The Colorado statesman., 1911-11-04
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

The Santa Fe railroad loSJ III ltS
fight in California to have the state
full crew" law declared unconstltu-
tional.
Unusually cold weather for this sea
son of the year is reported from the
Big Hole basin in the southwestern
part of Montana.
Incomplete returns from the city
primary in Los Angeles give for may
or, Hartman, Socialist, 9,703, and
Alexander, Republican, 9,2O6.
The first complete woman jury to
be empaneled in California has been
sworn for duty in Justice of the
Peace Cassidys court in Watts.
Prof. John ]. Montgomery of Santa
Clara college died from the effects OF
a fall from an aeroplane glider he was
experimenting with in the foothills
about two miles east of Evergreen.
Calf.
The town of Thelma, eighteen miles
south of San Antonio, Texas, was prac-
ticaIly destroyed, two persons were
hurt and damage the amount of whlch
has not been estimated, was done to
crops by a tornado.
Several English correspondents ex-
PEELED from Tripoli for not complying
with the rules of censorship, have ar
rived at Malta. They describe the
fighting at Tripoli as more disastrous
to the Italians than the Italians have
admitted.
Because of his youth, Earl Gilchrist
of Little Rock, Ark negro de-
clared by his parents to be thirteen
years of age, will not be hanged as
jury decreed, and the Supreme Court
saffirmed, but will serve fifteen years
in the penitentiary.
Earthquakes in southwestern Alas
ka recently so shook up earth and
glaciers along the coast as to expose
what miners claim are the worlds
richest gold quartz veins. Quartz
samples from Port Wells assay over
$4,000 per ton gold.
The family of DR.. Thomas A. Perrin,
physician of San Jose, Calf, accord
ing to advices just received from
Brantford, Ontario, Canada, has es-
tablished claim to $4,500,000 in the
Bank of England, which has been ly-
ing idle for more than 500 years.
The express car on the Rock Island
passenger train which left Memphis,
Tenn, was blown to pieces by dyna-
mite used by robbers, near Hurlburt,
Ark. The express car was entirely
wrecked and scattered over the tracks,
blocking traffic. The robbers got
nothing.
Fort Worth & Denver City passen-
ger train No. 8, northbound, was
wrecked one mile west of Bellevue.
Tex. Engineer Cunningham is dead
and his fireman, w. c. Gates, of Fort
Worth, and score of passengers re-
ported injured Spreading rails caused
the wreck.
In special election Deadwood, S.
D., voted to buy site for public
park, on which an auditorium will at
once lie erected. The principal con-
tributor pledged to the auditorium is
Mrs. Edward H. Hartman of New
York. The park and auditorium will
cost over $4,000.
Patents on all mineral, non-mineral
and homestead locations in Alaska
have been ordered withheld until spe-
cial agents of the General Land Office
examine the land to make sure that
it does not contain coal or oil. The
order ties up numerous mineral appli-
cations in southeastern Alaska, as
there are not sufficient special agents
in Alaska to make speedy examina-
tions of the locations.
Almost 100000 women will be ELI
gible to vote for President of the Unit
ed States in 1912. Those women are
to be found in the six Western states
which have already granted equal suf-
frage. The number of women in each
state who are eligible to vote is about
as follows: California, 100000; Colo
RADIO, 100000; Idaho, 4S,000; Utah, 65,-
600; Washington, 100000, and wy
oming, $4,000, or a total of 92S,OOO.
There are in the United States today
Just nineteen states that have no
form of woman suffrage, although
some cities in them have. Kentucky
was the first state in this country to
give women the right to vote.
FOREIGN.