The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-01-23
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
w ESTEEM NE EWS.

The Idaho Legislature has reelected
Weldon b. Hepburn to the United
States Senate.
The Oklahoma City Automobile As
sociation has pledged $4,000 for the
construction Of t"eutR five mile
speedway around the city.
The National Wool Growers Asso-
citation at Pocatello selected Ogden as
its next place OF meeting and reelected
President Fred w Cooling.
Western railroad lines have agreed
upon a s25 colonist rate next spring
from the Missouri river to the coast.
This is s. lower than last years rate
Chicago is the center Of the motor
buggy manufacturing business, for
there are made no fewer than ten diff
ferent makes of the high ~heelers in
that city
The California railroad commission
has fined the Santa Fe railroad $1,000
for Illegal discrimination in the rates.
The Southern Pacific was found guilty
bGt was not fined.
The Copeland hotel. noted hostel
~ at Topeka, kans, was burned on
the l4th inst I. +. Lambert. ex-tnit-
ed States district attorney for Kansas,
was burned to death and fourteen 9th
er guests injured.
The trustees of the proposed Myron
Stratton home for the poor al Colo
rado Springs have decided to hold a
competition to which architects all
over the United States are eligible for
plans for the projected institution. A
cash prize OF probably 10000 will be
offered
Judge Dupuys decree dismissing the
bill OF Margaret Babcock TO obtain an
eighth interes, in 3 900 900 acres of
land " hch the state OF Texas granted
a syndicate in return for the erection
of the capitol of that state has been
sustained in a decision rendered by the
Court of Appeals in Chicago.
a free-for-all Marathon race for a
distance of twenty-six miles and $50
yards, open to all professional runners
on the Pacific coast. will take place
February 7th at San Francisco, The
prize offered by promoters is $1,000,
to be divided, $3.50 to the winner. $50
To the second and 800 to the third
Lorn Farr, pioneer Of Utah. among
the first converts to Mormonism, IL st
mayor Of Ogden. husband OF seven
wives and father of 800 children.
gran ichiidren and great grandchildren
and D,e Of the best known men in the
West was drowned at Utah Hot
Springs. eleven miles north OF Ogden
on tn" 18th inst
Edmund Burke, who posed as Brit
ish nobleman, was sentenced TO three
years in Leavenworth, Kan. peniten-
tiary and fined 81 900 by jury in the
United States District Court at Chi
cago on charge of impersonating
United States officer A Decatur. Ill,
girl, who married him in Denver. OBJ
tanned a divorce upon his arrest in St
Louis.
Attorneys for Abraham Ruef co.,
vcted of bribery in San Francisco.
who was sentenced to fourteen years
in San Quentin upon conviction for
Ltibery, have been granted an addi-
t,undi thirty days to complete the bill
o. exceptions upon appeal from the
verdict and judgment. The court
had previously permitted twenty days
for this purpose.
Scott McReynolds of New York. Viii
liam X. Hearst's attorney. who has
been in Oklahoma several months col
iecting data pertaining to the libel
suit for 100000 against Hearst by
Governor c. ~ Haskell, was arrested
at Guthrie Monday at the instance of
Haskell. charged with conspiracy. Nc
Reynolds person and room We're
searched and copies of data and evil
deuce seized