The Colorado statesman., 1908-07-11
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DURING THE PAST WEEK
A RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE,.
WESTERN NEWS.


Seven persons were killed, at least
two others were fatally injured and
fully thirty more were severely hurt
as the result of fire in 6. S. Kreag's
scent store on Ontario street in Cleve-
land, July 3rd.
C. H. Holdridge general manager
of the American Refrigerator Trans
portation Company, is said to have an
nounced that $50 cars have been as
signed to take care of the Rocky Ford
melon district this year.
Rear Admiral Charles NJ. Thomas
(retired), U. S. N, died suddenly at
Del Monte, California. July 3rd. He
fell to the floor while leaving the no.
tel dining room and died before he
could be taken to his room.
Blacksmiths and machinists of the
Northern Pacific shops at Tacoma on
the 7th inst resumed work on full time
of nine hours. Four hundred men are
Immediately affected and it means full
time for the entire force of 900 men at
the shops.
Twelve hours after the Rev. George
Edward Lewis, in a public prayer,
asked that the amusement resorts of
Irving park, Chicago, where liquor is
served, might "be burned to the
ground" Excelsior park was consumed
by fire Sunday.
W. R. McKeen has resigned as SUI
perintendent of motive power and ma
chinery for the Union Pacific railroad
to assume the management for E. H.
Hartman of the McKeen motor car
shops which will be established in
Omaha with capital of s1,000,0OO.
The telephone line of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company
between Kansas City and Denver was
completed on the Sth inst. and put
into operation. Heretofore the entire
United States has been divided, from
a telephone standpoint, by a region in
line north and south with the west
ern half of Kansas.
Because her husband committed sui
eide after drinking liquor he said he
bought in a saloon of John Abramo-
vicz, a verdict of $4,000 damages was
given Mrs. Julia Chullek by jury in
Judge Gibbons court at Chicago. A
number of. times, Mrs. Chullek de-
clared, she warned Abramovicz to stop
selling or giving drinks to her hus-
band.
Five persons, all members of one
family, were drowned in the Nemaha
river, near Unadilla, Neb., Monday.
The Dead: John Doyle, Mrs. John
Doyle, their three young children.
The DoyleG lived on the Nemaha bot
toms. A flood of water followed a
cloudburst, sweeping their house from
its foundation, and carried it to the
swollen river
movement is now under way to
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will extend from Yellowstone Park in
Wyoming through that state, Colorado,
New Mexico and end at the Grand
Canon of the Colorado river in Ari-
zona. The highway when completed
will be 1000 miles long and will cost
$10,000,000. 1t will be known as the
Great Scenic Highway"
Planning to merge their lumber in
terests into one great holding corpora
ton capitalized at approximately $780,
100000, 100 wealthy lumbermen from
the Yellow Pine belt of the South and
Middle West met at st. Louis Wednes-
day and adopted a plan of organiZa-
tion. F. e. Weyerhauser of st. Paul,
son of a multi-millionaire lumberman,
was appointed chairman of the com
| mittee which is to work out the de-
| tailS
John c. Pollock in the Federal
Court at Kansas City has ordered that
| the property of the Great Western
Life Insurance Company be disposed
of and that the policies, amounting to
over $20,000,000, be reinsured in some
reliable company, if possible. The re-
port of the Missouri insurance depart
ment has now been made public, not
| only showing that the entire caDital
stock was wiped out. but that the an
nual statement of the company Janu-
ary 1st, the first made, had been fall
sified. The business written by the
company cost it over 100000 more
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