The Dolores star., 1907-03-22

pitaI where they had been left at the
time of an operation for tuuior four
years before.
Gov. Folk has announced his pur-
! pose to call q special session OF the
Missouri legislature to consider mat
| tiers which he considers essential and
+, which were not acted upon ut the reg.
ular session just closed.
President Roosevelt has appointed
a commission to consider comprehen
sion system for the development oil
water transportation as 4 means to
assist the railroads to keep abreast o.
the business of the country.
The national Civic Federation which
called the trust conference at Chicag9
| in 1899 has announced its intention to
arrange for another in May.
BUSINESS is being resumed at Gold
field, New, where mine operators anu
business men had locked out members
Of Industrial Workers Of the World
nearly all employees having withdraw
from the organization.
The Oklahoma convention whic.l
has been in session at Guthrie for IL
days drafting a constitution for the
new state has completed Its work and
adjourned sine die.
BY the explosion of the powder
magazine on board the French battle
ship lena. while In dock at Toulon.
the captain in command. the chief OF
staff of the Mediterranean squadron
and from 20 to 80 blue jackets were
killed. while several hundred other
officers and men we're injured.
Plans have been completed for the
construction OF torpedo factory AT
the Newport naval station. This Is
the first time the government has un
dertaken to make its own torpedoes
on large scale.
The Union State bank Of Hunnewell
Kan, was recently wrecked by safe
blowers. Posses of citizens followed
the robbers to Caldwell where one OF
the gang was captured.
The fourth annual convention OF
the American Road Makers associat
lion met recently In Pittsburg, Pa
with $500 delegates representing IS
states In attendance.
NJ. Casimir-Perier, ex-president OF
France. died recently at his home ir
Paris of disease of the heart. He
was In his sixtieth year. The senate
and chamber Of deputies adjourned
as sign of mourning.
A. B. Stickney, president OF the
Chicago Great Western railway, in q
recent interview at Washington de
clared the people are now laying the
foundation for tremendous financial
panic"
One of the largest land deals ever
consummated in Mexico was made
recently when the famous Cedros
hacienda comprising 1,775,O00 acres
with all its live stock was transfer.
red to the Continental Mexican Rub.
ber company. The purchase price
was sS,OOO,OOO.
The claim agent Of the Rock Island
railroad Is in Mexico settling the
claims OF the relatives of the &c
Mexican laborers killed in the col
lision at Voiland, Kansas, in Janu
ary.
While the police were searching
the room occupied by student o
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 bill cutting sleeping car
rates 33 1-3 per cent and express
charges 20 per cent.
| Commissioner of Pensions Warner
states that $4,000 applications fol
pensions have been filed under the
new service pension law recently en-
acted by congress.
The San Francisco board of educa
tion has adopted resolutions rescind
their action in segregating japanese
pupils in the public school.
The suit of Frank Rockefeller
brother of John D. Rockefeller, to re
cover $26o.OO0 invested in zinc mine
In Missouri has been dismissed in the
circuit court at st. Lous on demurre,
by the defendant.
Panicky conditions reigned in Wal
street recently and prices of stocks
tumbled in one day from Is to 2C
points. Call money was quoted at 2s
per cent. Frantic appeals were made
to the president and secretary of the
treasury to come to the rescue of the
railroads and sreculators.
During the height of the flood at
4 Pittsburg fire broke out in the
Twenty-seventh ward and before II
burned itself out had DESTROYED %
business hOuser and rac,don