The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-09-18
WESTERN NEWS.

Boston w. Smith. the evangelist,
died at Minneapolis on the 10th inst.
from apoplexy. Mr.. Smith was COM
monty known as Uncle Boston"
Chisholm, Minnesota, was almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire on the 7th
inst. The town had population of
Dbout 1000, nearly all of whom are
left homeless.
Fire at Rawhide, Nevada, Friday
night destroyed large part Of the
town. rendering 5000 people home
less and inflicting property loss of
over $75O,OOO.
J. l.. Liebharit, central figure in
the German revolution OF lS49, and
associate of Carl Schurz, died Monday
morning at his home in Denver, aged
eighty-one years
In contest lasting twenty-one
rounds. Joe Cans, the colored pugi-
list, was defeated by Battling Nelson
at the Colma Arena, San Francisco,
on the night of the 9th inst.
The Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern Railway Company has established
a permanent canp five miles southeast
of Johnstown, Colorado. where 1t has
a large equlpme At and has begun grad:
ing.
The annual report of Brig. Gen. Earl
ID. Thomas, commanding the Depart
ment of the Colorado, just made pub
lie, shows strength of the United
States army in that district of 163 COM
missioned officers and 2.353 men.
The resignation Is unofficially an
nounced of the Rt Rev. John Lancas-
ter Spalding. bishop of the diocese OF
Peoria, because Of continued ill-health.
The bishop is now in his sixty-ninth
year and still suffers from the paraly
sis which brought him near to death.
Eleven engineers. headed by B. A.
ketchum, arrived at Florence, Colo
RADIO, Monday and will take week to
Investigate the proposed line of cleo
trio railway through Florence to Canon
City About seven miles of grading
remain to be completed on Turkey
creek.
There is movement on foot among
0pme of the insurance men in Oregon
y have the deposit law repealed at
the next session of the Legislature.
The fire insurance companies are re-
quired to deposit $4,000 in that state,
a provision which is said to keep out
many companies.
Candidate Taft's first speech-making
trip will be through the West, taking
in at least the states of Missouri Kan
sas Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Indi-
ana. Two other trips are being
planned. one through the eastern
states and another through number
of the southern states.
The concatenated order of HoO-Hoo
closed it's convention at Chicago Fri
day with the selection of Hot Springs,
Arkansas, for next years convention,
and the election of officers as follows:
Shark of the Universe-Platte B.
Walker, Minneapolis; Bojun, Charles
Patten, Seattle: Gurdon. E. F. Nelhaus,
San Francisco.
Another feature besides the talking
machine with records Of the speeches
of candidates has been added to the
novelties OF the presidential campaign
by the Democratic national committee
which announced that moving pictures
of William J. Bryan in Chicago on La
Dor Day would be thrown upon can
vases at political meetings all over
the country.
Instruments that take Il telegraph
message from Il typewriter and send
it over wire to another city, where it
is received in printing on another au-
tomato typewriter at rate OF speed
of l2O words a minute are now being
operated in the offices of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company in Den
A.r. This remarkable invention is the
Srk of Assistant General Manager
&C. Barclay of the Telegraph com.
ing Telegraph.