The La Jara chronicle., 1909-10-15
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

A record of the earthquake SHOCK
at Salt Lake Tuesday was made by
the seismograph at the Sacred Heart
College in Denver, the disturbance
lasting about half a minute.
1t is reported that a determined ef
fort will be made in Denver to nom
mate Ruth Bryan Leavitt. daughter
of William J. Bryan. on the Demo
cratic ticket for member OF Congress.
State prohibition in 1912 was de
clared a possibility by Mrs. Adr!anna
Hungerford. president Of the w. c. T.
U. of Colorado. in her annual address
before the state convention at Pueblo
Gen. John ]. Pershing sailed on the
transport Tnomas Gor Manila to as
sumo command of the military for !es
a. Zamboanga. island or Mindandn. the
scene of his former victories over the
rebellious Moros.
The entire Canadian assets OF the
New England Fish Company. valued
at S2,O00,0O0. has been transferred TO
the Canadian Fish Company of Van
couver. which has been a business
rival of the New England concern for
years.
August Post, secretary OF the Aero
Club of America, has decided that
neither S. l.. Won Publ nor H. Z. Hon
eywell pilots of the balloons st. Louis
No. 3 and the Centennial, respective
ly are entitled to the Lahm cup,
which is now in the possession OF
Capt. De Forest Chandler.
Two men were killed and six in
jured on the fort Riley military reser-
vation in Kansas by the explosion OF
four-inch gun during military tests.
Sergeant Smith and Private Daniels
of Battery a, Sixth field artillery,
were killed Lieut.. Ralph VI Pennell
of the Sixth was perhaps fatally hurt
Five privates We're slightly injured.
A Socialist mass meeting at Los An
geles. at which President Taft was de-
nounced resulted in near riot and the
dispersal of mob by the police. The
police swept down upon the mass
meeting, arrested three OF the radical
leaders and locked them up. keeping
them in custody during the Presi-
dents stay in the city.
According to a statement made by
C. G. Bridgeford of Hamilton, Mont.
lO 10 d PAL lhtI VI WI IL thc
real estate business, Edward Bareille.
the guide who accompanied Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook to the summit of Mount
Mckinley in 1906, has been offered
$4,000 to sign an affidavit to the effect
that DR.. Cook failed to reach the sum-
init of the mountain.
James Fagan. an aged switchman at
San Antonio, Tex, has received Off
cial word that Carnegie pension of
$4,000 is awaiting his disposition.
Pagan worked fer the Pennsylvania
railroad when Mr.. Carnegie was his
division superintendent and the s40,-
900 is the accumulation of a snug PEN
sion put aside for him by Mr.. Carne-
gle years ago, when Pagan dropped
out of sight.
All gatemen at the Alaska yukon
Pacific exposition were discharged
Saturday night. it being alleged that
they had participated in or knew Of
stealings at the turnstiles. The al
legged method of the gatemen. whose
turnstiles were unlocked by slipping a
coin into a slot. was to catch the gate
before it had registered. pull it back,
take in another person and pocket the
coin.
Navigation of the Tanana river in
| Alaska was closed on the 10th inst.
| by the freezing of the stream. The
unexpected freeze caught number of
| steamers in the river and will holG
them prisoner until spring. when two
of them will be in a dangerous posi-.
tion at the breaking up of the ice.
TWO steamers crowded with stamped
ers for the new Iditarod district are
frozen fast A thousand tons OF
freight. within a short distance OF
Fairbanks will not be available until
next May.