The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-31

ooWn tne mississippi river from St
Louis to New Orleans, Mark Twain.
humorist. will act as pilot on the boat
carrying the country's chief executive.
Crete has been evacuated by the
four protecting powers-Great Britain,
France. Russia and Italy-whose
troops left Sunday and Monday. There
is great rejoicing among the inhabl.
tants
The United States Circuit Court OF
Appeals, in a decision handed down
at San Francisco. has sustained the
constitutionality Of the federal enact
ments providing that cattle or sheep
in transit by rail must be watered and
fed every twenty-eight hours.
Louis Bleriot. the French aviator,
accomplished the remarkable feat of
flying across the English Channel
Sunday morning. July 25th, in twenty
three minutes. The distance from his
starting point, near Calais, to Dover,
Is about twenty-one miles, and he
therefore travelled at the rate of
nearly mile minute.
The British immigration to Canada
during the last year was 52,SO1, as
compared with 12O.1S2 in the fiscal
year previous. The continental immi-
grafton for the same period was 34,175,
as compared with S3,975. Immigrants
from the United States numbered So.
S32, being 500 more than came in dur
ing the preceding year.
Swift retribution overlook two reck-
less automobilists at Yonkers, N. Y,
who ran down and killed James Sim,
a motorman. The men in the car kept
on at unabated speed. Then within
sight OF the group that gathered about
their victim, their machine skidded
into tree. overturned and was de-
out and disappeared.
The prosecutors of Harry Thaw are
criticised and insanity experts scored
in 20-page booklet which Mrs. Mary
Copley Thaw, mother of Thaw, has
just issued. 1t bears the title, The Se-
cret Unveiled" and alleges the exist
ence of a 'cowardly combination"
against Thaw and the taking of unusu-
ally oppressive measures in his case.
His entire sanity at present is strong
ly asserted.
Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor cambridge,
aged 85, third daughter of President
Zachary Taylor, died at Winchester,
Va. July 25th. Her first husband was
Maj. William s. Bliss, who became her
fathers private secretary She did the
honors of the White House during her
fathers short incumbency. Her sis
ter, Sarah Knox Taylor, was the first
wife of jefferson Davis, president OF
the Confederacy.
At Vichy, France. on the 21st inst,
Paul Tissandier made an aeroplane
flight OF fifty-six minutes.
A company has been formed at Ber-
lin for the purpose OF erecting a great
airship garage. with landing and test
ing grounds. AS the company is inter-
ested in dirigible balloons, it designs
to lease about 1,GOO acres near Berlin
where 1t will erect great sheds and re
pair shops and benzine and hydrogen
reservoirs.
John 8. Wise, Jr.. of New York. who
is now in Paris, says that former
President Roosevelt, Just prior to his
departure from New York on his Al
frican hunting expedition. promised
him and other Republicans in New
York that he would return in time for
the mayoralty campaign. Mr.. Wise
says he has not given up the hope that
Mr.. Roosevelt will head the mayoralty
ticket in New York this autumn.
A cantilever bridge 1850 feet in
length and costing $3.OOO,OOO is being
built across the Copper River in
Alaska. 1t will be completed within
eighteen months. The bridge crosses
the river between two large glaciers.
the Miles and Childs, the latter having
frontage on the river varying from
800 to 700 feet. Huge masseS of ice
weighing hundreds of tons break away
from the face and plunge into the
river with report like the roar of a
cannon.