The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1909-02-04
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WESTERN NEWS.

Z. III is estimated tnat more imam 2uu
motor cars are in use for renting out
in San Francisco.
The appraiser has placed the value
of the estate left by the late Marshall
Field Of Chicago at $50. 459032.
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 "A
degrees below zero.
1t is reported at Winnipeg that the
Canadian Pacific railway will. this
year, spend $30,0O0OOO in construction
work on its Western lines.
OF twenty-eight workmen in the coal
mine owned by Joseph Letter at Zieg-
Ter. H.. twenty-six were killed by the
explosion on the 10th inst.
Upward of $1O,O00,000 will be ex,
pended by the American Locomotive
Company in the construction in its pro-
jected plant at Gary, Ind, plans for
which are in preparation.
Suit for nearly $1.000,0O0 has been
filed against street car companies on
behalf of the city of st. Louis. The
claim is based upon the non-payment
OF tax of one mill passenger
The Illinois club, constituting with
its splendid art gallery one of the
most historical landmarks of Chicago,
was destroyed by fire on the 9th inst.
with loss estimated at $325,OOO.
Confident that he will be able to
solve the problems of the economical
use of gasoline for railroad motive
power, e. H. Hartman will shortly
spend small fortune in experiments
at Omaha, Neb
District Judge Pollack at Fargo, N.
d.. decided that the North Dakota law
declaring that bleaching flour under
the Alsop process is in violation of the
state pure food law and that the law
is constitutional
Billings. Mont, Idaho Falls. Idaho,
and Douglas, Ariz., are bidders for the
1910 convention of the TRANSMITS
souri, Dry Farming congress. and will
send large delegations to the 1909 con
vention in Cheyenne in February.
The Wyoming Wool Growers Asso-
citation at its meeting in Rawlins
raised fund of $4,000 to defray ex-
penses of a campaign against the re-
vision of the tariff on wool. to fight
the Pinchot system of forest reserva-
ton, etc.
Michigan is pointing with pride to
the fact that 32G miles of new road
have been constructed in the past
three ard one-half years This is be-
lieved to be better showing than any
other state in the Union OF the roads,
1873 miles are in macadam and 140
miles in gravel.
Alonzo Erastus Horton, founder of
the present city of San Diego, Cal.
and its oldest inhabtant, died on the
18th inst aged ninety-five, as a result
of infirmities incident to old age. In
1867 Father" Horton, as he was I'M
iversally known, surveyed and pur-
chased at auction for 26 cents an acre,
$50 acres of land around the bay. upon
which San Diego now stands. On the
day of his funeral every flag in the
city was placed at half mast.
The highest bridge in the world is
soon to be built in Idaho across the
Snake river canon, 800 feet west of
Shoshone falls. The span of the bridge
will be LAO feet from cliff to cliff
and the roadbed will be $50 feet above
the water. From the bridge one will
be able to look down at the falls,
which rival Niagara and rank among
the greatest natural wonders of the
Pacific Northwest.
The Rev. John Fl. Carmichael. who
killed Gideon Browning, the village
carpenter at Battle Run, Mich, a few
days since, committed suicide at Car
.thage, Ill.,, on the 18th inst, by cut
ting his throat with a pocket knife. In
a letter found in his suit case he says
that Browning had him under hyp-
motto influence. Browning attacked
him with knife and he defended him
self with Ratchet.