The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-01-09

President-elect Taft has written |
a letter in which he strongly condemns
the proposed amendment to the con
stitution of Mar ,land, that has for its
object the disfranchisement of negroes. |
Anson r. Flower. a noted banker !
and philanthropist, brother of the late |
Gov. Roswell P. Flower of New York.
died on the 3rd inst. at Watertown.
New York, at the age of siNtysix
years.
Robert Fowler formerly of the Cam
bridge Athletic club of Boston, but now
unattached. won the Ionkers Mara
thon race on New Years day in two
hours. fifty-two minutes and forty-five
and two-fifth seconds.
Warden Mudd of the Kentucky
State Penitentiary plans to organize
baseball team of long sentence con-
victs, and games will be played with
other teams of the Institutions. Mudd
believes baseball will make better pris-
oners.
Railroad construction in the United
States in 1908 aggregated only 3,214
miles OF new main track, the lowest to-
tai ioi ahs sCol oihSc lcSt, "hSh oAAy
2.109 miles OF track were laid. and a
decrease of 1898 miles, or 1873 per
cent. from the figures of 1907.
Or advice of his counsel, Samuel
Gompers has discontinued his We
Don't Patronize" list in the Fedora
tionalist. the labor organ. This was
followed by the suspension OF its un-
far list by the Central Federated
Union.
AS holiday diversion December 26th
the President-elect made an excursion
to Aiken. S. c., and played golf on the
famous Palmetto links. Mr.. Taft was
accompanied by Mrs. Taft and the
three children and John Hays Ham
mond, his wife and children.
Germany is not able to supply its
home demand for eggs, according to
Consul General Richard Guenther OF
Frankfort. who reports that last year
$34.643,00O worth of eggs were i'm
ported, this representing about 3000.-
1000, or an average of As per capita.
The long war with the Yaquis In
dians in Mexico in which scores were
killed at different times, including
many Americans, has been terminated
ma treaty of peace, agreed upon by
three Indian chiefs and 166 of their
of Sonora. Mexico.
The Steel corporation has issued
Christmas bonus to all employees hold
ing stock in the company. 1t is esti-
mated that siXty-five per cent. in num-
ber of the holdings are in the hands
of tn. workmen. The net earnings are
expected to run between $25.000.000
and $s6.000.000 for the quarter
The largest turkey ranch in the
United States is located in North Caro-
lima. Four thousand fat birds were
shipped frcm the farm for Thanksgiv-
ing week. The owner claims that
flock of twenty-five or thirty turkeys
will keep the tobacco fields free from
worms which would otherwise destroy
the plants.
According to an announcement just
made, none but unmarried men will be
accepted by the government in future
to serve as officers in the constabulary
force on the Philippine Islands, and
officers already in the service will not
be allowed to marry without the con-
sent of the government until they have
attained to their captaincies.
Senator Benjamin B. Tillman, in an
address before the State Teachers AS
sociation at Columbus, S. c., took occa-
sion to warn the people against the agi-
tation for compulsory education, assert
ing that should such law be passed
it would mean the education of the ne
gro, which would in the end mean a
blow to white supremacy.
Wilbur Wright made another long
flight at lie Mans, France, December
Both, remaining in the air for one hour.
fifty-two minutes and forty seconds
and covering distance of sixty miles.
He was obliged to stop on account of
the intense cold. Both himself and his
machine were covered with ice and the
Oil in the motor was frozen.
Yekaterinoslav, Russia, hasn't any
harder name than it deserves. At that
town on New Years day the military
court pronounced forty-one death SEN
tences, nine for recent crimes. Thir-
ty-two of the condemned men were
strikers in the railroad troubles of Oc-
tober, 1905. In addition to the death
sentences, twelve strikers were con-
demned to penal servitude for life and
forty-eight to lesser terms of exile.