The Lamar register., 1909-02-03
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

law prohibiting the wearing of hat
pins more than ten inches long.
The local option bill has passed the
Idaho House by A to 9. and it is ex-
pected the action will be concurred in
by the Senate.
J. W.. Gilluly, treasurer of the Den
yer G. Rio Grande Railroad Company,
has been in New York signing the new
issue of bonds of the railroad, aggre-
eating O2.S5O.OOO.
The quartermaster generals office
at Washington has awarded contract
for barracks construction and other
army buildings at Fort d. A. Russell,
Wyo., the work representing $IOO,OOO.
The Western Fraternal Congress, in
session at Kansas City, passed a reso-
luton declaring against the bills in
troduced in various legislatures to pro-
vide a minimum rate for fraternal life
insurance.
In letter to the Cheyenne Indus
trial Club, Congressman Mondell ex-
presses the opinion that it will be i'm
possible to get an appropriation from
the present Congress for the improve
ment of roads in Yellowstone park.
Farmers in the Greeley, Colo, dis
trict are happy over the advanced
price of potatoes. the highest for sew
eral seasons. with rurals quoted at 80
cents and Pearls at so. Shipments are
eighty cars day. many going to Cali
fornia.
The shaft of the Copper Belt COM
pany's mine. near Lusk, is down $50
ha c1a iC a
deepest shaft in the state. The ore
chute. which was lost at depth of
200 feet, was encountered again at 600
feet.
Z. Stenger, general superintendent
of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad,
with offices at Salt Lake City. has re-
signed that position and will be made
either general manager or general su-
perintendent OF the Western Pacific
railroad, is a report from Denver.
Announcement was made in New
York Wednesday of the completion of
the Copper River railroad. which is
Jointly owned by J. p. Morgan & Com
pony. and the Guggenheim interests,
frcm Cordova to point above the
Abercrombie rapids on the Copper riv-
er, in southwestern Alaska.
Bakersfield, Calf. business men
have offered James J. Jeffries purse
OF $4,000 to fight Jack Johnson, there
the Fourth of July. next. They have
posted $1,000 to show their good faith.
The plan is cooperative one, the diff
ferent business men agreeing to assist
In making up the deficit should the
fight lose money. and sharing in the
profit il it is a success.
The conditions resulting from the
fire in the Sutro tunnel at Virginia
City, are greatly improved. The pump
ing plants now are running steadily
and the air circulating freely. The
management states that there are no
signs of fire anywhere in the workings.
Men have been put at work wetting
down the smouldering timbers and 1t
is expected that the work of repair
ing the tunnel will soon begin.
Probably the largest land deal
ever made in Texas was closed at Big
Springs on the 29th ult., when Wa
terloo. Ia, company purchased for col
onization a 1000. 000-acre ranch be-
longing to c. G. Slaughter, which
is located in Howard. Martin
Dawson and Borden counties.
The price was 100000. Only
the land and improvements were
transferred. Slaughter retains posses
sion of 10000 head of cattle.
1t is learned from an official source
that the Missouri Pacific Railroad com
pany has begun the expenditure of a
large sum of money on its lines be
tween Pueblo and st. Louis. in prepar
alton for the reception of the large
traffic that 1t will be expected TO han
die with the completion of the West
ern Pacific from Salt Lake to Sar
Francisco this summer. Both the West
ern Pacific and Missouri Pacific are
Gould lines. and the Denver & Ric
Grande will form the Denver-Salt Lake
line that will join the two together.