The state herald., 1909-12-10
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. DoIN6s, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Because he laughed aloud In church
Wiley Rains. a country boy living near
Springfield. Mo-. was sentenced to Jail
Tor ten days.
Losses by the recent floods in north
west Washington are very great.
Many place the loss at $2.5OO.00O in
Skagit and Whatcom counties.
The Milwaukee Press Club has ex-
tended an invitation to Theodore
Roosevelt to be the principal speaker
during the silver jubilee exercises
next year following his return from
Roosevelt.
The Des Moines Life Insurance
Company has decided not to insure
Christian Scientists. following the pay
ment of $4,000 loss on Paul l..
Parks of Parksville. Miss. who. when
taken ill, refused to employ physic-
ian and died ten days later.
The cabinet of Premier Giolitti OF
Italy resigned on the I'd inst. because
the Chamber of Deputies defeated the
government bill for the reduction of
indirect taxation on necessities, the
loss Of revenue from that source to
be offset by a progressive income tax.
Working drawings for the new fed
eIal building at Denver have been
completed and turned over to the
treasury department. The depart
ment expects to be ready to receive
bids for the work by January LIST and
to let some of the contracts by March
lst.
Prime steers December list reached
the highest price ever paid in the
open market In Chicago, when 10
steers averaging 1.572 pounds sold at
$3.50 per hundredweight. and 10 year
lings weighing 1851 each also sold at
the same price. A single head sold at
IL cents a pound.
The call for the annual convention
OF the National Wool Growers Asso-
citation has been issued by Secretary
Walker. 1t is to be held at Ogden,
Utah, January G, Z and s. and 1t is ex.
pected that the range question will be
the most important one up for consid.
GRAFTON.
According to a decision by Police
Judge Crawford at Omaha, BARRIERS
are common laborers" and are there
fore amenable to the Sunday labor
laws. Fifteen BARRIERS had been prose.
cuted for pursuing their calling on
Sunday and their defense was that
their work is a profession"
The forest service has Just an
nounced the following appointments
on national forests In district .. for
the month OF November: Walter I.
Mickey was appointed forest guard on
the Cheyenne national forest; Walter
G. Brown. Joseph ID. Orme and Sam
uel r. Quick on the Medicine Bow,
and August Ii. Taylor on the Routt.
Judge Kohlsaat in the Federal Cir
cult Court at Chicago has appointed
receivers for the Illinois Tunnel Com.
pany and the Chicago Warehouse a
Terminal Company. companies held
by the s50.000.000 Chicago Subway
Company. The receiyership is the In.
itial step in plan to reorganize the
two companies under friendly terms.
Capt. w, A. Johnson. formerly gen.
eral superintendent OF the Guggen.
helm mining syndicate. and at one
time an associate OF John Hays Ham.
mond. committed suicide at the Bel.
mont hotel ut Salt Lake December
lst by cyanide poisoning. The act is
attributed to financial reverses. which
threatened his ownership OF valu.
able group Of mines In Yerington.
Nov.