The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-12-04
WESTERN NEWS.

Samuel GOmpcrS was re elected pres
tdent of the American Federation OF
Labor at the Denver convention.
The flood in the Cottonwood river
In Oklahoma Sunday is estimated to
have left 5000 people homeless.
The report Of the state mine inspec-
Tor shows South Dakota's gold produc-
tion foi last year to have been 81, ,i6O,-
900. which Is the highest in the history
Of the state.
BY majorities of LOO. 600 and 975,
Jefferson, sGndusky and Clermont
counties. Ohio. voted dry November
23rd. knocking out 210 saloons. HUI
ron county voted wet by 10.
A Los Angeles paper says that DR..
ID. X. Pearson, the noted philanthro-
pist. is not in straitened circum-
stances. as was reported. but still has
$3,O00,000 to give to educational insti-
tutions.
The "pay as you enter" system Of
collecting fares has been introduced
successfully en- one of the street ca"
lines In Chicago In rush hours 1t l.,
said seventy-five persons minute can
be loaded.
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 for
NAL request cent two weeks ago, Sec
retary Loeb for the President has re-
piled that 1t will be Impossible to COM
ply.
At the recent election an amendment
to the Minnesota constitution was sub
mitted providing for the establishment
Of state fund for hail and tornado IN
surance. A majority of all the votes
cast was necessary and this was not
secured, as many citizens failed TO vote
either way.
Ray Lamphere was convicted of ar
son in setting fire to the building in
which Mrs. Belle Guinness and her
three children were burned at La
Porte, Ind. and within five minutes at
ter thu verdict the judge sentenced him
to twenty-one years in the State Pen
itentiary at Michigan City.
Adelina Guttilla, three years old
daughter of Dominica Guttilla, who has
been exhibited in many of the large
cities, and who was one of the won
ders Of the medical profession, died at
Springfield, O., a few days since Of
pneumonia. She was forty inches high
and weighed 14O pounds. She was con.
sidered the largest baby in the world
At Seattle Friday, Hugh Mcmahon
manager of the American cafe, and a
we'll known business man, was mur.
dered In the front yard of residence
next door to his own home His face
had been battered to a pulp, his skull
fractured, and q finger nearly torn off
from which a $500 diamond had been
wrenched. The police believe the mur.
der was the work Of thugs.
As result of a war on Clubs" in
which liquor bas been sold on Sundays
and during the hours that saloons we're
closed, 81 clubs were raided In st.
Louis and 1872 men arrested. When ar
r. raigned in police court most Of the
prisoners were discharged, their re.
lease being gieeted with cheering from
hundreds of spectators. The raids
were ordered by Fovernor Folk.
That the Missouri Pacific has de.
cided to double track its system from
Kansas City to Pueblo is the positive
announcement given out by Superin-
tendent J. E. Snedeker in an interview
at Ottawa, Kas. This, he said, is part
OF a plan of improvement which the
Missouri Pacific has determined on
and which provides for an expendi-
ture of $1O,0O0,OOO year for ten years
in permanent work.