The Glenwood post., 1908-07-11
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

The farmers of Kansas are calling
loudly for help in the wheat fields.
During the past three months one
third of the troops of the United States
cavalry stationed at Fort Washakie,
Wyoming, has deserted. Only one has
been captured.
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 S
5-cent 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
fel! to the floor while leaving the ho-
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 18th 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.
Two slight shocks of earthquake
were felt in Los Angeles and vicinity
at 5:02 O'Clock on the morning of July
3rd. A few people were awakened,
and here and there a clock was
stopped. but the earthquakes produced
no other effect.
Rev. Simpson Ely. an evangelist,
who had conducted services in every
state of the Union, died at Joplin,
Missouri, on the 5th inst, from in
juries received in fall from street
car while he was on the way to de-
liver a. sermon. He was fifty-nine
years old.
During June 1900 cubic yards of ma
sonry were laid in the great Pathfinder
dam, which beats the best previous
record by 200 cubic yards. There is
now being delivered 522 feet of water
through the Interstate canal. There
are at present G,500 acres in crops un-
der the Interstate canal in Wyoming
and about 10000 in Nebraska
A study of the mortality of Chicago
for the first six months of 1908 shows
that ,5G7 fewer people have died this
year than last. If allowance is made
for the incIeas of population, the cal
culated saving is 1898 lives. The ac-
tual decrease in deaths from pneu-
monia has been 949; from consump-
ton, ia. On the other hand, bowel
diseases of children have increased.
June 3rd there occurred the great
est flood so far recorded on the North
Platte river, destroying a portion of
the temporary intake channel of the
interstate canal, North Platte irriga-
ton project. Water behind the Path
finder dam gradually rose until June
2lst, when the water surface of the res
ervoir was only twenty-five feet below
the top of the dam. 1t has since sub
sided.
After 4 terrible encounter with a
long horned herd of steers George Will
kins, one of the best known ranchmen
of that section was killed near Tulsa,
Okla. His body was gored and tramp
led almost beyond recognition. In try
ing to pass through corral on foot
he was attacked by the herd. Armed
with revolver he fought desperately
and killed six steers. but numbers over
came him. Cowboys who rushed to his
assistance could only rescue his body.
A case which excites genuine human
interest came before the Iowa board
of parole few days since 1t was the
application of S. F. Smith for par
don. He is the son of Samuel Francis
| Smith, DID, who wrote America -
and was one of the most prominent
and influential residents of Daven-
port for many years. He is now an old
and enfeebled man. In 1904 he was
sentenced to the Anamosa peniten-
tiary for eleven years for the embez-
element of 100000.