The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-03-09
Following a stay O, three weeks

in the Mediterranean returning TO
England towards the c.ose 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 Millers' Club
has been enjoined by the district court
OF Sedgwick county upon request of
Attorney General Jackson. An in
quiry is to be made to learn whether
or not the club is a trust +,
A gas well with a daily capacity
of 5000, 900 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 it 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-
flo in
the passengers of their valuables 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-
sible 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
inmates was $4,000 annually.
The postal receipts of the Kansas
| City postoffice for the month Of Feb
| ruary were $l29,14311. The receipts
for the same month last year were
$115,774.ss showing an increase OF
s13.36s.13 or 11h per cent.
| Arthur Brisbane editor OF the New
York Journal has purchased a desert
ed village In New Jersey which he
proposes to convert into a model farm
| The tract contains GOO acres and the
price was $125.OO0.
Lyman X. Lane, former financial
clerk in the office OF the Indian agent
at Muskogee, l. T.. has been arrested
| charged with the embezzlement of
| 1885 of government funds.
| BY a vote Of 10 to 40. Senator Jo-
| seph W. Bailey has been exonerated
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 $5O,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 ]. 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 $150050.
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 1t 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 $4,000 Of his
money, by the government at Wash
| ington.
The United States treasurer's re-
port for February shows a surplus for
the month of $S,205,0O0
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
spend month during March and
April cruising in the West Indies.
South America the Panama canal and
Cuba will be visited.
According to a recent census bull
letin out Of only two fifths Of the pop
ulation Of the United States more
than half a million persons died in
1905. Consumption caused the great