The Colorado statesman., 1912-08-03
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
q BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EleN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
polNes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE,
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Pronounced dead by a physician
and made ready for burial, Charles
Singer, living near Urbania, Kan. re-
vived after twenty-four hours.
Rio Blanco county, Colo, is harvest
ing the greatest crop of alfalfa in tea
years. More than $4,000 acres are sv-
eraging two and one-half tons per
acre.
The Williams and Bartlett Springs
stage was held up at the Prim grade,
about thirty-five miles from Williams,
California, the robbers obtaining s2,-
500 in cash, besides much jewelry.
]. E. Cody, who claims to be the
worlds champion diver, performed the
feat of swimming down the Willamette
river from oregon City, to Portland,
Ore, distance of thirteen miles.
Flashing the success of the most dis
tinctive achievement in the history of
wireless telegraphy, newspaper dis
patches amounting to 1900 words
were sent direct from San Francisco
to Honolulu, a distance of 2,100 miles
Further investigation into the land
fraud cases instituted by the govern
ment against the Southern Pacific in
Oregon has begun in San Francisco,
with B. D. Townsend, special agent
of the Department Of Justice, in
charge of the inquiry.
James B. Mcnamara, serving a life
sentence in San Quentin, Calf, pen
itentiary for murder committed in the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times
building, is held in solitary confine-
ment in an effort to make him con-
fess further details of that conspiracy.
By the testimony of Robert Oxnard,
now president of the American Beet
Sugar Company, it was shown in the
government inquiry in San Francisco
that II. o. Havemeyer controlled the
Western sugar market, as well as the
other territory in the United States,
as far back as 1891.
Lieut.. Costigan of the New York po-
lice force, in testifying before the
grand jury which is investigating the
killing of Rosenthal, the gambler, who,
alter threatening to expose officials
for protecting gamblers in that city,
declared that Police Commissioner
Waldo had entire charge of the gam
bling situation, raids and arrests being
made only upon his authority.
Believed to have been mentally un-
balanced by the grief over the loss OF
her five children who were drowned at
the seme time at Reno during the flood
recently, Mrs. A. Kehoe, daughter of
the William Hogg, general passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific at Pu.
ebla and a cousin of Governor Hogg
of Texas, committed suicide at Man
haitian. New, by shooting herself.
One thousand square miles of graz
ing land under one fence, with thir
ty-year lease at something like So per
square mile per year, is the alluring in
ducement to be held out to Western
stockmen by the Argentine govern
ment Details of the plan to encour
age sheep and cattle raising in the
Patagonian territory obtained by Ar
gentine in settlement with Chill have
been received in Washington by the
Department of Agriculture.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in Salt Lake City for the Provo
& Eastern Utah Railroad Company
1t is announced the new company will
build a railroad from Springville to
Jensen, Utah, a point near the Utah
Colorado line, and later will extend
the road to Steamboat Springs, Colo,
the present terminus of the Moffat
line. The incorporators denied that
the new road is to be affiliated with
the Moffat line. The new company is
incorporated for $10,000,000.