The Dolores star., 1907-04-26

board OF agriculture places the dam
age to the wheat crop of that terri
tory from the green bugs at from
80 to IS per cent and damage to the
cat crop from the same cause at IS
per cent.
Fire at Manila destroyed 1,100 ma
tive houses recently. burning over a
district OF 100 acres in two hours.
The Drovers and Farmers hank OF
Seymour. Ia, has closed It's doors and
is in the hand of state bank ex-
aminer
Members who attended the meeting
of the Missouri Valley Horticultural
society in Kansas City we're OF the
opinion that 95 per cent Of the peach
and apple crop had been destroyed
and that cherries, plums and pears
are total loss
The annual reunion of the Rough
Riders" of the Spanish American
war is to be held in Prescott, Rriz..
July 8 next.
Fifteen governors have accepted
the invitation Of the National Civic
federation to name delegates to attend
the national conference on trusts in
Chicago May 2S to 81.
Vienna Mannergeseng Verein have
sailed for the United States and will
give concerts in the larger cities here.
Seventeen inches of snow fell in
Colorado during the recent storm
ehich extended from Wyoming to Ell
Paso. Tex, and was the latest snow
fail that has ever occurred at the lat
ter point.
colony of newspaper men is to
be established in Routt county, Colo
RADIO, on land thrown open to settle
ment by the state. The plan is to
make the colony an up-to-date farm
ing community.
The supreme court OF Illinois has
dismissed the suit of the state against
the Illinois Central railroad for an ac-
counting and recovery of share Of
the gross receipts of the road.
Roy Sing Stevens, of Shell City,
Mo-, has been acquitted of the charge
of killing Dora Bright in rooming
house at Wichita, Kan.
Th red hat was conferred upon six
of the seven cardinals recently Gre
ated at public consistofy held in
st. Peters at Rome. The pope con-
ferred the emblems of their office
upon the candidates.
Henry Ach, counsel for Abraham
Ruef, was recently stricken in the
court room at San Francisco with
ptomaine poisoning. He will recover.
Gov. Haggerman, of New Mexico,
has resigned and the president has
appointed Capt. George Curry, now
governor Of Samar province, Philip
pine islands, to succeed him.
During the year which has passed
since the great disaster San Francisco
has expended $75,0OO,O0O in the work
of rebuilding and permits have been
granted for new fire proof buildings
to cost $5O.000.000 more.
District Attorney Jerome has be-
gun an investigation of the report /
that members Of the Thaw jury had
been approached" while the trial
was in progress.
In speech at the banquet
in Buffalo. N. Y, w. C. Brown,
vice president of the New York Cen
tral railroad, declared that the people
had right to regulate the railroads.
The New York assembly has passed
a bill providing for a two cent rate
on railroads in the state.
The defendants in the suit for an
accounting of the property of Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy have filed their
answer in court making a general de-
nial of all the allegations in the COM
plants.
Regis H. Post has been inaugurated
governor af Porto Rico in succession
to Beekman Winthrop, who becomes
assistant secretary of the treasury at
Washington.
The Gath annual boat race between
Oxford and Cambridge was won by
the latter.
With 81 of the delegates present |
and not voting the constitution for |
the proposed new state of Oklahoma |
as framed by the convention was
finally adopted.
Arrangements are being made for
the celebration in 1908 at Geneva of |
the fourth centennial of the birth Of |
John Calvin.
A fast mail train on the Illinois |
Central railroad ran down hand car
near Ellis, Ia. and killed five Aus
trian employees of the road.
Robbers recently dynamited the
safe in the bank at Bixby, 1. T. se-
curing several thousand dollars in cur
rency.
Great loss and mucn suffering is
being caused in Jamaica by the
drought which has preyailed for Gonna