The Colorado statesman., 1909-01-23
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.


The Oklahoma City Automobile AS
sociation has pledged $4,000 for the
construction of twenty-five-mile
speedway around the city.
The National Wool Growers Asso-
citation at Pocatello selected Ogden as
its next place of meeting and reelected
President Fred W. Gooding.
Western railroad lines have agreed
upon a S25 colonist rate next spring
from the Missouri river to the coast.
This is S. lower than last years rate.
Chicago is the center of the motor
buggy manufacturing business, for
there are made no fewer than ten diff
ferent makes of the high-wheelers in
that city.
John c. Morgan of Denver, who for
years has been travelling engineer of
the Mexican International railroad
died at the City of Mexico on the 18th
inst. from injuries recently received in
a wreck
Consideration of bills denying Jap
anese the right to own land or to be
directors of corporations was delayed
for one week by the California Assem-
bly, on the goth inst. at the request
of President Roosevelt and Governor
Gillett.
United States District Judge Ander-
son at Chicago has set February 23rd
for beginning the retrial of the rebate
case against the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana. This is the case in
which Judge Lands fine of $29 100000
was reversed by the appellate court.
The charter of the Mountain, Valley
& Plains Railroad Company, with a
capital stock of $1,OOO,OOO, has been
filed in Austin. Its purpose is to build
a railroad across the Panhandle of
Texas, distance of 10 miles. Its
principal office is at Higgins, Tex.
The trustees of the proposed Myron
Stratton home for the poor at Colo
RADIO Springs have decided to hold a
competition to which architects all
over the United States are eligible for
plans for the projected institution. A
cash prize of probably $4,000 will be
offered.
Judge Dupuy's decree dismissing the
bill of Margaret Babcock to obtain an
eighth interest in 100000 acres of
land which the state of Texas granted
syndicate in return for the erection
of the capitol of that state, has been
sustained in a decision rendered by the
Court of Appeals in Chicago.
free-for-all Marathon race for a
distance of twenty-six miles and 3S5
yards, open to all professional runners
on the Pacific coast, will take place
February 7th at San Francisco. The
prize offered by promoters is $1,000,
to be divided, $3.50 to the winner, $3.50
to the second and 500 to the third.
Announcement has been made at Sc
attic by Great Northern officials that
beginning about March 1st the Hill
line will inaugurate a new passenger
service from Seattle to Kansas City
via Billings Mont, and the Burling
ton. This will duplicate the present
Seattle-Kansas City Burlington service
of daily trains over the Northern Pa
cific.
Attorneys for Abraham Ruef. con
victed of bribery in San Francisco,
who was sentenced to fourteen years
in San Quentin upon conviction for
bribery. have been granted an addi-
tional thirty days to complete the bill
of exceptions upon appeal from the
verdict and judgment. The court
had previously permitted twenty days
for this purpose.
The announcement comes from Fort
Worth TeXas, that the Hill interests
will put on the longest through SER
vice in the world June list. The trains,
which win have magnificent equip
ment, will run direct from Galveston,
Texas TO Seattle, Wash. During the
journey, which will likely take five
days, passengers will not be required
to change cars at any time. The train
will run over the Texas e Brazos Val
ley, the Fort Worth & Denver City, the
Colorado & Southern roads to Denver
and thence on to the Pacific coast
over the Burlington and the Great
Northern.
GENERAL NEWS.