The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-03-05

the constituttonality OF the oregon
law forbidding the employment of fe-
males at mechanical labor for more
than ten hours per day.
Thomas F. Baldwin has been award
ed a contract to furnish the govern
ment a dirigible balloon in $50 days
for $3.50.
The secretary of the treasury has
issued a call upon national banks for
% per cent of public funds held in de-
to 100000 or more.
The supreme court has decided ad-
versely to the Great Northern Rail
way company holding that the Hep
burn law did not repeal Section 1 of
the Elkins act prohibiting rebates.
BY a decision of the supreme court
the Sissiton and Wahpeton bands of
Sioux Indians are entitled to recover
from the government $78S,971 by vir-
tue of an old treaty entered into in
1851.
Sixteen persons were injured, five
of them seriously. when car on a
Denver Scenic railway left the track
and plunged to the ground below.
ing canned fruit at hotel dinner at
Solomon, Kan.
An effort to rob a passenger train
on the Missouri Pacific railroad by
removing a rail near Otterville, Mo,
resulted in wrecking a freight train
and seriously injuring the train crew.
Charles b. Ullmo, an ensign in the
French navy, has been sentenced to
life Imprisonment in fortress for
selling naval secrets to a foreign
power.
Police Commissioner Bingham OF
New York states that his city is the
dumping ground for the criminals of
Europe and blames the immigration
authorities for the fact.
An Italian anarchist shot and in
stantly killed Father Leo Heinrichs
while he was administering the sacra-
ment in st. Elizabeth's Catholic
church in Denver.
The first tunnel for passenger traffic
under the Hudson between New York
City and Jersey City has been com
pleted after S4 years of almost con
stunt effort.
While a st. Louis woman was down
town shopping four burglars with
moving van stole the entire house
furnishings including the stoves with
fire in them.
The democratic state convention at
Hutchinson. Kan, elected John ii. At
wood national committeeman. The four
delegates at large to the Denver con
vention are w. II. L. Pepperill.
Charles II. Sawyer. J. +. Andrews and
w. A. Harris. They are instructed to
vote solidly for William J. Bryan for
president.
The grand jury at Kansas City has
returned IL indictments against ]. L.
Brady, former president OF the failed
Merchants Refrigerating company.
The Indictments allege embezzlement
and wrongful issue of warehouse re-
ceipts.
The Santa Fe railroad has ordered
reduction OF is per cent in the me
chanical force all over the system.
Judge Ball at Chicago has dissolved
the temporary Injunction granted to
Stuyvesant Fish by which 2S6.23l
shares OF the Illinois Central were
enjoined from being voted ut the an
nual election. The decision is com
plete victory for +. II. Hartman.
BY an explosion of ten tons OF dy-
Mantle in a powder mill near Berke-
ley. Cal. four white men and "a Chi
namen were killed. The shock shook
the entire bay region like an earth
quake.
The first test of the Oklahoma guar
antee bank deposit law resulted in
victory for the state. The district
court at Guthrie holds that banks are
corporations and as such are account
able to the legislature.
Seven men were injured by the ex-
plosion OF boiler in a manufacturing
plant at Lowell. Mass, recently.
Two deaths from yellow fever have
occurred on the steamer Crispin at
| Galveston. Tex.
The enumeration of school children
in Oklahoma. just completed. shows a
| total of i75,S47.
4, Because salaries of more than sS0-
900 a year are paid to some of their
officers. the Metropolitan. Equitable
and Prudential Life Insurance COM
panies will be refused licenses to do
! business in Missouri.
One man was killed and another
badly injured by an explosion in coal
mine at Pittsburg. Kan. recently.
The cruiser Chicago has arrived at
! Puntl Arenas on its way from the
! Pacific to Annapolis, Md.
Personal.
J. II. Edmiston failed to appear in
| federal court at Omaha to answer to a