The Colorado statesman., 1909-05-08
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOM ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

The city of Lincoln, Neb.. went dry
at the city election on the 4th inst.
Don l.. Love, Republican, was elected
mayor.
The Goldfiield New Tribune re-
ports that from April LIST to May LIST
the mines of Goldfield produced at the
rate of S2,536,725 or in round numbers
at the -ate of $3O.OOO,OOO per annum.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company has paid Mayor Houx of
Cody, Wyo., $500 in settlement of
his claim for $4,000 damages for the
injuring of his three children by the
falling of a telephone pole.
Wayne Brazel has been acquitted at
Las Cruces of the murder of Pat Gar
-ett, New Mexico's famous sheriff of
frontier days. The jury was only out
fifteen minutes. BraZe claimed that
the killing was done in self-defense.
An entire carload of baggage belong
ing to Troop E., Seventh cavalry, and
the car, burned near Winslow, Ariz.,
on the night of the 4th inst. Private
Charles Schollett was severely burned
in an attempt to eXtinguish the flames.
]. N. Faithorn of Chicago is arrang-
ing to operate an automobile stage be-
tween Thermopolis, Wyo., and the
Northwestern railroad at Shoshoni.
The distance is thirty-five miles and
Faithorn expects 70 make round trips
daily.
A plot to kidnap the eight-year-old
son of Governor Gillett of California
and hold him until the governor par
doned ]. B. Clifton, a noted criminal
confined in San Quentin prison, has
been discovered and foiled by the
prison officials.
The big exposition of the American
Street & Interurban Railway Associa-
ton, which will be held in the auditor
ium at Denver, next November, will
occupy 100000 square feet of floor
space, and 200 booths will be con
structed for the exhibits.
The canvass for the new city d-
rectory of Denver is more than half
completed and indicates an increase
of five per cent over last year in the
number of names, which, on the most
conservative of estimates, shows
population of more than 263 1000.
James A. Patten, whose deals in
wheat have brought him into interna-
tional notice, returned to Chicago on
the 5th inst. after resting for two
weeks on his partners Colorado ranch.
He is conducting his market cam
paigns from his residence, where he
has had special wires put in.
Benjamin Wellington Soule has been
held for trial in San Francisco for hav-
ing sent letters to Rudolph Spreclles,
Mrs. Spreckles and James OBrien
Gum, cashier of the Mechanics bank,
threatening them with death by poison
if he was not given $4,000 by each.
Emerson Hough's attack on the
Weather Bureau in Everybody's Mag
azine has brought to Frederick A.
Brandenburg, forecaster of the Rocky
Mountain district, numerous assur-
ances of the high estimation in which
the work of the bureau is held in his
jurisdiction by those whom it has
greatly benefited.
President j. Herbert Anderson at
Spokane has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy for the Idaho Smelling & Re
filming Company. He charges that
Montana millionaire became interested
in the company for the sole purpose of
wrecking it, defrauding the creditors.
and buying the smelter at Sand Point
at nominal figure, supposedly for the
smelling trust.