Eastern Colorado times., 1912-08-02
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pronounced 0eaQ Dy u PuySiCiou
and made ready for burial, Charles
Singer. living near Urbania. Kan, re-
vived after twenty-four years.
Rio Blanco county, Colo. is harvest
ing the greatest crop Of alfalfa In tea
years. More than $4,000 acres are av-
eraging two and one-half tons per
acre.
]. 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, q 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
we're sent direct from San Francisco
to Honolulu, distance Of 2,100 miles.
James B. Mcnamara, serving 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.
The bribery trial of Clarence 8. Dar-
row has been unexpectedly halted in
Los Angeles by the serious illness OF
a juror. Just before court convened
Monday telephone message was re-
ceived from Elmonte that Leavitt had
suffered a severe attack Of appendl-
citis.
Bishop Henry White Warren, dis
tinguished, scientist, author. mission
ary, statesman and one Of the most
beloved figures in all the great Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. died recently at
his home in Denver at the age Of
eighty-two. Death was due to pneu-
monia.
BY the testimony Of Robert Oxnard,
now president of the American Beet
Sugar Company, 1t was shown in the
government inquiry in San Francisco
that H. o. Havemeyer controlled the
Western sugar Market as well as the
other territory in the United States,
as far back as 1891.
Mrs. George Brown Of Tacoma.
Wash, mother of Belmore Brown,
companion of Prof. Herchell Parker
in the expedition to climb Mount Nc
Kinley, has received information that
the party reached a height of 100000
feet and then returned. That is 464
feet from the summit.
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 cousin Of Governor Hogg
of Texas, committed suicide at Man
haitian, New, by shooting herself.
The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific
railroad, known as the Moffat road
will be sold under the hammer to sat
isfy the overdue $3.500.000 bonds held
by Eastern bankers. according to the
statement made in Denver financial
circles. It Is reported that the Union
Pacific railroad is to be the purchas-
er. A representative Of that road :s
said to have accompanied the bond
holders on the recent inspection trip
over the road.
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.
SPORT.