The Colorado statesman., 1909-07-10
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD,
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, oINGs, ACHIEVE.
MENTS, sUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND,
WESTERN NEWS.

YVES ERN NEWS.
The American Woman Suffrage AS
sociation in session at Seattle decided
to establish national headquarters in
New York City in place of Washing
ton, d. c.
A speed of eighty-five miles an hour
in the straight stretch was shown by
the big racing cars in the try-outs
around the eight and four-tenths miles
course at Santa Monica, Calf.
In the Fourth of July cowboy tourna.
ment at Nogales, Sonora, the worlds
record for throwing and tieing a wild
steer was broken by Ed Hall of Mutt,
N. NJ, who performed the feat in
twenty-one seconds flat. The best
previous time was q 10 seconds.
Hundreds of pheasants at the Ken
drick pheasantries, near Littleton,
Colo, were drowned on the afternoon
of July 5th as the result of a cloud
burst on the surrounding hills, and
nearly 200 swarms of bees belonging
to tenant of an adjacent farm were
also swept away in the same flood.
The Supreme Court of Colorado has
upheld a decision that a ward may be
voted wet and a precinct in that ward
may be voted dry, but in a dry ward
it is impossible to vote a precinct wet,
providing the ward and precinct cleo
tions in both instances are held at the
same time.
Ira w. La Munyon, said to be the
last survivor of the mass meeting held
in Jackson, Mich, July 6, 1854, when
the Republican party was formed, and
the oldest member of that party in
point of service, died at his home in
Denver on the 7th inst. from the eff
fects of stroke of apoplexy.
Daniel K. Pearsons, the Sage OF
Hinsdale," already famous for his mu-
hificent benefactions to the small col
leges of this country, has announced
that he will devote the remainder of
this, his ninetieth year, to distribut-
ing among the various educational and
philanthropic institutions of Chicago
his last million dollars.
The United States Mint in Denver
has suspended coinage operations for
a month for it's annual cleanup. Most
of the employees go on vacation. The
mint's fiscal year ended June 80, 1t
has been a prosperous year. In that
time $34,644,239.27 in gold deposits
were received and $2,63S, ,S10.32 in sill
yer. For the same period the lAint
turned out $35, ,455,000 in gold coin and
$2,S50,000 in silver coins.
Fred Warren, business manager of
the Appeal to Reason, a Socialist pa
per published at Girard, Kan, has
been sentenced to six months in jail
and a fine of S1,50O by Federal Judge
Pollock. Warren was convicted for
alleged violation of the postal regula-
tions in sending through the mails a
printed offer of a reward of 900 to
anyone who would kidnap Ex-Governor
William S. Taylor of Kentucky and
return him to that state.
Delegates from District No. 90,
United Mine Workers of America,
which covers the entire Wyoming
coal mining district. and representa-
tives of the operators reached an
agreement upon wage scales and
working conditions for the year begin
ming September 1st, at joint confer
ence at Ogden July ID The same
scale and conditions which were
agreed upon in Cheyenne last year
will continue in force until September
l, 1910.
Private tests have been made at Vic
toria, B. c., of an airship which the
inventor, William Gibson, a mechani-
cal engineer, wagered $1,000 will carry
him safely to Seattle, a distance of
sixty-five miles, within half an hour,
when he is ready for the flight and
do the Victoria to San Francisco flight
within five hours. The craft, now al
most completed, is monoplane, sixty
five feet long and radically different
from other designs, having a width of
only fourteen feet.
DIR. Henry Sewell, who recently re-
turned to Denver from visit to Eng
land and France, where he investi-
gated the methods that have been
| adopted to combat tuberculosis, as
serts that the crying need of Colorado
in general and Denver in particular
is hospital conducted for, and in
which could be housed, the invalid
consumptives vino are unable to work
and thus keep them off the streets and
out of the parks, and prevent the
spread of the disease.