The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-02-12

| In the Pennsylvania capitol graft
trials the names of ex-Gov. Penny
hacker and former Attorney General
Carson were brought into the case
in some sensational testimony given
| by Stanford b. Lewis, assistant to
Architect Huston.
A young man who formerly worked
in the Kansas City street department
and in other occupations throughout
the west has fallen heir to an English
title and valuable estates by the
death of his father. Sir Gentle Cave
Browne-Cave.
Warrensburg. Mo-, voted dry re-
Gently by a majority OF 143 votes.
Ten men are dead as the result OF
an explosion in a coal mine at Port
Hood. Nova Scotia.
Charles w. Morse. the multi-mil-
lionaire who disappeared from New
York recently. has arrived at Liver
pool on the liner Campania.
Gov. Hoch has refused to accept the
bond of State Dairy Commissioner
Wilson. given by the United States
Fidelity and Guaranty company,
which is fighting a suit by the state
relating to the First National bank
bond of s25o.0oo.
The act of congress of June 1. 1898.
prohibiting railroad companies from
discriminating against members of
labor organizations in the matter of
employment has been declared uncon-
stitutional by the United States SUI
preme court
The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany has been fined 800 at Helena.
Mont. for violating the 16-hour law
by compelling crew to work IS con
secutive hours. The case will be ap-
pealed to test the law
The Santa Fe has annulled ten Of
its principal local passenger trains in
Kansas. Decrease in the roads earn
ings is given as the cause.
John Mitchell. president of the
United Mine Works. declares there is
little possibility OF labor organizations
entering the political field in the COM
ing campaign.
The British foreign once ofacially
denies that a squadron of war vessels
is to be sent to the Pacific
A receiver has been asked for the
National Hollow Brake Beam com
pany OF Chicago.
The president has nominated
George L Grigsby to be United States
attorney for the district OF Alaska
The Hobo" congress at St Louis
has adopted resolutions demanding
insurance for citizens against enforced
idleness or Involuntary unemploy-
ment"
Kansas prison twine will be sold this
year for "a cents pound in orders
for 5000 pounds or over.
Opposition has developed in Penn
sylvania to placing a statue of the late
Senator NJ. S. Quay in the rotunda OF
the new state capitol at Harrisburg
The coolest weather in five years
vas recently experienced in eastern
Pennsylvania and New York
The national convention OF the 50
cialist party will be held in Chicago
on May 10.
tier says that Portuguese republic
has been proclaimed At Opor-o and
that a provisional government has
been established in that city
The Indiana republicans have Sc
lected their district delegates 10 the
national convention The delegation
will be unit for Vice President Fair
banks
The First National bank OF Brook
lyn, which suspended several months
ago, has resumed business
Tulsa. Ok. has adopted the com
mission form Of municipal govern
ment-
The cruiser South Dakota built at
the Union Iron works in California has
been placed in commission
Coal operators in the Oklahoma field
have so far refused to grant an in
crease in wages to miners and unless
such action is taken before April 1 a
strike of 10000 will result
Harry x Thaw has instructed his
counsel that they must take some &C
ton at once looking to his release
from Marteawan asylum