The Colorado statesman., 1910-11-26
GENERAL.

Fire destroyed the business session
of Edgemont, a suburb of East st.
Louis; loss 100000.
Lieut.. Colonel Edmund G. Fechet,
U. s. A., retired, died of heart failure.
he was a famous Indian fighter.
The iowa State University football
team won from the Washington uni
versity in st. Louis, by score OF IS
to 0.
An aeroplane flight from Havana,
Cuba, to Key West, Florida, is the
next aviation triumph which John B.
Moissant is planning.
Four men were killed by the Prema-
ture explosion of five-inch gun at the
Indian Head proving grounds of the
navy at Washington:
Two hundred miners employed at
the Gibson mines near Des Moines,
Ia, struck because the company re
fused an additional weighmaster.
Four men, the crew of the sea-going
tug Sea Prince, were drowned in San
Francisco bay, when the British steam
er Greystoke Castle rammed and sank
the tug.
Reports from all over the country
are to the effect that the extreme
high cost of living has reached the
zenith to the market and now prices
are headed downward.
River authorities in Paris announce
that the flood has reached its turning
point and may be expected to drop
steadily for two or three days unless
bad weather sets in.
The mining town of Clifton has won
over Duncan in the fight for county
seat honors of the new county Of
Greenlee, Arizona. which borders on
Grant county, New Mexico.
Robert Woodruff, a ranchman, liv-
ing near Conrad, Mont, took arsenic
by mistake for sulphur to relieve
sore throat. He died shortly after
ward.
A single vote in a district where
more than 1000 ballots were cast No
vember s, elected Charles Bennett
Smith, Democrat, of Buffalo mem
ber of Congress.
Bad fires in two widely separated
sections of New York drove hundreds
of perosns panic stricken, into the
streets, and caused property damage
approXimated at $150,00O.
The following states have so far
adopted the initiative and referen-
DUN: Oregon, South Dakota, Nevada,
Montana, Illinois, Utah, Oklahoma,
Texas, Maine, Missouri and Arkansas.
A large consignment of smudge
pots has been shipped to fruit grow
ers near Phoenix, Ariz., where they
will be used early in December for the
purpose of protecting ripening citrus
fruits from severe frosts.
Senator Charles ]. Hughes, Jr., has
received from Alfred Beirley of Chi
cago a petition asking the senator to
lend his aid to movement to secure
in Congress the adoption of new de-
sign for the American flag.
Mrs. William Heffler, living near
Chenoa, ILL.,, has the distinction of be-
ing a grandmother at thirty years.
The combined ages of the parents of
the child and the Grandmother are
only sixty-five years. The father is
10 and the mother 16.
One of the largest land transactions
in the history of Montana has just
been made public. Deed has been
filed in the office of the clerk and re-
corder transferring the title to 81
2g6.75 acres from Bert G. Shorey OF
Billings. to Alfred l.. Thomas. The
consideration is stated as about $780,
900.
The secretary of the interior, Rich
ard A. BIlllnger, dressed in overalls
and cap, descended 450 feet into the
L ell n re of the Pit surg and Buf-
falo Coal mpany at -Iariannl. Pa,
and thorot 5hly inspected what are
supposed to be the most iernly
equipped underground workings in tho
world.
General r. w. Hoyt, in command OF
the Department of Texas, has been
to use his discretion in
to preserve neutrality on the
Mexican border and has ordered cav
airy to Eagle Pass, Texas, for that
purpose.
All the unallotted lands of the five
civilized tribes of Indians in Okla
homa, approximating 1,650,000 acres,
will be sold by public auction. The
sale will be by counties and will con-
tinue until March l. 1911, when 1t is
expected that the entire immense
tract will have been dispcs i of.