The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-01-22

President Roosevelt has presented
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy with
several samples of the new SO and
500 American gold coins. The king
has one OF the finest collections OF
coins in the world.
Eight switchmen have been arrested
at Peoria. ILL.,, charged with robbing
freight cars of the Peoria & Pekin
railroad.
In the United States circuit court at
New York. Judge .Hough has directed
E. II. Hartman and Otto Kahn to an.
swer the, questions propounded to
them by the Interstate commerce com.
mission.
The Kansas legislature is in special
session at Topeka. The principal
recommendations of Gov. Hoch are for
a primary law. bank depositors' guar
antee law, railroad legislation and
strengthening ths prohibition law.
Further reports from the Boyer
town theater disaster place the death
list at 10. The bodies of 167 victims
were recovered, mostly women and
girls. Nearly every house in the town
of $500 inhabitants. had crepe on the
door.
Two girls were killed and seven 9th.
ers seriously injured in a fire in an
underwear factory at Scranton, Pa,
recently.
The Nevada legislature has assem-.
,bled at Carson to find some means OF
settling the trouble between the min.
ers and the mine owners.
CarI NJ C.Iarpaptc bai NJ tba
democratic state central committee OF
the state of Washington, has been ar
rested at Des. Moines, Iowa. on a
charge of assault with intent to kill.
The supreme court of the United
States has rendered a decision in a
case that has been before the courts
| for 20 years in which it holds that
an employe of the general land of
/ fee may not acquire title to public
lands.
An epidemic of smallpox is preva
lent in Minnesota.
The state democratic convention oil
Kansas will meet at Hutchinson on
February 81 to elect delegates to the
national convention.
On the first ballot for United States
StHhtol III tHV iNthtuthy
ex-Gov. Beckham lacked three votes
of having enough to elect. The vote
was Beckham &C, Bradley Ga, scatter
ing G.
II. II. Tucker, Jr., secretary of the
Uncle Sam Oil company, has again
been indicted by the federal grand
jury at Kansas City for misuse of the
mails.
A cyclone is reported to have devas
tated Macao. seaport and depen
dency of the Portuguese in China.
President Roosevelt has officially
stated that the Cuban government will
be turned over to the newly elected
officials not later than February 1,
1909.
The lower house of the Oklahoma
legislature has passed a dispensary
law.
A crisis in the Japanese cabinet was
recently averted by the acceptance
by the emperor of the designations OF
the two discordant members who have
been causing all tho trouble.
The city health department of Chi
cago reports $4,000 persons with in.
fuenza and kindred diseases.
The unemployed men of St. Louis,
to the number of 500, marched through
the streets to the city hall recently
and asked the assistance of Mayor
Wells in securing work.
Work on the federal buildings at
Pittsburg and lola, Kan, is to be start
ed on May 1.
Farmers about Petersburg, Ind, are
hunting a large Bengal tiger which has
been roaming in that vicinity and
killing live stock.
The trial of Samuel Whitlow,
charged with the murder of May Sapp
at Moran. Kan, has been postponed to
the May term of court.