The Colorado statesman., 1908-07-25
WESTERN NEWS.

NO teacher, student, nor emplOye in
fected with tuberculosis will, hereafter,
be admitted to the class rooms. or
buildings of the University of Utah.
Approximately $4,000 acres of land
have been withdrawn from disposition
under the public land laws in connec-
tion with the Rio Grande irrigation
project in New Mexico. This land
lies in townships to Il south, ranges
to 4 west.
The American Mutual Insurance AS
sociation will hold its annual meeting
at Des Moines Aug. 11th-16th. Repre-
sentatives of 1000 mutual fire, tornado
and hail companies, representing over
$1,000, 100000 of insurance at risk, will
attend.
The American Automobile Associa-
ton has decided to hold the 1909 Gid
den tour in the West, the start to be
made in Chicago and the finish to be
at Denver, with possibility of detour
to take in Colorado Springs and Pixies
Peak.
The Minneapolis, Red Lake & Mani
toba Railroad Company has served no.
tice on the Minnesota State Railroad
and Warehouse Commission that, be-
ginning August 1st, it will charge a
passenger fare of 3 cents miles, thus
ignoring the 2-cent fare law.
A movement between the North and
South by holding, to celebrate the semi
centennial of peace, in 1915 great
southern exposition in Cincinnati and
dedicating a southern peace monument
in that city, was launched at a special
meeting Of the Cincinnati Chamber of
Commerce. The proposition was given
enthusiastic approval.
General Passenger Agent Samuel G.
Hatch announces that the Illinois Cen
trail railway has decided not to allow
the sale Of liquor on any of its diners
or buffet cars south of the Ohio river.
Texas has had similar law to that
of Louisiana in force for some time"
says Mr.. Hatch, "and it's effect, l un-
derstand, has been beneficial to all con-
cerned."
The state of Iowa bids fair to become
the battle-ground in a war between the
Bell and allied telephone interests. AS
the results of the Bell company buying
up independent lines in Dubuque and
| at other points recently, company
composed of the many independent con-
Germs in the state with $20000000
capital to fight the Bell concern, has
been organized.
Nearly forty persons were injured,
some of them fatally, and eleven so Sc
| verely that they had to be taken to hos
| pitfalls, in a head-on collision Tuesday
between two Aurora, Elgin & Chicago
| Electric Railroad cars ut Loveuale sta
ton, four miles north of Aurora, I'LL
nois. The disaster occurred when the
coaches were each running at a speed
estimated at forty miles an hour.
William j. Bryan recently spent near
| ly a whole day in delivering short
| speeches into the phonograph. Pre-
viously he had made similar speeches
on the records of a competing concern.
| The intention is to give the speeches
wide distribution throughout the coun-
! try. OF his own volition Mr.. Bryan
announced that he had received $500
from each of the two concerns as COM
| pensation for his work.
The health farm of the Young Mems
Christian Association at Denver is as
sured of substantial financial assist
| tance, to come from some of the
wealthiest men of the East including
John d. Rockefeller, John H. Converse,
George Eastman and Herman W.
Sibley. This is the report made by
F. l.. Starrett, general secretary of
the Denver Y. NJ. C. A, who has recent
ly returned from trip to the East
in the interest of the farm.