The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-01

II is reported that the building or
the Amur railroad. 1880 miles long. at
a cost Of $3.50, ,000.0 900, is being hurried
owing to representations OF Russion
officials that there is danger of sec
ond war with Japan in consequence OF
the struggle for control in Manchuria.
Governor Noel has announced the
appointment OF Col. James Gordon OF
Oklahoma as United States senator
from Mississippi to succeed the late
Senator A. ]. McLaurin. The appoint
ment is temporary until the Legisla-
ture can elect senator for the unex-
pired term and is made with the un-
derstanding that Senator Gordon will
not be candidate for this term.
The battleship Utah, the greatest
warship ever built in the United
States, was launched December 2Srd
from the yard OF the New York Ship
building Company at Camden. N. j..
The vessel was christened by Mary
Alice Spry, daughter of Governor Spry
of Utah, who was present with his
family, together with the members OF
Congress from Utah and representa-
tives of the Utah Legislature.
FrancissJ. Heney of San Francisco
has filed formal complaint in his New
York suit against William H. Crocker,
the California millionaire, basing his
action on an open letter bearing Mr..
Crocker's name which appeared in
New York evening newspaper Decem-
ber 3rd, in which Mr.. Crocker defend
ed his action in first supporting Heney
in the San Francisco graft prosecu-
tions and later Withdrawing his sup
port.
Colonel James Gordon of Okolona,
Mississippi, who has been named Unit
ed States Senator ty Governor Neel
as successor to the late A. j. McLau-
rim, was one of several Confederate
leaders suspected nf being in con-
spiracy with ]. Wilkes Booth to kill
President Lincoln. A reward of S1O,-
600 was offered for his arrest. He
later succeeded in satisfying the au'
thorities that he was in no way lmpli'
Gated in the crime.
Neon, a newly discovered gas, is the
cause of the aurora borealis, according
to a statement made at Boston by Dr.
w. J. Dudley, head Of the department
of chemistry at Vanderbilt University
before the division of physical and in.
organic chemists of the American AS
sociation for the Advancement of Sci
ence. Or. Dudley showed what he
claimed to be the only sample OF
neon now in this country. 1t requires
over 100 tons of air to get pint OF
neon.
A committee which was appointed
by the Brooklyn neighbors of DR.. Cook
some months ago to raise funds for
the erection of a monument to the
explorer, has decided to go on with its
work, in spite of the cables from Co
penhagen. "Dr. Cook" according to
one member of the committee, "as
noble martyr. The rest of the world
may take the word of those indoor
polar explorers over in Copenhagen
but his neighbors in old Bushwich
: know that DR.. Cook discovered the
pole, because he told us so himself
The special committee of the Uni
versity of Copenhagen that investi
gated DR.. Frederick A. Cooks polal
records, is now considering whether Il
shall publish second report, giving
further details of it's work. If the com
mittee should decide to do so, 1t will
issue the report about the middle o.
January A member of the committee
says that some of the details of Cook:
narrative were fabricated and his pa
narc chOwed that he had used calcula
tions furnished by Captain Loose. The
second report, he added, would pre-
sent evidence to that effect.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.