Eastern Colorado times., 1912-04-05
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"eSt 6oNs
ES, ,,,,,, con-
gress to be held in Spokane this year
have been fixed for Nov. $3.50.
The breaking up of the ice in the
Platte Loup and Elkhorn rivers in Ne
braska is causing serious floods.
Ralph Raymond, locomotive fireman,
has been arrested in Chicago for rob
bling the body of man killed by his
engine.
Reuben Harris, 81 years old, mar
shal of Quitman, Mo-, is dying as
result of the excitement attendant on
his first arrest.
To make smooth the path of the bor-
rowers. the legal authorities of Salt
Lake county, Utah, are making war
on loan sharks.
The Butte, Mont, miners union Of
the Western Federation Of Miners
voted to take a referendum vote upon
the question, of striking.
One life sacrificed for each million
tons of coal produced, was the human
toll exacted by the coal mining indus
try Of Colorado of 1911.
The ten millionaire packers charged
with criminal responsibility for pack
ing combine were found not guilty in
Federal Court in Chicago.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has refused to grant the proposed
advance on lemons from California
points to Colorado, Montana and Utah.
.Columbine university OF New York
will send large squad of students to
the wheat fields of Kansas, Nebraska,
Montana and the Dakotas this summer
to work as farm hands and laborers.
A cave-in in a stope at the Utah
Apex mine at Bingham, Utah, buried
Harry Thomas and Thomas Bosanko,
miners. They were dead when taken
out.
Railroad employees of Colorado do
not want reduction of railroad rates
which will result in similar reduc.
ton of their salaries, according to the
sense of the meeting of the Railway
Employees and Investors Association
at Denver.
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.
That nearly fifty of the Industrial
Workers of the World arrested in San
Francisco have admitted they were
trying to overthrow the United States
government is one Of the statements
contained in a report which the Cali
fornia authorities will send to the i'm
migration bureau at Washington.
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.
The proposition to bond the city Of
San francisco for $S.soo,ooo for the
purchase of land and the erection of
municipal buildings in the proposed
civic center carried by an overwhelm-
ing majority.
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 $780,
900. This amount was deposited by
about 1900 depositors, or an average
Of $108 per depositor.