The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-11-25
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoiN ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINes. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Fire insurance companies doing bus
mess in Kansas have decided to test
the constitutionality of the rate regu'
lation law of that state.
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.
Pres. b. l.. Winchell. of the Rock
Island system. who has recently -e-
turned from a trip in Europe. says
that the service of American railroads
is iinmeasurably superior to that OF
the roads abroad. especially in regard
to the passenger service.
The leading citizens of Cody. Wyo.,
gave a banquet to Col. William F.
Cody (Buffalo BID on his return a
few days since from a successful sea
son with his Wild West show. He ex-
poets to spend the winter at Cody and
on his ranches in that vicinity.
On the 10th irst. at Green's Fork
near Richmond, Ind. John Fletcher
Medaris died at the close of big cele-
bration of his one-hundredth birthday.
Two hundred and fifty relatives were
present at the anniversary dinner and
the entire population OF the town
turned out in his honor.
The case against Bernard Love. the
railroad employe who secured pass
at Chicago. for Charles j. Lundbloom.
consumptive. was dismissed. the fed
eral authorities deciding that Love Sc
cured the pass as an act OF charity.
Lundbloom was arrested while en-
route to Denver in search Of health.
and was discharged on examination.
III you could take New Mexico to
New England and wedge 1t in between
Connecticut and Rhode Island you
might be able to interest Senator Al.
drich in statehood" was the statement
made by William Jennings Bryan at
Albuquerque. He forecasted that the
statehood bill would meet with con
siderable opposition.
At Belvidere, Ill, on the 10th inst.
seventeen keepers of soft drink places
were fined In the aggregate sl1 1.i2o
and each received n jail sentence OF
80 to co days for selling intoxicating
drinks. This is said to be the largest
total of fines ever imposed for similar
oifenses in n single sitting OF court.
The city voted dry eighteen months
ago.
Blaine Selvage. young mechanic OF
Eureka. Calf, in n monoplnne OF his
own construction. has made trial
flight OF three-fourths OF mile. at
an average height of three feet. In one
minute and half. Selyage not only
constructed the machine unassisted.
but even made the 2O-horsepower four
cylinder engine with which it is
driven.
The Stamford & Northwestern rail-
road. a Texas line just completed, has
been bought by the Colorado & South
ern, which furnished money to build
the line. 1t starts at Stamford, on the
Wichita Valley line. and runs north
west to Dickens county. in the Pan
handle. distance of SO miles. The
| Colorado & Southern advanced about
$l.0O0.o00 to construct the line.
Fitzpatrick brothers. Union Pacific
contractors. have signed contract.
1t is said. for the building of the new
Fort Collins line of the Union Pacific
to cost about s1.500.000. This line
will be built north from Dacono to
Fort Collins, practically parallel with
| the Colorado & Southern, which now
monopolizes the Denver to Fort Col.
Inns business. 1t will have practically
the same mileage as the c. & s., and
will prossibly be a little shorter.