The Colorado statesman., 1911-11-04
GEN ERAL.

For the first time since 1888 the
Postoffice Department during the fis-
cal year ended June 80, 1911, was con-
Quoted at a profit
The strike vote taken recently
among employees of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railway, in Chicago,
was in favor of strike.
Brig. Gen. p. H. Ray, U. S. A, re-
tired, died suddenly at Fort Niagara, N.
Y, aged seventy. Gen. Ray was in
active service from 1861 to 1906.
Miss Fola La Toilette, daughter of
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin, was
trried at her home in Washington
to George Middleton of New York.
The United States Steel corpora
tons first step in the legal battle with
the government for it's existence will
be taken on Monday, December 4, in
Washington, d. c:
Robert Patton Lisle, aged sixty
seven, pay director of The United
States navy, who was retired with
the rank of rear admiral, died sud
denly at his home in Philadelphia from
heart disease.
Proprietors of the Triangle Waist
Company in New York, in whose place
on the eighth, ninth and tenth floors
of the Asch buildin, LAB girls and men
were burned to death, March 20 last,
will have to go to trial soon under in
dictments of manslaughter in the first
degree.
For the second time, Capt. Klaus
Larsen of Detroit, successfully navi'
gated in motor boat the turbulent
waters of the lower Niagara river at
Niagara Falls, and the great mael-
strom at the point where the stream
turns on it's journey to Lewiston.
This, he declares, will be his last
Niagara trip.
To accommodate banks in the small
cities, Postmaster General Hitchcock
has decided that the minimum amount
of bonds to be accepted from banks
qualifying to receive deposits of pos
tai savings funds at third class post
offices shall be reduced from $4,000 to
81 900 Additional bonds will be re-
quired as the deposits at any office in
crease.
The tariff boards report on the
wooden industry is to be transmitted
to Congress upon the opening of the
next session in December, in Washing
ton. and the boards report on cotton
will follow probably before January.
This, it became known, is the admin
istration's programme with relation to
the big tariff fight that will be waged
in Congress this winter.
That, according to information in
the possession of the United States
district attorney, a conspiracy unlaw-
fully to transport dynamite from state
to state has existed, with headquar-
ters in the offices of John j. McNa-
mara in Indianapolis, is the statement
of petition filed in the County Grim
inal Court in that city praying for pos
session of evidence in the case to be
used in federal grand jury investi-
cation.
The proposed plan for reorganiza-
tion of the Tobacco trust, submitted
by the American Tobacco Company,
and co-defendants to the government
antitrust suit was both praised and
condemned before the Federal Court
Judges of the United States for the
Southern district of New York. After
Attorney General Wickersham had
filed the governments answer to the
plan, counsel for thedefendants plead
ed with the court to accept the dis
solution proposal. The defendants in
sisted that it was an honest plan 20
comply with the requirements in the
mandate of the Supreme Court for
reorganization that will restore COM
petition in compliance with the terms
of the Sherman antitrust law.
Announcing that he spoke with the
consent of President Taft, Secretary
of the Interior Fisher declared in CLi
cago, that the coal lands comprised in
the public domain in Alaska would be
available to the public under leas
ing system
In a 50-mile wind Orville Wright
went aloft and remained virtually sta
tionary in his glider. with which he
is conducting experiments in aerial
stability at Kill Devil, N. C. He was
up 8 minutes and As seconds and main
tanned an altitude of approximately
$50 feet