The Colorado statesman., 1908-08-22
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FIR ON ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DolNGs, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERlNes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

The new West Nebish channel at
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, which cost
$4,OOO,O00, was opened to traffic on the
10th inst
The ninth annual reunion of the
Army of the Philippines at Galeburg,
Illinois, Friday chose Pittsburg as the
meeting place next year.
1t is reported in Chicago that Pull
mans mammoth shops are to be RACED
and built upon a remodeled scale for
the express purpose of the manufac-
ture of steel palace cars.
A decrease of $1O,5S2.7SS in revenue
over operating expenses and taxes is
shown by the annual statements of
the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cific companies, made public on the
18th inst
On the 18th inst. the Western Pas
senger association notified the Rock
Island road that their advertised rates
of one and one-half fares for Kansas
state fairs was premature and illegal.
Other Kansas roads protested strongly
against the reduction from cents.
A telegram was received at Chicago
Wednesday by District Attorney Ed
win NJ. Sims from Attorney General
Bonaparte approving the draft of the
petition for a rehearing by the United
States Court of Appeals of the govern
ment case against the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana, which case was
decided by the Appellate Court adverse
to the government.
The first contingent of seven army
officers from the Preside at San
Francisco, under Col. John A. Lundeen,
which left the Presidio Monday morn
ing, returned Wednesday, having sue
cessfully completed President Roose-
velt's ninety mile riding test. The of
ficers reported at the general hospital
and after an examination there, were
declared to be in excellent condition.
The National Wool Growers Asso-
citation has secured for the shippers of
sheep from the western states to the
Chicago markets, an important con-
cession from two railroads operating
between Omaha and Chicago, and is
In fair way to secure the same from
other lines between the two cities. The
Chicago & Great Western and the Chi
cago & Northwestern have reduced the
rate for grazing sheep en- route from
/ 1a cents per head per day to / cent
per day.
The new army portable wireless
telegraph kits, perfected last winter,
have just been given their first tests
in the Northwest at Camp David S.
Stanley, where the regular army and
the National Guards of Washington
and Oregon are holding their annual
field maneuvers. Messages were picked
up from a number of wireless stations
on Puget sound. Instead of using a
telescope pole to carry the radiating
and receiving wires in the air, two
huge king kites were sent up, to which
the wires connecting with the instru-
ments were attached.
The cruiser Colorado which went on
the rocks at Double Bluff, Puget sound,
Saturday, was more seriously damaged
than at first was supposed. An ex-
animation at the Bremerton navy yard
showed that her forward plates were
badly dented in several places and
that Ine plates were sprung. 1t will
be necessary to put the vessel in dry
dock for perhaps thirty days to make
repairs. The Colorado will be unable
to join the Pacific fleet on its cruise
to the Samoan islands, but it is expect
ed she will join 1t probably on the re-
turn trip from the Samoan islands to
Honolulu.