The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-10-22
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING tue PAST WEEK
A RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE,.
WESTERN NEWS.

Mrs. George Collier, wife of rancher
at Occidental. near Santa Rosa, Cal,
while inspecting q winery 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.
DIR. David Starr Jordan, president of
Stanford University. spoke before the
Trans Mississippi Commercial Con
gress IN 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 first
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, well known
author of Detroit. who recently went
into the Hudson Bay wilds for n De
troit publishing firm. has been killed
by Indians in the Lac La Rouge coun-
try.
A large section of the town of Soet-
Ter, 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 s25o,00o. Leslie
Miller lost his life.
The transcontinental lines have
adopted $50 rate from Missouri river
points and the St Paul territory for
the Alaska a-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
at Seattle. June LIST to October 10th,
1909. The rates for intermediate
points will be announced later.
What is regarded by majority of
racing men as the death blow TO racing
in Kentucky. II the courts uphold the
action was struck few days since
by the state racing commission when
II adopted resolution refusing to in
terfere with the system of betting in
force
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-
let's by a posse which was hunting for
him. and upon whom he opened fire.
wounding one man.
A lone highwayman armed with TWO
revolvers walked into the Clear Lake
Logging Company's cabin at Clear
Lake In Washington. lined up the thir-
ty employees in "A row. and ordered two
of the loggers 20 search the others.
The robber walked out of the camp
with $3.50 and several cheap watches.
Rev. George G. Wade. the Episcopal
year found guilty of fraudulent en-.
tries in connection with land frauds.
was released from prison ut Grand ISL
and. Neb.. on the 18th inst, after
having served his sentence of one
year. He received sixty days credit
for good conduct.
General Funston and nine field Off
GERS on the ninety-eight-mile test ride
returned to Leavcnworth Monday aft.
ernoon. They all were In excellent
ply steal condition and said they Ind
enjoyed the outing. \ report will BE
made on the ride by General Funston
and sent 10 Washington through the
department headquarters.
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 Jef1ries 10 a standstill for
eight rounds May 10. 1897, in San
Francisco In the ninth round. how
ever, Jeffries Knocked Baker out and
there were those who saw the fight
who said Jeffries won by Il chance
blow.
y 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. II is
claimed that communication between
these points was uninterrupted Sun
day for two hours and 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, i'm August, 1909
The committee has elected officers as
follows: Chairman, Col. Ike T. Pryor
San Antonio. Tex; ce.chairman, S
f. Dutton. Denver; secretary, Arthur
+. Francis, Cripple Creek, Colo. !;
treasurer, James c. Dahlman. Omaha
GENERAL NEWS