The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-12-18
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STORY OF The week
shoWlNo THE PROGRESS o.
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

lsadore Newman. millionaire phil
anthropist, who died week ago. re-
membered the Jewish hospital for con.
sumptives at Denver. Colo, in his will
for $1,000.
Cornelius Vanderbilt announced at
Wichita, Kas., that the Vanderbilts
have become financially interested in
the Missouri Pacific Railroad and con-
firmed the rumor that he has been
made director Of that company.
The highest price ever paid for hogs
at the South Omaha market Is $40
per hundred. which was paid for a
carload received December 9Th from
Western Iowa. They averaged 275
pounds each.
Mrs. Allen F. Read. convicted at
Denver Of threatening Mrs. Phipps
with dynamite In order to extort mon
ey. has been sentenced to from one
year to eighteen months In the state
penitentiary.
It now seems almost contain that
Denver will secure the International
Aviation Congress next fall. This will
bring with It spectacular flying ma
chine contests and attract many thou.
sands Of visitors.
Charles B. wilmington, inventor Of
the first automatic grain binder and
known ~ the father Of the grain
binding industry" died on the 18th
inst. At Janesville. Wis. He was born
in Middlebury. now Akron, Ohio. in
1880 and settled In Janesville sixty
two years ago.
With the reply filed In the case Of
Dunsmuir W. Dunsmuir. arrangements
are now being made at Victoria. b. c..
for the trial which will involve fight
between the heirs Of the late Mrs.
Joan Dunsmuir and the retiring lieu.
tenant governor. James Dunsmuir. for
recovery OF an estate valued at b.
tween $l6.000.O00 and 418. 100000.
The Santa Fe h receiving In install.
worth OF equipment recently built for
1t in the East. and designed to facili.
tate operations on it, western division
west Of Ia Junta. New equipment in.
cludes thirty-seven new engines. 100
passenger. baggage and mail cars. sew.
eral hundred refrigerator cars and
Upon Pixies Peak there has Just
been established by the United States
An experiment station OF forestry. the
first Of its kind In Colorado and The
second In the country. Tho station
will serve the same interests In the
forestry division OF the government
~ the Agricultural experiment sta.
lions In tho agricultural department.
William q. Smith formerly lieuten.
ant-govern0r and speaker Of the House
OF Representatives Of Colorado. now
tax agent for the Denver City Tram.
way Company. has filed suit In the
District Court at Denver. asking $780,
900 damages from Harvey J. O'HiG.
gins and Judge Ben b. Lindsey for an
article relating to his career ~ speak
o. Of the House In the Twelfth Gen.
eral Assembly. which appeared In the
October number Of Everybody's Mag.
asine. and which. he claims. II libel.
Gus. false and dcfamatory.
At public auction salc at Austin.
Tex. resulting from the late antitrust
suit and custer proceedings. the prop
erty Of the Waters.Pierce OIL Com.
pany was sold to 8. w. Fordyce and
associates Of st. Louis. The price bid
was ei.43i.7ll. The property Of the Be-
curity OIL Company was bought by
John Sealey Of Galveston for SIS. 900
and that Of the Navarro Refining Com.
pany OF Corsicana was also sold TO
Sealey for $3.50. 900. Sixty cars Of the
Union Tank Line Company were
bought BY Mr.. Sealey for $4,000.
GENERAL NGWo.