The new era., 1909-07-29
cAuahr-FRom THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
condemned FOR BUSY
r.s PEOPLE.
WESTERN NEWS.

The twenty-fourth annual convention
of the National Editorial Association
will meet in Seattle July 18th to oath.
The twenty-sixth infantry. under
command of Colonel Booth. arrived in
San Francisco from Manila July 14th
on the transport Sheridan.
Word has reached Gallup. N. M, OF
the destruction of the quartermaster's
store at Fort Wingate. LOSS estimated
between $4,000 and $4,000.
1t Is now obligatory for town boards
in Wisconsin to erect and maintain
sign boards along all main Travelled
public highways within their respec-
tive towns.
With an immense hay crop ready to
be harvested, and with no farm hands
to do the work, the farmers around
Cody, Wyo., are reported to be in sore
straits. Over 100 men could find en-
ployment in hay fields near Cody.
Ella Gingles was cleared at the close
of her sensational trial in Chicago
from the charge of stealing lace. but
the story she told ON the witness
stand of being white slave" victim
was denounced as untrue by the jury
that freed her.
E. P. Matthewson, superintendent of
the Washoe smelter at Butte, Mont.
has announced that the policy of the
, company hereafter will be to employ
American before alien labor. Mr..
Matthewson also stated that the COM
pany store system has been aban-
doned in Anaconda.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
railroad Company has quit the state
of Montana, according to document
filed with the Secretary of State at
Helena, and the inference is that its
lines in the southern part OF the state
will hereafter be conducted by the
Great Northern exclusively.
j. Q. Emery, president Of the Asso-
citation of State and National Food and
Dairy Departments has sent out no
tices of the thirteenth annual conven-
tion to be held In Denver August 24th
to 27th. About thirty states In the
Union belong to the association and
each state sends three delegates.
Charles r. Crane of Chicago. whose
selection as minister to China by Pres
ldent Taft was announced recently, ts
| persona grata to the Chinese govern
ment. The grand council has author
lied the foreign board to inform the
United States government that China
will gladly receive Mr.. Crane.
Bishop William M Bell Of Los An
gejes, in an address before the Yosem-
lite Valley Chautauqua, declared that
'if William Howard Taft falls to make
a good tariff, ard disappoints the peo-
Pile after making them promises. 1t
may be necessary to recall to the
White house our dearly beloved Theo-
dore."
| Reductions in fire insurance rates In
Kansas are now beginning to be or
dered by the insurance supertnten-
dent, he having found some cases
which had justice on their side. The
new rate regulation law authorizes
him to require the companies to file
! lower or higher schedules of rates
whenever an investigation appears to
justify a change.
Lightning struck among the specta-
tors on the bleachers at Deadwood, s..
D., on Sunday, the lotn lnSt., durluS
baseball game between Deadwood and
Lead Two were killed outright, one
fatally injured and a score or more
hurt more or less seriously. Weston
Fry, aged 10, and Thomas Halverson.
aged IA, both of Lead, were killed and
Abe Oliver of Lead fatally injured.
At Los Angeles on the 18th inst,
M. ]. Graves of the Los Angeles Mo-
| torcycle club won the six-hour motor
relay race and broke two worlds rec
ords with seven horsepower ma
chine. The race was run in three re-
lays of two hours each. In the final
relay Graves made 67 miles In the first
hour, a new record. He also lowered
the time for 100 miles to 1 hour 27
minutes 40 seconds.
GENERAL NEWS.