The Holly chieftain., 1908-10-30
WESTERN NEWS.


. Shippers should remember that un-
der the new western freight classifi-
cation rules old marks must be re-
moved or effaced before packages,
bundles or pieces will be accepted for
transportation.
Experts appointed by the attorney
general to Investigate shortage of
$35,OO0 in the San Francisco city
treasury have reported that the total
amount of the shortage is 100000, of
which $4,000 belonged to the state.
J. Halwood of Lexington, KY. has
sold to Ed Alvery of Louisville, Pin
kola, the famous derby winner, for So
600, and Friend Harry, by Orlando, for
$4,000. The latter is half brother Of
Jeff Bernstein, for which horse large
offers have been refused.
Property valued at almost $1,000,0 900
was destroyed In Chicago Friday by a
fire which consumed the International
Salt Companys docks, the offices Of
the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway
and fifty freight cars at One Hundred
and Third street and Calumet river.
Mrs. w. Il. Tucker, who came from
Washington to Chicago to prosecute
her husband, Col. w. F. Tucker, on
the charge of wife abandonment, has
become convinced that he is now in his
last illness and has returned with her
mother. Mrs. John A. Logan, to Wash
ington.
The United States Circuit Court at
st. Louis refused to issue an injunc-
ton restraining the Interstate Com
merce Commission from putting into
effect an order reducing rates on cat
tie shipments from the southwest ter
ritory to Chicago, Kansas City. ST.
Louis and other points.
Charged with fomenting a revolu-
tion ON United States soil against q
friendly nation, Preciliano G. Silva and
Lecardio Trevino were found guilty by
a jury In the United States Court at
FL Paso Friday. Benjamin Silva and
Jose Maria Ramiriz were acquitted on
the same charge.
It is reported at Tacoma, Wash, that
an enormous whale In the west pass
age Of the Sound upset rowboat in
which there were three duck hunters
and all were drowned. 1t is said the
men began firing with shotguns upon
the mammal when it rose to blow,
and that the maddened leviathan at
tackled their boat
BY direction of the surgeon general
of the marine hospital service. the
quarantine that has been maintained
In all ports against vessels leaving San
Francisco harbor has been completely
removed, and the ocean-going craft
will be able for the first time in four
teen months, to come and go without
the use of rat guards, dock tenders
and periodical fumigations.
There have been so many incendiary
fires of late in and around Baker City,
Oregon, that the people are at last
aroused. and the mayor has issued the
following order: ITO the People of
Baker City: Believing that the many
recent fires are of incendiary origin,
any and all officers and good citizens
are hereby instructed to shoot on the
spot any person caught setting fire to
any building"
The transcontinental freight bureau
has just issued a bulletin cancelling
through rates to Asiatic ports. The
contention of the big roads with Pa
cific steamship connections is that the
compulsory publication of these ex-
port rates gave japanese merchants
the advantage of underbidding the
Americans and their ships plying be-
tween the Pacific coast and Oriental
ports were in a position to control the
commercial situation. The railroads
are preparing campaign In next Con-
gress to secure an amendment to the
law or modification by ruling of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.