injured.
Up to date there has been GA cases
and 81 deaths from bubonic plague in
San Francisco.
The Santa F'e Railroad company has
announced voluntary raise in salary
to all telegraph operators in the en-
ploy of the company.
An explosion caused by the upset
ting of metal pot at the Standard
Steel works, Butler, Pa, caused the
death of foui men and the injury of
40 others.
Augustus Hartje has filed with the
superior court petition to reopen
the famous Pittsburg divorce case, al
.eging that new evidence in the form
of letters has been discovered.
Numerous Montana and Washington
investors have been swindlcd to the
extent of more than third of a mil
lion dollars by sharpers who sailed
the Red Canon placer mine near Le-
ander, Wyoming. The property is
said to be worthless.
The coroner's jury, which has been
investigating the mysterious death of
May Sapp at Moran. Kan. has rem
dered verdict that the girl was muir
dered S. F. Whitlow has been arrest
ed charged with the crime.
X. N. Ford has been convicted OF
wrecking the bank of Burton. Ohio,
which failed four years ago for $780,
900.
The Gentry Hills Lumber company.
of Pond Creek. Ok. has filed charges
of discrimination in rates on lumber
against the Santa Fee and other rail
roads before the Interstate Commerce
commission.
The agricultural department OF
Washington reports the condition of
corn for October l at rs per cent as
compared with 9O.1 a year ago.
In New York recently 1876 electric
cars were destroyed by the burning of
the Fourteenth street car barns. The
loss was placed at 100000.
A Belgian syndicate is being formed
to establish n direct line of turbine
steamers between Antwerp. Boston
and New York.
The Metropolitan street railway
company of New York has been placed
in the hands of a receiver.
A body supposed to be that of Jack
Simpkins, the long missing member of
the Western Federation of miners,
was recently found in Shcshone coun-
ty, Idaho.
Mrs Charles J. Romadke, wife of a
millionaire manufacturer of Alilwau-
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 Santa Fee Railroad company has
contracted for s2,500,00O worth of
ohia wood railroad ties to be deliv-
cred from Hawaii in the next FIVE
years.
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 617 knots.
The American delegation at The
Hague peace conference has succeeded
in getting favorable committee action
regarding obligatory arbitration.
The attorney general of Kansas is
preparing list of questions the in
surance companies made defendants
in an antitrust suit will be asked to
answer.
The vote of the New York Teleg-
raphers' union to call out the men
from leased wire Offices has been
rescinded.
The earnings of the Santa Fe for
the year ended June 30 were 1913. $685.
4O7, an increase of nearly s13.0OO.00O
over the previous year.
Nine blocks in the business section
of oxford, Neb., were burned over re-
Gently, causing loss of 100000. /
A message sent by wireless tele-
graph from Manila was recorded at
Port Morien. n s., e distance of 1900
miles.
Canes and swagger sticks for young
women is the latest New York fad.
The Nebraska food commission has
notified the Omaha packers that cleo
margarine sold in tina state must be
stamped with the net weight and must
specify the contents.
Wheat for May delivery recently
sold in Chicago Cor s1,11k cents a
bushel.
The annual report of the Frisco rail-
road show an increase of s6,574,-
40 % or 20l Der cent in gross earn.