The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1908-12-05
w ESTEkN NEWS.

in Oklahoma Sunday is estimated to
have left 5000 people homeless.
An automobile speedway is to be
built from Salt Lake City to the Sal
tair resort on Great Salt Lake, a dis
lance of about fifteen miles. Toll will
be charged.
The report of the state mine inspec-
tor shows South Dakota's gold produc-
ton fol last year to have been 81 AGO.
600, which is the highest in the history
of the state.
A ruling by the Illinois insurance de-
partment compels all mutual fire insur-
ance companies organizing in that
state to make provisions for a contin-
gent liability on the part of its mem
bers.
At San Francisco on the Both ult
William j. Buggy, chief of police. fell
from a launch while crossing the bay,
with only the engineer present, who did
not see him go overheard, and was UNI
doubtedly drowned.
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 fifty-four seconds
that he already held.
Manipulation of the leading butter
markets of the country by a coterie of
Chicago, Elgin and Eastern produce
men is said TO be responsible to
large extent for the present extrava-
giant nripaS For b1ttar
The San Francisco Evening Globe
has been sold to c. H. Wilson, an attor-
ney representing the Ocean Publishing
Company, of which he is president.
The paper was started about five
months ago by the Calkins Newspaper
syndicate.
The Peoples Mutual Telegraph Com
pany has asked the City Council of
Chicago for a franchise on two streets
leading to the city limits. Plans are
announced for a line from Chicago to
st. Louis and Kansas City, to compete
with the two old companies.
After an idleness of thirteen months,
the old Open Hearth department Of
the Illinois Steel Company plant ut
South Chicago was reopened Tuesday
and 1000 men resumed work Prepar-
ations are Icing made to open five
other blast furnaces.
Attorneys for Ray Lamphere, who
has begun his term of imprisonment on
conviction of arson in connection with
the burning of the Guinness house, in
which Mrs. Belle Guinness and three
children lost their lives at La Porte,
have taken an appeal to the Indiana
Supreme Court, motion for new trial
having been denied.
Englewood High school, Chicago, is
| making arrangements to take the long
| est trip on record for a high school
football eleven Terms have been made
with the Butte, Mont, high school for
contest on Dec. 10Th, and provisional
date filled with the Seattle eleven for
match on Christmas day and for
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
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 $500, 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, Colorado & Southern station.
about forty miles in bee line west of
north of Cheyenne.