The Colorado statesman., 1907-08-03

aho has been set for October l.
Two of the alleged leaders of the
mob which lynched the negro, Frank
Bailey, at Usage, |. T., have been held
to the federal grand jury on charge
of murder.
A quantity of dynamite in trunk
exploded while the trunk was being
handled at the union depot at st.
Louis, seriously injuring two men.
The first bale OF new Georgia cot
ton was sold in New York for 2G
Gets a pound.
Japan is regarrisoning Korea with
Japanese troops
Mining operations have been re-
sumed at Hibbing, Mimi, under the
protection of armed deputies.
One of the buildings at the Has
kell Indian institute at Lawrence,
Kan, burned, causing loss of $16,-
600.
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners and a
codefendant with w. d. Haywood
recently acquitted at Boise, Id, has
been released on s25,000 bond.
Attorneys for the Union Pacific rail
way have attacked the Nebraska sys
tenn of assessing land declaring that
the law is unconstitutional.
Independent packing houses are to
be constructed in Havelock and AL
lance, Neb.
The Topeka State Journal has been
made the official state paper of Kan
sas.
Nearly six inches of rain fell in four
hours at Concordia. Kan.
An Ecuador court-martial has SEN
fenced Is soldiers, implicated in the
recent political plot, to death by shoot
ing.
The estimated amount of Cuban ex-
pendetures for 1907-S is $23, ,309, ,53s
with estimated receipts of s25, ,466, 1926.
The government OF Venezuila has
notified Minister Russell that it will
refuse to arbitrate the American
claims.
The state tax commission has in
creased the valuation of property in
Kansas more than s11, 100000 over
the amount returned by the assessors.
The second battleship of the Dread
naught class has been launched in
England.
The Scout cruiser Salem which will
have a speed of "a knots and be the
fastest fighting craft in the American
navy has been launched at the Fore
River Shipbuilding company's yards.
The largest government dry dock in
this country is to be located at
II
and will cost $1,192,2S4.
The official call for the transmits.
sissippi commercial congress to meet
in Muskogee.. l. T.. November 10, 20,
81 and % has been issued.
| The railroads of North f<arolina
have agreed to place in effect the two
and one-fourth cent rate pending an
appeal to the higher courts regarding
the constitutionality of the law.
At Findlay, Ohio. the jury in the
trial of the Standard Oil company on
charge of violating the state anti
trust law disagreed and were dis.
charged.
Chester 3. Runyan paying teller, of
the Windsor Trust company of New
York, has disappeared with s9o,S15 OF
the company's funds. The directors
made good the loss.
BY the explosion of case of pow
der on the battleship Georgia eight
men were killed and 1S injured. How
the powder became ignited is not
known.
A North Carolina passenger agent
and ticket agent have been SEN
Acha will
for violating the new rate law.
1t is estimated that $500 persons
were prostrated by the heat during
the Elks parade in Philadelphia. More
than 100000 persons viewed the spec
tacle
The merchants exchange of San
Francisco has announced that it is
opposed to any immigration law that
will discriminate against the Japa-
nese.
A Danish civil engineer has sue
ceeded in producing beer in the form
of tablets.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has ordered the Rock Island
railway to reduce their rates on
wheat and corn from Oklahoma to
Galveston, Texas, for export.
In the federal court at Omaha,
Judge Munger handed down a deci-
sion holding that the Nebraska law
providing for 4 reduction of % per
cent in express rates was constitu-
tional. and denied the application of
the companies for an Injunction
against the state officers.
Three little girls. ranging in age
from three to five years were re-
Gently stabbed in Jack. the Ripper"
style on the streets of Berlin. a