The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-07-11
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
TIE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO Snort,
CEicP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SLOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
W ESTERN NEWS.

Pc farmers ~ Kansas are calling
loaiiy for aelI in ibe - heat fields.
purInE The pas. three months one
tE.Td ut The troops OF th. Uaitrd States
casaly. stationed at rury WashahIe,
NAug-.Eg- mas u, serted, oa!y one has
bC. "a captured
Seven persons were Killed, AZ lras-
tEo o..ess Here fatally injured and
fully ElrTrs more were severely hurt
as tar resIlt 81 f!re IN : ; krsaG
scent ssuEa on Ontario street IA CltFe.
land July Sra
G. H. Haid-Edsr. general ulanaze~
OF the American Refrigerator Trans.
Ior.urigu Company, is said to have an
uvuuccd thar -" cars have been as
signed co take csry ot the Rocky Ford
melon district ,als year
Rear Admiral Charles NJ Thomas
tvyilIedl L. : n died suddenly at
Del Monte California. July Ord. He
ten TO the noor while leaving the no
tei dining rpum aud died before he
could be taken To his rocm.
B3AcAsmiths and machiuists of the
Northern Pacific shops al Tacoma on
the 5th usr resumed work on full time
CT uiug hours Four hundred men are
IL nlediateiy affected and IL means full
time tos the entire force Of 500 men at
thy shops
Two slight shocks NJ earthquake
wer, felt IN Los Angeles and vic!nity
at 5-v1 oglucs on The moELsHg ot July
5't- \ few people We're awakened.
an here and there "A clpch Mas
sgopuvd but III, earthquakes produced
un other effect
Rev Simpson Ely- an evangelist
wIg had conducted services IN every
sElt- nf the Ju,zH. died At Joplin.
Nlss4gEl Uu the 5:h inst from ia
jGrigs received in a fall tEam street
car while he was ga the way 10 de-
liver J sermon. de was fiftE nine
Wears cid
During June 450e cubic yards of ma
sugry were lad IN the great Pathfinder
GaW. which be.ts the best previous
record by 2tu cubic Yards There is
now byjgs delivered 80 feet OF water
through tle interstate canal There
are at pr.s II u 5Hn acres in crops uu-
der the Interstate canal in wyoming
and about 10000 IN Nebraska
\ study Of the mortality OF Chicago
for th.. first six months OF 1905 shows
that ] 5f7 fewer people have died this
year JEau last. II allowance Is maic
Tor The increase OF population. the cal
~ 4Lls- >lAN 4tt- - LafEN .lhES AA- 81
l.Il decrease in deaths from pu-u-
nouta has been 9ts. trom cousurlp-
lion. ia On tha other hand bowel
diseases Of children have tncreas 4
june S-d there occurred the great
esl Gead so far recorded an the North
Plate river, destroy NJ j portion o.
tie temporary intake channel of the
Interstate canal. %a-rh Platte irri-a-
zion project. WatCr behind rhe Path
finder dam gradually rose until June
1Ist. when TIE waite. surface OF the res
eryuir Was only tweuly.two feet below
the toR OF the dam. 1t has since SUB
sided
After ! terrible encounter with Il
ions- horned herd OF steers. George WI
klus. one uf thu best known rarcamvn
ot that section WAS killed near Tulsa.
Okla Ills body WAS eored and tramp
Led aIuIoS; beyond recognition. In Try
ing "a pass through a corral On foot
he WAS attacked by the herd Armed
with revolver he fought desperately
and kiEie-i siN steers. but uam aeFs over
came h5m Cow AoAs who rushed 70 his
assistance could only rescue his body
\ case which exciJss genuine human
interest came before tina Iowa board
cf UGrats 1 few days since 1t was the
application Of : Z Smith for q par
con He : the soH Of Samuel Francis
Smith y p. who w-pte America "
ans VS. ore OF the most promiu5 nj
and influential residents OF Daye1-
port for many years He : now an old
and enfeebIed man In 1904 he was
sentenced 70 the Anapesa psniteu=
tiary for eleven years fer the eube-z-
element ct 100000