The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-03-26
wesreRM Mewe.

The Missouri senate has defeated .
bill! providing for the reading a .
chapter of the Bible daily In public
schools Of the state.
bill has passed the House in Min
aesOta allowing the city councils Of
~. Paul. Minneapolis and Duluth 70
permit boxing bouts Of ten rounds.
Both Houses OF the California Legis-
lature have passed the Wright railroad
bill. giving the state railroad commits
s'oa power To fix maxfmuia rates.
The National Corn Exposition has
selected DeeeMber 9Th to 18th ~ the
dates for the National Corn exposi-
ton 0f 1909. It will he held Ut Omaha.
The recent blowing up Of the Ceur
d'A!ene powder works. near Wallace.
idaho. by which three men were killed
aad enc seriously injured. 10 believed
by the company to have been the work
OF an assassin.
Winnipeg. Manitoba. has decided to
have worlds exposition in 1919. A
committee Of citizens sent to st. Louis.
Chicago. Seattle and Portland report
Ell favOrabIy on the project and 1t IVES
decided to raise fund Of q ,OOO, 900
for 1t.
The cloud upon the title Of Gov.
Charles 8. Deneen Of Illinois to sue.
coed himself was removed when the
gubernatoriai contest brought by Ad-
iai E. Stevenson was finally disposed
OF by the Legislature in joint session
In favor OF the governor.
Several survivors of the Fifteenth
Pennsylvania Volunteer cavalry. who
are now living in Los Angeles, Cal,
have passed res buttons on the death
OF Gen. William J. Palmer who was
commander Of the regiment during the
Civil War.
Under the auspices Of the Aero Club
OF Seattle. Henry H. Clayton Of the
Blue Hill observatory. will undertake =
balloon voyage across the breadth of
the United States. He believes that
favorable air currents will be found at
the height of about two miles.
G. l.. Mayhem, in Jail at Boulder,
Colo. charged with the murder of
William Collier. near Longmont, last
January. hanged himself on the 21st
inst. i'll the corridor of the jail and was
found dead. 1t has developed since
that he made full confession ten days
previous 10 his suicide.
Acting Governor May vetoed the bill
passed by the Washington Legisla ure
au' horized the issuance by the state
l,clrd OF hotels of so rooms or more in
first class cities. licenses to sell intox-
icants and liquors with meals on Sun.
ia The governor expressed the view
that the bill was unjustly discriminate
ing between cities and classes. mans
thirst having nothing to do with the
sil. Of the town
Roth branches of the Utah legisla-
ture have passed bill regulating the
sale of liquor The bill gives counties
local option and cities Of 10000 popu-
iation or over separate vote on the
abolition Of saloons. Where prohibit
ton is not adopted, saloons are to be
open only from a. M. to z p. nj. ex-
cept Saturday. when the hours shall be
from a. m. to p. m. Special cleo
tons ON this question of zeal option
are to he called on the petition of %
per cent of the legal voters.
Bills passed by the Arizona Legis.
latlre. which has just adjourned. In
clude those for the creation of a rail
road commission; territorial gooi
roads department; local option by a
majority vote, municipalities to have
separate vote II demanded: creating
the once Of territorial historian: ex-
empting new railroads from taxation
IL notice be filed In fifteen days. All
railroad rate Legislation failed. Woman
suffrage. was defeated. as was the en-
p,oyers' liability bill urged by the
unions. but vetoed by the governor As
leveied only against corporations as
employers. The separate negro school
bill! was passed over the governors
veto