The new era., 1909-11-04
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.

The fourth Dry Farming Congress
will meet at Billings, Montana, Octo
ber 25th to goth.
George West & Sons winery at
| Stockton, Cal, one of the largest III
the West, was destroyed by fire on the
night of October 22nd. The loss will
range from $45O,O00 to 100000.
The state of Mississippi has issued
charter to the st. Louis Kansas City
Electric Railway Company, capital
s5.000.000. The road is to extend from
st. Louis to Kansas City
An explosion of eight boilers in the
Pabst Brewing Company's plant at
Milwaukee a few days since resulted
in the death of one employe, the in
jury of four others and property dam
age estimated at $25O.000.
Details of the recent massacre in
New Britain received at Victoria, B.
c.. show that Captain Lindsey of the
ketch Rabaul and ten of his crew
were murdered and burned and the
trading vessel looted and set on fire,
the bodies of the victims being thrown
into the flames. They had landed to
secure laborers.
The establishment of a Japanese art
store at Eureka, Cal, few days since,
was resented by the anti-Chinese ele.
ment, which drove the Chinese out OF
the city in 1887 and has kept them out
ever since. The windows of the store
terror badly damaged.
The refining department of the Den
yer mint will open November 1st. Su
perintcndent F. M. Downer has been
ordered from Washington to COM
mence work on that date. About fiji
teen people will be added to the pres
ent staff at the mint when operation
is resumed.
Word has been received at Seattle
that the Copper River railroad, being
built from Cordova, Alaska, into the
interior, has been extended ten miles
within the last month, marking the
completion Of eighty-two miles Of the
expensive 200-mile project. More than
5000 men are at work on the line and
1900 more rock men will be sent.
Members Of the Lead Miners Union
and the Central City Miners Union
held mass meeting at Lead, S. D.,
and decided that after November rs
they will not work with non-union
men. Sixteen hundred Of the 1000
Homestake employees are now in the
order, and in order to establish the
to induce the others to join.
The first work Of the Western Pa
cific Railroad in its preparation to en-
ter San Francisco was done few
days since, when workmen began the
wrecking of the pier where the new
ferry slip and docks Of the new rail-
way are to be located. 1t is planned
to have the construction finished
within sixty days. Ferry boats are
being constructed to run to Oakland.
The Burlington railroad has an
nounced officially its intention of
building the extension now under con-
struction south from Kirby, Wyo..
through Thermopolis, to run as far
east as Powder river. which is also
touched by the Chicago & Northwest
ern. This extension, together with
that now under construction. embraces
100 miles of new line to be completed
next year.
Jacob Suter, former Alaska miner.
now at Bellingham, Wash, has issued
a statement that DR.. Cook never
reached the summit of Mount Mckin-
ley. He says: "The McCarty brothers
of San Francisco, Sam May of this city
and myself were on the mountain when
Cook and his party arrived. We saw
them start up the Yetna river and they
came back because the route was too
difficult. Then they went up the Shu-
shitne river and got up to the wall OF
ice of Mount Mckinley, which is many
miles from the top. Through the
glasses we saw them turn back and
come down."