The Colorado statesman., 1908-08-22

On the 14th inst Miss Annie S.
Peck of Providence, r. l., signaled to
Lima. Peru. her arrival at an altitude
of $4,000 feet on Mount Huascaran, the
summit of which is covered with per-
petual snow. She was accompanied by
two trained Alpine climbers.
The Wright aeroplane made a sue
cessful flight at Lemans, France,
Thursday, making seven complete
tours of the field and remaining in the
air about nine minutes. Unfortunately
it was somewhat injured in landing, so
as to require several days for repairs.
Boston and eastern Massachusetts,
is undergoing a crime wave" Half
dozen murder mysteries are still un-
solved by the police. The undeniable
wave of crime is credited to the fact
that many foreigners are out of work
and are attempting to adopt the meth
DDS of European banditti.
An American car has been the first
to cross the famous st. Gothard pass,
in Switzerland, the feat being accom-
plished by Percy ]. Walker, a well
known amateur motorist of San Fran
cisco. There is lots of snow," he
wrote of the trip, "but our car ate the
mountains up"
The new era of freedom in Turkey
brought about by the PRONUNCIATION of
constitution by the Sultan is produc-
ing symptoms of agitation among the
working classes. Strikes for increased
pay have already broken out among
the dock laborers, tramway men and
employees of the tobacco factories.
The British Motor Club has decided
IN
Wright, the aeroplanist of Dayton,
Ohio, who is now making a series of
trial flights in Lemans, France, bring
his aeroplane over to England and
demonstrate its capacities in the
Brooklands racing track in Wrey-
bridge.
The fifth session of the Pan-Amer-
lean Medical congress was held at
Guatemala City, Guatemala, August
9th to 18th. President Cabrera, in an
address to the delegates called the
work of the congress a scientific tri
umph for the republics of the Ameri-
can continent The next congress will
be held in Lima, Peru, in August, 1911.
At Bayside, Long Island, Saturday,
Capt. Peter Conover Haines, Jr., United
States army, retired, fired seven bull
let's from a revolver into William e.
Annis of New York, owner and pub
Usher of Burr McIntosh's monthly and
other magazines, who had been ac-
cused of being improperly attentive
to the captains wife. Annis died a
few minutes later.
The Methodist Church, which has
over 100000 communicates, has Gre
ated the temperance society of the
Methodist Episcopal church, with au-
thority to represent the denomination
| in all temperance matters. This So
ciety is managed by board composed
of a bishop and fifteen members
named by the bishop and elected by
the late general conference.
The Modern Woodmen of America
having lost heavily by its plan of ap-
portioning its funds among various
banks, several of which made disas-
trous failures, has ordered that here
after all the surplus benefit funds shall
be invested in first-class bonds. This
is expected to furnish increased security
and secure a higher rate of interest.
The available funds now average about
| $4,000, 900.
The four hundredth anniversary of
the conquest of the Island of Porto
Rico by Ponce de Leon was celebrated
at San Juan on the 18th and 14th inst
The remains of Ponce de Leon were
carried through the streets of the city
at the head of spectacular procession
| from the Church of San Jose to the
cathedral, where they were deposited
in a crypt constructed with money
subscribed by the Spanish residents
of the island