The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE,
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Dates for the American Mining Con
gress to be held in Spokane this year
have been fixed for Nov. 25-30.
The breaking up of the ice in the
Platte Loup and Elkhorn rivers in Ne
braska is causing serious floods.
The explosion of a gasoline tank in
their sod house near Mead, Kan.
brought instant death to Mr.. and Mrs.
]. r. Miller.
John Brisben Walker of Denver has
been appointed director of exploitation
OF the Panama-Pacific exposition, to
be held in San Francisco.
Colorado Springs is to entertain the
annual convention of the supreme
council of the Knights of Columbus, an
international organization, Aug. 6. z
and s.
To make smooth the path of the bor-
rowers, the legal authorities of Salt
Lake county, Utah, are making war
on loan sharks.
Hearings on the House free sugar
bill have begun before the Senate COM
mittee on finance. They are expected
to continue fortnight.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has refused to grant the proposed
advance on lemons from California
points to Colorado, Montana and Utah.
The proposition to bond the city of
San Francisco for $S,S00,o0O for the
purchase of land and the erection of
municipal buildings in the proposed
iu;n II al,
ing majority.
Perfecting its plans for Intervention
in Mexico the war department at
Washington is receiving hourly details
as to the militia strength and condi-
tion from adjutant generals of militia
from the states.
In a case of vital interest to irriga-
ton farmers of the West, the Supreme
Court held that land owners along a
river had no right to object to change
in the rivers current by riparian
owners below them.
That Jake Mckinney, formerly the
convict in the state prison at Rusk,
Texas, who was freed by Governor
Colquitt because of touching poem
the convict was said to have written,
stole The poem, is the assertion made
by, the News, published at the Colum-
bus, Ohio, state prison.
The Democratic wool bill passed the
House, 1S9 to so, with twenty Pro.
gressive Republicans voting for it.
Supporters of the bill declared it
would not cut the governments rev.
enue, but would save more than $50.
600 900 a year to consumers.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and the express companies of the
country have practically reached an
agreement as to reforms to be insti.
tuted in the express business, which
will be of far-reaching Importance and
WILL it is predicted, revolutionize the
express business.
The Postoffice Department an
nounces that January 81, 1912, there
were seventy-seven postal savings de-
positories in operation in Colorado,
with deposits amounting to over $685.
600. This amount was deposited by
about 1900 depositors, or an average
of sos per depositor.
Frank Stribbling, who went duck
hunting recently near Fremont, Neb
and was supposed to have been
drowned in the Platte river flood, has
been located in the top of big tree
two miles out in the river, from the
city. He had been caught by the ris-
ing waters and had climbed the tree,
where he had been four days and
where he must remain several days.