The Colorado statesman., 1908-07-18
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WESTERN NEWS.

July oath will be the sixty first All
niversary of the arrival of the Mormon9
in the Salt Lake valley and will be ca
tensively celebrated wherever the
churcn exists.
Four deaths and &nerous prostra-
tions resulted from the extreme heat
in Chicago Saturday. There were three
deaths from heat in Saint Paul and one
in Minneapolis.
Frank H. Gilmore of Portland and
Roger w. Anderson of Chicago
started from Denver on the 18th, inst.
on trip afoot to Juneau, Alaska 1t
is a 2,500-mile tramp.
The bill in the Louisiana legislature,
requiring insurance companies to pay
Louisiana local agents the highest com
mission they paid anywhere has been
killed by pocket vote.
Hugh McCurdy, former grand master
of the Knights Templar in the United
States, and one of the authorities in
the country on Masonic Jurisprudence,
is reported critically i'll at his home in
Corunna, Michigan.
President Quinn of the Great Amer
ican Life of st. Louis has submitted to
Missouri insurance department an offer
to make good the impairment of the
Great Western Life of Kansas City and
continue the company in business.
After ten years of waiting, the
town of Encampment Wyo., now has
railway connection with the outside
world, the Saratoga G Encampment,
which has been building from Wolcott
for several years, having reached the
town limits.
The Rev. w. N. Durham, Cheyenne's
famous marrying minister" died on
the 18th inst at the age of eighty-five
years. A few years ago he gained
much publicity by marrying Divorces
from Colorado when all other Chey-
enne preachers refused to officiate.
The canvass of the vote of the In
ternational Stone Cutters Union for
international officers was completed
at New Albany, Indiana, Wednesday.
Joseph Evans of Denver was elected
president and Frank Byrnes of Red
wood, Colorado, was chosen member
of the executive board
The hog market which has been ad-
vancing steadily since March.
climbed to the high mark for the year
at Chicago on the 18th inst when
prime animals sold at S7.05 a hundred.
Scarcity of corn, resulting in a CORE
spending scarcity of hogs is given as
the cause of the advance.
The jury in the sensational Stanley
Peek murder trial, at Reno, New, was
out but thirty minutes and returned
verdict of not guilty for killing An
gelo Satero, who is alleged to have
made a personal attack on Peek's wife
and was later shot down by Peek for
not apologizing, and for declaring he
would "cut out his (Peek's) heart"
To save babies lives, the city council
of Chicago has made special appropri-
alton of 100000 Intestinal diseases
have made a terrible slaughter of in
fants and the council appropriated the
$4,000 to pay 100 physicians who will
be employed by the city to disseminate
information concerning the causes and
prevention of summer sickness among
babies.
Beginning August 10th, the railroads
will restore the old minimum freight
rate on the shipment of packages
weighing less than 100 pounds. The
old rate is rs cents for any package
weighing ur to 100 pounds, regardless
of the class to which it belong The
rate now in force, which was adopted
last spring, is from S5 cents to $205,
according To the class to which the
| package belongs.