The Dolores star., 1908-12-04
WESTERN NEWS.


ident of the American Federation OF
Labor at the Denver convention.
The flood in the Cottonwood river
in Oklahoma Sunday is estimated to
have left 5000 people homeless.
The report of the state mine inspec-
tor shows South Dakota's gold produc-
tion foI last year to have been 81, ,460.-
900, which is the highest in the history
of the state.
BY majorities of LOO. 600 and 975,
jefferson, Sandusky and Clermont
counties, Ohio. voted dry November
23rd. knocking out 21O saloons. HUI
ron county voted wet by 10.
A Los Angeles paper says that DIR.
ID. X. Pearson, the noted philanthro-
pist, is not in straitened circum-
stances. as was reported, but still has
$S,000,000 to give to educational insti-
tutions
The pay as you enter system Of
collecting fares has been. introduced
successfully en- one of the street car
lines in Chicago In rush hours it is
said seventy-five persons minute can
be loaded.
President Roosevelt will not make a
display at the Alaska -Yukon-Pacif eX-
position Of the trophies Of his South At
rican hunt next year. In reply to a for
NAL request sent two weeks ago, Sec
| retary Loeb for the President has re-
piled that 1t will be impossible to COM
ply.
At the recent election an amendment
to the Minnesota constitution was sub
mitted providing for the establishment
of state fund for hail and tornado IN
surance. A majority of all the votes
cast was necessary and this was not
| secured, as many citizens failed TO vote
either way.
Ray Lamphere was convicted of ar
son iA setting fire to the building in
which Mrs. Belle Guinness and her
three children We're burned at La
Porte. Ind, and within five minutes af
ter the verdict the judge sentenced him
to twenty-one years in the State Pen
itentiary at Michigan City.
Adelina Guttilla, three years old,
daughter of Dominica Guttilla, who has
been exhibited in many of the large
cities, and who was one of the won
| ders Of the medical profession, died at
Springfield, O., few days since of
pneumonia. She was forty inches high
and weighed 140 pounds. She was con-
sidered the largest baby in the world.
At Seattle Friday, Hugh Mcmahon.
manager Of the American cafe, and a
we'll known business man, was MUIR
dered in the front yard Of a residence
next door to his own home. His face
had been battered to pulp. his skull
! fractured, and a finger nearly torn off
from which $500 diamond had been
wrenched. The police believe the muir
der was the work Of thugs.
As . result of war on Clubs" in
which liquor has been sold on Sundays
and during the hours that saloons were
closed. 81 clubs were raided in st.
Louis and 1872 men arrested When ar
raigned In police court most OF the
prisoners were discharged. their re-
lease being greeted with cheering from
hundreds Of spectators. The raids
were ordered by Fovernor Folk.
That the Missouri Pacific has de-
cidedeto double track its system from
I Kansas City to Pueblo is the positive
announcement given out by Superin.
tendent J. e. Snedeker in an interview
at Ottawa, Kas. This, he said, Is part
Of plan of improvement which the
Missouri Pacific has determined on,
and which provides for an expendi-
ture Of $l0,0OO,O00 a year for ten years
in permanent work.