The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-04-02

George Robertson. driving a locomS
bile car broke the worlds record for
gasoline car for five miles AT Dayton.
Ohio. March 2ith. Time. A. Is.
Admiral George f Beresford. com
manier of the British channel fleet.
hauled down his flag AT Portsmouth
March Gath thus ending fifty Years OF
actual serice
In an automobile race at DAYTON,
O.. March 23d, David Bruce Brown.
the millionaire amateur driver. ran
his machine mile in :hirty-three sec
onds, breaking the worlds amateur
record of 30 80. which Was held by
him
The Pope received Hart o. Berg. ii
n;ncial agent OF the Wright brothers.
and said that when Wilbur Wright
came to Rome he hoped the daring
aviS.tor would fly directly over the
vatican so as TO give its occupants
chance to see the aeroplane.
The Panama libel cases against the
Press Publishing Company and Caleb
Van Hamm. one of the editors OF the
World. will not be dropped so long as
he is distric, attorney. is the statement
made by United States Attorney Slim
son in New York
The leaders OF the Socialist party
and the Socialist newspapers Of Paris
comment with jubilation upon the out
come OF the strike OF the French teleg
raphers and postmen. They call it a
victory over the government which
the government can never retrieve.
In race against time Sunday to
reach the bedside OF his dying mother.
Frank l.. V;uidellip. president OF
the National City bank of New York.
covered the distance from New York 10
Chicago in II hours and IS minutes
This broke all records for the trip. Mr.
Vanderlip arrived twenty five minutes
after his mother died.
A holy war is again threatened in
Morocco. Reliable news received at
Washington says that Fee and the sur
rounding country. including the town
Of MequinZ some of whose principal
supporters in Fee. haze deserted and
have joined in the revolt proclaiming
the pretenders and a holy war The
situation in Fee is critical
In support of the contention of lead
ing railroad officials that the present
rates paid by the government to the
railways for the transportation of mail
are far too low. julius kruttschnitt.
vice president OF tn" Union Pacific
and southern Pacific system. has pre-
pared a pamphlet making an eXhaus.
tive argument for an increase.
In the opinion of Dana Estes. the
Boston publisher who arrived in New
York Il few days since, after IA journey
of $1,000 miles in Europe Asia and
Africa. former President Roosevelt will
find hunting big game in East Africa
like shooting cows in back yard"
He says that the antelopos. zebras. os-
triches, etc. are so tame that they
don't even look up when Il train passes.
Dr.. Moses CleGa, bacteriologist of
the bureau of science at Manila. has
succeeded in cutivating the leprosy
bacillus. He used the organisms from
both living lepers and the bodies OF
victims of leprusy. The bureau of
science has prepared leprosy vaccine
and proposes to carry forward a series
OF cXpaI in.ents for the purpose of es-
tablishng Il specific treatment for lep-
rosy
A national campaign in behalf of the
good roads cause is likely to be an out
come of the ocean-to-ocean automobile
race from New York to Seattle, judg-
ing by the requests which have been
made to the pathfinders now mapping
out the course The offer of $3.50
made by Robert Guggenhem for the
best design for a trophy to cost $1,000.
has resulted in designs and models
being sent in from artists all over the
country and Canada.