The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-03-05

United States. favOrs 4 direct proper
tiOnAl tax OF Incomes. He also fAvOrs
an Inheritance taA.
Arizona has just passed a new cleo
tion law. requiring an educational quail
! ification. To he allowed to vote in that
territory. hereafter. 4 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 I'M
der forty-five years of age. The OBJ
ject of this measure is to keep all men
CT military age at home.
The county commissioners OF Mesa
county have awarded the contract for
The building of = bridge across the
Grand river at Vineland to the N. J.
Patterson Contracting Company OF
Denver. 1t will cost nearly $4,000.
Near Guayaquil. Ecuador. February
a4th, passenger train was thrown
over a cliff 100 feet high at point
near Rio Bamba and crashed to the
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. 1909.
to March. 1907. died February 2Sth 1t
the military hospital at Fort Bayaud.
n. NJ.
Rev. Nathaniel s. Thomas. rector
Of the Church OF the Holy Apostles
at Philadelphia. has decided to accept
the bishopric Of Wyoming which was
proffered him by the house Of bish-
ops. 1t will be fully month before
he will be consecrated.
Jules CambOn. French ambassador
to Germany. has conferred upon Herr
Won Schoan. the German foreign min
Honor as an indication OF Frances sat
isfaction over the FrancoGerman
agreement on Morocco.
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.,
Orville Wright made his first ascen-
sion since tie accident at Fort Meyer.
in which he was severely injured. Ac-
companied by his sister. he was a 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 329.24O.OOO to $72O.O 900.
1t makes each of the thirty-six settle.
nents a separate offense instead OF
each Of the 1.462 car lots.
Judge Gary Of the United States
Steel Corporation has again issued a
denial OF the persistent rumors that
cut in the wages of the corporation 8
2i0 900 employees on or about April 1st
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
graduate. This is shown by the rec
Ords for 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.
Frenchmen are considerably excited
over the action of the son of Ger
man banker in buying large tract OF
land in France. Three senators have
brought before the state the outlines
Of bill forbidding henceforth the sale
of any part of French territory to for
eigners without the express authoriza-
ton of the government
The English suffragettas, who ere
atad disturbance while trying to
reach Premier AsQuith with petit
ton, 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.