The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-21
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EleN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
polNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

kane, WASH. Damage hedFg' No OhS
injured.
President Taft spent one day in
southern California and received a
hearty welcome. The streets Of Los
Angeles were thronged.
Mistaking a horse chestnut for an
edible sweet chestnut, Mrs. S. J. Rider
of Greeley, Colo, ate the poisonous
nut and nearly died.
W. D. Street. a pioneer plainsman,
scout and Indian fighter died at Ober-
lin, Kan, Of apoplexy. He was a scout
and guide with Gen. Custer.
Mrs. Julia NJ. Hubbard, who is dead
at Uionville, Conn, in her thirty-tif-
tn year, weighed AS pounds. She
was five feet eight inches tall.
Tommy Ward. aged y, of Ardmore,
Okla, leaving a note to his mother
that he was tired picking cotton, shot
himself with an old army revolver,
dying instantly.
Fully 5000 persons crowded the
Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake to
pay a last tribute to John Henry
Smith, second counselor Of the Nor
mon church, who died recently.
The net earnings of the Colorado &
Southern lines during its fiscal year,
ending June 80, 1911, were $5,4S9,954,
according to the annual report filed
with the board Of directors in New
York.
Seven people were killed and TWEEN
ty-two injured, four OF them seriously,
IN a collision between Missouri Pa
cific passenger train No. 105, north
bound, en- route for Omaha, Neb., and
a fast freight train.
Woman suffrage in China, under
republic established through reyolu-
tion organized and financed in the
United States, is the plan announced
in San Francisco by Sun Fo, son of Dr.
Sun Yat Sen, the reyolutionists'
choice for president.
According to word received confer
ences held in Detroit have resulted
in steps being taken to consolidate
the Alaska Pacific, Alaska Coast and
North Pacific Coast Steamship Com
panies, operating fourteen steam
ers on the Pacific coast.
The Louisiana state and fire rating
board, at its regular monthly session,
at Baton Rouge, adopted resolution
reducing the conflagration hazard
charge in the congested district of
New Orleans from 25 cents to Is
cents.
The forty-fourth annual session of
the Independent order of Odd Fellows
and the twenty-first yearly meeting of
ha Dol 10 n n and Hignngpn of
matters of vital concern to these or
ganizations during their meeting in
Denver.
Judge E. Il. Porterfield, in the Grim
inal Court in Kansas City, denied the
motion of attorneys for B. c. Hyde
for the appointment of elisors to take
charge of the jury that is to try DR..
Hyde the second time for the murder
of Colonel Thomas Swope.
There are many women holding
elective offices in Kansas, according
to the political census just com
pleted. The list totals seyenty-four
and with the exception of Mrs. Ella
Wilson, the only woman mayor, all
were elected by the votes of men
alone.
A total of approximately 100000
young trout, yellow perch and bass
were planted in Colorado lakes and
streams from the United States fish
hatcheTies in 1911, through the efforts
of Senator Guggenheim. The distribu-
tion, which was made during the sum
mer, extended over the entire state,
and through the efforts of the senator
many isolated places were stocked
with young fish from the governmen;
hatcheries.
Two hundred delegates, many of
whom are from foreign countries, at
tended the first annual meeting of
farm women in Colorado Springs,
Colo, and from the intense interest
shown, the excellence of the various
addresses and the business-like man
ner in which the delegates worked to
effect permanent organization, 1t is
evident that they Will prove yalua-
BILE addition to the Dry Farming Con
gress and will exert "A force which Will
ultimately carry out the purpose for
which they have organized.
A south-bound passenger train on
the New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago
railroad left the rails and turned over
four niles south of Beaumont,
Miss, instantly killing the baggage
master and injuring twenty-seven pas
sengers and members of the crew.
A new use for the common cactus
plant of the western country is sug-
gested by Theodore IL. Adams of Den
yer, who is authority for the state
ment that durable paint may be
made from the cactus and that the
people of South American countries
have used this natural paint for years.