The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-11-23

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2J0 days on the voyage and travelled
81 900 miles.
President Roosevelt has signed the
proclamation making Oklahoma and
Indian territory-a new state and the
officers elected at the recent election
have taken charge vi the Offices.
The Nebraska state railway com
mission has refused to permit the
telephone companies 10 raise the
night toll rates to the day schedule.
The complaint of the North Pacific
Lumber association charging various
railroads with Determinations and un-
lawful concert OF action has been
filed with the interstate commerce
commission.
The Nebraska state railway com
mission has issued an order directing
the railroads and express companies
TO give improved service to the dairy
men Of the state.
Party feeung has already reached
the point in the Russian douma
where personal encounters are with
difficulty prevented and challenges TO
fight duels have l>len sent.
ernors of the states and territories to
meet him at the White house May l3.
Il and Is. next. to discuss the ques-
tion of means to conser-e the natural
resources of the country.
Many fires have been started re
Gently in Enid, Ok, by incendiaries,
whose object seemed to be to cover
up operations of burglars.
The railroad embargo on grain be-
tween Buffalo and New York has
been raised. A million bushels of
grain will be shipped to the seaboard
each week until the close of naviga-
ton.
j. c. Wilson, promoter and presi-
dent of the Interstate Fiscal Agency
company, OF Kansas City. has been
arrested by the federal authorities
charged with using the mails to de-
fraud.
Arguments in the suit OF the inter
state commerce commission to com
pei f. II. Hartman to answer certain
questions regarding stock transac-
tions were submitted in the federal
court at New York. The Decision
Secretary OF the Treasury Cortel-
YOU addressed the Merchants asso-
citation of New York recently on f.
nancial affairs. He declared that If
all money now being boarded was
returned to the banks a general re-
sumption of business would follow.
A torpedo boat destroyer of the
British navy in a recent test main
tanned a speed of 40 miles an hour
for six hours.
The Marconi wireless station at
Siasconset, Mass, has been destroyed
by fire.
Two men were killed in Cincinnati
by the explosion of boiler in a pre-
serving factory recently.
After being imprisoned in a mine
at Pottsville. Pa. for 81 hours. Mi
chael McCabe, miner, was rescued
by the untiring work of his COM
rades.
The 900 worth of pay checks
for coal miners which were recently
lost near Trinidad, Col. We're found
by two boys and returned to the COM
pany issuing them.
census bureau shows by the census
taken last July that the new state of
oklahoma had at that time popula-
tion of I,4I4,117, which compared with
the population in 1900 shows an in
crease OF 7s.9 per cent in seven years
The Mississippi board of railroad
and warehouse commissioners has is
sued an order for general reduction
in express rates in the state of 20 per
cent.
B. J. Waugh, of Shawnee. has been
appointed secretary of the Oklahoma
board of agriculture
The Missouri Pacific Railroad com
pany has appealed the Madison
branch case in which the Kansas
board of railroad commissioners had
ordered daily passenger service on
that road to the United States su-
preme court.
Five hundred and sixty saloons
closed their doors as the result of the
prohibition clause in the new Okla
homa constitution.
Another severe earthquake has Wis
tied parts of Italy, the inhabitants
are panic stricken and for second
time have fled to the country
Chicago banks propose to issue So
0oo,oJo in clearing mouse certificates
to relieve the financial stringency.
Two hundred mutineers among the
Russian sold ers at Vladivostok were
hanged in one week.
Admiral Dewey has declined to be-
come member of the party that will
accompany PRESIDENT Roosevelt on
the Maytlower to witness the depar-
ture of the battleship fleet
The trial of George A. Pettibone at
Boise, Ida, has been reset for 40