The Ordway new era., 1909-03-05

SharNs II. treat, treasurer of the
United States, favors a direct propor.
tional tax on incomes. He also fayors
an Inheritance taA.
Arizona has Just passed a new cleo.
ton law, requiring an educational quail
incation. To be allowed to vote In that
territory hereafter, man must know
how to read and write.
The Servian government has given
orders that until further notice no
passports are to be issued to men un.
der forty-five years of age. The OBJ
Ject OF this measure is to keep all men
OF military age Mt home.
The county commissioners OF Mesa
county have awarded the contract for
the building of Il bridge across the
Grand river at Vincland to the NJ. ].
Patterson Contracting Company of
Denver 1t will cost nearly $4,000
Near Guayaquil, Ecuador February
2ith, passenger train was thrown
over cliff 100 feet high at a point
near Rio Bamba and crashed to the
bottom oi the raYinc. twenty-five
persons were killed and forty injured.
Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas, rector
OF the Church OF the Holy Apostles
Mt Philadelphia. has decided TO accent
the bishopTic of Wyoming which was
proffcrcd him by the house of bish-
ops. II will be fully month before
he will be consocratcd.
wall street has further evidence OF
the big Investment demand for bonds
which has kept up for year In the
announcement that an additional S..
100000 Denver Il Rio Grandc first and
refunding per cent. bonds had been
largely oversubsCribcd.
At Pau. France, on the 25th ult..
Orville Wright made his first ascen-
sion since the accident at Fort Meyer,
In which he was severely injured. Ac-
companicd by his sister, he was pas.
sengcr in the balloon ICarus. which
was piloted by Marquis de Kcrgariou.
ruling OF Judge Anderson In the
Standard oil rebate case In Chicago
is interpreted as cutting down the pos.
sible fine from s29.2iO. 900 to s72O. 900
II makes each of the thirty.six settle
ments separate offense instead Of
each OF the 1.i62 car lots.
While In Africa President Roosevelt
will not only visit number OF mis-
sions. but viii make addresses giving
his observations when he returns TO
this county. according to a statement
made at Chicago by Bishop Joseph G.
Hartzell. who recently visited the
President.
Judge Gary of the United States
Steel Corporation has again issued n
denial OF the persistent rumors that
cut in the wages of the corporations
100000 employees on or about April lst
had been decided upon. The PROPOSE
ton has not even been considered. he
daclared.
The estimated population OF New
York Is 4.i22,6S5, according to Health
Commissioner Thomas Darlington's an
nual report, just issued. The increase
during 1908 was 137,250. The number
of deaths during 1908 was 1907.
There were 4,14O more births than the
year before and a decrease OF 1886 in
the number of marriages.
Mrs. William X Vanderbilt, Sr., has
given more than sl.000,O00 for the
erection OF four model tenements in
New York for persons suffering with
tuberculosis. The buildings are to be
operated in connection with DR.. Henry
L. Shivley's tuberculosis clinic OF the
Presbyterian Hospital. A moderate
rental will be charged tenants.
Frenchmen are considerably excited
over the action of the son OF Ger
man banker in buying Il large tract OF
land in France. Three senators nave
brought before the state the outlines
of a bill forbidding henceforth the sale
of any part of French territory to Tor
eigners without the express authoriza
ton of the government.
The English suffragettas, VINO ere
atad a disturbance while trying TO
reach Premier Asquith with peti-
ton. have been sentenced to imprls-
onment, most of the terms being 1or
one month. Sentences were imposed
on twenty-eight women, many Oh
them prominent society leaders. Ihey
went proudly and cheerfully to jail.