The state herald., 1909-11-26
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN NEWS.

Fire insurance companies doing bus.
iness in Kansas have decided to test
the constitutionality of the rate regu-
lation law of that state.
An eight-track swing bridge across
the main channel of the Chicago river,
near Thirty-first street, will be oper-
ated by electricity.
Albert C. Loring, president of the
Pillsbury Flour Mills Company of Min
neapolis, has taken out 100000 life
Insurance, with the company as bene.
ficiary.
Elias Ray, one of the wealthiest land
owners of Indiana, killed himself at
Lafayette few days since rather than
go to court to face trial for the al
legged murder Of one of his employees
last spring. He struck the man with
4 club during quarrel. Ray leaves
. million dollars.
AS was predicted when the Burling-
ton obtained control of the Colorado &
Southern last January, the Adams Elk.
press Company will succeed to the ex-
press business OF the C. & S.. the
Wells-Fargo Company having been no.
titled that its franchise will not be
renewed upon its expiration on May
list. 1910.
Following are the recently elected
directors OF the Colorado Midland rail.
road: George ]. Gould, Edwin Gould,
Edward T. Jeffery. Winslow S. Pierce,
Edwin Hawley. Harry Bronner. w. p.
Clough, George B. Harris, Daniel vii.
lard and Charles II. Schlacks. The
board will be controlled by the Gould
interests.
At Belvidere, ILL.,, on the 10th inst.
seventeen keepers of soft drink places
were fined in the aggregate s11,425
and each received Jail sentence Of
30 to GO days for selling intoxicating
drinks. This is said to be the largest
total of fines ever imposed for similar
offenses in q single sitting of a court.
The city voted dry eighteen months
ago.
At meeting OF the stockholders OF
the Colorado & Southern railroad at
Denver. on the 18th inst, the follow
Ing directors were chosen, the Hin in.
terest dominating: George b. Har'
ris, George +. Baker. George +. Ba.
ker, Jr., Harry Bronner, w. p. Clough.
Edwin Hawley. James J. Hill, James
N. Hill. Darius Miller. L. T. Nichols.
Samuel Thorne. Frank Trumbull and
Daniel Willard.
Blaine Selyage, n young mechanic OF
Eureka. Calf, in monoplane OF his
own construction. has made n trial
flight OF three-fourths OF mile. at
an average height of three feet. in one
minute and half. Selvage not only
constructed the machine unassisted.
but even made the 2O-horsepower four.
cylinder engine with which II Is
driven.
The Stamford & Northwestern rail.
road. a Texas line Just completed. has
been bought by the Colorado a. South
ern. which furnished money to build
the line. II starts at Stamford. on the
Wichita Valley line. and runs north
west TO Dickens county. In the Pan
handle, a distance OF So miles. The
Colorado a Southern advanced about
sl,0O0.OO0 TO construct the line.
1t is reported that the Santa Fe con.
templates the purchase OF the Atlantic,
Gulf and West Indian Steamship lines.
which comprise the Mallory Steamship
Company. operating from Galveston
to New York: the New York a Cuba
Mail Steamship Company. the New
York and Porto Rico Steamship Com.
pany. and the Clyde Steamship Com.
pany. The ownership OF these lines
would give the Santa Fe an immense
advantage In the transportation OF
fruit from California to New York.