The Colorado statesman., 1909-11-13
WESTERN NEWS.

David II. Moffat states that ne will
continue the construction of the Moi
flat road west into Utah next spring.
About 100000 feet of pine and hem.
lock lumber owned by the Hudson
Lumber Company at Garnet. Mich,
was burned on the Sth inst.
Among the new officers chosen by
the general grand council of Royal
and Select Masons at Savannah. Ga,
was Thomas E. Shears of Denver. gen
eral grand treasurer.
Finding that the soldiers were get
ting drunk on pay day. two ministers
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. led a raid
upon liquor joint and seized twenty
cases Of beer and two jugs of whisky
The ministers are the Rev. F. H.
Brown of the Baptist church. and the
Rev. E. L. Cunningham of the Chris.
tian church
The Nebraska Supreme Court has
upheld the daylight saloon bill, which
forbids the sale or gift of liquor be
tween p. m. and Z a. m. The law
was attacked on the ground that the
rights of cities were invaded and that
the revocation of a license on convic
ton OF violation of the law was cruel
and unusual punishment.
Hearst's Homestake Mining Com
pany has brought suit in the Federal
Circuit Court at Deadwood. s. D.,
against the Lead Miners Union for
$4,000 damages. No injunction is
asked. The company alleges threats
Of har hn ~ of he
miners and intimidation of non-anion
men, and charges the union with re
ducing the efficiency of its employees.
Denver shippers have won their
fight for restoration of the old rate of
s1.S0 per hundred for first-class
freight, Galveston to Denver. Tne
newer rate of s2.05, declared two
months ago by thirteen railroads con
cerned in the Gulf to Denver traffic,
has been abolished. according to in
formation received at Denver from the
Trans Missouri Freight Bureau.
The board of directors of the Col
orado National Apple exhibition to be
held at the auditorium in Denver the
first week in January has issued re-
vised premium list including 500 prizes
valued at abouth $4,000. The prizes
include $1,000 in money, cups valued
at $1,000, $4,000 worth of land, $1,000
worth of merchandise and other small
er premiums.
John r Dawson, attorney to the
Kansas State Board of Railroad Com
missioners, will go to Washington TO
bring action before the Interstate Com
merce Commission for a reduction in
freight rates on coal from southern
Colorado to Kansas points. The de-
PENDANTS in the proposed suit are the
Colorado G. Southern, the Denver IL
Rio Grande and Rock Island railroads.
Fourteen men were killed and nine
seriously injured, of whom three may
die, in head-on collision on the inter
urban line of the British Columbia
Electric Railway Company at Lake
View station, on the 10th inst. The
dead and injured were passengers and
crew of a car which left Vancouver
for New Westminster. Not a man of
/ the 90 on the car escaped death or
injury.
The Detroit United Railway has a
| total mileage in Detroit, Mich, eXolu-
sive of its extensive suburban lines.
of 170.41, and a total of 99S cars. Fran
chises on sixty-six miles of the com
pany's lines expire this month. City
engineer Bancroft has appraised the
value of the company's holdings in
DETROIT at s11,2S4,606. An appraisal
of the property from the same date,
by an engineer employed by the com
pany, fixes the total value at s24.70S,
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