The Colorado statesman., 1911-12-09
GENERAL.

Tommy Dixon will meet Johnny Kill
bane in a ten-round bout at 122 ring
side in Cleveland, Ohio, the night OF
January L, 1912.
Trial of the indicted Chicago meat
packers has been begun in the United
States District court before Judge
Carpenter in Chicago.
Suit was filed in the Circuit Court
in Cincinnati against the National
Cash Register Company of Dayton,
Ohio, charging conspiracy.
The total coal production of the
world in 1910 was approximately 1,3OO,-
900, 900 short tons, of which the United
States contributed about thirty nine
FER cent.
Senator Borah of Idaho introduced
bill in Congress at washington re-
ducing the time required to complete
residence upon homestead from five
to three years.
1t is proposed that the 100000 sub
scribed by labor unions to aid the
McNamaras be turned over to the rela-
tives of the victims of the Los Angeles
Times disaster.
President Taft's third annual mes
sage to Congress, devoted exclusively
to the Sherman antitrust act and the
trust question in general, was read in
Congress. The President defends the
Sherman act.
Independent tobacco interests will
ask the United States Supreme Court
for leave to file petition for writ
of mandamus directing the judges of
the Circuit Court of New York to va
cate their decree approving the re-
organization of the American Tobacco
Company.
The Standard Oil Company will not
longer control the affairs, as the hold
ing company, of more than thirty cor
porations, in various branches of the
oil business. Those subsidiaries un-
der the decree of the Supreme Court,
will now assume entire management
of their own affairs.
Unless the friar lands in the Phil
ippines are speedily disposed of they
will become a heavy financial drain on
the Philippine government, says c. r.
Edwards, the chief of the Bureau of
Insular Affairs. and in his annual re-
port, recommends that these lands be
sold.
Capt. E. A. Swaney and four men,
bers of the crew of the towboat Dia-
mond were killed in the explosion of
the boats boilers while she was lying
Al. off Aua m G
miles south of Pittsburg. Five others
were injured. two fatally. The boat
lies at the bottom of the Ohio.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has opened the way for the fed
eral government to prosecute coal
land frauds in Alaska by holding that
the general coal land laws of the Unit
ed States, which forbid persons or as
sociations making more than one en-
try, applied to the unsurveyed coal re-
| gionS of Alaska.
Reports from the woolen mills in
many parts of New England indicate
that the period of depression, which
was reported year or more ago, has
passed. The mills are preparing to
put all hands on an extra-work sched-
| ule, made necessary by the large or
ders on hand and those that will come.
Full forces have been at work for
weeks, but have been unable to re-
duce the stacks of orders lying upon
managers desks.
The board of governors of the Ma
| tional Irrigation Congress have COM
pleted arrangements for the nine
teenth annual meeting of the organi-
zation which will be held in Chicago.
The members of the board are: r.
Insinger, Spokane, Wash, chairman;
B. A. Fowler, Phoenix. Ariz., vice
chairman; Arthur Hooker, Spokane.
| Wash, secretary and treasurer;
Robert R. Mccormick and w. G. De-
collie, Chicago, and w. ]. MCGEE, Wash
ington, d. C.
The Commerce Court, at Washing
ton, denied motion to dismiss fur.
ther proceedings before that tribunal
in the famous long and short haul
| freight rate cases. The motion was
made by counsel for the Chicago AS
sociation of Commerce.
John d. Rockefeller has terminated
his career as head of the Standard
tired most of the conspicuous figures
of the early days of the oil trust"
| Not Rockefeller remains among the
officers and directors of the Standard
Oil Company.