The Holly chieftain., 1909-02-05
WESTERN NEWS.

iHc oieSOn Legislature has pdSSeu
law prohibiting the wearing of hat
pins more than ten inches long.
The Trans Missouri Dry Farming
Congress meets at Cheyenne, Wyo,
February 23rd to 25th.
The local option bill has passed the
Idaho House by A to 9. and it is ex-
pected the action will be concurred in
by the Senate.
]. w. Gilluly. treasurer Of the Den
yer & Rio Grande Railroad Company,
has,been in New York signing the new
issue of bonds of the railroad, aggre-
eating s102, 100000.
The Chicago school board has made
public. its plans. to erect within the
next two or three years forty-six new
school buildings and additions at to-
tai cost of 3s,s73,00o.
The quartermaster generals office.
~ -Wasbi1stol,- has awarded = CONTRACT
for barracks construction and other
army buildings at Fort D. A. Russell,
Wyo.;; the work representing 100000.
Farmers-in the Greeley, Colo, dis
.trict are happy over the advanced
price Of potatoes, the highest for sew
eral seasons, with rurals quoted at 80
cents and Pearls at So Shipments are
eighty cars day, many going to Cali
fornia.
The shaft of the Copper Belt COM
pany's mine. near Lusk, Is down $40
feet. and the owners claim 1t is the
deepest shaft in. the state. The ore
chute, which s.was lost at a depth-of
200 feet, was ssencountered again at 500
feet -;
e. Stenger, general superintendent
of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
with offices at Salt Lake City. has re-
signed that position and will be made
either general manager or general su.
perintendent of the Western Pacific
railroad, is report from Denver.
Announcement was made in New
York Wednesday of the completion of
the Copper River railroad, which. As
jointly owned by j. P. Morgan & Com
pany. and the Guggenheim interests,
from Cordova to point above the
Abercrombie rapids on the Copper riv-
err. in southwestern Alaska, sa.
Bakersfield. Calf, business men
have offered James j. Jeffries purse
of $4,000 to fight Jack Johnson, there
the Fourth OF July, next. They have
posted $4,000 to show their good faith.
The plan is a cooperative one, the diff
ferent business men agreeing to assist
In making up the deficit should the
fight lose money, and. sharing in the
profit. If it is a success.
The conditions resulting from the
fire in the Sutro tunnel at Virginia
City, are greatly improved. The pump
ing plants now are running steadily
and the air circulating freely. The
management states that there are no
signs of fire anywhere in the workings.
Men have been put at work wetting
down the smouldering timbers and 1t
is expected that the work of repair
ing the tunnel will soon begin.
Probably the largest land deal
ever made in Texas was closed at Big
Springs on the goth ult., when a Wa.
terloo, Ia, company purchased for col
onization 2OO,0O0,0 0,000-acre ranch be-
longing to c. C. Slaughter, which
is located in Howard, Martin,
Dawson and Borden counties.
The price was 100000. Only
the land and improvements were
transferred. Slaughter retains posses
sion of 10000 head of cattle.
1t is learned from an official source
that the Missouri Pacific Railroad COM
pany has begun the expenditure, of
large sum of money on. its lines be-
tween Pueblo and st. Louis, in prepar-
alton for the reception of the large
traffic that it will be expected to han
die with the completion of the West
ern Pacific from Salt Lake to San
Francisco this summer. Both the West
ern Pacific and Missouri Pacific are
Gould lines. and the Denver & Rio
Grande will form the Denver-Salt Lake
line that will join the two together.