The log cabin Democrat., 1908-02-20

yabe, the Toquima and the koultor reserves in Lander county to kill all wild horses found on the government domain. There are about 15,OOO wild horses on the reserves. They are doing much damage to vegeta- ton and attracting domestic animals to their herds.
 Sixteen Yaqui Indians, deported from Sonora and en route to the isthmus of Tehuantepec and luca- tan. attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the ocean from the government transport when a short distance from Mazatlan. Boats were put out and ten of the number were hauled out of the water. The others were drowned.
 Because of the lynching of Eli Pigot. a negro, at Brookhaven, the Mississippi Senate will be called up on to decide whether or not to dls- band the state militia in time of peace. Senator Harper of Grenada offered a resolution calling for this in the Senate, specifying that 1t was in view of the lynching at Brook haven.
 Four American pickpockets robbed Paymaster Urdanivia of the Zapa- dores battalion of $5,490 as he was leaving the National bank at Mexico City with the money to pay the troops. The theft was seen by a detective who caught two of the men and recovered all but $100 of the cash. The Americans gave fictitious names.
 Several millions of dollars will be converted every year into fund to be used in draining the swamp lands of the United States if the bill ln- troduced in the House of Represen- tatives by Congressman Macon of Arkansas and in the Senate by Sen ator Clapp becomes law, as It IS said to have an excellent chance Of doing.
 Boiler tubes on the cruiser St. Louis blew out at noon Saturday while the St. Louis was off Sausallto. E. E. Scott. coal passer F. Thomp- son. water tender; F. w. Baker, fire man of the frst-class, and D. Lewis, fireman of the first-class, were horrl- bly, scalded with steam.
 Seven are dead and twelve ln- iured at the result of collision be- tween a crowded interurban car on the Toledo < Western and the Big Four flyer from Cincinnati to, De troit at the crossing of the Mlcnl- gan Central tracks in West Tole- do, Ohio.
 Luther Banner, who shot and kil- led A. H. Cline at Ella Park, N. o., is in jail at Boone. He was arrest ed Wednesday, it is said, but has been kept in hiding until $500 reward was offered. Excitement IS high and it is feared Banner will be lynched.
 The Chicago Board of Education voted unanimously to increase the salary of every teacher in the Chlca- go elementary schools. From $25 to S100 was added to the annual pay of each teacher, the new salaries to date back six weeks from January |.
 News was received at Nicksburg, Miss, that the Rosalie M., bound up the river with a barge in tow, on which was miscellaneous freight, sank Saturday morning at 4 o'clock at Halpino, which IS about nineteen miles above Nicksburg.
 On the steamer Crispin, which arrived in the roads, three miles out from Galveston, Sunday at noon, there was two cases of yellow fever. The two men affected are the third engineer, Davis, and the third of- fcer, Prichard.
 The Rev. Father Gauth of the Riverside Catholic Church, Bur lington. \. J., broke his cane on the head of a man who was robbing the poor boxes in the church, and fired several shots at the thief as he fled into the street.
 Railroad engineers have completed plans for a $2O,000,00O union trans