The Colorado statesman., 1909-10-23


criminologist and alienist. died at Tu-
rim on the 10Th inst. He was born
at Venice in November, 1886.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has rem
dered decision upholding the valid
ity of the state automobile law, which
requires license for motor vehicles.
That the cultivation of vacant lots
in cities has gone a long way toward
a solution of the problem of caring for
the city's poor, was the opinion of
many of the delegates to the first ma
tional conference at Buffalo on vacant
lot and school gardening.
Capt. Schoubye of the Danish Gov
ernment's Arctic yacht, the Godtab.
who was the first white man to meet
DR.. Cook returning from his polar ex-
pedition, and who talked with Cooks
two Esquimaux. says he has no doubt
that DR.. Cook reached the pole.
An investigation of the killing of e.
X. Judson, a patient of the Jackson,
La, insane asylum, whose burned
body was found near Wakefield, re-
suited in the holding of DIR. E. C. Nc
Rowan, a prominent physician, for the
murder. No motive was assigned. ]
A disorderly mob of several thou
sand, including a majority of the uni
versity students and many Spaniards,
made demonstration at Havana Sun
day in memory of Francisco Ferrer.
They marched in procession through
the principal streets, carrying red
flags and cheering for anarchy.
The New York Tribune founded by
Horace Greeley in 1S41, announces
that two radical changes have been
made-the price has been cut from 5
cents to l cent, while the familiar six
column makeup has been changed to
seven columns. The changes created
wide comment throughout the city.
The Herald now remains the only g.
cent morning paper in New York.
Colonel Roosevelt, accompanied by
r. j. Cunningham, the hunter and
guide, arrived at Naivashi on the goth
inst. With the exception of Colonel
Roosevelt, the members of the eXpedi-
tion have at one time or another ex-
perienced slight attacks of fever as
the result of frequent changes of tenn
perature. All are now in good
health.
DR.. Cachet, French deputy, has
given notice that he will demand
credit upon the reopening of parlia-
ment for the creation of aeroplane
stations at Paris, Bordeaux, Mar
seilles, Belfort, Nantes, Cherbourg,
Havre, Dunkerque, Lille and Sedan,
each station to consist of landing and
starting stages, garage and repair
shop. The Touring Club de France is
supporting the proposal.
Another effort to collect the mil
lions of Sir Francis Drake, admiral
and explorer, whose estate is esti-
mated now to amount to $125,000,000,
has been begun by the Drake Associa-
ton of America, the members of which
claim descent from the conqueror of
the Spanish Armada. To prosecute
the claims, Mrs. Eleanor Dunn of
Plainfield, N. j., president of the as
sociation, has gone to England.
The total death list of the destruct-
i've windstorm of the 14th inst. has
pSth lhSl edStu Wy lhc bciiLSu lepOi %
to &c, IL more dead being discovered.
The storm swept Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia with fury seldom if
ever equalled in that section of the
country. If rumors of deaths at va
rious outlying points are to be be-
lieved, 6S people were killed by the
storm.
Wilbur and Orville Wright, the
aeronauts, through counsel, have
applied in the United States
court in New York for an in
junction to restrain Ralph Saulnier
from making flights in the French fly
ing machine which he brought to this
country few weeks ago. Saulnier's
machine is a duplicate of the one on
which Bleriot crossed the English
channel and the Wrights contend it is
an infringement of their patents.