The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-03-06

Charles H. Treat. treasurer Of the
United States, favors direct proper
tional tax on incomes. He also favors
an inheritance taA.
The county commissioners of Mesa
county have awarded the contract for
the building Of bridge across the
Grand river at Vineland to the NJ. J.
Patterson Contracting Company of
Denver. 1t will cost nearly 100000.
Near Guayaquil, Ecuador, February
24th, a passenger train was thrown
over cliff 100 feet high at point
near Rio Bamba and crashed to the
bottom OF the ravine. Twenty-Five
persons were killed and forty injured.
James A. Leroy, secretary for Presi-
dent-elect Taft while governor of the
Philippines. and American consul at
Durango. Mexico, from August. 1908.
to March. 1907. died February 2Sth at
the military hospital at Fort Bayaud,
n. NJ.
Jules Cambon, French ambassador
to Germany. has conferred upon Herr
Won Schoan, the German foreign min
lister, the grand cross of the Legion Of
Honor as an indication of Frances sat
isfaction over the FrancoGerman
agreement on Morocco.
The status of Chinese woman who
has been legally admitted to the
United States is not changed by
separation between her and her hus-
band, according to ruling made by
United States Commissioner Hayes in
a Boston case.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, command
ing the Department OF the East. has
issued a general order to the officers
in the department. commanding them
to impress upon the enlisted men the
deadly effects that follow the drinking
of wood or denatured alcohol.
At Pau. France, on the 25th ult..
Orvule Wright made his first ascen-
sion since the accident at Fort Meyer,
in which he was severely injured Ac-
companied by his sister, he was pas
senger in the balloon Icarus. which
was piloted by Marquis de Kergariou
A ruling of Judge Anderson in the
Standard Oil rebate case in Chicago
is interpreted as cutting down the pos
sible fine from 29,24O, 900 to 1920, 900.
1t makes each of the thirty-six settle
ments a separate offense instead of
each OF the I. .462 car lots.
Judge Gary of the United States
Steel Corporation has again issued
denial of the persistent rumors that
cut in the wages Of the corporation S
100000 employees on or about April list
had been decided upon. The PROPOSE
ton has not even been considered, he
daclared.
About one-fourth of the men who
have entered Yale University failed to
ords for a non graduate catalogue
which has been in preparation for sew
eral years and which is to soon be pub
lished. The catalogue will contain
about $500 names with the residence
and occupation of non-graduates.
The English suffragettas, who cre-
atad a disturbance while trying to
reach Premier Asquith with petit
tion, have been sentenced to impris-
onment, most of the terms being for
one month Sentences were imposed
on twenty-eight women. many OF
them prominent society leaders. They
went proudly and cheerfully to Jail.
At Piuua. O.. March 1st DR.. G. c.
Throckmorton. aged sixty-five, beat
the military ride of President Roose-
welt of ninety-six miles, military gait,
by riding three horses in relays 12o
miles in thirteen hours and forty-five
minutes. The result was telegraphed
to President Roosevelt who had mani
tested interest in the effort to break
his record