The new era., 1909-06-17
WESTERN NEWS.

wheat harvesting was peBun III
Wichita county. Texas, on May 26th.
Actual construction work on the
San Diego & Arizona railroad was be-
gun May 27th.
Three persons were killed and
number injured by tornado at Ypsi-
lanti, North Dakota, on the 29th ult.
A bill abolishing capital punishment
in Illinois has passed the House. 1t
substitutes life Imprisonment for the
death penalty.
The Tennessee Pass tunnel on the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad, that
caved in over two weeks ago, was re-
opened May 31st.
The University of Wisconsin base
ball team has received an invitation
TO play a series of twelve games with
Keio university in Toxic, Japan. 1t is
believed that the faculty will consent.
The first flight of an aeroplane ever
made in Texas occurred at Brownsville
on the 1st inst, when Prentiss New
man, the inventor, ascended about 10
feet and covered a distance of 300
yards.
Indictments against Governor Chas.
N Haskell and five others were re-
turned by the federal grand jury at
Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are charged
with obtaining titles from the govern
by illegal methods.
Mrs. Bertha Hillman of Petersburg,
Ind, has been awarded $4,000 in her
damage suit against William E. Stew
art saloon-keeper of Jimtown. She
alleged that her husband was drowned
while under the influence of liquor
sold him by Stewart.
The present bullion output of the
mills of Nevada is said to indicate an
increased production over that of any
previous year and an increase above
the estimate of $1S.000000 placed upon
the gold and silver production for the
year 1909 by the state bullion tax col
lector.
In the United States court at Port
land, Ore, Judge Hunt sentenced For
mer United States District Attorney
John Hall to pay fine of $1,000 and
to serve sixty days in the county Jail.
Hall was convicted of conspiracy to de-
fraud the government in connection
with the celebrated Butte Creek Land.
Live Stock & Lumber Company cases.
All Indian fighters in the United
States and elsewhere who served in
the frontiers either in the regular
army or volunteers prior to January /,
1882. and were honorably discharged,
are requested to send their names and
addresses to c. r. Hauser, secretary
treasurer Indian Fighters Association,
1643 Market street, Denver, Colo; also
to send the name of the company and
Regiment in which they served.
Edward Payson Weston. the pedes-
trian, reached Denver on the morning
of May 9th on his 4,3OO mile trip
from New York to San Francisco and
,, left at midnight, having about 1900
miles yet to cover. So far, he has
averaged forty miles a day, walking
being bad owing to spring storms and
muddy roads.
James Pritchett of Camden county,
Missouri, while in Oklahoma recently,
read in a newspaper that the Missouri
Supreme Court had affirmed a verdict
finding him guilty of murder. and he
at once voluntarily applied to the
State penitentiary to begin a ten
years term OF Imprisonment. He was
convicted of murder for killing a con
stable at Richland, Mo-, two years
ago.
At Kansas City on the Goth ult. the
jury in the case of James Sharp or
Adam God" charged with the mur-
der of Policeman Michael Mullane in
religious riot here December Sth,
last, returned a verdict of guilty of
murder in the second degree and
Sharp was sentenced to twenty-five
years in the penitentiary. Sharp's
wife, Melissa, is to be tried for murder.