The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-08-28
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. NoS. ACHIEVE.
MENTs. sUFFERiNos. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND
WESTERN NEWS.

At the Los Angeles convention
klchmond, Va. was selected as the
place for holding the annual conven-
ton of the American Pharmaceutical
Association in 1910 and the time for
holding was set for May 16 to 20.
Averell Hartman, son of Edward
h. Hartman. has started to learn the
railroad business from the ground up.
Young Hartman, who is is years Of
age. is carrying the chain in a sur
veying gang on the Oregon Short Line
in Idaho.
An organization formed to inculate a
new religion based upon ASTRONOMY
has filed articles of Incorporation at
San Francisco. The society is known
as the Astrologers of the United
States, and its purpose is to make
known to its members the influence of
heavenly bodies upon earthly affairs.
Mayor Busse of Chicago. appointed
ten members of commission 10 in
vestigate the expenditure of the city's
revenue. 1t is the desire of the city
officials to expend large sums in the
next few years in improving the trans
portation facilities and in beautifying
the city. Under a law passed by the
last Legislature the city is empowered
to increase its bonded debt by SIG,
OO0.0OO
Peter Brown, under arrest at Paw
huska, Okla. charged Jointly with his
stepmother with the murder of his
father. L. P. Brown, last April. has, ac-
cording to the sheriff, made a remark
able confession. According to the al
legged confession young Brown killed
his father with an axe and was assist
ed by his stepmother in throwing the
body into brush pile. where it was
burned. Brown is credited with say
ing his stepmother had promised to
marry him.
At the concluding session Of the 23d
annual convention of the Association
of American Agriculture Colleges and
Experiment Stations at Portland. Ore.
1 the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year; w. NJ. Kerr. Ore
gOn, president; vicepresidents. H. J.
Waters, Kansas; W. P. Brooks, Mass.
q. A. Lory. Colorado; P. H. Rolfe,
Florida; l.. Foster, New Mexico; sec
retary-treausrer. J. H. Hill. Vermont
dncumbent); photographer. A. C.
True, Washington. D. C.
Over 800 homeseekers have gone in
to the Grand valley during the past
ten days looking over lands under the
proposed Riverside ditch, which is to
water the country between Palisade,
Whitewater and Hotchkiss. The ditch
will be larger than the High Line can
al, and will water 100000 acres. F.
A. White. Denver capitalist, is at the
head OF the company, and Senator
McCreery Of Greeley, the company's
attorney, is one of the best known ir.
rigators in the state.
John Schively state insurance COM
missioner. on trial for impeachment
before the state senate at Olympia
Washington admitted that 1872 in
surance companies from 1905 to
1909 and that each had paid an ad-
vance fee of from 500 to 5000, max
ing total that ranged from $1S,200 to
$36,4O0, OF which no record was ever
kept. He said that each sum as it was
paid to him was divided equally be-
tween Sam H. Nichols and himself,
Nichols at the time being secretary
OF state and insurance commissioner
ex-officio.
Miss Glendora Fair, the first white
child born in Phillips county, recent
~ made final proof on the quarter
section OF land on which she was born.
This unusual proceeding came abou,
by her parents mistaking the location
Of their land twenty-three years ago.
owing to an inaccuracy in the govern
ment survey. The claim was alter
nately filed upon and abandoned until
Miss Fair reached her majority, when
she successfully contested 1t and won
her case. In the past two years she
has improved and cultivated it with
money earned by teaching school,
This week she cooked a meal for her
threshers, the larger part of the food
coming from her own garden and