The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-10-29
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
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.
Ralph Baker drove his White steam
er a mile in Sc 20 seconds on circu-
lar track at Kansas City Monday after
noon in the final heat of the free-for-
all race for the fastest mile ever wit
messed on the track. Time for five
miles, 4:52.
]. Halwood of Lexington, KY, has
sold to Ed Alvery Of Louisville. PIN
kola. the famous derby winner. for $6.-
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.
Governor ID. S. Dickerson OF Nevada
has ordered Attorney General Richard
II. Stoddard to notify the district attor-
neys of the various counties to begin
proceedings at once against every divi-
dend paying mine in the state which
has not paid its bullion tax.
Property valued at almost $1.0O0.OOO
was destroyed in Chicago Friday by
fire which consumed the International
Salt Company's docks. the offices OF
the Elgin. Joliet a. Eastern Railway
and n-ty freight cars at One Hundred
and Third street and Calumet river.
Mrs. w. +. 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.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Emery OF Cincinnati
has riven to the Ohio Mechanics In
stitute 100000 to be used in erecting
a building to be known ms the Emery
auditorium and to be devoted to the
use of music. Mrs. Emery Is the
widow OF the late Thomas J. Emery.
millionaire capitalist. and the gift Is a
memorial to her deceased husband.
The training OF George c. Lytton for
his proposed boxing contest with An
thony j. Drexel-Biddle OF Philadelphia
for the auateur championship OF the
United States. ended abruptly ut Chi.
cago Tuesday night. when Mr.. Lytton
fractured his shoulder blade while
wrestling in the Illinois Athletic club
Mr.. Lytton is secretary OF the club
and millionaire.
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 fumisations.
First reports of the number Of
deaths resulting from the fall of Un-
ion Pacific way car from the high Lone
Tree fill in Wyoming were exagger-
ated, the number being only two in
stead of six. Four men were seriously
injured and the remainder of the thir-
ty-nine in the car at the time of the
accident sustained minor injuries. The
dead are Japanese and the seriously
injured, with the exception of Brake
man j. b. Hall, are Greek laborers.
The transcontincntal 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 lnderbidding 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 a campaign in next Con
gress to secure an amendment to the
law or a modification by ruling of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.