The Dolores star., 1909-04-09
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND
OTHER COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNGs AND HAPPENINGS
THAT MARK THE PROG
REss OF THE AGE.
WESTERN NEWS.

George Alexander, who was elected
mayor Of Los Angeles at the recall
election. has been sworn into office.
Abort twenty entries have been Sc
cured for Denver to the City Of Mex
leo endurance run, which is being pro-
NOTED by Denver motorists for Sep
tember.
The Montana, Wyoming & Southern
began April LIST on the 163 miles from
Sheridan, Wyo., northeast to Miles
City, Mont. The work will include six
steel bridges.
1t is estimated that the value of
automobile products Of Detroit for the
year 1909 will be $5O.00O,OO0, making
it the automobile manufacturing GEN.
ter Of the world.
John H. Cradlebaugh, tried at Dan
yer on the charge of murder for the
shooting of Frederick W. Walton, who
carried off Cradlebaughs wife, was
acquitted by the jury.
Earnings of the Southern Pacific for
February show net increase of 1884,
600. The Southern Pacific from July
1st has a net revenue increase OF $4.-
365,000. The Union Pacific for Febru-
ary has net increase Of 1921 900.
A notable victory was won by the
government In the District Court Mon
day when the Utah Fuel Company paid
into court 100000 and pleaded guilty
to the charge of obtaining coal land by
fraud
Chiefly through the efforts OF An
gelo Noce, founder of Columbus day in
Colorado, Montana has followed the
example and made the anniversary OF
the discovery of America a legal holi-
day.
Preparations for the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition at Seattle, have
caused the Seattle Electric Company
to spend $4,000 for new cars, $780,
900 for new trackage and $275.000 for
motor generators, transformers, trans
mission lines ana the lighting system.
Fire nearly destroyed the United
states military. prison at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas, on the night of the
Slsf nit. The 800 prisoners were sue
cessfully removed under guard Of
United States troops, who were under
orders to fire instantly in case an at
temrt was made to escape.
John McGrain, seventy-eight years
old, who in the early sos drove an OK
team to the California gold fields and
later Joined the gold rushes to Aus
tralia, New Zealand, Africa and Alas
ka, died at Saltwater, Okla, on the 4th
inst. Though sixty-five years old he
ho ao1y
and dragged a sledge many miles
across the snow and ice.
Every western state and territory,
Canada and Mexico contributed citi-
zens to the great crowd attending the
seventy-ninth conference of the Nor
mon church. which opened at Salt
Lake on the 4th inst. There were a
score or more Of Indian Mormons who
came from Idaho in special car.
There were Japanese converts. believ-
ers from Hawaii and the South Sea
Islands and few negroes.
The length of the extension Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail-
road just completed, from the Mis-
souri, river to Seattle and Tacoma, is
trifle over 1,400 miles. The com
pletion of the new transcontinenta
line creates a worlds record for rap
idity of railway construction The first
shovelful Of earth on the new line was
turned April Is, 1906. Since tnen co.
100000 cubic yards Of material have
been excavated, 36O,2O0,O0O tons of
eighty-five pound rails laid at a total
cost Of $S5.000.000.
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