The Colorado statesman., 1908-10-03
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WESTERN NEWS.


Heavy rains have extinguished the
forest fires in northern Michigan and
Wisconsin.
Pleased with the results given by
motor police patrol, Los Angeles has
ordered another, which will be the larg-
est in service in the United States.
Minnesota motorists are facing
hard fight in the Legislature for the re-
vision of automobile laws, there being
a general demand for the re-establish-
ment of the system of state registra-
ton abandoned two years ago.
Operating officials of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad deny the report that
inefficient motive power on their road
has caused congestion of wheat along
the western end of the line. In fact,
200 cars a day are now being handled
in excess of those moved last year
The surveyors general of Utah Col
orado, Nevada, Oregon, Washington,
Montana and Wyoming have been in
vited by D. A. Utter, surveyor general
of Idaho, to meet at Boise at date to
be fixed later, to consider the adoption
of a uniform system of conducting
their work.
The Mallory line of steamships from
Galveston to New York, which con-
meets with tie schedule of time of the
Colorado & Southern trains from Den
ver has put into commission another
palatia steamer the Brazos, which
will make the initial trip from the
gulf port on October 14th.
Representative Knisely, in the Indi-
ana Legislature, having charged Gov
ernor Hanly with making him an offer
of a $4,000 position if he would sup
port the county local option bill, the
governor Immediately read message
to the Legislature demanding that a
committee be appointed to investigate
the charge.
The committee appointed by the low
er house of the Indiana Legislature,
which has been investigating charges
made against Governor Hanly by Rep
resentative Knisely, that the governor
had tried to influence his vote in favor
of the county option bill by offering
him a position, reported to the house,
completely exonerating the governor.
William Randolph Hearst and
Thomas L. Hisgen, candidate for Pres
dent on the independence party ticket,
drew an immense audience at the Den
yer auditorium on the 30th ut., but
there was little in the demonstration to
indicate sympathy with the new party.
An uncomplimentary allusion to the
lot -
Buchanan, who was the first speaker,
awakened storm of disapproyal.
The American Party, the anti-church
organization in Utah, has made the
following nominations: Governor,
John A Street, Salt Lake; secretary of
state, E. A. Littlefield, Ogden; attor-
ney general, j. Walcott Thompson,
Salt Lake; treasurer, Henry WEIGH,
Park City; auditor, George w. Park,
Salt Lake; justice of the Supreme
Court, Ogden Hiles, Salt Lake; super
intendent of public instruction, George
ID. Sweazey, Salt Lake; congressman,
C. /. Douglass, Salt Lake.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
declared as unconstitutional the Wis
consin eight-hour railroad telegraphers'
law which was enacted in 1907, The
law is declared unconstitutional on the
theory that it is in conflict with the
provisions of the federal constitution,
which clothes congress with the power
to regulate interstate commerce, and
further on the theory that congress,
having already provided a law fixing
the hours of railway telegraphers, 1t
was not within the power of the state
to enact a law which would in affect
change these hours of labor.