The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1908-11-28
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Samuel Gompers was reelected pres
ident of the American Federation Of
Labor at the Denver convention.
The insurance commissioner Of Tex
as, Thomas b. Love, has renewed his
campaign for state rating commits
sion to fix fire insurance rates.
By majorities of 100, 900 and 975,
Jefferson, Sandusky and Clermont
counties, Ohio, voted dry November
23rd, knocking out 210 saloons. HUI
ron county voted wet by Is.
Oil prospecting is to be carried on
vigorously at a point just across the
Colorado line in Utah, the nearest out.
fitting point to which is Dolores on the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad
The pay as you enter" system Of
collecting fares has beeh introduced
successfully en- one of the street car
lines In Chicago In rush hours 1t is
said seventy-five persons a minute can
be loaded.
The commission on country life will
be at Cheyenne December 5th, where a
conference will be held with Governor
Brooks, the faculty OF the state univer-
sity and all citizens Of Wyoming who
wish to be present
The First National bank OF Fort
Scott, one of the oldest banks In the
state OF Kansas. closed its doors on the
10Th inst. The bank had deposits Of
100000. The closing followed run
on the bank, when depositors withdrew
$4,000.
Col. w. II. Zimmerman. aged seven.
ty-two, of Brazil. Ind, died November
z3rd ut Macon. Ga, on train. He was
colonel of the regiment in which Pres
ident Mckinley enlisted as a private
and issued the commission OF lieuten.
ant to the young private.
President Roosevelt will not make a
display AT the Alaska. Yukon Pacific ex.
position OF the trophies OF his South AZ.
rican hunt next year. In reply to n for
NAL request sent two weeks ago, Sec.
rotary Loeb for the President has re.
piled that It will be impossible to com.
ply.
day issued temporary injunction
against the Union Pacific Railway
Company, directing II to issue no more
transportation In lieu OF newspaper ad.
vertising. II Is alleged that the rail
road is issuing transportation to news
paper proprietors and editors In viola.
ton OF the statutes OF the state.
The Lyon county grand jury ut Rock
Rapids. H.. has returned an indict.
ment against the Standard Oh Com
pany OF Indiana. charging discrimina
ton. 1t is charged that the Standard
OIL Company sells cents u gallon
cheaper AZ Alton. where there IL M
independent oil company. than at
Doom. there Is no such competition.
ExQucen Illiuokalani OF Hawaii
was . passenger on the Pacific mail
liner Mongolia which arrived at San
francisco Sunday from the Orient via
Honolulu. She Is travelling with Prince
kalauianiolR, better known as Prince
Cupid" and Princess kalauianiola, en-
route 70 Washington. The prince was
reelected delegate to Congress ut the
recent election.
A Los Angeles paper says that line
OF steamships will be established early
next spring between San Pedro and
San Salvador and intermediate points
BY the Los Angeles Harbor Company.
The line probably will be- under the
management Of Rear Admiral Robioy
u. Evans. retired. who was made chair.
man Of the board OF directors. and who
Is expected 10 make his home In Los
Angeles.
Suit has been filed In the United
States Circuit Court ut San Francisco
BY Henry y. Ripley. 10 whom q large
number Of claims have been assigned.
against tho Spring Valley Water Com.
pany To recover Sis.G3t 900. tho value
Of property lost In the great San Fran.
cisco fire Of April Is. 1906. Tho plain.
tiff attributes the loss sustained to tho
lnAdequncy Of the Spring Valley sys.
tenn and is failure to provide water 1t
the time when II was most needed.