The Colorado statesman., 1911-12-02

titled to alimony and support under
certain conditions, according to a de-
cision of the Supreme Court, handed
down at Bismark, N. d.
Aviator Fc xler, in sight of Fort
Worth, Texas, was forced to descend
in the midst of a drove of steers,
when his engine broke down in mid
air. He lost no time in descending, but
it took dextrous management to
avoid damage from the stampeded cat
tie.
At Chillicothe, Texas, Constable
Charles Holloway was killed and Con-
stable j. A. Doyle seriously wounded
in battle with two men wanted in
connection with the recent robbery OF
the State Bank of Odell, Texas. Posses
are pursuing the men, who are said to
be afoot.
One man was killed and several
others were injured when a steel
bridge east of Maple Valley, Wash,
on the Columbia and Puget Sound
railway collapsed and fell into Cedar
river. Gill Thompson. hook tender,
was caught in the wreck. His body
has not been recovered.
Amid din of whistling from river
craft, the replica of the steamboat
New Orleans, the first steam vessel to
ply the Mississippi river, came into
the harbor at New Orleans, complet-
ing cruise from Pittsburg in celebra-
tion of the centennial anniversary OF
the Inauguration of steamboating on
the Father of Waters"
H. A. Johnson of Denver, traffic
manager of the Colorado & Southern
railway, who is travelling through
southern California in his private car.
had desperate encounter in Coronado
bay with a man-eating shark, twelve
feet long. After a fierce and sangui-
nary battle, lasting over two hours,
Mr.. Johnson succeeded in killing the
vicious monster. During the fight for
life the shark stove in the bow of
Johnson's boat and ate the blade off
one of the oars.
A delegation of Utah and Idaho
wool men, accompanied by Senator
Smoot, called upon President Taft
and discussed briefly prospective leg
islation affecting the wool tariff. They
told the President they favored the
bill Senator Smoot has framed, which
proposes making washed instead or
raw wool the basis of tariff charges,
and that they would like to see the
tariff on wool importatiohs cover the
difference between the cost of produc-
IL,
Possibly some of it's members will re-
turn to Washington after Congress
convenes, to aid western members in
their efforts to protect the interests
of wool growers.
The federal grand jury is probing
Evidence has been presented to the
grand jury seeking to show that the
fruit and wholesale produce men OF
the city have a combination In re-
straint of trade which arbitrarily fixes
the prices of fruit and other commod-
tiles and freezes out dealers not in the
trust. The fruit operations of this or
ganization have been gone into par
ticularly. A special agent of the De-
partment of Justice attached to United
States Attorney Thomas Wards office
has been conducting the investigation
for the government. Sensations are
promised the public as result of the
grand jury's probe. 1t is said that
the prices of fruit and sugar are the
particular subjects of the probe.
The biological survey of Wyoming,
Montana and Idaho, covering the most
important agricultural and reclama-
ton areas of those states, will soon
be completed, and copies ready for dis
tribution shortly may be had from the
Department of Agriculture or through
members of Congress. The survey in
Montana and Wyoming was carried
over portions of these states where
little work had been previously done
and where a detailed knowledge OF the
distribution of birds and mammals is
important In Idaho strip of country
heretofore unexplored by biologists,
but now rapidly developing agricultur-
ally, was covered. One of the bene-
ficial objects of these surveys is the
discovery of birds, insects and nam
mails injurious to crops, and the means
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