The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-08-08
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoiNGs. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS,

WESTERN NEWS.
Miles City, Montana, reported a tenn
perature of 10S degrees July 31st
In letter to W. ]. Bryan Governor
Johnson Of Minnesota places himself
at the disposal the national Democratic
committee for working purposes. He
says he will be available about Septem-
Der and will go where wanted.
Gov. John s, Little of Arkansas, has
been placed in sanitarium at ST. JOS
eph, Mo. He has been suffering from
nervous breakdown almost ever
since his election. which has developed
aAe melancholia. His condition is
nOencouraging.
Special agents of the government are
said to be in Chicago trying to col
lect evidence to substantiate proceed
ings for the disruption Of the Harri-
man system of railroads upon the
ground that the combination is in vio-
lation of the Sherman antitrust act.
The Western Federation OF Miners.
at its annual meeting in Denver, just
closed, was in session for seventeen
days. President Charles H. Meyer was
reelected and Denver was chosen as
TIC next place of meeting as well as
the permanent headquarters OF the Or
Ganization.
Rex Beach. the novelist, who re-
turned to Seattle from bear hunt in
Alaska a short time ago, with a Sc
we're attack of irititis that threatened
total blindness, is still confined to a
dark room in the hospital. but spe-
calists in charge say the crisis has
been passed and his sight will not be
permanently affected
President j. B. Case has issued the
call for the annual session of the trans
Mississippi Commercial congress, fix
ing the dates for Oct 7th-10th at San
Francisco. An exceptionally strong
program. with promise OF addresses
by Taft, Bryan. Secretary Garfield and
many men prominent in national at
fairs, is being prepared.
j. p Burford of St. Louis. said to
be a wealthy manufacturer of that
city and an extensive mine owner, Of
fers reward of 81, 0O0.for information
as to the whereabouts of his wife, Mrs.
Anna Burford, who accompanied him
from St. Louis some two weeks ago
and disappeared from the Nattick no.
tepn July goth.
James Vernon, aged thirty Of Sparks,
Nevada, engineer of the Southern Pa
cific and a prominent member of the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers,
was accidentally shot in Blue Canyon,
near Truckee, Cal, Monday by his COM
panion, Harry Criss, while hunting for
deer. Crisis mistook Iverson in the
distance for deer and fired, killing
him instantly.
Life Imprisonment was the punish
ment meted out to Mrs. Sarah Morasch
Saturday in the District Court of Wy
andotte county, Kansas, for the muir
der Of four-year-old Ruth Miller, a
niece of the woman by marriage. Mrs.
Morasch sent POISONED candy through
the mail to Ella VanMeter, fourteen
years old, half sister to the murdered
child. The older girl, for whom it was
intended. did not die.
Rev. F. Franson general director of
the Scandinavian Alliance Missions of
the world, died suddenly of paralysis
at Idaho Springs. Colorado, on the
3rd inst He had Travelled over the
world in the interest of the mission
work and had just returned from a
tour through South America and came
to Idaho Springs few days ago for
rest He was highly educated and
could speak fluently fourteen Ian
guages.
A cloudburst at Bisbee, Arizona on
the 4th inst, did 100000 damage.
One side of Main street, including the
postoffice, in less than ten minutes.
was changed from zoo yards Of big
stores, costly saloons and business Of
fees to a row of wrecks, by rocks.
wsDr and mud that tumbled down off
a mountain side. Postmaster M. E.
Cassidy and Sheriff Jack White, in
the postmaster's office, narrowly es-
capped with their lives, as did the force
of eighteen girls in the postoffice when
the thrush of water almost without
warning struck the side of the building
and filled it with water six feet deep.