The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-03-06

churia.
The right of the Indian c.ti .1shiI.
court to fix the status of tie Choc-
taw nation has hem upheld by t.
United Stat Supreme co r. i'll the
case O., Wal ace S Adams.
The supreme court OF the Un'.cd
States in deciding a Texas case hello
that the common lawright of ind., i'd
uals TO apply to the courts fer re-
dress against the railroads for d.
elimination was destroyed by the ras-
SAGE of the interstate commerce com
mission law and such complaints
must come through the commission.
| Lyman X. Lane, former financial
clerk in the office of the Indian agent
at Muskogee. l. T., has been ARRESTED"
charged with the embezzlsment CT
$685. of government funds.
By vote of 20 to 10, Senator 10
seph w. Bailey has heen exone-atcd
by the lower house of the Texas lesis-
lature of charges of irregular acts III
public life
| By the carelessness of borter who
threw II lighted match into n key O.,
"fireproof' paint an explosion Was
| CduSeu dt sol, JuHepi, M'.s NHANH -
suited in fire loss Of $4,000.
The $4,000 employees of the Cole
RADIO Fuel & Iron company ceased
work for two hours and a half re-
Gently during the progress of the
funeral of Frank j. Hearne, presi-
dent of the company.
joint resolution mas been intro
duced in congress TO empower the
president to exclude from the mails
publications which contain the revolt
ing details of the Thaw trial and
other cases of similar Laturc.
The Y. NJ. C. A. building at Utica,
N. Y. was totally destroyed by fire
recently. causing loss of 100000.
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 q
lemon" in exchange for $4,000 of his
money, by the government at Wash
inston.
Tle United States treasurers re-
port for February shows surplus for
the month of sS.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 &C
counting of the financial affairs OF
the church.
While wrokmen were tearing down
n building in Kansas City re emily
the walls collapsed. killing one man
and seriously injurug four Others.
Out of 215 candidates for this years
Rhodes scholarships 1ss passed the
prescribed examination. OF these As
will be chosen to 20 to oxford next
October. The scholarships are worth
81, 500 year.
According to a recent census bull
letin out of OILY two fifths of the pop
ulation of the United States more
than half a million persons died in
1905 Consumption caused the great
est number of deaths.
A woman and III ee children were
found dead at St. Louis. Nearby lay
a nearly empty bottle of patent
medicine which had been recently
purchasel.
BY the exrl SIGN Of dynamite In
the home CT Rev. J. II. little. Bap-
fist minister of Carni. H., Mr. little,
his father, wife and baby were killed
outright, and two children of the fam
lily were fatally injured.
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.
Harry X. Thaw. recently enlivened
an extremely dull session of his trial
by issuing a brief statement in which
he charged District Attorney Jerome
with unprofessional remarks in court.
and in conclusion declared that his
wife's natural real goodness was
above the comprehension of the prose-
cutting attorney.
Chief Engineer Stevens reports that
during February G50,000 cubic yards
of dirt were removed from Culebra
cut on the Panama canal.
The George Washington universi;?
has appointed a committee to raise
100000 to purchase a new site for
the institution at the national cap
ital.
Recent advices from Nicaragua say
that the governorment forces have
captured two towns in Honduras af-
Ter delivering crushing defeat to
The Hondurean army.
Thomas Baldwin. wealthy Hi
nois farmer, recently shot and killed
four persons at Colfax. He had been
arrested charged with criminal as
sault on 1i-year old girl. and the
deed was done out of revenge. Among
those killed was the victim of his
assault and her mother.
In the Thaw trial at New York
Justice Fitzgerald has ruled that the