Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

OFFICIALS NONIINATED-The president
Thursday nominated Alfred w. Cooley of
New York to be assistant attorney general
and Juan Sumulong to be member of the
Philippine commission.
GOVERNOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Cos
grove of Washington will remain over at
Olympia tonight to greet his friends and
start his administration personally. He is
much stronger since the ordeal of yesterday.
POWER PLANT DANTAGED-The Tellu-
ride Power company's transmission line was
broken yesterday by a snowslide at the
Bullion tunnel of the Smuggler mine. The
town and mines were without light or
power for some hours
DELAYS RACE TRACK BILL-Action by
the senate the Hanson anti-race track
gambling bill which passed the house at
Olympia, Wash, Wednesday, has been put
off probably two or three weeks by reference
to the judiciary committee
I3ALLOONING INJURED-Ballooning in
America has received a bad setback, ac-
cording to officials of the war department,
result of the refusal of the house COM
mittee on appropriations at Washington to
set aside liberal sums for military aeronau-
tics
MISSOURI GETS SOAKED-A rain which
almost reached sthe proportions of a cloud
burst did great damage in st. Joseph, No,
and vicinity Wednesday night. number
of bridges and culverts were washed out,
and culverts washed out and railroads
suffered.
RUDOWICZ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Rudo-
wicz, who saved from extradition to
Russia from Chicago when Secretary of
State Root Monday ruled the crime with
which the Russian government accused the
prisoner was political in character, was re-
leased from Jail Thursday.
TO RAISE GOATS-A company was
formed Thursday at Palaver City to stock
several thousand acres of land in Pennsyl-
vania with Angora goats raised in New
Mexico. 1t is the intention Of the company
to use the Pennsylvania range a depot
through which New Mexican goats may be
readily placed on the eastern market.
TWO KILLED IN RIOT-Trouble over
boundary lines of adjoining ranches resulted
Wednesday in the murder of two men by
AranchO Martinez. The trouble occurred
the town of Cuencame, Mexico, in the
Velardena mining district Martinez 5
father attempted to drive off a neighbor' 5
employees and a riot followed in which two
were killed.
FINAL DIVIDEND PAID--Depositors in
the Fidelity National bank of Cincinnati
Ohio, the E. L. Harper institution, which
went under in 1887, following the failure of
Harper to corner the wheat market, have
received a final dividend of "ffty-fve one
hundredths of one per cent" This will
make a total of So 4-1O0 per cent recovered
by the depositors.
NEVADA GAINS-FoIIowing the foods
which ruined crops in California farmers
of Nevada enjoying an Independent
prosperity In the last two weeks commits
sion merchants have been buying produce
and stocking the warehouses with the re-
suit that the price of potatoes has in
creased from SIS to s29 a ton. The price
of onions shows a similar Increase.
STORM VISITS OKLAHOMA-The most
severe wind and dust storm in six years pre-
vailed in northwest Oklahoma Thursday
afternoon causing more less damage. AS
far as known no lives were lost. At Goltry
twenty miles west of Enid, several houses
were blown down, and at Carmen, forty
miles west of here, flames driven by fierce
wind destroyed half the business houses in
town.