The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-02
CONDENSED RECORD OF THk
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
aAYiNoe, o o N q 9, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERlNos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western sewspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Five Italians residing five miles
rom Pueblo, Colo. have been arrested
charged with bootlegging.
The potato crop in Colorado is not
short, but even IL it were it would
make little difference. Ireland is to
have a bumper crop.
1t has been announced from the Of
fices of the Canadian Northern that
the road would build into Spokane,
Wash. from Kamloops, B. c.
Census figures show that the value
of farms in the United States was 3d.
$50 million dollars in 1910, compared
with 1857 millions in 1900, an in.
crease in ten years of 106 per cent.
The state of Idaho and the United
States government have agreed to ex-
change about 100000 acres of land in
that state SO that each may have its
lands in a more compact body than at
present.
Colorado land men and immigration
agents expect large homeseekers' bus
mess in the state between September
Is and October Is on account of the
low colonists rates to the Paciflc
coast during that period.
The Texas Cattle Raisers' Associa-
ton, who control 100000 head of cat
tie are planning to make fight on the
big packers of the country, and will
either bring about raise in the price
of cattle or reduce the price of meat,
Fruit growers on the Western slope
of Colorado fear shortage of refriger-
ator cars for handling their fruit crop
this year and have asked the Denver
Chamber of Commerce to take the
matter up and endeavor to provide in
some way against damage OF the
crop by reason of lack of cars.
The Jews of the nation have start
ed movement to make up the short
age in the funds of the National Jew
ish Hospital for Consumptives, at Den
ver according to Rabbi w. S. Fried
man, one of the members of the board
of directors, who has returned home
from a meeting at Atlantic city.
A highway from Lincoln, Neb., to
the western Colorado line, which will
follow closely the route of the Burling-
ton railroad, is the joint project of the
several Nebraska counties through
which it will pass. Not for several
years, in all probability will the road
be completed, but its construction has
been definitely determined.
The governors of thirteen Western
states will greet S5.O0O.000 people east
of the Rockies this fall, when a gov
ernors special train, carrying the ex-
ecutives of Idaho, Washington, Ore
gon, California, Montana, Nevada,
Utah, Wyoming, North and South Da-
kota, Colorado, Nebraska and Mime
sofa will assemble at Omaha in Octo-
ber and journey to the land shows at
Chicago, Pittsburg and New YORK city,
with side trips to every Eastern CAPT
tai. and wind up at st. Paul in Decem-
Der.
That chaos would follow the grant
ing of the demands of the Federation
of Shop Employees of the Hartman
lines; that it would abridge or deprive
the corporations of the ability to full
ill the duties imposed upon them by
the law, and that the officers deliber-
qtely so betraying their trusts as TO
agree to such an arrangement would
he universally condemned by public
opinion, was the statement made by
julius Kruttschnitt. at San Francisco,
vice president and director of mainte-
,ance and operation of the Hartman
44ds.