The Colorado statesman., 1907-10-05

The camp of the Oklahoma National
Guard at Fort Reno was destroyed by
fire causing loss of $4,000.
The attorneys general of 10 states
met in st. Louis to discuss matters
pertaining to the enforcement of laws
particularly those pertaining to trusts
and railroads.
The latest bubonic plague statement
| from San Francisco shows 48 cases
and 29 deaths.
The epidemi, of cholera which
broke out in Russia in August is
spreading rapidly and already II pro-
vinces are affected.
The 10th annual report of the ST.
Louis Southwestern Railroad company
shows that the net earnings increased
1859 per cent over the preceding year.
The balloon Nord which sailed from
Paris was picked up at sea after COW
ering a distance of 159 miles and was
| declared the winn n of the grand prize
| of the Aero club OF France.
Attorney General Bonaparte has in
structed United States district attor-
neys to bring suit against various rail-
roads throughout the country to re-
cover penalties incurred by them for
alleged violations of the safety ap-
pliance law.
The challenge of Sir. Thomas Lip
ton for race for the Americas cup
in 1908 has been declined by the New
York Yacht club. The club was un-
able to limit the length of contestants
| tn hx, bn choI
| lenger.
A conspiracy to start a revolutionary
| movement in Cuba has been discov-
cred by Gov. Magoon 1t is believed
that the movement is backed by New
York capitalists.
The inland waterways commission
was II hours late in reaching st. Paul
from Duluth and as consequence
| missed an extensive programme
planned for their entertainment
Russia is making great preparations
to entertain Secretary Taft on his COM
ing visit to that country. He will be
| treated the same as ruler of another
nation.
The Eighteenth United States in
fantry has left Fort Leavenworth for
service in the Philippines. This is
the third time this organization has
been ordered to the islands.
Twenty persons were injured in a
rear end collision in tunnel between
Paris and Cherbourg, France. Several
Americans were among the victims.
According to statements by the rail-
roads they have lost $500, 900 in Mis-
souri, since the two-cent fare went into
force.
The Asiatic cruiser squadron con-
sisting of the West Virginia, Colorado,
Maryland and Pennsylvania has ar
rived at San Francisco from the
Philippines.
An incendiary fire at Wuchow,
China, cost the lives of 100 persons
and destroyed property valued at
| S25O,OOO.
Eight persons were killed and sew
eral others injured in a wreck on the
Pennsylvania railroad at Duncannon,
Pa, recently.
The total deposits in the Kansas
banks at the end of September were
| 144,220,51S.71, an increase in one
year of s2O.OOO,OO).
The federal grand jury at San
Francisco has returned indictments
against the Southern Pacific Railway
company and the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company. charging them with
giving bribes on shipments of goods
from Japan. The indictment contains
| 124 counts.
An injunction has been granted in
district court of Wyandotte county,
Kansas. forbidding members of the
Kansas City livestock exchange to
obey the rules of that organization
which require them to boycott nom
members.
The Swedish Yacht club is said to
have forwarded Il challenge to the
New York Yacht club for a series of
races for the Americas cup.
Great Britain will also send a fleet
of warships to the Pacific next
spring.
l.. B. Williamson of Finday, Ohio.
has confessed to an attempt to bribe
juror in a case against the Standard
Oil company tried in that city last
June.
While in st. Louis recently Mrs.
Root. wife of the secretary of state,
declared herself emphatically in favor
of the re-establishment of the army
canteen.
A racing automobile. while going
at 60 miles an hour at the Morris
Park track in New York, crashed
into a fence. killed the driver and in
jured 20 other persons.
The trial of George A. Pettibone, one
of the men charged with the murder
of former Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho,
has been set for October Is.
A fight over a church edifice led IN