The Colorado statesman., 1910-09-24
GENE RAJ.


club pier, Rose Pitonof, 16-year-old
girl swan to Coney Island. seventeen
miles.
The eighty-sixth annual meeting OF
the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows
opened at Atlanta, Ca, Monday.
M L. Peaden, farmer of Pitt coun-
ty, South Carolina, is threatened with
entire ossification of the limbs and
body, supposed to be caused by the
hookworm.
The states of Illinois and Missouri
will soon be linked by interurban troll
ley service. Announcement that the
Mckinley bridge of the Illinois trac
tion system will be ready for through
travel on Oct has just been made.
At the G. A. r. encampment at At
lantic City, N. j., one thing noticed at
the various meetings was the definite
shape the movement for increasing the
pensions of veterans is taking. The
cry is "A dollar a day for life" The
national encampment is expected to
take up the matter.
BY means of a minute electric lamp
which made it possible to see down
womans throat and clear into the
lower lobe of the right lung and to in
sert through the trachea extenslble
forceps, a Toledo physician removed
fragment of a tooth from the right
lung of Mrs. G. Cole of Vanwert and
hnr
The present population OF Chicago
is 2,1S5,2S3. This is a gain of 3S6,70S,
or 27.7 per cent, since 1900. AS the
second city in America. Chicago Is
practically in a class by Itself. New
York far outstrips it. with 4,766,SS3.
and Philadelphia, which is its nearest
rival for the second honor this year,
showed a population of 1,549,OOS.
An attack has been begun in the
Circuit Court at Cincinnati by Will
liam D. McKemy, as receiver of the
grand lodge of Ohio of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen, against
the supreme lodge, a Texas corpora
ton. The action is to compel the
higher tribunal to make good its con-
tract to pay guaranteed death claims
for a total Of S139, ,S1O.64.
The protest against the erection OF
the statue of General Robert e. Lee
in the rotunda of the capitol may be
dropped and a movement begun for a
monster monument to be erected by
the people of the country and dedi-
Gated, not to the heroes of the north,
or brave men of the south, but rather
to the men who sacrificed their all for
the cause that they thought was right
At Niagara Falls, N. Y, Captain
Klaus Larsen, in his little motor boat,
the Ferro, Sunday made a successful
trip from the foot of the cataract
through the whirlpool rapids to within
a mile of Lewiston, a distance of four
and one-half miles. He started from
the Maid of the Mist dock and ran on
a rock near the American shore. De-
spite the battering of the whirlpool
rapids, Larsen went through safely,
but his boat was leaking badly at the
finish and through the trip.
Under the present status of the rail-
road rate case there does not seem to
bee any doubt that the issue of cap
italization and what is fair return
on capital invested in the railroads as
public utilities will eventually get be-
fore the Supreme Court in Definite
form, or before the people in the form
of new railroad legislation. 1t Is the
intention of the shippers to take
these questions before the courts, pro-
vided the commission grants the In
creased rates asked by the railroads.
The bond of sentiment that has
welded together the hearts OF the
north and the south was never more
IN evidence than at the formal opening
of the forty-fourth national encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. 1t is probable that there may
never be another encampment held by
the G. A. r. The movement to bring
together all the survivors OF the civil
war has grown wonderfully. Samuel
K. VanSant, one time governor OF Min
nesota, declared himself in favor OF the
idea. General Daniel E. Sickles also
favored the plan. Two great demon
strations of patriotism and love drew
together thousands of survivors.
Many national questions of import
ance are to be considered at the twen-
ty-frst annual session of the Trans
Mississippi Commercial congress, to
be held at San Antonio. Tex, Novem-
her 22-25. the call for which was is
sued Sunday.
At meeting at Kansas City which
ended Sunday night the representa-
tives of the miners in the southwest
ern field ratified the agreement made
with the operators and will resume
work next Tuesday. The contract as
4. pow etands Ia said to be victory