The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-05-15
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WESTERN NEWS.
The city of Lincoln, Neb., went dry
at the city election on the 4th inst.
Don L. Love. Republican, was elected
mayor.
James Boyle, charged with kid
mapping Billy" Whitla, was convicted
at Mercer, Pa, after a trial lasting a
few hours.
Fifty million dollars in newly
minted gold and silver coin has been
transferred to the Denver mint from
the mint at San Francisco.
A tunnel 5000 feet long has just
been completed on the Canadian Pa
cific railroad in British Columbia at a
cost of million and half dollars.
A referee appointed by the State Su-
preme Court of Nebraska reported,
holding that the Sibley act reducing
express rates twenty-five per cent. is
not confiscatory.
Fifteen families have been burned
out in the Rush Lake, Saskatchewan,
Two children lost their lives and 9th
erS we're paQly DuTHeo.
The Rosedale sanitarium at Albu-
querque, N M, was burned on the 9th
inst. 1t was a large frame structure
and the flames spread SO rapidly that
a number of tubercular patients were
rescued with difficulty.
At Seattle thirty persons were in
jured, many seriously, when a section
Of the railing in the east balcony at
the new state armory gave way dur
ing the indoor track meet of the Sc
attic Athletic club.
The night of May 10th brought the
close OF the municipal year in Lin
coin, Neb, and with it the Punishment
for at least year Of every saloon in
the city, for the first time in its his
.Ory.
Fred D. Warren, business manager
OF the Appeal to Reason. Socialist
publication, charged by the govern
ment with sending scurrilous and de-
famatory matter through the mails,
was found guilty by jury In the Fed
eral Court at Fort Scott. Kas.
An inventory of the estate of the
late Senator William M. Stewart of
Nevada discloses the fact that he
owned no real estate and his personal
property did not exceed $500 In
value. This amount is devised to his
widow, Mrs May Agnes Stewart. Mr..
Stewards debts are said to aggregate
$4,000.
Clinton C. Hutchinson, known as
the father of irrigation projects in the
West, died at his home in Portland.
Ore, on the 10th inst, aged seventy
five. Death was due to old age. He
founded the town of Ottawa. Kan,
and afterward sold the tract upon
which the town Of Hutchinson now
stands.
FORMER Mayor Harper of Los An
geles, through his attorneys, has with
drawn three libel suits: against the
Evening Express for 100000 and $lO0.-
900, and one against Former City Pros
ecutor Thomas l.. Woolwine, for $780,
600, The suits follow ed the publication
in the Express of charges by Woolwine
that vice was being protected by city
officials.
The first material fruit Of the re-
cent national peace conference IN Cnl-
cago is a fund OF $4,000 donated to
Northwestern University by John r.
Lindgren, Swedish consul to Chicago,
to provide for a permanent series OF
lectures and to secure the annual pay
ment OF prizes for essays upon the
questions of international peace and
interdenominational religious har-
mony.
The big trading store of the A. B.
McGaffey company at Thoreau, N. M,
100 miles west of Albuquerque, was
totally destroyed by fire on the night
of the 10th inst. The stock included
several thousand Navajo blankets and
other valuable Indian goods and the
loss will be $4,000. The fire destroyed
the Santa Fe railroad and telegraph
company's wires.