The Holly chieftain., 1909-10-08
WGsrGRM NEWS.

WGsrGRN NEWS.
The strike Of 800 Gresk laborsrs in
the Utah Copper Company's plant has
been satisfactorily settled.
The American Association Of Public
Accountants viii hold its annual Coz.
vention at Denver. October 18th to ga.
Thomas H. swops. . millionaire
and philanthropist, died suddenly 1t
bis home In Kansas City Sunday
nisht. following . stroke Of apoplsxy.
He was 50 years old.
September gold receipts at the Be-
attic assay office were less than g..
100000. or nearly . million less than
for September Of last year. This ID
due to lack Of water for placer min
ing in Alaska because Of the dry sum-
mer. Total receipts for the year will
b. about the same % in 1908, q little
more than 91s.00O.o00.
Utah sheepmen are NO longer dis
posed to treat lightly the alarming re-
ports Of preyalency Of lip and leg dis
ease among the flocks Of the state.
Testimony confirming the stories Of
havoc wrought BY the disease was fur.
nished By the flockmastsrs who met
ct Salt Lake with the state officers.
Experts win investigate.
After an examination Of the docu-
ments relating to the services Of for
msr Consul Pasauals Corte. the Itsl-
ian Department Of Foreign affairs In
Rome has turned over to the public
prosecutor the evidence brought by
Consul General Rossi Of Denver charg-
ing Corts with peculatiou and fraud
involving the amount Of $4,000.
At Los Angeles . few days since
mice. gnawing at bag Of matches,
set fire to The Ark, . bird and dog
store. A score Of big green and red
husd parrots, frantic ct the sight II
the blaze. called loudly for help. Fire.
fire. help. help" the birds sArisksd, or
words 70 that effect. Pasaers BY and
the fire department saved many Of the
birds. but 125 were burned.
At st. Louis Sunday, on the arrival
Of the first boats Of the torpedo 40.
tilla for the city's centenary, $1,000
enthusiastic and curious persons tried
to board four tiny torpedo boats at the
same time. The boats would not hold
them and part Of the overflow, num-
bering 1853, were pushed into the Mis-
sissippi to be drawn ashore by police,
sailors and others.
Attired In y linen duster, an old
black SLOUGH hat and swinging an cleo
trio lantern at his side. President Taft
was locked In a narrow iron cage and
dropped 1.200 feet through midnight
blackness into the depths Of the t.
nous old Leonard copper mine at
Butte. He had the rare experience
Of seeing miners ut work with . giant
drill In q vein Of high-grade ore that
sparkled green with it, wealth Of min
eral.
Mrs. Mary Smith. So years old. died
at Newport, KY. Mrs. Smith was for
forty years = daily communicate ut
early mass at ~ Peters cathedral.
She and her husband came to America
from Lancashire. England, when she
was ~ years old. She had attended
mass daily for more than twenty-four
years before she left England. That
would make total OF more than a..
900 times she had gone to church. She
had given two-thirds Of her small for
tune to charity.
J. Mills. sheephsrder Of Wyoming.
undoubtedly saved his life by hacking
oft finger with . dull knife. Mills,
while on the range. was bitten ON the
end Of finger by q rattlesnake. He
attempted to amputate the finger
above the bite. but his knife was so
dull that he could only cut the flesh
away from the bite. This, however,
was sufficient to prevent the poison
entering his system. He then walked
ten miles to telegraph station ond
ordered an automobile, In which he
was taken to Cheyenne and placed in
. hospital.
GENERAL NEWS.