The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-10-17
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
INLATE DISPATCHES
oCiNGS AND HAPPENINGS
THAT MARK THE PROG
RESS OF THE AGE.
WESTERN NEWS,

Mrs. George Golfer. wife of raIicher
at Occidental, near Santa Rosa, Cal,
while inspecting winery a few days
since fell into vat OF wine and was
drowned
Half the business portion OF Bonner
Springs, Kan. a watering resort twen-
ty miles west of Kansas City, burned
Tuesday, causing loss estimated at
100000
DR. David Starr Jordan, president of
Stanford University. spoke before the
ms Mississippi Commercial Con
STtss III advocacy of a national bureau
of fish protection.
Sign-post erecting on an extensive
scale will soon be started by the Au-
tomobile Club of California. The 1irsC
roads to be marked will be from San
Francisco to Santa Cruz and from San
Francisco to Del Monte.
1t is reported at Winnipeg that
James Oliver Curwood, a well known
author of Detroit, who recently went
into the Hudson Bay wilds for De-
troit publishing firm, has been killed
by Indians in the Lac La Rouge coun-
try.
A large section of the town of Soet-
ler, Alberta, was wiped out by fire
Tuesday morning. including the large
Grand Union hotel, twenty stores, four
other hotels. the Merchants bank and
the postoffice. Loss $25O,OOO. Leslie
Miller lost his life.
The transcontinental lines have
adopted $50 rate from Missouri river
points and the ST. Paul territory for
the Alaska aYukon-Pacific Exposition
at Seattle, June 1st to October 10th,
1909. The rates for intermediate
points will be announced later.
At Auburn. Cal, Monday, J. P. Gar
red, who Sunday evening shot and
wounded Louis Fuller and his wife,
Bertha. at Dutch Flat, during dispute
over land sale, was riddled with bul
lets by posse which was hunting for
him, and upon whom he opened fire,
wounding one man.
<nRev. George G. Wade, the Episcopal
minister of Lead. S. D., who was last
year found guilty of fraudulent en-
tries in connection with land frauds,
was released from prison at Grand ISL
and. Neb.. on the 18th inst, after
having served his sentence of one
year. He received sixty days credit
for good conduct.
Henry Baker, aged forty-two years,
once noted heavyweight pugilist, was
run over and killed by train at
Kansas City Friday night. Baker
fought Jim Jefiries to standstill for
eight rounds May ~, 1897, in San
Francisco. In the ninth round, how
ever, Jefries knocked Baker out and
there were those who saw the fight
who said Jeffries won by a chance
blow.
A new record in wireless telegraphy
is claimed by the United Wireless Tel
egraph Company, which from its sta
ton ON Russian hill in San Francisco,
established communication with the
Kuhuku station on the island of Oahu,
one Of the Hawaiian group. 1: is
claimed that communication between
these points was uninterrupted Sun
day for two hours and a half The dis
tance to Honolulu is 2,200 miles.
The executive committee of the
Trans Mississippi Commercial con-
gress has decided to hold the next
meeting of the congress. which is
scheduled fo- Denver, in August, 1909.
The committee has elected officers as
Allows: Chairman, Col. Ike 7. Pryor,
IAN Antonio. Tex; vice-chairman, S.
F. Dutton, Denver; secretary, Arthur
F. Francis, Cripple Creek. Colo;
GENERAL NEWS.