The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-01-10

After IA hours deliveration a yer
dict Of not guilty was reached by thu
jury trying George A. Pettibone To-
completely in the murder of ex-Gov
Steunenberg Of Idaho.
A little girl was born on a Pullman
car on the Santa Fe railroad just a.
the train was pulling into Topeka
Kan, recently.
A large number OF the troops a
Goldfield. New, have been recalled
and have returned to their regular
station in California. Only 135 wer.
left at Goldfield.
In letter written to the secretary
Of the navy President Roosevelt Sc
verely condemns the action OF Ad
miral Brownson in resigning rathel
than appoint surgeon to the com
mand Of hospital ship when ordered
to do SO.
The revenues collected through the
postofice department during 1907
amounted to $1S3,OOO000.
Reports from Vancouver, B. c., state
that large numbers of Japanese re
serve army men have been ordered
to Toxic and that several hundred
are ready to leave for Japan.
Photographs illustrating feats Of
horsemanship by military men oi
European armies accompany recon-
mendations to congress from the
president for betterment of army
riding.
The Isthmian canal commission
has decided to construct the cana,
locks 100 feet wide which is the
width originally projected, unless i,
is shown that naval development.
make greater width desirable.
Col. Marsh NJ. Murdock, postmaster
OF Wichita, Kan, and editor of the
Eagle, died at his home in that city
recently. He was the father of Con
gresham Murdock. and for so years
has been a power in Kansas affairs
He was 70 years of age.
New York authorities estimate that
it will cost $4,000 to stamp out
tuberculosis among the cattle herds oi
the state.
Night riders recently swooped down
upon Russellville, Logan county, Ky.
burning a number of independent to
bacco concerns and other establish
ments and shooting three men who ap
peared upon the streets.
The bank clearings of the country
for the last week in 1907 shows de-
crease of 41.5 per cent as compared
with the last week in 1906.
All the government troops except
two companies have been removed
from Goldfeld, New.
During December total of 1900,
539 cubic yards of earth was exca
waited on the Panama canal
At Wharton, Ohio, three families
comprising dozen people were seri.
ously poisoned by eating cheese.
The Western Passenger association
has refused to grant special rates to
the spring and fall meetings OF mer
chants in Chicago and ST. Louis.
II. F. Storrs, beekkeeper for the
California Safe Deposit and Trust
company at San Francisco. has con
fessed to making false entries in the
banks book amounting to $1.OOO,00O
Maximilien Harden, who has beer
on trial at Berlin for lbeling Count
Won Moltke in his paper. has been
sentenced to four months imprison
ment.
In the Pettibone trial OF Boise, Ida
ho, the prosecution made the only ar
gument to the jury. the defense refus
ing to argue the evidence.
At the last cabinet meeting in 1907
1t was decided to appeal from the de-
cision of Judge Lewis of Denver by
which all the indictments against
coal land grafters in Colorado were
quashed.
An Atlantic City chair pushel
found pocketbook containing $40(
in money and jewelry valued at sew
eral thousand dollars which he re
turned to the woman who lost it. His
honesty was rewarded by the gift Of
two nickels and two pennies.
The price of lumber at Minneapo
lis. Mimi, is down from 81 to SO a
thousand feet
M. De Tross, the Belgian premier
and minister of the interior, Is criti
cally i'll at Brussels.
Citizens of Franklin, Pa, have
brought suit for damages against the
company which supplies water to the
city charging that recent typhoid
epidemic was caused by the impure
water supplied.
The annual tournament of roses
was held at Pasadena, Cal, on New
Years day. Seventy thousand per
sons witnessed the beautiful floral pa
rade in which Miss May Sutton, the
international tennis champion, was
the queen.
Three members of the city fire de
partment Of Vancouver, B. c., were
attacked and badly wounded by q
crowd of Japanese armed with knives
The firemen had accidentally broken
the glass in front of Japanese
store