The Dolores star., 1908-01-17
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Won Buelow have been renewed will
great vigor requiring the entire DO
lice force Of the city to preserve order
Copious rains in India have broke.
| a six-months' drouth which threatened
| q repetition of an acute state of fam
| inc which had prevailed In recen
years.
Fire. believed to have been Of in
cendiary origin. recently destroyed a
number Of business buildings in Al
bion. ILL.,. causing loss of 100000
The long overdue Canadian Pacific
steamer, Mount Royal, has reached
Queenstown in a disabled condition
after being out 80 days from Antwerp
In six days there was received al
Kansas City 100000 hogs for which
the packers paid $1,25O,0OO.
The state department at Washing
ton denies that there is any friction
whatever between this government
and Japan over the immigration ques.
ton.
Cooper Union, New York, was tled
to overfiowing recently to hear Sec.
retary Taft discuss the relations OF
capital and labor. The secretary was
quizzed by the audience and answered
promptly and effectively all questions
asked.
Urbin Angney. captain Of last years
football team and allround star ath-
lete of Kansas university, committed
suicide at Lawrence by jumping from
the dome of Fraser Hall at the uni
versity grounds. A note left by Ang.
| ney addressed Dear Jesus" would
indicate that he was insane.
The Supreme Court OF South Da-
kota has decided that dealing in fu-
lures is not gambling within the
meaning of the law.
Governors have been asked to desig-
nate single representative of the
national guard of each state to take
the examination for appointment as
second lieutenants in the regular
army.
w. J. Bryan was the principal
speaker at the Jackson Day banquet
of the Jefferson club of Chicago. His
subject was THE Point of View"
Liquors valued at $1,000 were re-
Gently poured into the sewers of To-
pekaN by county officers under orders
of the court.
In the federal court at st. Paul,
Judge Sanborn appointed A. B. Stick
ney and c. A. j. Smith receivers for
the Chicago Great Western railway.
The cause of the trouble was the
roads inability to pay notes maturing
this year.
Commissioner Ballinger, Of the pub
lie land office, has resigned Fred
Dennitt, assistant commissioner, has
been appointed to succeed him.
Gov. Hoch has called the Kansas
legislature to meet in special session
on January 10. The proclamation
says several matters of state import
ance create an emergency.
Walter c. Stewart, superintendent
of the st. Joseph lighting plant. has
been indicted charged with carrying
men long dead ON the city pay roll.
A monument to the officers and
sailors who lost their lives in the
disaster on board the gunboat Ben.
nington in 1905, was unveiled re-
Gently at San Diego, Cal, with fitting
ceremonies.
W. C. Edwards to succeed his father,
NJ. NJ. Murdock. as postmaster at
Wichita, Kan.
The federal grand Jury at Washing.
ton has indicted +. NJ. Vandyke, a
former chemist and ink maker in the
government printing plant, for graft
in selecting dry cuiors.
The district court of appeals, at San
Francisco, has set aside the convic-
ton Of Former Mayor Schmitz, in the
French restaurant cases, declaring
that no law was violated Notwith-
standing the fact that Abe Ruef plead
ed guilty to eytortion he will now be
freed of that charge.
The American torpedo boat destroy.
er flotilla has reached Pernambuco
Brazil, on its way to the Pacific
The democratic state convention OF
| Oklahoma, has been called to meet
| in Muskogee on February %.
Night riders recently visited Bethel
and Sherbonrne, Ky. burning TWO in.
| dependent tobacco plants and other
business property.
| The Kansas populists will meet in
state convention at Topeka on March
| 10.
Perry A. Yeast, a prominent cattle
man of Nebraska, has been convicted
in the federal court at Omaha. of con
spiracy to defraud the government in
public land entries.
| Congressional.
| Representative Miller, of Kansas
has introduced bill providing for the
enlargement of the federal building
in Emporia at cost not to exceed
$4,000.
| The senate committee on naval at
fairs has introduced new naval per
sonnel bill which is designed to great
3! ly increase the navy's efficiency and
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