The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1909-03-25

Charles H. Treat. treasurer of the
United States, favors a direct proper
| tional tax on incomes. He also favors
an inheritance taA.
The county commissioners OF Mesa
county have awarded the contract for
the building of bridge across the
Grand river at Vineland to the M. ].
Patterson Contracting Company Of
Denver. 1t will cost nearly 100000.
Near Guayaquil. Ecuador, February
oath, a passenger train was thrown
over cliff 100 feet high at a point
near Rio Banda and crashed to the
bottom Of the ravine. twenty-five
persons were killed and forty injured.
James A. Leroy, secretary for Presi-
dent-elect Taft while governor of the
Philippines, and American consul at
Durango, Mexico, from August, 1903,
to March, 1907, died February 2Sth at
the military hospital at Fort Bayaud,
N. NJ.
Jules Cambon. French ambassador
to Germany. has conferred upon Herr
Won Schoan, the German foreign min
ister the grand cross of the Legion of
Honor as an indication of Frances sat
isfaction over the Franco-German
agreement on Morocco.
The status of a Chinese woman who
has been legally admitted to the
United States is not changed by
separation between her and her hus-
band, according to ruling made by
United States Commissioner Hayes in
Boston case.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, command
ing the Department of the East, has
issued general order to the officers
In the department, commanding them
to impress upon the enlisted men the
deadly effects that follow the drinking
Of wood or denatured alcohol.
At Pau, France, on the 25th ult.,
Orville Wright made his first ascen-
sion since the accident at Fort Meyer,
in which he was severely injured. Ac-
companied by his sister, he was pas
senger in the balloon Icarus, which
was piloted by Marquis de Kergariou.
A ruling of Judge Anderson in the
Standard Oil rebate case in Chicago
is interpreted as cutting down the pos
sible fine from $29,24O.O0O to 1920 900.
1t makes each of the thirty-six settle
ments a separate offense instead OF
each Of the 1,462 car lots.
Judge Gary of the United States
Steel Corporation has again issued a
denial Of the persistent rumors that
a cut in the wages of the corporations
100000 employees on or about April list
had cd nci
ton has not even been considered, he
daclared
About one-fourth OF the men who
have entered Yale University failed to
graduate. This is shown by the rec
ords for non-graduate catalogue
which has been in preparation for sew
eral years and which is to soon be pub
lished. The catalogue will contain
about $500 names with the residence
and occupation of non-graduates,
The English suffragettas, who Gre
atad disturbance while trying to
reach Premier Asquith with petit
ton, have been sentenced to imprs-
onment, most of the terms being for
one month. Sentences were imposed
on twenty-eight women. many OF
them prominent society leaders. They
went proudly and cheerfully to Jail
At Piaua. o. March LIST, DR.. G. C.
Throckmorton, aged siXty-five, beat
the military ride of President Roose-
welt Of ninety-siX miles, military gait,
by riding three horses in relays 100
miles in thirteen hours and forty-five
minutes. The result was telegraphed
to President Roosevelt who had mani
tested interest in the effort to break
his record.