The Holly chieftain., 1908-09-11
BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
INLA1E DISPATCHES
0oINGS AND HAPPENINGS
THAT MARK THE PROG.
REss OF THE AGE.
WESTERN NEWS.

Work has been commenced on the
first eight miles OF the Union Pacific
out of Seattle, Wash.
1t is estimated that losses by the
Rawhide. New. fire will aggregate
100000. The town is "Phoenixin,s"
with remarkable rapidity.
According TO the petition to Lrobatc
the will of the late Col. William F. vi
las filed ill the County Court at Madi.
son. Wis, his estate is valued at sS42,-
900.
At the Minnesota state fair at St.
Paul Saturday De Palma, in II ninety
horsepower machine broke the worlds
automobile record for a mile on a circu.
lar track by covering the distance in
flfty-one seconds flat.
E. H. Hartman, while passing
through Oregon, told a delegation of
Voos Bay citizens that If he could be in.
sured interest of four per cent. on m
investment of $5,OOO,O0O for ten years
he would build a road into the Co.'s
Bay country.
The Kansas City labor temple now
being constructed was informally deli
Gated Monday. The usual Labor Day
parade was dispensed with. Mayor
Crittenden and other city officials and
members of the city council delivered
addresses.
Governor Hanley of Indiana has IS
sued call for an extra session of the
legislature to meet Sept 18th. The
county local option law and a plan to
give the governor extra power to deal
with night riders in southern Indiana
will be considered.
The War Department has decided to
disinter the remains Of 167 bodies Of
soldiers In the burial ground of Fort
keogh, Mont, some time ago aban-
doned by the department and renter
the bodies at Fort Custer Bids will
be asked for the work.
A Carnegie medal has been received
by Marjorie Coast, the eleven-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. C.
Coast of Iowa City, Iowa. who leaped
into the Iowa river and saved the life
OF Margaret Hayes, daughter of Prof.
and Mrs. Samuel Hayes, last summer.
John Mitchell, former president OF the
United Mine Workers of America, ad-
dressed 10000 people at Labor Day
celebration at Marion, Illinois. He
spoke OF the rapid advance of the labor
ing classes, and denounced the idea
that the rich are growing richer and
the poor poorer.
The big trees that were seriously
threatened by the forest fire in So
nora county, California, escaped with
much less injury than was feared and
it is thought that not many of them
will die. They were only saved after
heroic fight for three days and nights
by the forest rangers.
Labor Park at Indianapolis was for
mally dedicated Labor Day by the un-
ion men of the city and neighboring
towns. The park has been purchased
recently to be used exclusively for la
Dor celebrations. 1t is beautifully sit
uated in west indianapolis. Vice Pres
ldent Charles w. Fairbanks was the
principal speaker.
In the District Court at Sedan. Kas.,
on the 5th inst. Bill Tenant and Harry
Coleman, the young bandits who rob.
led the Chautauaua Springs in daylight
on the morning of April 18th, last, en-
tered plea of guilty and each was
sentenced to serve ali indefinite sea-
tence of from 10 To 81 years in the
state reformatory. The men secured
$4,000 and escaped on horseback. Ten
nant was captured in Denver and Cole
man was arrested in the state of Wash
ington