The Springfield herald., 1909-02-05
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

law piouiDllinS tie WedIluS Va hde-
pins more than ten inches long.
The local option bill has passed the
Idaho House by A to o, and 1t is ex-
pected the action will be concurred in
by the Senate.
j. w. Gilluly, treasurer OF the Den
yer G Rio Grande Railroad Company,
has been in New York signing the new
issue of bonds of the railroad, aggre-
eating 102,350,000.
The quartermaster generals office
at Washington has awarded contract
for barracks construction and other
army buildings at Fort d. A. Russell,
Wyo., the work representing 100000.
The Western Fraternal Congress, in
session at Kansas City, passed reso-
luton declaring against the bills in
troduced in various legislatures to pro-
vide minimum rate for fraternal life
insurance.
In letter to the Cheyenne Indus
trial Club, Congressman Mondell eX-
presses the opinion that it will be i'm
possible to get an appropriation from
the present Congress for the improve
ment of roads in Yellowstone park.
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 30
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 620
feet, and the owners claim it is the
deepest shaft in the state. The ore
chute, which was lost at depth of
200 feet, was encountered again at 600
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 SUI
perintendent of the Western Pacific
railroad, is a report from Denver.
Announcement was made in New
York Wednesday of the completion of
the Copper River railroad. which is
jointly owned by j. P. Morgan & Com
pany. and the Guggenheim interests,
Abercrombie rapids on the Copper riv-
er, in southwestern Alaska.
Bakersfield Calf, business men
have offered James ]. Jeffries a 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 cooperative one, the diff
tn CT
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 it
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 a 100000 000-acre ranch be-
longing to C. C. Slaughter, which
is located in Howard, Martin,
Dawson and Borden counties.
The price was S3,o00,0O0. Only
the land and improvements were
transferred Slaughter retains posses
sion of 1000 head of cattle.
1t is learned from an official source
that the Missouri Pacific Railroad COM
pany has begun the expenditure of a
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.