The Colorado statesman., 1908-12-19
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

The twelfth annual convention of the
American National Live Stock Associa-
tion will be held at Los Angeles Jan
uary 26th, 9th and 2Sth
Frank j. Murphy, one of the attor-
neys for Abraham Reuf, charged with
completely in the alleged attempt to
bribe John NJ. Kelly, venireman
drawn upon the jury panel in Reufs
recent trial at San Francisco, has been
acquitted. 81
Bishop Henry w. Warren of Denver,
who is seventy-eight years of age, has
been selected to preside over the Meth
odist conference in the island of Porto
Rico, and will leave University Park
next month in time to arrive at San
Juan February 4th.
Hartman interests have placed Or
ders for general freight equipment val
ued at S1,250,000 for the Oregon Rail
way and Navigation Company. The new
order consists of 1000 50-ton box cars
and the deliveries will begin some time
in January.
By the death of John L. Nolan,
grandsire of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, Monday night at Nash
vile, Tenn, w. l.. Kuykendall of Sara
toga, Wyo., becomes head of the Or
der. Mr.. Kuykendall is the father of
John NJ. Kuykendall of Denver.
That the Teller Indian school near
Grand Junction, Colorado, will be
abandoned and the 100000 property
donated by the government to the
faf- H. ~..1
is the statement made by Senator Tel
Ter in a telegram received at Grand
Junction.
A self-styled Divine Healer Schlat-
ter" has been driven out of Macomb,
ILL.,, by a mob for declaring that Pres-
dent Mckinley was an anarchist, that
he had turned more people loose to
world, and that the assassination of
Mckinley was all right excepting that
it did not happen soon enough.
The executive committee of the
Grand Army of the Republic has cau-
firmed the selection of Salt Lake City
as the place of meeting of the national
encampment next summer. One ad-
vantage of this selection is the fact
that those in attendance can make it
part of trip to the Alaska-Y ukon- Pa
cific Exposition at Seattle.
A surplus of $1,000000 over all
charges was earned by the Colorado &
Southern railway in the four months
from July 1st to November 1st and
this is enough to meet preferred div
idends for the entire year and leave
a nice margin for the common stock
dividend This is an increase of $780,
900 as compared with the correspond
ing period of 1907.
In assignments of troops returning
from the Philippines during the year
1909, Colorado and Wyoming both
draw colored commands. The Twen-
ty-fifth infantry, colored, which will
leave the Philippines in September,
will be stationed at Fort Logan. Colo,
and Whipple barracks, AriZ. The Ninth
cavalry, colored, will leave Manila in
May and be sent to Fort Russell
Emma Goldman was railroaded out
of Bellingham, WASH on the 18th inst.
She had prepared to defend herself
against the charge of melting an un-
lawful assembly, but when she learned
that if the charge failed she would be
charged with being insane and her ut
| terances used against her before a
judge in the Superior Court she agreed
to leave the city on the first train.