The Colorado statesman., 1909-11-20


rope a few days since, Sir Thomas
for race for the American cup, to be
sailed in 1911.
Shareholders of the Cleveland, Gin
cinnati, Chicago & st. Louis (Big
Four) railroad met at Cleveland and
voted bond issue of s2O.OOO,0O0 for
physical improvements.
A new $1,000.000.00 company will
be the result of an action of the Am.
erican Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany in securing control of the West.
ern Union Telegraph Company
through the purchase of Gould Stock.
Mrs. Alice Smith, wife of Leroy Il.
Smith, superintendent of the Ameri-
can District Telegraph Company of
York, died at her home in Newark, N.
j., few days ago after swallowing
some tablets taken to relieve a head
ache.
Major Mearns and ]. Alden Loripg.
the naturalist, recently arrived at Mai
robi with splendid collections of pho.
toeraphs, birds and mammals. Both
men are in excellent health. In his
climb of Mount Kenya, Loring
reached an altitude of 16,500 feet.
Edward M. Meyers of Red Bank, N.
j., has been fined 800 by Judge Cross
in the United States Court at Trenton,
for the Illegal use of the United States
mails. Meyers sent defamatory postal
cards to the members of Kansas jury
which convicted a Socialist editor for
the same offense.
The Pilgrims of England played
their final game of association foot
ball on their American tour at Bay
Ridge, l.. l., on the 10th inst. defeat
ing the Crescent Athletic club, to l.
The Pilgrims played % games while
in the United States, winning 16 and
losing 2, with four games drawn.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
has emphatically denied the state
mentS published as coming from a wo-
man in Berlin, to the effect that his
wife, while she was still Miss Alice
Roosevelt, had been photographed by
him astride the sacred elephant of the
Koreans at their national capital.
Mother Earth may have the expert
ence next May, of passing through the
gaseous tail of a comet, according to
an interview by Assistant Prof. Henry
N. Russell. Phi. D., of the astronomical
department of Princeton university.
He hastened to explain, however, that
no bad physical effects were to be an
ticipated.
The will of the late Mrs. Franziska
Speyer, widow of George Speyer,
partner in the banking house of
Speyer & Co., of New York, London
and Frankfort on the Main, be-
queaths between $S.OOO.O0O and S10.
100000 TO charity. The gifts include
s1.000,000 for research into the sub
iect of cancer and lupus.
Director Lowell of the observatory
at Flagstaff, Ariz., reports the first
apparent Antarctic snowfall of the
season on Mars. Two patches appear
at the altitude 62.72 longitude 100.190.
The first was November -, and was
small, with great increase Novem-
ber 16. The second was observed for
the first time on the latter date.
LeSlSldllOu lOT llt lJlSIllCL VI W.
lumbia to prevent brutality in foot
ball and possibly to actually prohibit
the playing of the game, is
likely to follow the mortality
which has marked contests this
season. The district commissioners
have the corporation counsel at work
on the subjects, and, if the situation
can be handled by police regulation,
Congress will be asked to pass a bill
which the district commissioners will
draft.
Captain Roald Amundsen, discov-
erer of the Northwest passage, who
recently arrived in New York from
Copenhagen, explained that his visit
tao America was to fit out an oceano-
graphic expedition for the Norwegian
government. The expedition would
start, he said, from Christiansand in
Nansen's old ship, the Fran, next
July, and probably would cruise for
five years. The first year will be
spent in the southern portion of the
North Atlantic, studying the currents,
temperatures, the ocean bottom and
sea life. Then the Fran will be nav
igated around the Horn to the Pacific,
fitting out in San Francisco probably
for an Arctic trip.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.