The Colorado statesman., 1909-10-16
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, NGS, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Governor Curry proclaimed Friday,
October 18th, the day of President
Taft's visit to New Mexico, a legal
holiday.
In a speech at Phoenix, Ariz., Presi-
dent Taft told the people that he
would help to carry out the pledge of
the Republican party to grant state
hood to that territory.
James J. Hill, at ST. Paul, denied
that the Great Northern railway was
trying to enter Hartman territory in
California by extending the Oregon
trunk line to San Francisco. He said
he would not build into California.
Southern Pacific train in Califor-
MIA was stopped three times between
Biggs and Chico by swarms of black
crickets which covered the tracks.
The oily insects were crushed under
the wheels, rendering the rails so slip
perry that the train was brought to a
standstill.
A special cable to the Seattle Post
Intelligencer from Skagway. Alaska,
says four men and one woman were
drowned when a four-horse stage in
which they were attempting to cross
the Klenhini river near Walls, forty
miles north of Haines, upset and was
swept down stream.
On Mount RoubidouX, near Red
lands, Cal, President Taft participat-
ed in the unveiling of tablet set in
solid rock to the memory of the found
er of the California missions, Fra
Junipera Sierra. On the tablet were
the three words. Apostle-Legisla-
tor-Bu.lder."
At Alamosa on the 18th inst. Saul
Halyve, the noted Indian runner, who
won national reputation by defeating
Hatch and Forshaw in the Denver
Marathon last summer, won the ten
mile race authorized by the Rocky
Mountain association of the A. A. U.
His time was 1912.
A fashionably dressed bandit who
robber the savings bank of d. E. En-
skine & Co., in Highland Park, ILL.,,
an aristocratic village on the Lake
Shore, twenty-five miles north of Chi
cago committed suicide by shooting
when driven to bay by the Highland
Park marshal and posse of scitizens.
Forced to roll over and over
for distance of two miles
with leg and an arm brok-
en-, after he had been buried
twice at the bottom of shaft, both
times digging himself out, was the
experience OF Bert Miller, mining ex-
pert who went to inspect a shaft at
SilVar (,itV South nakO
All gatemen at the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition were discharged
Saturday night, it being alleged that
they had participated in or knew of
stealings at the turnstiles. The al
legged method of the gatemen, whose
turnstiles were unlocked by slipping a
coin into a slot, was to catch the gate
before it had registered, pull it back
take in another person and pocket the
coin.
The government of Austria and
Hungary. on account of the greatly in
creased immigration of its citizens to
the Rocky Mountain region, has estab-
lished a consulate in Denver with
power over five states and two terri
tories. George de Griyicic, consul gen
eral of the Rocky Mountain district,
has opened offices in the Jackson
block, Denver. He will have jurisdic-
tion in Colorado. Montana, Wyoming.
Idaho, Utah. New Mexico and Arizona
Navigation of the Tanana river in
Alaska was closed on the 10th inst
by the freezing of the stream. The
unexpected freeze caught number Of
steamers in the river and will holG
them prisoner until spring. when two
of them will be in a dangerous posi-
ton at the breaking up of the ice.
TWO steamers crowded with stamped
ers for the new Iditarod district are
frozen fast. thousand tons of
freight, within short distance of
Fairbanks will not be available until
next May.