The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-26

Mehmed ", the new Sultan Of Tur-
key, will start on tour of the Euro
pean countries in the autumn, accord
ing to the London Standard. He will
arrive in England in December.
New York detectives have wrung
from Chun Sin, the friend of Leon
Ling, who is accused of the murder of
Elsie Sigel, an account of the strang-
ling of the girl by Leon, of which
Chun was an eye witness.
The government expedition under
Capt. Elmer Mikkelson, the Arctic ex-
plorer, sailed from Copenhagen, June
10th, aboard the Danish steamer AL
bama for Greenland to search for the
bodies of the Erickson party.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her children ex-
pect to return from Europe about No
vember 1st, having abandoned the pre-
viously arranged plan of remaining in
Europe through next winter and jour
neying up the Nile in the spring to
meet Colonel Roosevelt.
All the members of the Roosevelt
expedition, at present in camp on the
Loietta plains, in the Sotik district,
are IcpOI lcu III tAStlltDl
odore Roosevelt has shot another lion,
while a very large, tawny- named lion
has fallen before the rifle of his son,
Kermit.
Rev. ]. j. Mccain, pastor of st.
Marys Roman Catholic Church at FL
gin, ILL.,, announced from the pulpit
Sunday that he was not opposed to
Sunday baseball. Rev. w. |. A. Beal
of the Episcopal Church has also stat
ed that Sunday baseball is not objec-
tionable.
Charles r. Richardson, Pittsburg
broker convicted of conspiracy in con-
nection with the alleged attempts of
Charles S. Cameron, president of the
Tube City Railroad, to bribe Council
man w. A. Martin, has been sentenced
to one year and three months in the
penitentiary and to pay fine of $500.
Harvard, Princeton and Yale are
undermining faith and teaching i'm
morality" declared Bishop James A.
McFaul of Trenton. N. j.. in address
ing a group of young men who had
just received their Bachelor of Arts
degrees at the commencement of st.
Francis Xavier's College, New York.
Baseball follows the flag even in
our hot tropical possessions. In the
Panama canal zone two leagues played
a series of games in the season just
closed there. At Colon the sport has
taken such a hold on the people that
it is proposed to put up a new baseball
park prior to the opening of the next
| league season.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and three
children, Miss Ethel, Archie and Quen-
tin, are going on the liner Cretic to Gil
braltar and Naples to pass the summer
on the continent The Roosevelt par
ty will spend month with Miss Ca
rev, Mrs. Roosevelt's sister, at her
villa near Rome, afterward going to
France on a trip, planned especially
for Miss Ethel's benefit.
Silver was found few days since
by the crew of the government boat
Cataract, working in the Delaware
river near Fort Mifflin in an endeavor
to raise the contents of the supposed
English treasure boat which was sunk
during the Revolutionary war. The
dredger Hell Gate" will be sent to
Fort Mifflin to raise the sunken boat.
An earthquake, the most severe
shock experienced there in years, oc-
Cured at 11:25 o'clock on the night
of June 22nd, and almost caused
panic at Grass Valley, Cal, and in
Nevada City. Many people rushed
into the street but no damage has
been reported. A second and lighter
shock came at 11:49. Reports from
Marysville, Chico, and Colfax say that
those towns were also shaken.
Two baby antelope sent by express
by Colonel Roosevelt to his daughter,
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, were
brought to New York a few days
since on the steamer Vaderland. Cap
tain Burman kept the little animals on
with milk from bottle on the way
over. The antelope were taken by
the Vaderland at Antwerp from the
East African steamer Admiral.
! Queen Victoria of Spain gave birth
to daughter June 22nd. The birth of
a princess is particularly pleasing to
both the King and the Queen, as they
had hoped that this child, the third,
would be a girl. The first two chill
dren are boys, Prince Alfonso, born
May 10, 1907, and Prince Jaime, born
June 23, 1908. The Queen is a daugh
ter of the late Prince Henry of Bat
tenburg and Princess Beatrice, daugh
ter of the late Queen Victoria of Great
| Britain.