The Colorado statesman., 1909-09-18
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Dora Wilson was appointed post
master at Higbee, Colorado, vice F.
Warren.
Elinor L. Church and Ruth D. Haw-
thorne of Denver, were appointed stem
ographers in the general land office.
The Senate finance committee at
Washington has maintained in the tar
iff bill the rates on collars and cuffs
provided in the present law.
/ Secretary Ballinger emphatically de-
MES that he intends to resign. Ball
niger is confined to his room ON ac-
count of throat trouble.
Shipbuilders in this country will
hereafter be allowed to build their
ships from foreign materials imported
free. This will enable our shipyards
to enter into competition with the
world in making battleships and 9TH
er vessels.
The fee for registration of mail will
be increased from 8 to 10 cents after
November /, 1909, according to an or
der signed by Postmaster General
Hitchcock. The maximum indemnity
allowed for loss of registered articles
has also been increased from s25 to
$50 by the order
Additional appointments of census
supervisors by President Taft were an
nounced by Census Director Durand.
Herbert j. Baird, lawyer, has been
selected as supervisor for the Second
Colorado district. He has had previous
experience in census work. The Third
Colorado district will be under the di
rection of Charles F. Hamlin of Sa-
/ Ida, Colorado, registrar of the United
States land office at his home.
+ According to Judge S. H. Cowan of
Fort Worth, Texas, attorney for the
National Live Stock Association and
the Texas Cattle Raisers' Association,
the country is confronted with unheard
of prices for beef this winter. Judge
| Cowan says the cost of living will
show continued increase next winter
and points out that the cattle market
is now short million head of cattle.
THE price of beef" said he, will in
crease the coming winter to point
now unheard of, for the demand is
much greater than the supply"
So widespread has interest in the
| oSi idhSc PCildSi pcNolhc
among medical authorities, that Sur
geon General WXman of the public
health and marine hospital service has
decided to issue weekly bulletin deal
ing exclusively to developments of the
disease While declining to go on rec
ord that pellagra is not communicable,
| Surgeon General Wyman declared thai
he had observed nothing in the disease
to show that it is a contagious one.
The opinion among the medical au-
! thorities in Italy, where the disease
| has existed for a long time, DR.. Wy
man stated. is that it is non-contagi-
Gus.
| A story of an Illinois boy going
| West, becoming a cowboy and making
a single-handed hold-up of a stage
coach with six passengers, figures in
pardon granted by President Taft in
the case of l.. A. Potter Potter lived
at Salem, ILL.,, and was convicted of
holding up the stage. in Texas, he was
sentenced, May 20, 1885. He has
served almost twenty-four years. part
ly at Chester, ILL.,, and latterly at the
Leavenworth, Kan, penitentiary. ]. w.
White, president of the German Ma
tional bank of Mason, Tex, and wife,
who were passengers. urged the par
don on the ground that the sentence
was excessive, that no one was hurt,
that the prisoner had been sufficiently
punished, and that he took only 50 and
a watch from the passengers. Potter
is fifty years old and broken in health
He will be released Immediately.
Consul ]. e. Haven of Roubaix,
France, in report to the State De-
partment, tells of the International
Harvester Company of Chicago pur-
chasing twenty-five acres in the sub
urbs of Roubaix and of their begin
ming the construction of factories
there to produce general agricultural
implements for consumption in French
| territory. The consul also says that
another factory is being erected at
Neuss, Germany, and that the cost and
working capital of the two plants will
! reach nearly $6,0000 900.