The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-23

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cific yards at that place.
Eight contracting firms have been
indicted by the federal grand jury
at Cleveland, O., for violation of the
eight-hour law on government work.
August 6 has been decided upon by
the Oklahoma constitutional conven-
ton as the date for holding the cleo
ton to ratify the constitution of the
new state.
Nicaragua and Honduras have noti-
fled President Roosevelt of their
willingness to submit the questions
in dispute between them to arbitra-
! ton.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Louisville
Herald, Times and Evening Post have
been indicted at Lebanon, KY, for
printing and circulating the "offen-
sive and indecent" proceedings of
the Thaw trial.
| A New National Gamers associa-
ton including the Western Gamers
association, the Atlantic Gamers as
sociation and the California Packers
association, was recently formed at
Buffalo, N Y.
Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, who Shot
and killed former Senator Brown, of
Utah, in his apartments in Washing
ton has been indicted for murder in
the first degree.
| By vote "a to 13 the Kansas
senate recently adopted a resolution
excluding the correspondent of the
Kansas City Star from the chamber.
The senators were angry because the
newspaper criticised their action on
railroad legislation.
All the boilermakers in the Mis-
souri, Pacific shops at SedaIia Mo-,
| have gone out in sympathy with the
striking blacksmiths.
The cruiser Chicago has been sent
to Salvador to look after American
interests during the existing friction
between Nicaragua and Honduras.
Two more railroad bridges have
been carried out by the flood in the
Platte river in Nebraska.
The Third National bank of Balti-
more has discontinued its all night
feature in conformity with a resolu-
| ton of the clearing house limiting
the banking hours.
The japanese government has
made an appropriation of 100000 to
cover the expense of representatives
Of the army and navy who will par
ticipate "A the exposition at James
town. Va.
Fifty-six women suffragists have
been sent to prison in London for
creating a disturbance at a meeting
of parliament.
The damage to shipping in Buffalo
harbor alone is s1,500,O00. Five great
lake steamers aground tell that part
of the story. Thirteen others make
ing brave attempts to ride out the
storm may add to it.
| Nine blocks of residences, a hotel
and a church were recently destroyed
| by fire at Pine Bluff, Ark.
An explosion at the Laflin-Rand
powder works at Columbus, Kan, de-
molisheG the building and badly dam
aged the machinery. No lives were
lost.
| Gen. Kuropatkin's history of the
Russo-Japanese war has at last be-
come public property in spite of the
efforts of the Russian government to
suppress it. He mercilessly criticises
the army which he commanded in the
Far East.
Owing to the death of the wife of
one of the jurors the trial of Harry
X. Thaw was recently postponed for
several days by the consent of coun-
sci on both sides.
By the explosion of gas in restau-
rant at Los Angeles, Cal, four per-
sons were killed outright and 20
others were seriously injured The
two-story building in which the explo-
sion occurred is a total wreck.
The Oklahoma constitutional con-
vention has passed a section of the
railroad report making it a criminal
offense to accept a RAILROAD pass OF
telegraph frank.
March Is has been designated as
the day on which the first entry viii
be made on the big pasture land sold
under the recent bidding.
The governor of Texas has made re-.
QUESTION on the governor of Missouri
for H. Clay Pierce, president of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company who is
wanted on the charge of making false
affidavits.
Representative of commercial clubs
of st. Louis. Chicago Boston and other
cities have gone to Panama to inspect
the work on the canal
An ice gorge in the Missouri river
near Vermillion, S. D., has caused the
river TO leave its banks and one hun
dred families were made homeless.
While the largest manufacturer of
cotton goods this country imported in
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