The Colorado statesman., 1908-08-15
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL sou URCES
SAYINGS, DoINGS, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

The National Association of Attor-
neys General will meet in Denver Au-
gust 21st.
A large addition to the grading force
on the Laramie, Hahn's Peak & Pa
cific has been made on the Walden
| extension.
Col. R. C. Kerens of st. Louis, mil
lionaire owner of railroads, banks,
mines and newspapers, has filed with
the secretary of state of Missouri for
NAL declaration of his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for United
States Senator.
1t was stated by President Atwater
at meeting at La Junta, Colo, Mon
day night that the proposed electric
line from Garden City, Kas., to Canon
| City, Colo, would undoubtedly go
through. 1t will connect all the cities
of the Arkansas valley.
At the closing session of the Ma
tional Travellers Association. conven-
ton at Milwaukee, a resolution was
adopted condemning the parcels post
plan, the secretary being instructed to
send copy of the resolution to every
congressman and senator throughout
the United States.
Henry Waterson, editor of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal who is chairman
of the newspaper committee of the
Democratic national campaign COM
mittee, has appointed Hon. T. M. Pat
terson of The Denver News a men,
Der of the Democratic press commit
tee of advisement.
After serving three years in the
United States army in the Philippines
and receiving an honorable discharge,
Buntaro Kamagai, Japanese, applied
for admission to citizenship under the
laws of the United States and has
been refused his papers by Judge C.
H. Hanford of the Federal Court at
Seattle.
1t is predicted by members of the
American Apple Growers Congress,
which met Tuesday at st. Louis, that
apples will this year sell at $3.50 to So
barrel on the trees, and that before
the season ends they will be selling at
81, with $40 barrel for choice ones.
1t is said the spring frosts injured the
apple crops. ssf
The Canadian labor department re-
| ports that at present no government
interference in the Canadian Pacific
strike is contemplated Under the
provisions of the Lemieux act there
can be no sympathetic strike of other
unions until a grievance has first been
stated and inquiry has been made by
a board of investigation.
The Hearst independence party is
planning to put full state ticket in the
field in Kansas by means of petition
containing the names of $500 voters.
Mr.. Waterbury is being actively aided
by E. G. Fowler, for many years secre
tary of the Populist party. The con-
verts to the new movement expect to
raise $1,000 for headquarters expenses.
In Colorado alone, according to a
table complied by The Spectator, there
are seventy-eight persons carrying
from $4,000 upward of life insurance.
OF this total, twenty carry $4,000,
sixteen from $4,000 to $75,000 eleven
from SIS 900 to 100000, eighteen from
100000 to $15O,OOO, seven from $780,
600 to 100000, five from 100000 to
100000, and one from 100000 to
| 100000.
Eight mutual fire insurance COM
panies in Wisconsin have organized
the Conservative Mutual Fire Under
writer's Association to correct the
evils of this business. They have cut
out policy fees, limited the territory
| of the agents, fixed commissions at
twenty-five per cent. and increased
the premium to sixty per cent. of the
board rate instead of fifty per cent.
except on dwellingg.
After burning six days the forest
| fires in Calavaras county, California,
was brought under control Thousands
of dollars worth of property have been
destroyed. The fumes of the Utica
mine was burned out for distance of
several hundred feet, cutting of water
supply at Angels camp and stopping
work on several mines. The fire ap-
preached close to the famous Calavaras
grove of big trees, and was only stop
ped by the heroic efforts of 600 men,
who worked with the forest rangers