Putnam patriot., 1908-06-26
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oregon. HUI tIDt Hh ate sfstssff'f' '4t9 the npafiy leaders" The state went overwhelmingly Repubiiean--with one exception. That State permits the ko- ters io say V wao they want for 's. fe- naior. The Legislature is largely Re- publican, bat the people eeied to haze Governor Chamberlain. 4 Democrat, elected Senator. He made good Gov efnor and the voters wanted him io 20 4tp higher, and ihe Legislature has to obey. ;.
 opsnm prohibition Is spreading in fbina. Inc government aid the cause. A one result, at shanghai lately there was A wholesale burning nf opium and utensils for smoking fl. They were gent in by ek!nese who had taken the pledge, and was witnessed by great crowd of sight-seers. The movement pleases the people.
 motofist nj Seattle run down and killed A little girl, for which he VAS sentenced 10 an indetefminate term ef from fo 70 years.
 The rush for Europe Of foreigners is unabated, and is strong indication of business depression. This will continue until after the Presidential election, when with the most enormous crop ever raised, as now indicated we may expect great hopeful feeling stir the people.
 A few American newspapers can boast of n continued eentuTy's exist. enee. The official journal of China K this year celebrating its millinery eAis= tenee.
 The past week has been unusually inflicted with serious Ilfezi tefnadeesi aud destruction of human life, Three Klsefs, q eits hall way beIMeen Mon1s teni and Quettee, on lhe st. Lawrence, Was wiped out by fire. nine negroes were tynehed iu C,cofRia because Vxhits man was killed in dance hall .hese In addition lo the thousands ot small nres--une causing loss oi apolii ss.so. .ooo at fshsibysille. another al Poricheslef, N N., S@Alltse Saturday and Monday tornado passed through Minnesota blowing down buildings In Two villages and destroying an lih= mense amount of crops; and Ohio WAS visited with the worst electrical storm for years. Murders by dynamite, au- los and otherwise are loo numerous to le recorded Ne bcai the Old World in number of high crimes nowadays.
 The Pennsylvania Railroad has just found out that Il k cheaper to burn the smoke from Is locomotives and turn Il into power tnan to waste II 1t the great annoyance ef people living on the line of it's tracks. The fnet ought to be made known to the eunnectieut railroads.
 Chicago has fl novel organization il lhe aBaflenaefs and saloon keepers Total Abstinence Society," which is now said to haYe 2,0Ou members.
 The annual report of the Greenwich tfta~srN AtofN st9nMH liAtAiuA NN"t NsN .sslafn discovery, of course, Icing the eighth satellite of Jupiter, lately fe. parted II k now settled that the pro bable date for the rcalaeafance oi Hal ley,s comet k April \, 1910.
 Says the Wall street Journal "t n. less signs iHll generally, thls year pte. misses lo be ,he highest M seiies oi siN in the value ol farm products t.s. tinales are being made placing the Ns lue of the various kinds oi crops and other marketable output of the infn' Ai ss,upo, ,ua,ooe. six years ago II was u llt,le over VI. a.en ,Wo,o'a, The official estimate of the Department oi Astcul. tate ol the value of the principal efeI,s faf the past li>e yessia are as ioilow;s'
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