The Colorado statesman., 1909-07-31
WESTERN NEWS.

Harry Rubes, living five miles
northwest of Spencer, Ia, was struck
over the heart by pitched ball during
baseball game and died almost in
stantly.
Miss Margaret Stauffer, who was a
federal nurse during the Civil war and
was associated with Mother Bicker-
dyke, died in Merriam, Kan, July 2S,
aged S3.
Elks' day at the Worlds fair in Sc
attic was celebrated by thousands of
members of the order. Grand Exalted
Ruler j. U. Sammis was a conspicuous
figure in the parade.
The village of Mecklin, located on
the Saskatoon and Westaskiwin branch
of the Canadian Pacific Railway in
Saskatchewan, was wiped out by tor
nado July 26th, but without loss of
life.
United States District Attorney E. ].
Henning of Milwaukee has been or
dered to go to Denver to prepare to
assist in presenting the Colorado land
fraud cases to the Court of Appeals at
Chicago, when the court sits again.
Direct information has been filed
against former Comptroller John Rip
linger at Seattle on two counts alleg-
ing that he converted to his own use
checks for $500 and $500 given to him
as comptroller. Riplinger's alleged
shortage is $4,000.
John H. Stuart, who is said to have
been confidential secretary of James
III Itrla Ia
president of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society of New York, committed
suicide few days since at Mukiltoe,
a lumber camp near Everett, Wash.
Four bolts of lightning struck the
residence of John H. Singleton at
American Forks, Utah, killing his
wife, rendering himself and his four
year-old son unconscious, and knock
ing down his brother and a reighbor
who came to their assistance.
At st. Louis recently a private car
filled with mourners and flowers con-
veyed in a plush coffin the body OF
George, setter dog, to it's last resting
place in De Hodiamont Cemetery. The
setter was the property of Frank
Cleary and had been in the family ten
years.
Owen Rowley laughed himself to
death at Chicago a few nights since.
His cousin, Edward Rowley, told
funny story while they were sitting on
an iron railing, and Owens spasm of
mirth shook him off into the base
ment fifteen feet below, breaking his
spine.
Albert Ryan, organizing secretary of
the Western Federation of Miners at
Los Angeles, who is accused of the
murder of H. E. Snider, a mining
man, who was shot and killed when
Ryan shot Otto Miller, who later died
of the injury, has been held without
bail to answer to the charge of muir
der.
The Nebraska Republican conven-
tion at Lincoln July 27th unanimously
adopted resolutions approving Presi-
dent Taft's attempt to secure a down
ward revision of the tariff and stating
that Nebraska Republicans would ap-
prove his use of the veto power on a
measure which did not accord with his
ideas of tariff revision. A telegram
was sent President Taft notifying him
of the conventions action.
President J. E. Chilberg of the
Alaska-Y Yukon-Pacific exposition at
Seattle has sent dispatches to Louis
Bleriot, Hubert Latham, the Wright
brothers and T. c. Curtis, offering a
prize of $4,000 and gold medals for
competitive aeroplane race beginning
on the worlds fair stadium and ex-
tending over Lake Washington, which
is twenty-five miles long and one end
of which touches the worlds fair
grounds.