Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-04

ieIS Which, ne COublueIS tSSeulldl anu
which we're not acted upon 1t the reg
ular session just closed.
President Roosevelt has appointed
a 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nearly all employees having withdrawn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 115
days drafting a constitution for the
new state has completed its work and
adjourned sine die.
One of the largest land deals ever
contaminated in Mexico was made
recently when the famous Cedros
hacienda comprising 1,775,OOO acres
with all it's live stock was transfer
red to the Continental Mexican Rub
Der company. The purchase price
was So, 900, 900.
The claim agent of the Rock Island
railroad is in Mexico settling the
claims of the relatives of the 80
Mexican laborers killed in the col
lision at Voiland, Kansas, in Janu-
airy.
While the police were searching
the room occupied by a student Of
Kharkavo, Russia, a bomb exploded
killing an officer, three policemen
and two civilians.
The attorneys for Harry K. Thaw
sprung a 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-
ton has adopted resolutions resrind-
their action in ~segregating japanese
pupils in the public school.
nh, Ill - TNrn,T- n@AIrAF.ITA.
brother of John d. Rockefeller, to re
cover $3.50, 900 invested in a 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 25
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 it
burned itself out had destroyed %
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 af-
fray at Washington, it developed that
Senator Foraker is gathering evidence
at his own expense in defense of the
negro soldiers involved.
The town of M~ajorsville, near
Wheeling, w. Va, consisting of 60
houses was entirely swept away in a
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
r men and sheepmen of Wyoming has
reached a crucial stage and notices
have been posted throughout that sec
blbu ing Ane ntluNlb W AtllONN
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,
Judge Pollock instructed the jury to
bring a verdict in favor of the rail
road.
The Kansas Legislature has finally
= adjourned after being in session &C
3 days.
An explosion of fire damp in a coal
mine at Kleinrossein, Germany killed
rs miners.
The production Of hydraulic cement
in the United States in 1906 amounted
IN 90 COT 911 barrels heinz an incraase