The Ordway new era., 1909-01-01
WESTERN NEWS.

IVES EkN NE"o'
Every saloon In Ottumwa. Iowa, was
cIn. ed December 22nd as the result ot
a religious revival.
A class Of candidates for commits
siuns as second l!eutcnants In the
army will be examined at Fort l.ca'-
cnworth Kansas. January End.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
National Live Stock Association VIII
be held at Los Angeles january 26' l
to 2Sth.
James Clancy. said to have been the
oldest Civil War veteran. died at the
National soldiers Home in Milwaukee
on the 18th inst. aged 100 years,
Alderman Bath House" John Cough
lin of Chicago. accused Of assault and
battery on Lyman AtwcIl. a ucwspa-
per photographer. was found not guilty.
Francis j. Hcncy at Chicago Monday.
on his way to New York, said he was
feeling no effects from the bullet
wound which he received recently In
court
Two slight earthquake shocks last
ing less than three seconds. were felt
at San Francisco and in III" cities
about the bay December 22d, No dam
age was done
President Frank TTumbull OF the
Colorado 4 Southern railway has con.
firmed the report Of the sale of that
road TO the Chicago burlington *
Quincy, which makes II part OF the
Hill system.
Practically the entire business sec.
tion OF Ravia. Oklahoma. town Of
LOO inhabitants in Johnston county.
Oklahoma. was wiped out by fire
Christmas Day, the loss aggregating
about $55.OOO.
William II. Bartlett, millionaire
Chicago broker and owner OF the Ia.
nous Bartlett ranch in Vermijo Park.
New Mexico. was badly injured there
on December 23rd by the falling OF
his horse. His left arm and shoulder
were broken.
Peter Claudianes, the Greek charged
with dynamiting the home in Oakland.
Cal. Of former Supervisor James l..
Gallagher. the star witness for the
prosecution in the San Francisco brib.
cry graft cases, has been found guilty
and sentenced to life Imprisonment
In Wan Chang. the Korean who shot
Durham White Stevens, American
diplomatist and adviser to the Korean
Emperor, at San Francisco. March
23rd, resulting in Stevens death two
days later, was found guilty of muir.
der in the second degree December
23rd.
There will be presented during the
coming sessions of the legislatures in
Colorado and fOrty-four other states.
a uniform pure food law prepared by
the committee appointed by the nation
al and state pure food commissioners
to draft universal provisions on pure
food enactments for all of the states
S. c. Lillis. a wealthy banker and
stockman of LemoOre. Cal, was SEN
fenced by Judge Wellborn at a special
session of the federal court at Fresno.
Cal. to six months In Jail and fined
$1,000. Lillis was convicted at the
last session of the federal court on n
charge of Illegally enclosing large
areas of government land
a mail coach loaded with Christmas
presents was burned, five mail clerks
barely escaped with their lives, while
one was injured in jumping to safety.
and an engine was overturned when a
southbound Baltimore & Ohio railroad
freight train crashed into a west bound
Chicago & Alton passenger train
in the west side of Chicago on
the night of December 22d. AS soon
as the train struck gas tank in the
mail coach exploded and set fire to it
and the piles of Christmas mail.