The Colorado statesman., 1910-06-25
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN.


High school at Spokane Tuesday night
entailing a loss of $220,000.
Ex-Presdent Roosevelt expects to
visit Deadwood and the Black HIS
during his Western tour next fall.
Ten deaths and many prostrations
were reported as due to the excessive
heat in Philadelphia Tuesday. The
maximum temperature was 92.
Samuel Elmore. president of a big
salmon packing company of Astoria
Ore, was killed Tuesday evening when
his automobile was run down by sub
urban electric car.
The state associations of wool grow
ers of wisconsin, Minnesota, Wyoming
and New Mexico have formed a coop
erative organization and have obtained
an option on plant at Albuquerque
N NJ. where the wool of the states
will be sent for manufacture.
Endorsing the wise, conciliatory
administration of President Taft, but
laying on the table by an overwhelm-
ing vote a resolution "reaffirming our
unalterable support of the policies pro-
muIgated by Theodore Roosevelt" was
the expression of the Minnesota state
Republican convention.
Grading work on the Denver & Gulf
railroad project, the bonds OF which
have already been placed to the extent
of s5.1O0,OO0, and which will result in
a complete readjustment of transporta
ton routings between the Gulf OF Mex
lea and Puget Sound, has started at La
mar, Colo, southeast to Texhoma Oh
the Oklahoma-Texas line.
Charles McGrath, a paroled prison
err, being taken to Canon City from
Denver, for violation of his parole,
leaped through the window of Rio
Grande passenger train early TUESDAY
morning near Goodnight, five miles
west of Pueblo, and although wearing
handouts, has not been recaptured,
Becoming disgusted at failure of
Mayor Edwards of Helena to reinstate
Leonard Bailey as captain of police. as
decided by both Supreme and District
courts, Circuit Judge Clements Monday
issued warrant for'the c1ty's execu-
tive and gave the sheriff instructions
10 keep him in Jail until l order his
release"
The wholesale prices for refined oil
have been reduced from one an one
half cents to one cent gallon by the
Standard Oil Company, making the
prevailing price throughout the coun-
try now seven and one-half cents
gallon. The Standard controls more
than seventy per cent. of the refined
output of the country.
Jesse B. Webb confessed Tuesday
afternoon to the killing of w. A. john
son, whose body was found in trunk
in the Union station in Portland, Ore,
Monday. Webb, in a signed statement
made to the police after two hours of
questioning, said he killed johnson in
self defense after brawl between the
two men in the latter's room in a
downtown hotel.
July /, the merit system will be in
augurated among the employees of the
entire Rio Grande railroad system. On
that date all the employees will start
with clean records and marks of de-
merit will be placed against them for
VIOLATIONS OF uUe TuleS III the lulul z.
They will be given credit for acts of
heroism, faithful service and special
efforts. Each employe will be entitled
to seventy-five demerit marks before
being discharged and thirty-five credit
marks for each twelve months of per-
feet service. Appeals may be taken
from the decisions of superintendents
and master mechanics
Representative Mondell, president of
the National Dry Farming congress,
and F. e. Goodall of the Spokane
chamber of commerce, Tuesday invit-
ed President Taft to attend the meet
ing of the Dry Farming congress at
Spokane, October 8 to 6, and later
visit Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Los
Angeles and San Francisco. The
president expressed satisfaction at re-
ceiving the invitation and said he
would like to attend the congress and
visit the coast cities, but could give
no definite assurances until later in
the season, as his plans are not defin-
itely determined