The Colorado statesman., 1909-10-30

president of the Union Pacific Rail-
road to succeed the late e. H. Harri-
man.
A dozen of the Detroit baseball play
ers are going to lay months visit
to Havana, playing three games
week.
The visit of the Russian emperor to
Italy is commented upon in London
as marking further loosening of the
ties binding Italy to the triple alli-
ance.
Another traffic census has been be-
gun in Massachusetts by the State
Highway Commission. According to
the preliminary figures in hand mo-
tors provide firty-five per cent. of the
total traffic in the Bay State.
A Calcutta dispatch says that the
recent earthquake in Beluchistan was
the worst that has occurred over such
wide area in many years. 1t is re-
ported that the fatalities were 126
and that 154 persons were injured.
The Japanese commercial commits
sioners made trip from Boston to
Newport to place wreath upon the
monument to Commodore Perry,
whose expedition was the occasion of
opening the ports Of Japan to the
world.
f. Flourens, ex-minister of foreign
affairs, is circulating an address
among the French Catholics. which
later will be presented to King AL
fonso, denounclng the Ferrer demon
strations in France as an insult to the
chivalry of the French people and the
Catholic religion.
At Doncaster, England, October
Goth, Leon De La Grange, the French
aviator, flying Bleriot monoplane,
broke the worlds speed record. He
travelled a mile and $50 yards in one
minute and At Is seconds. This was
at the rate of nearly fifty-four miles
an hour.
At the port of New York few days
since, 1,045 Greek immigrants were
vaccinated at the rate of two minute
All immigrants are vaccinated before
embarkation, but the Greeks have
failed to provide pure virus, hence the
work was done over by DR.. A. H. Doty,
federal health officer of the port, and
three assistants. @
A terrible cloudburst occurred in The
state of Tabasco, Mex, October 20,
destroying crops and forests. From
north to south, across the state from
the Mescalapa and the Grijalva rivers,
the entire country was left a waste.
Only the high mountain villages and
plateau farms escaped from the rush
ing waters.
A mining property covering four
square miles and valued at $7,500,0O0,
on the Island of Jamaica, will be sold
this week by Dr. John NJ Morgan of
Boston to large mining interests. The
property is one of the most phenom-
enal OF its kind, having made million
aires of it's owners in less than three
years. One-half of the property is
owned by the Boston physicians.
Some storm records were broken in
the recent Philippine typhoon which
crossed northern Luzon and the Gen
g,ret mountains. Eighteen inches of
rain fell in nine hours and twenty-six
inches fell in the twenty-four hours
the storm lasted. The Baed river
rose sixty feet. The wind gauge at
the observatory broke when the wind
attained a velocity of ninety-flve miles
an hour.
With view to stemming the tide
OF emigration which threatens to de-
plete the country of agricultural Ia
borers, a national subscription has
been started in Sweden to obtain
funds for loans to laborers left un-
employed after the recent big strike.
The loans are intended to enable the
purchase of small farms and will be
made repayable within ten years. The
fund will be administered by the Anti
Emigration Society of Sweden.
At College Park, Md, October 26th,
Wilbur Wright's two army officer stu
dents made their first independent
flights. Lieutenant Humphreys stayed
up twenty-four minutes and Lieuten-
ant Lahm thirty-nine minutes. Lieu
tenant Lahm on his final flight of the
evening, circled the field again and
again in darkness. 1t was the first
time in the United States that a
Wright aeroplane had been guided
through the air without carrying
either of the Wright brothers.
A judicial opinion which appears to
be likely to overthrow the govern
ment's entire criminal case under the
antitrust law against the American
Sugar Refining Company and it's di-
rectors, has been handed down by
Justice Holt of the United States Cir
cult Court at New York. Justice Holt
in dismissing the indictments against
Gustav E. Kissel and Thomas B. Har
ned, connected with those against the
sugar company, declares that the op-
GRAFTON of the statute of limitations
inNa lihafeS any action againSt them