The Elbert County tribune., 1909-11-04
WESTERN NEWS.

The next session of the Dry Farm
ing congress will be held at Spokane,
Wash.
1t is reported that several well-de-
veloped cases of beri beri prevail
among the Chinese prisoners held at
Brownsville, Texas. by the govern
ment.
The effort made at Billings to
change the name of DRY Farming
Congress" to something less sugges-
tive of aridity was defeated by a vote
of 372 to 14S.
w. II. Olin of Colorado, ]. d. Tin
sley of New Mexico and j. ID. Tower
of Wyoming are members of the new
executive committee OF the Dry Farm
ing Congress.
Governor Curry of New Mexico has
sent his resignation to Washington in
order to be enabled to devote his en-
tire time to private business. 1t will
probably take effect next March.
Figuring from the reports of the
Northwestern railroad it is estimated
that over 10000 new settlers and res
idents have entered the northwestern
part of South Dakota during the pres
ent year.
Praising the Spanish for their archi-
lecture, the French for their patri-
otism, and the southern women for
tueir beauty, President Taft made a
pronounced hit in the cosmopolitan
city of New Orleans.
The new U. S. Grant hotel at San
Diego has been leased for ten years
to Il. r. Cooper of Los Angeles and
c. H. Morse of Denver. Morse will
move to San Diego and be active man.
ager. The lessees take possession
January 1st.
1t has finally been decided to try
Mrs. Allen L. Read on November Sth
in the West Side Criminal Court at
Denver on charge of attempting to
extort money from Mrs. Genevieve
Chandler Phipps by threatening to
dynamite her.
On September 1st a unique but use
full law went into effect in the state
of Kansas. The public drinking cup
trains, schools, theaters, parks and all
places of public resort. drinking cups
must not be used promiscuously.
Four governors of states, one con-
gressman and two men of more or less
national note slept all night on the
deck of the steamer Quincy of the
Taft flotilla, that six women, who
were accidentally left on board when
the steamer left st. Louis, might have
staterooms.
Stenographers throughout the Bur
lington system are rejoicing over the
abrogation of the rule which requires
them to purchase their own typewrit-
ing machines. The company now pur-
poses to reimburse all the machine
owners on the instalment plan and
to buy its own machines in the fu-
ture.
Thaddeus Wilson. aged twenty-five.
q school teacher of Garnett, Kan, was
arrested at Kansas City charged with
sending two letters to r. A. Long, a
millionaire lumber dealer, demanding
$1,000. The letters contained no
threats. but said the writer needed
the money badly and urged Mr.. Long
u llstit L " nllu ilnuitcldleiy.
Advices from a private source in
Washington received at Albuquerque
state positively that Third Assistant
Postmaster General A. L. Lawshe,
who recently rendered his resignation
to President Taft because of the con-
dition of his health. will be rendered
the governorship of New Mexico
when Governor Curry's resignation
has been acted upon
A plan to circumnavigate the globe
in a dirigible balloon without having
to stop to replenish the propelling
power-hydrogen-is regarded as en-
tirely practicable by Prof. Thaddeus
s. C. Lowe, the noted aeronaut and
scientist and head of the Mount Lowe
observatory near Pasadena. Cal, who
is constructing an air craft designed
to accomplish this remarkable feat