The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-09-08
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN NEWS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank l.. Kaiser died
at Salt Lake from eating dumplings
in witch Mrs. Kaiser inadvertently
used arsenic instead of baking pow
der.
One man was killed. one fatally in
Iured and four persons badly bruised
when an electric car on the upper Al
bina line at Portland. Ore. struck a
wagon containing party of picnick-
ers on Williams avenhe.
The railroad running time from Chi
cago to Seattle will be reduced sixty
two hours-ten hours below the pres
ent schedule-as the first move In a
war declared upon all western and
northwestern roads by James ]. Hill
of the Great Northern.
The pure food conditions in the
Cripple Creek district is being investi-
gated. The investigators are Fred
Long of Denver and S. s. Bellesfield
OF Pueblo. both of the state board OF
health. They are endeavoring to Sc
cure the passage Of city ordinance
which will more closely define The du-
ties of the grocery man and the meat
man of the district to their patrons
in the sale of goods. The diaries OF
the district have already been investi-
gated and found to be in good condi-
ton.
Three Rio Grande passenger trains
which have been delayed by wasnouts
in eastern Utah arrived at Salt AXE.
There were about 1000 passengers on
board and many stories of privation
are heard. One traveller declares that
he subsisted for fifty hours on pea
nuts and popcorn. Collections were
taken up to feed the women and chill
dren who were without means. in the
diner. Eight trains have been tied up
at Green River station and the ma
rines en- route to the Pacific coast
have been passing the time by play
ing n series of ball games.
In an effort to reach the bedside OF
her sister. Lady James Henry Pierce.
who was reported to be at deaths door
at her country estate near London.
Miss Rose McCary. a prominent young
woman of Grand Junction. left for New
York. and she will sail from there for
lsiNtTpool. isduy Iltfcc was ioFihci
Colorado girl and has many friends in
the state She visited In Denver and
Grand Junction last spring. and was a
conspicuous figure at the wedding of
another sister to Arthur wadsworth.
which took place In Denver. Ever
since returning to England she has
been in poor health. but the cablegram
yesterday afternoon was the first in
timation of the seriousness Of her Ill
ness.
CONSERVATION reigned supreme At
Vancouver. Wash. in the form OF
live hornets. which were thrown into
the midst of a Christian Endeavor
meeting at n church few miles cas-.
OF Vancouver Some person, whose
identity is unknown, sacked up a nest
OF large hornets. possibly getting the
nest when II was cool. when the
meeting was in progress the sack
was flung through the open window.
the end being left united. One OF the
young men in the church picked up
the sack by the wrong end and the
hornets nest fell out and the pesky
creatures were freed. There was
something doing for a short time. and
the church was surrendered to the
hornets. Whoever threw the sack Is
wisely saying nothing. -