The Colorado statesman., 1911-12-09
CONDENSED RECORD OF tn E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o N G S, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

creamery DulleT mas itdShSu NhS
price of Sc cents per pound wholesale,
in Denver, the highest price asked for
the year.
Denver Elks already are planning
capture of the prize trophy for the
best drill team at Portland next Au-
gust when the lodges of the United
States meet in annual convention.
Colonel w. E. Skinner of Denver
was reelected president of the Inter
national Livestock exposition, at Chi
cago. This is the third time that
Colonel Skinner has been given this
honor.
w. E. d. Stokes, whose wife was
Miss Helen Ellwood of Denver, Colo,
is reported so i'll at his apartments
in the Hotel Ansonia in New York that
his recovery is said to be matter OF
grave doubt.
George Lemberg and his fiancee,
Miss Helen Arnold, were married at
Waco, Tex, ON the roof of the Acme
Insurance building, twenty-five stories
high, and the tallest building in Texas.
George Lemberg is a farmer.
The Kansas Flour Milling Company,
with a capital stock of S9,0O0,0OO has
been granted a charter by the state.
1t is a merger of five large milling
concerns at Wellington, Great Bend,
Arkansas City, Enterprise and Kansas
City, Kan.
DR.. A. w. McDavit, the dentist con-
victed of a statutory offense in con-
nection with the holding of Miss jesse
Mcdonald, a school girl, prisoner IN
his office for sixteen months at San
Bernardino, Cal, was sentenced to one
year in the county Jail.
James B. and John ]. Mcnamara,
brothers, natives of Cincinnati, Ohio,
felt the strong hand of justice, at Los
Angeles, which they long had thought
to evade, the former being sentenced
to IMPRISONMENT for live, and the lat
ter to fifteen years in the state pen
itentiary.
1t has been learned that in Septem-
ber. 1910, dynamite bomb was found
in the plant of the Roberts iron and
steel works on the Tacoma tide flats
at Tacoma, Wash. The discovery is
said to have been made just in dme
to snuff the fuse and prevent an eX-
plosion. A strike was on at that time
at the plant.
Manford, q town of 5000 persons,
twenty miles from Tulsa, Okla, re-
sembles an armed camp, according TO
reports, in fear of race war follow
ing a series of events in which one
white man, Fred A. Evans, was killed;
another, Rolly Johnson, was seriously
injured; and one negro Ned Walker,
was lynched.
1.-The United States government and
the California authorities are cooper
ating to uncover one of the most gl-
gantic conspiracies ever conceived IN
the history of this country" This
was the declaration of Assistant DIS
trict Attorney w. Joseph Ford, second
in command to District Attorney John
ID. Fredericks of Los Angeles, and the
man who was arrested in Indianapolis
for alleged illegal eXtradition of John
j. Mcnamara.
Even while a jury was deliberating
over his case, Ralph Fish, alias Rex,
broke into the desk of Sheriff Nc
MILAN, at Pueblo, Colo, stealing sew
eral letters that were unopened and
handful of revolver cartridges.
When the stolen property was found
in the pockets of the prisoner he only
laughed and boastingly added that on
June 20, 1909, he stole watch from
the pocket of an assistant district at
torney at Denver, while in conversa-
ton with the official.
Prohibition, represented in the most
drastic dry ordinance ever proposed
in Los Angeles or elsewhere, probably,
went down in the ruck, with Social
ism, under the landslide, by vote OF
two to one. This, too, in spite of the
fact that approximately 80 per cent OF
the $4,000 women registered for their
first votes in California, exercised the
suffrage. The vote cast probably was
record for any municipality OF that
city's size. Los Angeles harbors some
where between 325,000 and 35O,0OO
people. The gross registration was
192,7OO; the net, after several thous-
ands of names had been thrown out,
something more than $4,000. OF
these, .4O,SS0, according to official
figures, cast their ballots.
For the coinage of subsidiary money
at San Francisco, Director of the Mint
Roberts has purchased 100000 ounces
of silver at 55 cents per ounce.