The Green Forest tribune., 1908-09-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ( ton, and Particularly from the
 V Great Southwest.

Because two Indian chiefs were con. fined at Salmon Arm, south of Kams loops, B. C., for illegal fishing, 100 of their red brothers threaten to take the war path. Following the fining of the chiefs, they were put in jail and the other Indians immediately swooped down upon the jail, rescued them and fled
 Bloodshed is threatened in a fight that has developed in Houston, Tex, between the Southern Pacific railroad and an interurban company engaged in building a competing electric line
 Alarmed at the prominence given by newspapers at home and abroad to stories of Russian diScontent, plots and executions, the czar directed the St Petersburg telegraph agenty, prac- tically the only channel through which such news can reach the public, to stop giving out such stories.
 The seed of revolution sown in Tab rig is bearing bloody fruit all over Persia and Shah Ali Merza faces the alternative of convoking parliament, in accordance with his promise, or yielding his crown.
 Dispatches were received reporting the loss of the British steamer Dun earn with 51 members of her crew in a typhoon off the island of Port Katu, China. Only two members of the crew were saved.
 Jesse L. Livermore's attempt to make himself the cotton king was definitely abandoned when the price of October options tumbled $3.95. dragging others with it for dollar or more Livermore is said to have lost $2,000,000 of the profits he had piled up in his remarkable campaign.
 Determined to outdo every other country in it's welcome to the Ameri- can feet Oct IT, the Japanese govern ment has decided to send the entire navy, in battle array, to act as an es- eort for the 16 American ships. Japan will utilize the occasion for series of naval maneuvers before the arrival of Uncle Sam's fleet.
 Despondent because an illness that was largely imaginary prevented her marrying George M. Mansfield, tray- cling salesman of Fl Paso, Tex, Miss Mary Field Verne of Chicago, pretty and ealented young woman, committed suicide by walking into the lake.
 Cigarette smoking is henceforth for bidden on the Rock Island system Supt. F. J. Eisley has just issued bulletin to the effect chat any em- ploye caught using the white-ribbed stick will be discharged.
 Canned campaign speeches" may be driven off the market by canned campaign songs," if the Prohibition national committee has it's way. It has been announced that in addition to photographic records of speeches, it has decided to send broadcast cam- paign songs on talking machines.
 .Worsting a burglar who had invad- ed her home, Mrs. P. H. Gammon wife of a tax collector of Newton, Conn.,, saved the funds of the town which were in the safe in the house and is the heroine of the whole community
 Mrs. Jack" Gardner, whose rela- tions with the U s. customs officials in connection with the demand for $7O,000 duties on art treasures brought to this country by her friend, Mrs. Chadbourne, of Chicago, says that no demand has been made upon her by the government and disclaims all the responsibility for the importation of the articles.
 Funeral services for Baron Speck Von Sternberg, the German ambas- sador to tho United States, who died in Heidelberg will be held at Lutch- .ena, near Liepsic. Many men promi- nent in Germany's public life as well as members of foreign diplomatic corps will attend.
 Competitor that promises to mean cut in meat prices is scheduled to make an appearance in the beef trade about Oct. 1. An independent concern has been incorporated under the name of the Chicago Stock Yards and Tran sit Go. It has capital stock of $2,- 800 900. of which nearly half is to be spent for packing house and other structures.
 Receivers of the Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Co.,, subsidiary company of the Pillsbury-Washburn ,Co.. have called on Minneapolis banks for S1,000,000 and have failed to get it. They have in their hands 90 ele- Wators in Minnesota and North Dako- ia which they are unable to run be- cause they no funds.
 A passenger train on the Galena di- vision of the Northwestern collided head-on with work train near Platte vile. Wis. The engineer and fireman of the passenger were killed and the fireman of the work train and IT pas sengers hurt.
 Unable to obtain a cofnn In Coon Valley. Wis, where her 2-year-old son died. Carrie Peterson, after two days journey reached Lacrosse with the body wrapped in blanket. The po- lice there furnished coffin and per- mitted the woman to resume her jour ney to the village of West Salem,
 While urging mothers to give great er protection to their daughters by curtailing their liberties, the grand jury at Eastland, Tex, openly recom- mended that the ''unwritten law" should be puaced on the statute books as means of protecting the home.