The Colorado statesman., 1909-10-09
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, NGS, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

"|i oiheHto provided a novelty Tor
the presidents automobile ride
through the city by having a band in
sightseeing machine just in front
OF the car in which Taft rode.
Gen. John ]. Pershing sailed on the
transport Thomas for Manila to as
sumo command of the military forces
a. Zamboanga. island of Mindanaa. the
scene of his former victories over the
rebellious Moros.
The entire Canadian assets of the
New England Fish Company. valued
at S2,OO0,000, has been transferred 10
the Canadian Fish Company of Van.
couver, which has been a business
rival of the New England concern for
years.
Senator Charles A. Culberson of
Texas will be the opponent of William
J. Bryan for the Democratic nomina-
tion for the Presidency in 1872" an
nounced Senator Robert Taylor of
Tennessee in an interview at Spokane,
Wash.
The Canadian buffalo park at VAIN
wright, Alberta, has been destroyed by
the prairie fire burning in that section
for week. AS the fire burned the
fence surrounding the park the herd
of buffalo. estimated to number SEQ,
and large herd of elk, escaped. 1t
is estimated that losses by the fire
will reach into the mAions.
Using their train of pack Burros
loaded with contraband goods as
breastworks, a gang of smugglers bat
tied with squad of Rurales and Sa-
binas, in the state of Cohuila, Mex,
and came out victorious, forcing the
Rurales to withdraw and escaping with
their goods into the mountains. One
smuggler was killed and several
Rurales wounded.
The automobile carrying the Phila-
delphia Press courier, bearing a mes
sage f!5m President Taft to the presi-
dent of the Alaska -Yukon-Pacific exhi-
bition, rolled down a thirty-foot en-
bankment into the Snoqualmie river
three miles west of North Bend
Wash, at o'clock on the night of the
5th inst. The occupants of the car
swan ashore.
Will A. Campbell, secretary-treas-
urer of the Missouri River Navigation
congress, has invited Governor Shat
roth of Colorado to deliver an address
before the convention of that body.
which meets in Omaha Dec. IA to IT.
The governor is expected to speak on
the benefits which Colorado and other
inland states will derive from the
deepening of national waterways.
President Taft was welcomed into
California. at Red Bluff by Governor
Gillett, Lieutenant Governor Porter,
Senator Perkins, former Secretary of
the Navy Victor Metcalf, NJ. H. De
Young of San Francisco, and other
members of a committee gathered
from different sections of the state.
Members OF the committee from San
Francisco represented both graf"
prosecution and "anti-graft" prose-
cution.
The Montana State Land Board has
decided to hold in allegiance the mat
ter of forcible election of federal for
estry officers from the Flathead coun-
try land until the courts rule on their
right to do so. This decision follows
a ruling by Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger, in which he holds that the
title to sections 16 and &c in each
township still vests in the federal gov
eminent. The state claimed it under
an enabling act.
Ten thousand postage stamps stolen
from a train in Wyoming several
weeks ago are now in the possession
of the postoffice inspectors at the
Denver office. They were found in
Green river by "Wid" Anderson, Il
homeseeker. The stamps had been
cached in a gully near the river, and
the heavy rains had washed them into
the stream. Anderson discovered a
trail of stamps, and followed it for
three miles before he found the large
bundle. Some papers belonging to the
robbers were found at the cache.