The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-04-09


| Friends OF the commission plan of
city government recently adopted at
Des Moines, Ia. were defeated at the
city election.
| At conference OF the general so
| lIcitors OF all the Missouri railroads,
| held at st. Louis, 1t was decided to
renew the fight on the two-cent far.
law in Missouri.
The Indiana railroad commission ai
ter an investigation lasting several
months has ordered express rates re-
duced on an average of between 10
and ~ per cent.
1t is estimated by an officer of the
feet that $40 tons OF ammunition will
be shot away during the target prac-
tice at Magdalena bay and that the
cost for the first eight ships will be
$4,000 and slightly less for the third
and fourth divisions.
The government will not prosecute
railroads for failure to comply with
the commodity clause" of the railroad
rate law pending decision of the SUI
preme court.
The American car in the New York
to-Paris race will not make the trip
through Alaska but will be shipped
from Seattle to Vladivostok and take
the southern Siberian route.
Five hundred and flfty-one Mis-
sourians and 1876 Kansans are taking
the famous world cruise with the bat.
tleship fleet
The suit of Attorney General Jack
rS
trust has been compromised, the mil
iers conceding everything the state
asked for.
A jury has found r. ]. Greene Of
Lincoln, Neb guilty of extorting
money from saloon keepers by filing
remonstrances with the excise board
and exacting cash payments for the
withdrawal of the suits.
The circuit court at Joplin. Mo-. has
decided that the city council of Car
thage may not reduce telephone
charges as contemplated in an ordi-
nance recently adopted.
The postoffice department has Is
sued fraud order against III. II.
Tucker. Jr., former secretary of the
Uncle Sam OIL company Of Kansas.
The circuit court at Toledo, o.. has
affirmed the decision of the lower court
by which 20 prominent lumbermen of
Toledo must serve six months in the
| county Jail for violation Of the anti
trust law.
AS result of heavy rains part OF
the dam of the Commonwealth Power
company at Kalamazoo, Mich. went
out infiicting heavy damage to the
structure which cost $250,O0O.
Former Adjutant General Buckley
Wells OF Colorado. who took leading
part in the suppression of labor trou-
bles in that state in 1904 and 1905, and
| who now is general manager OF the
Smuggler Union mine at Pandora, mar
rowly escaped death by the explosion
of a bomb placed under his bed at his
home. He was blown into the yard.
the bed was demolished and blown to
fragments and one side of the house
was blown out. Mr. Wells escaped
without serious injury.
| Chilapa, Mexico. city of $4,000 in
habitants. was recently visited by
violent earthquake which destroyed
many of the principal buildings. Fire
| following the shock completed the
work of destruction. There was little
If any loss of life.
| Damages in the sum of $4,000 has
been awarded Il. l.. Phillip. president
of the Union Refrigerator Transit
company of Milwaukee. against the
| Mcclure publishing company for libel.
The suit was tried in New York.
The North Dakota Democratic state
convention adopted resolutions indoors
ing William j. Bryan and instructing
their delegates to the national conven-
| ton to vote for his nomination.
| The Illinois Republican state conven-
ton was solid for Speaker Cannon for
president. Senators Cullom and Hop
kins. Gov. Deneen and Postmaster
Busse of Chicago We're named as dele
gates at large to the national con-
| velton
The Leland hotel at Springfield, H..
one of the best known hotels in the
country. was practically destroyed by
fire recently. There was no loss of
life, but most of the delegates to the
state Republican convention lost all
their baggage.
| Tennessee Republicans in state con-
vention at Nashville engaged in
rough and tumble fight. two factions
attempting to organize the convention.
Two conventions were finally held,
both electing delegates at large TO the
national convention.
| Several dozen women, members of
the First Methodist church OF Chilli
Gothic, Mo, have pledged to the church
to pay off a debt, the money they ex-
pected to spend for new hat this
spring.
Personal.
Editor \. II. Sniff charged with the
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