The Dolores star., 1908-06-19
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. poiNos, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Floods at Guthrie, Oklahoma. COM
| pletely demoralized the train service.
At one time not one of the six roads
entering Guthrie were in operation.
William White, a farmer, was killed,
several farmhouses we're destroyed
and property damage resulted from a
tornado which passed near Watonga
Monday night
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation of Labor. is i'll in
Chicago with slight infection Of the
leg. His physicians report that the all
ment is not serious.
Senator Robert M. Toilette has an
nounced that Henry F. Cochems Of
Milwaukee will place him in nomina-
tion for the presidential candidacy at
the Republican national convention.
William ]. Bryan, 1t is reported from
Lincoln, will not go to Louisiana in
response to an invitation sent from
New Orleans. Bryan has planned to
rest at Fairview and probably will not
leave the state for more than month.
Frank Gilbert, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, an
engineer in the United States Reclama-
tion service, met death on the 18th inst.
at Engle dam in New Mexico. when the
dynamite magazine exploded while he
was inside. Nothing of his remains
were recovered.
Unofficial estimates made by those
in charge of the school census indi-
cate that Chicago now has popula-
ton of about 2,140,000. The total pop
ulation reported in the census of 1914,
when the last general school census
was taken, was 1,714,144.
About 1000 people were driven from
their homes Tuesday In North Topeka
by the flood in the Kaw river. The
major portion found shelter in Topeka
proper. where the auditorium, school
buildings and private homes were OPP
ened to them. No loss of life has been
reported, but there has been much
property loss.
Colonel Henry Watterson of Louis
Vile was in Lincoln on the 10th inst.
the guest of w. j. Bryan at Fairview.
In an interview be said: Il have ac-
cepted Bryan as the inevitable candi-
date of the Democratic party and he
will be nominated on the first ballot.
think Bryan is stronger than ever
before and has much better chance
to win." -Fs
The electrolytic smelter of the Bos-
ton & Montana, one of the Ama!gam-
ated Copper companies, will be closed
down for two months, during which
time the Boston & Montana mines in
Butte will remain closed unless ar
rangements can be made to handle the
ore of the company at Anaconda. Five
thousand men are affected by the
shutdown.
The secretary of the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters & Butchers Workers
of North America states that while the
business of the big packing companies
at the Chicago stock yards has fallen
OF fifty per cent. as shown by the re-
ceipts of cattle for the past few weeks,
the independent houses throughout the
country are doing more business than
at any other time in their history
Captain Underwood, of the cruiser
Colorado, which was reported aground
at Dungeness spit in Puget sound, re-
ports rough voyage all the way up
the coast from California, but he de-
clares the cruiser was at no time il.
danger. He did not lose his reckoning
in the straits of Juan de Fuca and only
anchored to avoid any possible mishap
to his ship.
A detachment of soldiers surprised
a band of fifteen night riders who
were in the act of destroying tobacco
beds on the farm of Ephriam Martin
near Hiett, Ohio. Wednesday. A
pitched battle ensued. the riders fin
ally fleeing upon their horses. A sur
vey of the field did not show any
blood spots. indicating that any person
was injured. 1t is expected a number
of arrests will be made as result of
evidence secured by the soldiers.