The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-13

charge of participation in the fraud
ulent entry of extensive tracts of coal
land.
The official call for the nineteenth
annual session of the Trans -AIississip-
pi commercial congress has been is
sued. The congress will be held in
Muskogee, 1. It. November to %.
Foreign Minister Hayashi of Japan
has issued a statement in which he
announces that no treaty will be con-
sidered containing a clause excluding
Japanese coolies from this country.
The professional bicycle Champion
ship of the world has been won by
Frenchman who Travelled 100 kilome-
ters in one hour Is minutes and %
seconds.
An international swimming race in
the SCENE was won by the English
champion, Ellington, who swan more
than seven miles in two hours and IS
minutes.
Acting Secretary of State Adee, de-
MES the rumor that the United States
contemplates buying from Mexico
Magdalena bay for a Pacific coaling
station.
At New London, Conn. Harvard
won the eight-oared freshman race by
close margin. while Yale won the
varsity four cared race by ten
lengths.
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.
The pension department will urge
congress at it's next session to equal
ize the pensions of soldiers widows
on basis of S12.
Judge Lands, in the federal court
at Chicago, has refused the request
of the attorneys for John d. Rocke
feller for the withdrawal of the sub
poena recently issued for their client
Judge Chytraus. of Chicago, has de.
clared the law passed by the last
legislature prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes in Illinois invaled.
According to the verdict of fury
in the federal court at Fort Dodge,
Iowa, grain transactions on boards of
contracted can not be collected
The national encampment of the
Army of the Philippines is to be held
at Kansas City in August in con-
nection with the annual reunion of
the Twentieth Kansas.
Chester B. Runyan paying teller, of
the Windsor Trust company of New
York, has disappeared with s96,315 of
the company's funds. The directors
made good the loss.
Fifteen persons were killed and
many others injured by storm
which swept over the western part
of Wisconsin recently. Great dam
age was done to buildings and crops
in the path of the storm.
| Suit has been filed against the city
and county of San Francisco for s2,-
SIS damages by the owners of the
Japanese restaurant recently wrecked
by hoodlums.
| Theresa Goldman, seven-year-old
girl of st. Joseph, Mo-, who was just
| recovering from diphtheria was fright
| ened to death by the explosion of
giant firecrackers on the Fourth of
July.
Independence Day was celebrated
by Americans in nearly all parts Of
the civilized world.
Almost the entire village of North
Lawrence, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire recently.
In freight wreck on the Frisco
near Columbus, Kan, seven tank
cars of oil were derailed and burned.
Thirty-six persons were killed and
1,471 injured while celebrating In
depencence Day according to the fig
ures of the Chicago Record-Herald.
All records of fatalities following
the celebration of Independence Day
in Pittsburg, Pa, were broken this
year, Is violent deaths being reported
to the coroner.
AS the result of quarrel over rs
cents two men were shot to death in
st. Louis, and a third is in Jail on
a charge of murder.
The battleship Georgia has finally
been accepted by the government
from the contractors.
Seven indictments have been re-
turned by the federal grand jury
against E. G. Lewis, president of tho
Peoples United States bank of st.
Louis.
Attorney General Jackson of New
York has made application to the SUI
preme court Of that state for the
appointment Of referee to take tes-
timony on the allegation that the
Postal Telegraph company and the
Western Union Telegraph company
have formed combination to in
crease rates of telegraph service.
Bill Squiras, the much touted