The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1909-03-06
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THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE,.
WESTERN NEWS.

South Dakota has passed an anti
cigarette law which has the approval
of the governor.
A bill legalizing the playing of base
ball on Sunday has passed both houses
of the Indiana Legislature.
Both branches of the Tennessee
Legislature have passed the bill per-
hitting scientific boxing in the state.
Both houses of the South Dakota
Legislature have passed the House res
olution granting popular vote on an
equal slffrage amendment.
Only one farmer is on the Standard
Oil retrial jury, which was completed
in Judge Anderson's court in Chicago
March LIST. He is Roy Cunningham of
Belvidere, ILL.,
Secretary of State Frank E. Benson
became Governor of Oregon March 1st
by the resignation of Senator-elect
George E. Chamberlain, then en- route
to Washington to take the eoath of Of
flee.
Elias ]. Baldwin, known as Lucky
Baldwin," died at his home near Los
Angeles on the LIST inst, at the age of
eighty-one. His estate is estimated at
$25,000,000. He leaves a wife and
daughter
An aerial race from Berkeley to Re-
no, New, is being planned by the San
Francisco Aero club, which has already
placed it's order for the construction of
one of the four balloons which will be
used.
At the meeting of the Transmits
souri, Dry Farming Congress in Chey
enne it was voted to change the name
of the organization to 1.-THE Dry
Farming Congress" and to hold the
next meeting at Billings, Mont, prob
ably in October next
1t is announced that the elevation of
the tracks at Grand Crossing in Chi
cago, one of the greatest railroad feats
ever undertaken, will be commenced in
the spring. The cost of the elevation
will be 100000 and the tracks will
be at three attitudes, none crossing on
the same grade.
Fire, supposedly of incendiary
origin, early on the morning of Febru-
airy 9th destroyed the barn of the
Blackburn ranch, belonging to the
Laramie Development Company, eight
cen miles from Laramie, Wyo. The
loss will aggregate $4,000 and in
cludes twenty-five horses, 100 hogs
and much farm machinery.
1t is stated that the Canadian gov
eminent has agreed to set apart 1,0O0,-
900 acres of land in Ontario for game
preserve. This will be contiguous to
the 100000 acres recently set apart
by President Roosevelt in st. Louis,
! Lake and Cook counties, northern Min
pesota, as a forest reserve to be
known as Superior National park.
According to a decision by Chancel-
lor Shackelford the Southern Pacific
Railway Company will only have to
pay the state of Kentucky tax of 3d.
100000 on its franchises. 1t was sought
to collect $5,065.000 a year, liability
for its steamship lines between Gal
| weston and New Orleans and New
York, and for stocks and bonds.
Suits have been filed by the state of
Arkansas against the Cudahy Packing
Company National Packing Company.
Jacob Dold Packing Company, the Nor
ris Packing Company, Swift & Co.,
and Southern Beef & Provisions Com
pany, asking penalties aggregating
$3,300,000 each for alleged violations
of the state antitrust laws, recently
upheld by the Supreme Court of the
United States.