The Ordway new era., 1907-03-08


at Bairritz. King Edward will join
the royal yacht In the south of France
and with Queen Alexandra Will cruise
In the Mediterranean returning to
England towards the close of April.
The resignation of Gov. Swettenham
OF Jamaica has become an accom-
plished fact and he will leave the is
land as soon as his affairs can be ar
ranged.
The president has signed prociama-
ton creating or increasing 81 forest
reserves in various western states.
President Roosevelt in letter to
the famine relief committee appeals
to the country to aid the famine suf-
ferers in Russia.
The first plank OF the new oklahoma
state constitution adopted provides for
initiative and referendum.
The Southern Kansas Miliers' Club
of Sedgwick county upon request OF
Attorney General Jackson. An in
Iuiry is to he made to learn whether
or not the club is = trust.
A gas well with n daily capacity
OF 100000 feet has been brought in
seven miles east of Fort Smith. Ark.
Gov. Sheldon of Nebraska has re-
ceived official notice from the Off
cials of the Burlington railroad com
pany that 1t will not contest the new
two-cent fare law but will revise its
rates accordingly.
The new United States battleship
Vermont has been formally placed in
commission.
Two men boarded Missouri Paci-
fic train near Pittsburg. Kan. robbed
the passengers of their yaluables and
made their escape. Two men who re-
sisted were shot, one fatally.
A coroner's jury has held the operat
ing and construction department of
the New York Central railroad respon.
siblc for the wreck in the Bronx when
25 persons were killed. and the coroner
has ordered the president and direc-
tors OF the road held.
The canteen at the soldiers home
near Leavenworth. Kan, has been
closed by act of congress. The pro-
fits alone from the liquor sold the
The postal receipts OF the Kansas
City postoffice for the month of Feb
ruary were sl29.ta311. The receipts
for the same month last year were
$ll5.7I4.9S showing an increase oil
Sl3 3,36S.13 or 1iIk per cent.
Arthur Brisbane editor of the New
York Journal has purchased desert
ed village in New Jersey which he
proposes to convert into model farm
price was sl25.000.
Lyman X. Lane. former financial
clerk in the office of the Indian agent
at Muskogee. I. r. has been arrested
charged with the embezzlement OF
s7.s95 OF government funds.
| BY vote of 20 to 40. Senator Jo-
seph W. Bailey has been cxonerated
by the lower house of the Texas legis-
lature OF charges OF irregular acts in
public life.
BY the carelessness OF porter who
threw lighted match into keg OF
| ''fireproof" paint an explosion was
caused at st. Joseph. Mo. which re-
suited in fire loss of s50,0OO.
The $4,000 employees of the Colo
rado Fuel & Iron company ceased
work for two hours and half re-
| Gently during the progress of the
funeral of Frank J. Hearne. presi.
dent of the company.
The Y. NJ. C. A. building at Utica,
N. Y, was totally destroyed by fire
recently, causing loss of sl5O,0JO.
The supreme court of Indiana has
| declared unconstitutional the employ
ers liability law except as regards
| railroads.
A destructive tornado recently
struck the town OF Washington, Ark
and almost literally wiped it out of
existence. Two negroes were killed
and many persons injured.
william J. oliver. the Knoxville.
Tenn, bidder on Panama canal work,
declares he has been handed a
lemon" in exchange for 100000 of his
money, by the government at Wash
ington.
The United States treasurer's re-
port for February shows surplus for
the month of $S.2O5,OO0.
A suit has been filed at Concord,
N. H., by relatives of Mrs. Mary
Baker G.. Eddy, head of the Christian
Science church. against the trustees
of the Institution to compel an ac-
counting of the financial affairs OF
the church.
A party headed by Speaker Cannon
and Senator Curtis OF Kansas will
.raud m month during March and