The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-09-18
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOM ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERINos, HoPEs
AND FEARs OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Reports OF serious damage to the
wheat crop Of Argentina by locusts
caused \ sharp bulge in wheat prices
At Chicago
Clarence Darrow. the Chicago attor.
hey who defended William D. Hay
wood at Boise for the murder of Gov.
Frank Stuen .nberg of Idaho, is ser
iously i'll.
The subject of new state, to In
clude all territory south OF the Tehac-
hapi range. will be urged at a mass
meeting on the call Of the Los An
geles realty board.
Open advocacy of state division by
the Los Angeles press and by several
Influential commercial bodies has fol-
lowed the action of the State Board of
Equalization which raised the assess
ment Of this county 40 per cent.
The army transport Thomas arrived
at San Francisco from Manila Satur-
day with the Twenty-ninth infantry.
and . number of officers. The band
and one battalion of this regiment
will 60 to Fort Jay and the rest will
be divided between Forts Niagara and
Porter, New York.
John Butram, a student OF Gravette,
Ark, was killed by his teacher, A. I.
Kelly. 1t is stated that Butram had
caused the teachers OF the school con-
siderable trouble and, in the midst OF
a heated dis scusslon, he drew a knife
and made Lash at Kelly, who in turn
drew his pistol, shooting Butram three
times.
Women delegates struck men dele
gates over their heads and shoulders
with umbrellas, while the masculine
delegates fought among themselves at
the opening session OF the national
convention Of the Yeomen Of America
at Springfield. Ill. 1t is charged that
an attempt was made to seat illegal
delegates.
Alice Webb Duke. divorced wife OF
J Brodie L. Duke, the tobacco magnate.
VAS committed to the asylum for the
insane at Kankakee. Ill. The once
brilliant and wealthy bride Of Mr..
Duke appeared a complete mental
ami physical wreck and but ten min
utes were required to impress the jury
with the need Of restraint OF, and
treatment for her.
-Four men were drowned at COrdova.
Alaska, when a small boat. containing
.. party Of five descending from the
mine of George Esterly on the Nazina
river, was swamped. The. only one to
escape drowning was Hamelin Andrus,
son OF Congressman John e. Andrus
of Yonkers, N. Y. The lost men were
James Hinto, Robert Furst, Ben1a-
min Muilendorf and David Piper.
The biggest gold stampede in Alaska
since the Tanana rush in 1903. Is now
in full swing to the creeks Of the ldit-
alod, a tributary Of the Innoko river,
$50 miles from Fairbanks. Thousands
of persons have gone to the lditarod
during the summer. Nowhere are the
new gold fields deeper than twenty
feet, and every man has a chance to
make a stake, there being a wide ex-
tent OF gold bearing country.
General sorrow is felt in railroad
circles at the news that Frank d.
Brown, local treasurer of the Union
Pacific Railway Company, at Omaha.
had died Monday night from an attack
OF pneumonia Mr.. Brown was well
known among railroad men, and also
among a great many other people OF
social and financial prominence. He
had been an employe of the Union Pa
cific for the past forty years and made
frequent visits to this territory.