The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-05
WESTERN NEWS.

a Slight earthquake SHOCk WAS ltlL
At Bakersfield, Calf, January 2Sth.
Hery w. Taft, brother of the pres-
dent, has been in a hospital at Los
Angeles, suffering from erysipelas.
The Transcontinental Passenger
Association has announced its inten-
tion of charging for next summer the
same colonist rates from Chicago to
Pacific coast points as last year.
Probably the heaviest individual
loser of sheep during the recent cold
weather in central Wyoming is j. b.
Oakia of Lost Cabin, whose loss out
of seven bands, it is said, aggregate
5000 head.
Louis Paulhan, the famous French
aviator, made two short aeroplane
flights at Overland Park, Denver Feb
ruary 1st, in the presence of at least
forty of fifty thousand spectators, only
small proportion of whom were IN
side the park.
The Socialists of Lead, South Da-
kota, are preparing to use the recall in
order to oust from the council Alder
man Edward Thomas, member OF
that party, whom they charge with
treachery to their cause in having
signed up with the Homestake Mining
Company.
A report has gained currency in
Wyoming that Annie Bruce, sent up
from Uinta county for four years, fol
lowing her conviction of manslaugh-
ter, has been paroled. No action has
heen taken in the case by the Wyo-
ming Board of Pardons and shs IS still
i'll the penitentiary.
Insurance companies of Illinois are
seeking the enactment of laws which
will enable them to punish dishonest
agents who collect premiums and fail
to remit to the companies. Courts
have held that where the agent has
commission interest m the amount col
lected, he cannot be punished for en-
bezzlement.
Miss Annie Barber, formerly Of Col
orado Springs, has been chosen by the
new sultan of Turkey to devise new
heating plant for the royal palace, one
of the largest and most magnificent
structures in the world. She is in Lon
don, where she is the manager of
big contracting firm. She is a sister
of T. p. and William Barber, Colorado
Springs architects.
The investigation at Chicago into
the fraternal mortality tables fathered
by the Associated Fraternities OF
Ame RIGA, has developed the antagon-
ism between that organization and the
National Fraternal Congress. Several
CT the actuaries appointed to make the
investigation resigned, until they were
assured that no attack upon the Ma
tional Fraternal Congress table of
mortality was intended.
Trailing within three feet of his op-
ponent for twenty-siX miles and al
lowing him to take the pace at all
times. Dorando Pietro, the Italian Mar
athon runner, went to the front in the
last two laps of his race with Johnny
Hayes of New York at San Francisco
and won with sixty yards to spare. The
time of the race was two hours, forty
one minutes and thirty-five seconds,
which is within forty-five seconds of
the record.
| Following the sensational story from
Los Angeles that 800 babies had been
provided homes in that city without
the supposed fathers" knowing but
what they were their own flesh and
blood, came the statement at Chicgao
of Treasurer Lyman W. Rogers Of the
National Maternity hospital, that there
are in Chicago fully 1900 husbands
fondling infants that are not their own,
but babies adopted by their wives
and the deluded fathers are none the
wiser.