The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-05-30
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WESTERN NEWS.

The Minnesota Republican conven-
tion to nominate state officers will be
held at St. Paul July LIST.
The seven men seriously injured in
the sensational airship accident at
Berkeley, California, are all expected to
recover.
United States Senator Samuel Doug
las DENLY of Louisiana was unani-
mously elected to succeed himself by
both the Senate and House.
The beer gardens and dancing halls
of Toledo were closed on the night of
Nav 24th, for the first time in many
years, by order Of Mayor Whitlock.
By the division of $215,O00, due the
nribe from the government, each mem
Ter of the kickapoo tribe of Indians in
Mexico, Oklahoma and Arizona. ISL
in number, will receive $1,366.
1t is stated at Chicago that manufac-
turers of Portland cement throughout
the country are about to start price
cutting war that, it is declared, will
put some of the smaller concerns out
of business.
John r. Perry, a young amateur
baseball player at St. Louis made a
long throw from left field and caught a
runner racing for the plate. While the
cheers were still sounding Perry fell
dead in the field.
William T. Hamilton, aged eighty
six, probably the greatest Indian fight
er and Indian sign reader and talker
the West has ever produced, died at
Billings, Montana, May 25th. He was
one of General Clusters scouts.
Four lives are known to have been
lost, more than million dollars
worth of property destroyed, and four
thousand people rendered homeless by
the overflow of Trinity river near Dal-
las, Texas, Sunday night and Monday.
Two Pullman cars of Elks dressed
in the typical Mexican peon uniform
will come from Mexico to the national
convention of Elks at Dallas in June.
The Elks will wear big charro hats,
white duck trousers, sandals and red
sashes.
BY vote of 664 against Gel the
striking street railway conductors and
motormen of Cleveland decided to re-
turn to work as new" men. The vote
is in accord with the demands of the
Municipal Traction Company upon this
point.
. Six persons are dead, from 400 to
DUU are nOLeIGSS, LnOuSdHuS VI dtteS
of lowlands are inundated, hundreds
of houses are washed away or dam
aged, railroad and wagon bridges are
gone over large area of the southern
part of Texas, by the storm and floods
of May 23rd and Gath.
Announcement is made that the di-
rectors of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad Company have author
lied a new general mortgage bond is
sue amounting to $300,000000. This is
stated to be the largest single bond
issue made by any railroad corporation
in this country. The issue will be
used for refunding purposes and for
Improvements and new Acquisitions.
One of the most CONSPICUOUS charac-
ters to attend the Democratic National
Convention in Denver in July is Con
gressman Matthew Rombach Denver,
of the Sixth Ohio district, an only son
Of the late James w. Denver in whose
honor the city of Denver, Colorado
was named. Congressman Denver is
one of Ohio's delegates-at-large and
bears the distinction OF having received
the largest vote cast in the recent
state convention at Columbus for any
candidate for that honor.