The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-10-14
CONDEMNED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. poiNos. ACHIEVE
MENrs, suFFERlNos. HoPEs
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Sacramento provided a novelty for
the presidents automobile ride
through the city by having band In
sightseeing machine just In front
OF the car in which Taft rode.
Gen John j. Pershing sailed on the
transport Thomas fot Manila to ns-
sumo command OF the military forces
a. Zamboanga. island Of Mindanao. the
scene OF his former victories over the
rebellious Moros.
The entire Canadian assets OF the
New England Fish Company. valued
at 100000 has been transferred to
the Canadian Fish Company of Van
couver. which has been business
rival of the New England concern for
years.
Senator Charles A. Culberson OF
Texas will be the opponent OF William
]. Bryan for the Democratic nomina-
ton for the Presidency in 1872" an
nounced Senator Robert Taylor of
Tennessee In an interview at Spokane.
Wash.
The Canadian buffalo park at VAIN
wright. Alberta. has been destroyed by
the prairie fire burning in that section
for a week. AS the fire burned the
fence surrounding the park the herd
of buffalo, estimated to number 500,
and u large herd OF elk. escaped. 1t
is estimated that losses by the fire
will reach into the millions.
Using their train OF pack burros
loaded with contraband goods as
breastworks. a gang Of smugglers bat
Il % nd a
binas. in the state OF Cohuila. Mex.
and came out victorious. forcing the
Rurales to withdraw and escaping with
their goods into the mountains. One
smuggler WAS killed and several
Rurales wounded.
The automobile carrying the Phila-
delphia Press courier. bearing = mes
sage from President Taft to the presi-
dent of the Alaska ka-Yukon-Pacific cxht-
bition. rolled down = thirty-foot en-
bankment into the SnoQualmie river.
three miles west OF North Bend.
Wash. At Z O'Clock on the night Of the
5th inst. The occupants OF the car
swan ashore.
VIII A. Campbell. secretary-treas.
urer of the Missouri River Navigation
congress, has invited Governor Shat
roth of Colorado to deliver An address
before the convention Of that body.
which meets in Omaha Dec. IA to II.
The governor Is expected to speak on
the beuefits which Colorado and other
inland states will derive from the
deepening of national waterways.
President Taft was welcomed into
California at Red Bluff by Governor
Gillett. Lieutenant Governor Porter
Senator Perkins. former Secretary OF
the Navy Victor Metcalf. NJ. H. De
Young of San Francisco. and other
members Of a committee gathered
from different sections OF the state
Members OF the committee from San
Francisco represented both graft
prosecution and "anti-graft" prose
cution.
The Montana State Land Board has
decided to hold in abeyancs the mat
ter Of forcible election Of federal for
estry officers from the Flathead coun
try land until the courts rule on theil
. right to do 30. This decision follows
ruling by Secretary Of the Interior
Ballinser. in which he holds that the
title to sections 16 and 36 in eact
township still vests In the federal gov
ernment. The state claimed 1t undel
an enabling act.
] Ten thousand postage stamps stoler
! from q train in Wyoming severa
weeks ago are now in the possession
Of the postoffice inspectors At thu
Denver office. They were found IL
Green river by "Wid" Anderson.
homeseeker. The stamps had beef
cached in q gully near the river, ant
the heavy rains had washed them int.
the stream. Anderson discovered
trail of stamps, and followed 1t TO
three miles before he found the larg'
bundle. Some papers belonging to tn
robbers were found at the cache.