The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-09-17
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FIR ON ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DolNes. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Work has been commenced on the
first eight miles of the Union Pacific
out of Seattle, Wash.
Official returns compiled by Secre
tary of Agriculture Coburn show the
population of Kansas to be 1G56.799,
an increase over last year Of G.639.
Gen. Alexander p. Stewart, one of
~the last two surviving lieutenant gen
erals of the Confederate army, died at
his home in Biloxi, Mississippi, Sun
day in his eighty-seventh year.
Rear Admiral Henry Glass, U. S. N,
retired, died on the LIST inst. at Pas
Robes, California, of heart failure. fol-
lowing an operation performed several
days before at his home in Berkeley.
A large Japanese insurance company
has practically determined to enter the
United States and prominent San
Francisco underwater has already been
decided upon for the United States
manager.
A Carnegie medal has been received
by Marjorie Coast the eleven-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. p. c.
Coast of Iowa City, Iowa, who leaped
into the Iowa river and saved the life
of Margaret Hayes, daughter of Prof.
and Mrs. Samuel Hayes, last summer.
A device for the purpose of making
women get off street car without
facing backward is being tried by the
Chicago City Railway Company. The
passenger has nothing to grasp except
a handle at the forward end of the step
and seemingly cannot help facing for
ward when leaving the car.
An increase of $4,000 over July,
1907, is shown in the gross earnings of
the Colorado & Southern railroad for
the corresponding month this year.
The total gross earnings for July, 1908.
are 81 ,240.36S, being the largest of any
month since last January. The operat-
ing expenses of the road were reduced
$4,000 for the same month.
Contending that the United States
district attorney was not warranted by
law in attempting to collect the $1,000
fine imposed upon the late United
States Senator Mitchell in connection
with the land fraud cases, from his es-
tate, United States Judge Wolverton at
} Portland, Ore, has handed down de-
cision vacating the fine imposed on the
Senator July 25, 1908.
Four heirs OF the late Hugh McCurdy
of Corunna, Mich. who left his $110,-
900 estate to the Masonic Orphans
Home at Grand Rapids Mich. have
filed notice of suit to break the will.
Mr.. McCurdy, who was one of the wild
est known Masons In the United States
left his widow only an annuity of $500
and his son, Spencer, a life interest in
the farm upon which he lived.
The Portland Oregonian says that
construction work on the railroad from
Hillsboro to Tillamook will be re-
sumed at once and continued steadily
until it is completed for the entire pro
.jected length of eight-six miles. Work
was stopped last November after twen-
ty miles of track had been laid. 1t is
expected that the road will be COM
pleted June, 1910. The road. when COM
pleted, will lhave cost in excess of $4,-
100000.
The American Smelling & Refining
Company has issued its annual report
for the year ending April 30th last,
which shows decrease in earning
compared with the previous year of
SO S46,776. President Daniel Guggen'
helm in his report to the stockholders
said that the decline in business had
not impaired the company's surplus,
which now amounts to $13,40S,219. He
also stated that there is marked i'm
provement at the present time in the
market value of copper and lead.