The Colorado statesman., 1908-02-29

males at mechanical labor for more
than ten hours per day.
Thomas F. Baldwin has been award
ed a contract to furnish the govern
ment a dirigible balloon in $50 days
for $6,750.
The secretary of the treasury has
issued a call uDon national banks for
20 per cent of public funds held in de-
positories where such deposits amount
to 100000 or more.
The supreme court has decided ad-
versely to the Great Northern Rail-
way company holding that the Hep
burn law did not repeal Section 1 of
the Elkins act prohibiting rebates.
BY a decision of the supreme court
the Sissiton and Wahpeton bands of
Sioux Indians are entitled to recover
from the government $7SS,971 by vir-
tue of an old treaty entered into in
1851.
Sixteen persons were injured, five
of them seriously, when car on a
Denver Scenic railway left the track
and plunged to the ground below.
Fifty persons were. made i'll by eat
ing canned fruit at hotel dinner at
Solomon, Kan.
An effort to rob a passenger train
on the Missouri Pacific railroad by
removing rail near Otterville, Mo-,
resulted in wrecking freight train
and seriously injuring the train crew.
Charles B. Ullmo, an ensign in the
French navy, has been sentenced to
life Imprisonment in a fortress for
selling naval secrets to a foreign
power.
Police Commissioner Bingham of
New York states that his city is the
dumping ground for the criminals of
Europe and blames the immigration
authorities for the fact
An Italian anarchist shot and in
stantly killed Father Leo Heinrichs
while he was administering the sacra-
ment in st. Elizabeth's Catholic
church in Denver
The first tunnel for passenger traffic
under the Hudson between New York
City and Jersey City has been COM
pleted after 34 years of almost con-
st;lnt effort.
While a st. Louis woman was down
town shopping four burglars with a
moving van stole the entire house
furnishings including the stoves with
fire in them
The democratic state convention at
Hutchinson, Kan, elected John H. At
wood national committeeman. The four
delegates at large to the Denver con-
vention are w. H. L. Pepperill,
Charles H. Sawyer, ]. E. Andrews and
w. A. Harris. They are instructed to
vote solidly for William j. Bryan for
president.
The grand jury at Kansas City has
returned IL indictments against j. E.
Brady, former president of the failed
Merchants Refrigerating company.
The indictments allege embezzlement
and wrongful issue of warehouse re-
ceipts.
The Santa Fe railroad has ordered a
reduction of is per cent in the me-
chanical force all over the system.
Judge Ball at Chicago has dissolved
the temporary injunction granted to
Stuyvesant Fish by which 2S6,231
shares of the Illinois Central were
enjoined from being voted at the an
nual election. The decision is COM
plete victory for E. H. Hartman.
BY an explosion of ten tons of dy.
Mantle in powder mill near Berke.
ley, Cal, four white men and "a Chi.
namen were killed. The shock shook
the entire bay region like an earth.
quake.
The first test of the Oklahoma guar
antee bank deposit law resulted in a
victory for the state. The district
court at Guthrie holds that banks are
corporations and as such are account
able to the legislature.
Seven men were injured by the ex
plosion of a boiler in a manufacturing
plant at Lowell, Mass, recently.
Two deaths from yellow fever have
| occurred on the steamer Crispin al
Galveston, Tex.
The enumeration of school children
in Oklahoma, just completed, shows g
total of 475,S47.
Because salaries of more than $50,
600 year are paid to some of theii
| officers, the Metropolitan, Equitable
| and Prudential Life Insurance com
panies will be refused licenses to dc
! business in Missouri
One man was killed and another
badly injured by an explosion in a Goa
mine at Pittsburg, Kan, recently.
The cruiser Chicago has arrived a
! Punta Arenas on it's way from the
! Pacific to Annapolis, Nd.
| Personal.
]. II. Edmiston failed to appear il
federal court at Omaha to answer to 9