The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-03-23

time of an operation for tumor four
years before.
Gov. Folk has announced his pur-
pose to call a special session of the
Missouri legislature TO consider mat
ters which he considers essential and
which were not acted upon at the reg
ular session just closed
President Roosevelt has appointed
commission to consider a comprehen-
sion system for the development of
water transportation as a 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
field. 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nearly all employees having withdrawn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 lis
days drafting a constitution for the
new state has completed its work and
adjourned sine die
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 ss00O,000.
The claim agent of the Rock Island
railroad is in Mexico settling the
claims of the relatives of the so
Mexican laborers killed in the col
lision at Voiland, Kansas. In Janu-
ary.
While the police were searching
kharkavo, Russia, a 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.
The San Francisco board OF educa-
tion has adopted resolutions rescind-
heir action in sesreeating japanese
r1pils in the public school.
The suit of Frank Rockefeller,
brother of John D. Rockefeller, to re
cover $2G5,000 invested in zinc mine
in Missouri has been dismissed in the
circuit court at st. Lous on a 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 g
| per cent. Frantic appeals were made
to the president and secretary of the
treasury to come to the rescue of the
railroads and SPECTATORS.
During the height of the flood at
| Pittsburg a fire broke out In the
! Twenty-seventh ward and before 1t
burned itself out had destroyed 25
| business houses and residences
The four railroad presidents who
were to visit President Roosevelt and
confer with him regarding the gen
eral railroad situation of the country.
have decided not to go to Washing
| ton.
| During a sharp clash between mem
bers of the senate committee which
is investigating the Brownsville G-
| fray at Washington, it developed that
| Senator Foraker is gathering evidence
at his own expense in defense of the
negro soldiers involved.
| -he town OF Majorsville, near
Wheeling, w. Va, consisting OF GO
houses was entirely swept away in
recent flood and every house destroyed.
The Harvard overseers have de-
cided that football under certain
restrictions will be played by the
university this year.
The situation between the cattle
men and sheepmen Of Wyoming has
reached a crucial stage and notices
have been posted throughout that sec
ton ordering the herders to remove
their flocks from the country. The
sheepmen will resist
One hundred and three bodies have
been recovered from the interior OF
the battleship lena, which was re-
Gently wrecked by the explosion OF
a powder magazine at Toulon. France.
Western Pennsylvania and eastern
Ohio are suffering from the annual
spring flood.
In the suit Of Wichita, Kan, mer
chants against the Rock Island rail-
| road charging discrimination in rates,