The Elbert County tribune., 1908-12-10
WESTERN NEWS.

Steel laying on those sections OF the
st. Paul road which cross the noun
tafns In Montana has been suspended
until the snow melts next spring.
An automobile speedway is to be
built from Salt Lake City to the Sal
tair resort on Great Salt Lake. dis
tance of about fifteen miles. Toll will
be charged.
A ruling by the Illinois insurance de-
partment compels all mutual fire insur-
ance companies organizing in that
state to make provisions for contin-
gent liability on the part of its 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 fifty-four seconds
that he already held.
Manipulation of the leading butter
markets OF the country by coterie of
Chicago, Elgin and Eastern produce
men is said 10 be responsible to a
large extent for the present extrava-
giant prices Cor butter.
The great government collier Pro-
metheus was successfully launched at
the Mare Island, Cal, navy yard on the
9Th inst The vessel was christened
by Miss Dollie Evans, daughter of Nav
al Constructor Holdena Evans.
The Carlisle Indian football team, in
game on the grounds OF the Univer-
sity of Denver Saturday, defeated the
university team by score of to A.
This showing places the Denver eleven
high up in the list of football teams.
Richard G. Kerens, former Republi-
can national committeeman for Mis-
souri, and defeated candidate for. the
Missouri Republican senatorial nomina-
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 on
the active list or not, who was found
to visit the race track or bet on the
races. would be Immediately dis
charged.
The Peoples Mutual Telegraph Com
pany has asked the City Council Of
Chicago for franchise on two streets
leading to the city limits. Plans are
announced for 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.
Butte, Montana, is much excited over
the statement that the President told
John ID. Ryan that he means to close
every smelter in America whose fumes
injure the forests unless means can be
devised to make sulphur smoke innoc-
uous to vegetable life. He mentioned
the smelters at Anaconda and at East
Helena.
The army transport Buford sailed for
Manila from San Francisco on the 5th
inst with 300 bluejackets and marines
for the Asiatic station and 20 recent
graduates from West Point who have
been commissioned as officers in the
Philippine scouts. The Buford carries
$1,300,000 in new silver pesos and $500
wortn of pennies.
Newspapers at Los Angeles which
publish tips on races, persons who
sell them on the streets and anyone
who causes them to be circulated II
any manner will be subject to arres
and prosecution under the anti-tip ordi
nance which was passed early this yeal
and which is still in effect The new
prosecuting attorney announces tina
he will enforce the law.