The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings &C TIE
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from Al3
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for tho
Benefit of Our Readers.
Personal.

gathering an army.
Charles w. Oldrieve, equipped with
wooden shoes, walked on the water
form Cincinnati to New Orleans in 40
days winning the worlds championship
and a bet of $4,000.
The estate of Edward Rosewater,
founder and editor of the Omaha Bee,
as appraised under the inheritance
tax law, is valued at $4S6,504.
The New York Life Insurance COM
pany announces that it's assets have
increased s39,OO0,0OO during 1906.
Howard Robb, an Arkansas state
senator, is dead.
Isabelle Urquhart, the actress, died
recently in Rochester, N. Y.
Emperor Wilhelm, of Germany. is
planning a visit to King Alfonso of
Spain this spring.
Mrs. Drusilla Morrell, whose hus-
band fought in the war of 1872, is
dead in Brooklyn, N. Y, at the age OF
102. X
DR.. George E. Ladd, who for ten
years has been director of the MIS-
souri, state school of mines at Rolla,
has resigned his position to engage
in the mining business.
Richard w. Morgan, of Boulder
county, Col, has been expelled from
the state senate for accepting br
John B. Mcdonald, who constructed
the subway in New York, has been
elected president of W. ]. divers
Panama Construction company.
Former Congressman Benjamin W.
Harris, known as the father of the
new navy" is dead at his home in
Massachusetts.
Preston H. Leslie, a former govern
of of Kentucky and later governor of
the territory of Montana, is dead at
his home in Helena.
| John D. Rockefeller has announced
gift of s32,OOO,O0O to the general
education board.
Congressional.
| President Roosevelt has sent spec
ial message to congress asking that 60
days time be given the inter-marrled
Cherokees in which to sell improve
ments on the land they must vacate.
The president has signed the gen.
eral service pension bill recently
passed by congress.
The provision in the Indian appro'
priation bill which allowed the full
bloods to sell their lands has been
defeated in the senate by a vote OF
81 to %. The provision to sell the
surface of mineral lands was also de-
feated.
Representative Murphy, Of Mis-
souri,, has introduced a bill in the
house to repeal the act admitting Okla
homa to statehood on the ground that
the constitutional convention at
Guthrie has failed to comply with the
the conditions of the enabling act.
The scarlet fever and diphtheria epi-
denies which have been raging in
Chicago have broken out with renewed
violence. All records were broken re-
Gently when 407 new cases were re-
ported in one day.
The senate has agreed to appoint
committee to consider the revision OF
the land laws of the country.
The house committee on judiciary
has submitted report declaring that
congress has no jurisdiction or au-
thority to suppress abuses or amelior-
ate conditions surrounding woman or
child labor. The committee holds
that the subject is within the police
power of the various states.
The senate has passed the Indian
appropriation bill.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate to give the president absolute
control of the Panama canal.
The house has passed the river and
harbor bill carrying an appropriation
of $83,OOO.0O0. A survey of the Mis-
souri, river from its mouth to Sioux
CIcy is provided for.
The house recently passed 725 pri-
vate pension bills in 80 minutes, max
ing new record.
| MiscelIaneous.
The president has asked Postmaster
General Cortelyou If 1t is possible to
exclude from the mails papers which
print the full disgusting details OF
the Thaw trial.
The approximate value OF the Mar
shall Field estate is placed at $7o,000,-
900 by the executors of the will.
A meeting of the National Mckinley
Memorial association was held in
Washington recently to hear the re-
ports of the various officers.
Stanford White threatened to kill
Harry Thaw, according to a witness
In the New York murder trial who
notified Thaw of his danger.
Sapulpa, I. T., has offered to fur
nish 100 acres of land and give $780,
900 in cash il the capital of the new
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