The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1909-03-27
WESTERN NEWS.

The Minnesota bill prohibiting the
sale or manufacture of intoxicating
liquors was killed in the House, as
was also the anti-treating bill.
The National Corn Exposition has
selected December 9Th to 18th as the
dates for the National Corn EXPOSE
ton of 1909 1t will be held at Omaha.
That Goose island, lying in the Mis-
souri, river between Kansas City, Mo,
and Kansas City, Kan, belongs to the
state of Kansas is the decision OF the
Supreme Court of the United States.
The recent blowing up of the Ceur
d'Alene powder works. near Wallace,
Idaho, by which three men were killed
and one seriously injured, is believed
by the company to have been the work
of an assassin.
One person was killed, four others
were injured and property damage es-
timated 1t $4,000 resulted from tor
nado which swept through Laredo,
Tex. and vicinity on the night of
March 23rd.
Winnipeg. Manitoba, has decided to
have worlds exposition in 1912. A
committee of citizens sent to st. Louis.
Chicago, Seattle and Portland report
ed favorably on the project and it was
decided to raise a fund of 100000
for it.
A report emanating from Boston
that Mrs. Katherine Tingley, head of
the Theosophical Institute on Point
Iona, near San Diego. Cal, was to
make her future home in the Massa-
chusetts metropolis, has been denied
by Mrs. Tingley.
1t is stated that $3,5OO,OO0 will be
expended this season for improve
ments on the Missouri Pacific railroad
between Kansas City and Pueblo the
work being in line with the general i'm
provement of Gould roads looking to
their final extension to the coast.
C. l.. Mayhem, in jail at Boulder,
Colo. charged with the murder of
William Collier, near Longmont, last
January hanged himself on the 21st
inst. in the corridor of the Jail and was
found dead. 1t has developed since
that he made full confession ten days
previous to his suicide.
The will of the late Gen. William j.
Palmer of Colorado Springs gives the
bulk of his property, estimated in the
neighborhood of $5,000,O0O, to his
three daughters. Legacies to other rel
atives and friends amount to $4,000.
No public requests are made. the gen
eral having attended to public and
charitable benefactions before his
death
Acting Governor May vetoed the bill
passed by the Washington Legislature
authorized the issuance by the state
board of hotels of so rooms or more in
first-class cities, licenses to sell intox-
icants and liquors with meals on Sun
day. The governor expressed the view
that the bill was unjustly discriminat-
ing between cities and classes, a mans
thirst having nothing to do with the
size of the town.
Bills passed by the Arizona Legis-
lature, which has just adjourned. in
clude those for the creation of rail
road commission; territorial good
roads department; local option by a
majority vote, municipalities to have
separate vote if demanded: creating
the office of territorial historian; ex-
empting new railroads from taxation
if notice be filed in fifteen days. All
railroad rate legislation failed. Woman
suffrage, was defeated. as was the en-
ployers' liability bill urged by the
unions, but vetoed by the governor as
leveled only against corporations as
employers. The separate negro school
I,,l
veto.