The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-07-18
WESTERN NEWS.

July oath will be the sixty first ALI
niversary of the arrival of the Mornc,I5
in the Salt Lake valley and will be "a
tensively celebrated wherever tne
churca exists.
Four deaths and numerous prostra-
tions resulted from the extreme heat
in Chicago Saturday. There were three
deaths from heat in Saint Paul AMI one
in Minneapolis.
The bill in the Louisiana legislature,
requiring insurance companies to pay
Louisiana local agents the highest com
mission they paid anywhere has been
killed by pocket vote.
Hugh McCurdy. former grand master
of the Knights Templar in the United
States, and one of the authorities in
the country on Masonic Jurisprudence.
is reported critically i'll at his home in
Corunna. Michigan.
President Quinn of the Great Amer
lean Life OF st. Louis has submitted TO
Missouri insurance department an offer
to make good the impairment of the
Great Western Life of Kansas City and
continue the company in business.
After ten years of waiting, the
town of Encampment Wyo., now has
railway connection with the outside
world, the Saratoga & Encampment.
which has been building from Wolcott
for several years, having reached the
town limits.
The hog market which has been ad-
vancing steadily since March.
climbed 10 the high mark for the year
at Chicago on the 18th inst. when
prime animals sold at $705 a hundred.
Scarcity OF corn. resulting in CORE
spending scarcity of hogs is given as
the cause of the advance.
Mrs. Harriet W. Brand. treasurer of
The National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union died July 9Th at hos
pital in Evanston. Ill, after an illness
of two months. Prior to assuming the
office of treasurer three years ago,
Mrs. Brand was state corresponding
secretary of the Indiana w. c. T. L.
The jury in the sensational Stanley
Peek murder trial, at Reno, New, was
out but thirty minutes and returned
verdict of not guilty for killing An
gelo Satero, who is alleged to have
made personal attack on Peek's wife
and was later shot down by Peek for
not apolosiZing. and for declaring he
would cut out his (Peek's) heart"
~ save lINto, the WY II
of Chicago has made special appropri-
alton of 100000. Intestinal diseases
have made a terrible slaughter of in
fants AM the council appropriated the
$4,000 to pay 100 physicians who will
be employed by the city 10 disseminate
information concerning the causes and
prevention of summer sickness among
babies.
Beginning August 10th the railroads
will restore the old minimum freight
rate on the shipment of packages
weighing less than 100 pounds. Th,
old rate is IS cents for any package
weighing ur to 100 pounds, regardless
of the class to which it belong. The
rate now in force. which was adopted
last spring. is from SIS cents to S2.j5,
according tc the class to which the
package belongs
Planning to merge their lumber in
terests into one great holding corpora
ton capitalized at approximately $500
100000 100 wealthy lumbermen from
the yellow Pine belt of the South and
Middle West met at ST. Louis Wednes-
day and adopted a plan Of organiza-
ton. F. E. Weyerhauser of St. Paul.
son of a millionaire lumberman,
was appointed chairman of the com
mittee which is to work out the de-
.ails.