The Ordway new era., 1908-12-11
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN NEWS.

The flood in the Cottonwood river
in Oklahoma Sunday Is estimated TO
have left 5000 people homeless.
Steel laying on those sections OF the
st. Paul road which cross the noun
tains in Montana has been suspended
until the snow melts next spring.
An automobile speedway is 10 be
built from Salt Lake City 10 tho Sal
taI- resort on Great Salt Lake. a dis
tance OF about fifteen miles, Toll will
be charged
The report OF the state mine inspec-
tor shows South Dakota's gold produc
uon foI last year to have been S7.iGo,'
00o. which Is the highest In the history
OF the state
\ ruling by the Illinois insurance de-
partment compels all mutual fire msur-
ance companies organizing in that
state to make provisions for cont!u-
sent liability Oh the part OF It's mem
bers.
Fred Huyck's motor cycle turned the
Ascot Park oval at Los Angeles Mon
day in fifty-three seconds for one mile.
which Is one second faster than the
worlds record OF finy-four seconds
that he already held
Manipulation ot tho lrading butter
markets OF tho country by cotcrlc Of
Chicago. Elem and Eastern pruduc"
men is said 10 he responsible 10 a
large extent for the present rNtrayl.
CANT prices sor butter
Richard c. Kcrens, former Rcpubli-
can national committeeman for Mis-.
souri, and defeated candidate for the
Missouri Republican senatorial nominn
tion at the November primary. spent
s59,570 in the campaign just closed
The civil service commission OF Los
Angeles recently issued an order that
any civil service employe. whether uu
tho active list or not. who was found
to visit the race track or bet on 'h"
races, would be Immediately dis
charged.
The People Mutual Telegraph C"n
pany has asked the City Council N
Chicago for franchise ON two streets
leading to the ciiy limits Plans are
announced for line from Chicago to
st. Louis and Kansas CITY. tu coup"t'.
with the two old compaui's
After an ldlcu-ss Of thirteen months.
the old Open lI,alih department, oC
the Illinois SJou Coupang plant Ar
South Chicago Wa r.opoued TucsaI,
and 1000 men resumed work. PJrpag
ations are Lriu2 made 10 open dv"
other blast furnaces
Judge David r Dyer In the Federal
District Court at 81. louis sustained au
order Of secretary Slraus dircctine
that Samuel Bachmana bee doportcd ID.
his old home In England for preaching
anarchy on the streets Of BcllcvilIr, III.
Judge Dyer held that Secretary Straus
had sole jurisdiction over the maltcj.
Englewood High school, Chicago, is
making arrangements to take the long
est trip on record for high school
football eleven. Terms have been made
with the Butte. Mont, high school for
a contest on Dec. 18th. and provisional
date filled with the Seattle eleven for
match on Christmas day and for a
New Years struggle at Los Angeles
Newspapers at Los Angeles which
publish tips on races, persons who
sell them on the streets and anyone
who causes them to be circulated in
any manner will be subject to arrest
and prosecution under the anti-tip ordi-
nance which was passed early this year
and which is still in effect. The new
prosecuting attorney announces that
he will enforce the law.
1t is claimed by Wyoming sheep
men that not only does the wool pro.
duction OF the state, about s7,50O 900
in 1908, place Wyoming at the head
of wool producing states, but that the
geographical center of the wool pro
ducing industry is located in Wyoming
This center. as located by a careful
comparison Of wool statistics and
areas, is short distance from Dia-
mond, a Colorado & Southern station,
about forty miles in bee line west OF
north of Cheyenne.