The Colorado statesman., 1912-06-22
q BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOiNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Ten persons were injured, one Sc
verely. when a tornado swept through
the village of Nelogony. Okla.
Governor Oddie of Nevada appoint
ed George Wingfield of Reno to sue
ceed the late George s. Nixon, as
United States senator.
The mangled body of an unknown
man was found in the railroad yards
at Pueblo recently. The coroner be-
lieves he committed suicide.
After losing their nine-year-old son
from diptheria, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Wagner of La Sale, Colo, are critical
ly i'll with the same disease.
Gov. Hunt vetoed the bill permitting
twentyround prize fights in Arizona.
In a message to the Legislature Gov.
Hunt declared the bill was step
backward.
Twelve inches of snow has fallen at
Bailey, Idaho, and the weather is ex-
tremely cold for this time of the year.
This is the heaviest snowfall recorded
here in June for years.
The mountains in the vicinity of
Central City, Colo. are covered with
three inches of snow, and instead of
the middle of June, the appearance OF
everything indicates the Christmas
season.
Mrs. Victoria Hebert of San Fran,
cisco was shot four times and fatally
wounded by her husband, Aledos He
bert, when she attempted personally to
serve a summons on him in her suit
for divorce.
Two hundred and fifty-five thousand
dollars in gold dust, the first spring
shipment from the interior of Alaska
and the Yukon territory, was brought
down to Seattle by the steamboat
Humboldt, which arrived from Skag-
way recently.
Mission architecture, the most
unique and beautiful of all forms of
American buildings, is the salient fea-
ture of San Diego's exposition, to be
held in 1915. The foremost authority
in the world on architecture is design
ing all the buildings in this style.
The franchise of the Pueblo baseball
team in the Rocky Mountain League
has been transferred to Trinidad busi-
ness men for the remainder of the sea
son. The Colorado Springs team is
now representing Dawson, New Mexi-
co. and the Canon City nine is playing
at Ration, New Mexico.
Planted in the fall of 1910 and fail.
ing to come up last year, a forty-acre
field OF wheat on the George l.. Gould
ing ranch in Weld county, near the
town Of Keota. Colo, surprised its
owner by coming up this spring. The
wheat promises yield of twenty
bushels to the acre.
To test the right of the government
to regulate power companies which
use water sites in forest reserves, a
suit has been filed in the Federal Court
at Denver by the government against
the Central Colorado Power Company,
the biggest corporation of it's kind in
the state
Abandoning its old channel almost
completely, the Colorado river, accord
ing to report, has thrown itself upon
barren stretch of sand dunes at the
great bend in the stream in the north
western part of Arizona. News of the
big break was carried to Fort Mojave
by Indians, who thought the strange
change in the channel was a warning
from the gods of impending disaster.
The West is face to face with the
biggest railroad strike in it's history.
Between 100000 and 100000 men have
voted in favor of walkout. The or
ders were not issued on account of ne
gatiations between julius Kruttschnitt,
director of maintenance of way of the
Hartman lines, and representatives of
the shopmen on that system looking to
a settlement of the strike which has
been on for more than a year.