The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-04-22
condemned RECORD or THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. DoiNos. ACHIEVE
MENTs. sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

w. A. Harris, former United States
senator for Kansas. has declined the
position OF president OF the Colorado
State Agricultural College.
The Texas Legislature has passed
the Robertson-FitzHugh bill to regu-
late the liquor traffic. the House con-
curing in the Senate amendments.
Bishop John p. Carroll of the Catho
lie diocese at Helena, Mont. announces
that the required fund OF $50O,0OO for
the erection OF cathedral at Helena
has been raised.
The highest price paid for cash
wheat in st. Louis In thirty-one years
was reported on the 14th inst. when
sales of No. red were made at $l.H
to $1.5O.
Governor Johnson OF Minnesota has
signed the anti-cigarette bill which
makes 1t a misdemeanor to manufac-
ture. sell or give away cigarettes or
cigarette papers within the state.
Hogs reached the highest local mar
ket quotations since 1893 at the Ma
tional stockyards in East st. Louis on
the l3th inst. The best grades sold
for 500 n hundred weight.
The Union National Bank OF Oak
land, Calf, closed Its doors April 18th.
There is due to depositors the sum OF
353S. 900. which amount the bank Off
cials are confident will be paid in full.
The official pathfinding car for the
Glidden automobile tour. which starts
from Detroit July 7th. left Detroit on
the 18th inst. for Chicago. carrying
ID. II. Lewis OF Buffalo. who will lay
cut the tour.
More than $50 Des Moines. Ia.
school children have signed n petition
to Theodore Roosevelt asking him to
change his mind and not kill defense
les wild animals In Africa. Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Baird. secretary OF the Humane
society. Will send 1t to Mr.. Roosevelt.
II has been given out by the district
attorneys office at Muskogee. Okla.
that the government has decided to
abandon the prosecution OF Gov. Chas.
n. Haskell and six other prominent
Oklahomans recently involved In the
Muskogee town lot cases.
The District Court Of Appeals at
San Francisco has granted a new trial
to Louis Glass. vice president Of the
Pacific States Telegraph 4 Telephone
Company. Glass was the first man
convicted In the bribery graft cases
and was sentenced to Ave years in the
penitentiary. He has been out on bail.
II is stated that an army balloon
corps will be used during the maneu-
vers at Fort Des Moines Sept. Goth to
26th. The aeronaut drills will be un-
the equipment will include a dirigible
balloon Of latest model. Attacks upon
an imaginary bsttleship will be made.
The Atchison. Topeka 4 Santa Fe
Railway Company has applied to the
Kansas railroad commission for Ier-
mission to isue S73.000.0O0 common
stock. The Chicago. Rock Island &
Pacific railway also has asked permis-
sion to issue 100000 refunding bonds
to take up the Choctaw. Oklahoma 4
Gulf equipment trust bonds.
1t is stated that an investigation con-
Quoted by the Des Moines Tubercular
Association, At Des Moines. Ia. has re-
suited in the discovery that six out OF
every ten children examined are In
fected with tuberculosis. The major
ity Of the cases are incipient. but In
many the disease has progressed far.
The association is considering estab-
fishing children's tubercular camp
this summer. 1t is proposed to isolate
infected children to prevent further
spread OF the disease.