The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-01-21
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM :. ALL : SOURCES
SAYINGS, NOS. ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND
WESTERN NEWS.

II is estimated that more than 200
motor cars are In use for renting out
in San Francisco.
The Idaho Legislature has reelected
Weldon b. Hepburn to the United
States Senate.
The appraiser has placed the value
of the estate left by the late Marshall
Field OF Chicago at $50. .459,O32.
George C. Perkins was reelected to
the United States Senate by the Cali
fornia Legislature on the 18th Inst.
One hundred automobiles have been
purchased by farmers OF La Sale
county. ILL.,. during the past year.
All records for cold weather at Great
Falls. Mont. were broken on the 10Th
inst. when the temperature fell to ~
degrees below zero.
1t is reported at Winnipeg that the
Canadian Pacific, railway will. this
year. spend $30.0O0.08s In construction
work on It's Western lines.
OF twenty eight workmen w the coal
nine owned by Joseph Letter at Zieg-
Ter. Ul. twenty-six were killed by the
explosion on the 10th inst.
1.-THE California railroad commission
has fined the Santa Fee railroad $1,000
for Illegal discrimination in the rates.
The Southern Pacific was found guilty
but was not fined.
Suit for nearly Sl.OO0.oO0 has been
filed against street car companies ON
behalf OF the city OF St Louis. The
claim In based upon the non-paymcnt
OF q tax OF one mill passenger.
Traffic representatives OF transcon'
tinentai railroads have consented to
meet western shipperssat Chicago jap
uary 2sth to hear complaints against
Increased freight rates. Nearly every
shipping organization on che. Pacific
coast will send Il representative.
/. the Wyoming Wool Growers ksso-
ciafion ne itS. meeting In Rawlins
raised a fund -d< $4,000 to dcfray ,eS-
penses OF u campaign against the se-
vision OF the ,ar{tG' on wool. to fight
ths. Pinchot system OF forest. .tc.erva-
ion.- etc.
Samuel Filler Fulton. great grandson
OF Robert Fulton. the Inventor OF the
steamboat. died at Denver on the 18th
inst, ut the Mercy hospital. Fulton
was twenty-five years otp. and The son
OF John c. Fulton OF Grottocs. Virginia.
one %. the wealthicst mill owners In
the South
Lorin Farr, pioneer OF Utah. among
the first converts to Mormonism. 10 1t
mayor OF Ogden, husband OF seven
wives and father of 800 children.
grandchildren and great-grandchiidren.
and ore OF the best known men In the
West. was drowned at Utah Hot
Springs. eleven miles north OF Ogden
on the 18th inst.
Edmund Burke. who posed as Brit
ish nobleman. was sentenced to three
years in Leavenworth. Kan, penitcn-
tiary and fined 81 900 by jury in the
United States District Court at Chi
cago on a charge OF impersonating n
United States officer. A Decatur. Ill.
girl who married him in Denver. OBJ
tained divorce upon his arrest In st.
Louis.
The Rev. John II. Carmichael, who
killed Gideon Browning. the village
carpenter at Battle Run. Mich, a few
days since, committed suicide at Car
.thage. H.. on the 1ith inst. by cut
ting his throat with n pocket knife. In
a letter found In his suit case he says
that Browning had him under hyp-
notic Influence. Browning attacked
hjnfiwith knife and he defended him
self with Ratchet
Three OF the men lost on the desert
In Death valley have made their way
to Baliarat One remains unaccounted
for and hope of his being alive has
been abandoned. The missing man is
b. ". A. Williams. a mining man OF
Randsburg. The three who arrived at
Ballard were demented. having wan
dered for nine days. most OF the time
without water.
GENE RAJ NEWS