The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-11-13
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STORY OF the WEEK
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FOREIGN LANDS.
WeSTERN NEWS.

About 100000 feet Of pine and hem.
lock lumber owned by the HNdson
Lumber Company at Garnet. Mich,
was burned on the sth inst.
c. l. Warmer, deposed Cincinnati
: treasurer of the Big Four railroad. is
said to have confessed that the short
age in his accounts. variously esti
mated at from Sc. 900 to 100000. wai
due to his paying blackmail to a mar
and q woman for the last three years
At Beaumont, Tex. on the Sth inst
lightning set fire to nine oil tanks OF
the Texas company containing about
325,0OO barrels OF crude oil. At Port
Arthur lightning set fire to the Gulf
Refining Company's 55.000-barrel tank
OF Naphtha.
turned during Sunday blue law cru
sade" made by Judge William H. Wal
lace of the Criminal Court a year age
at Kansas City. have been dismissed
by Judge Latshaw. Prosecutor Virgil
Conkling moved that they be dis
missed. in keeping with a prediction
promise.
Accompanied by six suffragettes
fiom Denver. Mrs. Helen Refine Baker
OF Spokane. Wash. an ardent suffra
gette and said to be the heaviest tax
payer in that state, hoisted a flag on
the topmost point of the rocy summit
of Pixies Peak. The banner was made
by Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont of New
York and bears the inscription "Vots
for women"
The board of directors of the Col.
orado National Apple exhibition to be
held at the auditorium in Denver the
first week in January has issued re.
vised premium list including 500 prizes
valued at abouth $4,000. The prizes
include $1,000 in money. cups valued
at $500, $1,000 worth Of land. $4,000
worth of merchandise and other small.
er premiums.
Foreign representation will be one
00f the features of the Irrigation con,
gress to be held at Pueblo next sum-
mer. A state document has been pre-
pared and forwarded to D. E. Nc.
Queen Gray Of Albuquerque. foreign
secretary of the congress. who will
make efforts to create interest In
Mexico. Canada, South America, ia
pan and China and European coun-
tries.
Reports received at Nome and other
Seward peninsula towns concerning
the Iditarod strike in Alaska have
caused great excitement among the
miners and the stampede promises to
eclipse the famous rush to the Klon-
dixie. The fever has spread to Fair
banks and the Tanana district, where
many prospectors are pulling up their
stakes and heading toward the Idi-
tarod country.
The Detroit United Railway has a
total mileage in Detroit, Mich. exclu-
sive of its extensive suburban lines,
Of 17O.41, and total Of 99S cars. Fran
chises on sixty-six miles of the COM
pany's lines expire this month. City
engineer Bancroft has appraised the
value of the company's holdings in
Detroit at $11.2s4.6O6. An appraisal
of the property from the same date,
by an engineer employed by the COM
pany, fixes the total value at $24.7O8,-
375.
On his return to Butte. Mont, after
two years absence, F. Augustus
1Reinze was given an ovation the equal
of which has seldom been rendered
pivate citizen in that city. From the
balcony of the Butte hotel. Hefnze
spoke to a crowd OF 1000 people, who
frequently interrupted him with
cheers. Heinze in responding to the
address. referred to the indictments
against him in New York predicting
that they would be quashed. or as he
expressed 1t, "the obstacles placed in
his path be swept aside"