The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-12-09
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT.
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN NEWS.

Clarence Mackay has made an ad
ditional donation of $4,000 for the
improvement OF the Mackay athletic
field OF the University of Nevada.
The board OF directors of the Inter
national Livestock Exposition recent
ly elected William f. Skinner of Den
Yer president and Mortimer Levering
of Cincinnati. secretary and treasurer.
The Western railroads are said to
have come to the conclusion that 1t
Will be impracticable to discontinue
Jonuary l the practice of granting
stop-overs on limited tickets where
these stop-overs operate to extend the
time allowance.
Working drawings for the new fed
eral 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
LIST.
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 l.0si each also sold at
the same price. A single head sold at
IL cents pound.
According to decision by Police
Judge Crawford at Omaha. BARRIERS
are common laborers' and are there
fore amenable to the Sunday labor
lews. Fifteen BARRIERS had been prose
cuted for pursuing their calling on
Sunday and their defense was that
their work is profession"
The forest service has just an
nounced the following appointments
on national forests in district 2. for
the month Of November: Walter l.
Mickey was appointed forest gunId on
the Cheyenne national forest: Walter
G. Brown. Joseph ID. Orme and Sam
uel H. 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.
psny and the Chicago Warehouse 4
Terminal Company. companies held
by the $50,000.000 Chicago Subway
Company. The rcceivership is the in.
itial step in n 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 at Salt Lake December
LIST by cyanide poisoning. The act is
attributed to financial reverses. which
threatened his ownership OF valu'
able group Of mines in Yerington.
New.
On the night OF the 29th ult.. Samuel
J. Lewis. managing editor OF the
Denver Times. was robbed and beaten
by two holdups near his residence on
Capitol Hill. In Denver. soon after
dark He fought desperately. but was
overpowered and robbed of S74 In
money. In the attempt of the robbers
to take ring from one of his fingers
his hand was badly hurt-but he
saved the ring, which is valuable.
After a conference between Govern
or Stubbs and the officers of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, the Kansas State Board
OF Railroad Commissioners issued an
order to that road to put its lines in
Kansas in standard condition before
the close of the year 1910. The order
is based on letters written to the board
stating the intended improvements
and includes re-ballasting. re-surfacing
nd repairing tracks and 100 miles OF
new steel rails on the Central branch.