The Colorado statesman., 1910-07-09
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
Elm COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAI
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN.

Denver building permits for June to-
tailed $1,150,00O, a record breaking fig
ure for one month.
Prospects are reported good for the
location at Denver of the 1913 con
clave of the Knights Templar.
DIR. b. c. Hyde, convicted of having
poisoned Col Thomas II. Swope, the
millionaire philanthropist, was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment at hard
labor by Judge Ralph S. Latshaw in
the Criminal Court at Kansas City
Tuesday morning.
Porter ]. McCumber, stalwart, and
A. j. Gronna, insurgent, have been
nominated in the North Dakota Re
publican primaries for the United
States Senate. In the gubernatoria
contest C. A. Johnson the stalwart
candidate, has defeated ]. A. Buchan-
an, the insurgent candidate, for the
nomination.
Western railroads are considering
the advisability of abolishing all re-
duced rate including colonist rates
and making 2 cents the minimum for
all travellers and all occasions. The
movement is not a new one, but is the
revival of a movement started over
year ago and considered on several Oc-
casions.
Buck Plant, who recently escaped
from the insane asylum at Parsons,
Kan, went to the home of George
Plant his father, at Hill City, Tuesday,
and crushed the old mans head with
hammer as he lay asleep. Plant
then cut his fathers throat from ear
to ear The other members of the
family escaped.
Manager II. II. Younger of the Pal
isade (Colo.) Fruit Growers associa-
ton has received notice from Traffic
Manager Bush of the Colorado Mid
land of a reduction in freight rates on
peaches, pears and apples to slips per
100 pounds This is the rate in Call
fornia, and the reduction may have
been a result of the passage of a law
prohibiting higher charge for
short" than for long" haul. The
Rio Grande and the Eastern roads
will make the same rate.
The constitutionality of the recla-
nation act was upheld at San Francis
CO Tuesday by the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals, which sustained
the decision of the Idaho District
Court in favor OF the government in
the case of David Burley against the
United States. Burley contended that
the act which permitted the govern
ment to condemn his lands and water
| for irrigation purposes was unconsti-
.utional, on the ground that the water
stored in the reservoirs sought to be
taxed was not wholly for public use,
but for private, as it was to be sup
piled private land owners by the gov
ernment. The decision established the
right of the secretary of the interior
to acquire by condemnation or other
wise, lands and waters in the further
ance of any reclamation project.
Should a sub-committe of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, which is
meeting in Chicago to consider the ap-
plication of the Western Federation of
Miners. reject the proposed charter o.
affiliation presented at Washington to
the executive council by Charles H..
Meyer and Thomas E. Lewis on behalf
| of the Western Federation and the
United Mine Workers of America, a
consolidation of both organizations
will be urged at the coming annual
convention of the Western Federation,
which meets in Denver July IS. 1t is
understood that consolidation of the
coal and metalliferous miners is well
coined by the members of both unions
and that such will be the result re-
gardless of whatever action may be
taken by the subcommittee in Chica-
go over which Samuel Gompers will
preside.