The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20
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SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
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FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Miles City, Montana, reported a tenn
perature of los degrees July 3lst.
In letter to w. J. Bryan Governor
Johnson Of Minnesota places himself
at the disposal the national Democratic
committee for working purposes. lie
says he will be available about Septem-
Der and will go where wanted.
Gov. John S. Little of Arkansas, has
been placed in a sanitarium at st. JOS
eph, Mo. He has been suffering from
nervous breakdown almost ever
since his election, which has developed
acute melancholia. His condition is
not encouraging.
On the 9TH inst. the annual corn
dance was held at the pueblo OF Santo
Domingo, almost forty miles south oil
Santa Fe. n. NJ. For the first time Il
moving picture machine took the
dance, which was witnessed by large
crowd of tourists.
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 vlo'
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 III. Meyer was
reelected and Denver was chosen as
the next place of meeting as well as
the permanent headquarters of the Or
ganiZation.
At Los Angeles Wednesday night
Judge Alton b. Parker, Democratic
candidate for President in 1904, deiiv-
cred his first speech of the present
campaign in behalf of William j. Bry-
an and John w. Kern, before an au-
dience of 1000 people at Temple audi
forum.
Rex Beach, the novelist, who re
turned to Seattle from a bear hunt in
Alaska short time ago, with Sc
we're attack of irititis that threatened
total blindness. is still confined to Il
dark room in the hospital, but spe-
cialists in charge say the crisis mas
been passed and his sight will not be
permanently affected.
j. p. Burford of st. Louis, said to
be wealthy manufacturer OF tnat
city and an extensive mine owner, Oh
fers reward of $1,000 for information
as to the whereabouts of his wife, Mrs.
Anna Burford, who accompanied MIN
from st. Louis some two weeks ago
and disappeared from the Nattick no.
tel on July 10th.
Gen. Frederick X Funston, who has
been relieved of the command OF the
Department of the Pacific tc take
charge of the cavalry school at Fort
Leavenworth, kas., was given 1are-
well reception Wednesday on the floor
of the Merchants Exchange by the COM
mercal bodies of San Francisco, fol-
lowed by luncheon.
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 Criss mistook Iverson in the
distance for deer and fired, killing
him instantly.
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 a 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 row of wrecks, by rocks
water 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 IL with water six feet deep
GENERAL NEWS.