The Colorado statesman., 1909-05-29
AN EP|TOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAYINGs, DOM ACHIEVE
MENTS, SUFFERlNGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND,
WESTERN NEWS.


Wichita county Texas, on May 10Th
President Winchell of the Rock
Island says that the ratio of increase
in business over that of a year ago
has been fully maintained.
The new Masonic building just ded-
icated at Indianapolis cost 100000
and is believed to be the finest temple
of the order in the world.
Governor Davidson of Wisconsin
has vetoed a bill providing heavy pen
alties for profanity and another i'm
posing severe restrictions on mutual
fire insurance companies.
The Missouri Legislature amended
the low governing fire insurance com
panies so as to permit them to make
all kinds of insurance on automobiles.
This will include losses by theft.
Two cantaloupes, the vanguard of the
1909 crop from the Imperial valley,
shipped into Los Angeles, as part of
a consignment from Hebar, Cal, sold
at So each. The melons were large
and well ripened.
Fire at Eugene, Ore, May 25th,
burned a livery stable and eight or
ten frame warehouses in the rear of
stores. The Christian Science church,
three blocks distant, was partially
burned. Loss between $4,000 and
100000.
On the ninety-fifth ballot, after a
deadlock that lasted many weeks, the
Illinois Legislature, May Goth, elected
Congressman William Lorimer of Chi
cago to the United States Senate to
succeed Albert j. Hopkins, whose term
expired Marth 4th.
Governor Stubs of Kansas sent
pardon by long distance telephone to
John Hays, thought to be dying at
Pittsburg, Kas., from a mine accident.
Hays had been paroled from the peri-
tentiEry by former Governor Hoch, but
had his friends ask for a pardon, that
he might die free man.
Floods, tornadoes anu lightning did
great damage in Oklahoma May 24th,
causing five deaths and injuring many
people. In Tom Green and Concho
counties, Texas, over 100 cattle and
sheep were drowned. Fifty houses
were reported destroyed. One woman
was killed. The loss will reach $780,
900.
Postoffice inspectors have asked to
unravel the mystery surrounding the
receipt by number of residents of
Panora, Iowa, of letters containing
hundred dollar bills. No signature is
attached to the letters, one of which
bears the postmark of Portland. Ore.
Five persons admit having received
money totalling $1,125.
On Wednesday, May Goth, light
earthquake shock was felt at Chicago
1t extended to numerous points in In
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Iowa, Missouri and contiguous terri
tory. The only damage seems to have
been done in the breaking of a few
dishes and the overturning of an &C.
casional chimney.
To spite the Prohibitionists, who
carried the county dry" John Morri-
son Fuller, a millionaire bank presi-
dent of Glasgow, Mo, opened a per
sonal liberty hall" and for twelve
months served free beer to all who
came. The place has been failure
from Mr.. Morrison Fuller's point of
view and he has just closed it.
The special train containing the pri.
vate cars of James McCrea, president
of the Pennsylvania road. and A. l..
Mohler, general manager of the Union
Pacific, made the run of 11S miles be-
tween Laramie, Wyo., and Rawlins in
two hours and forty-five minutes. The
schedule time for the fastest train is
three hours, seventeen minutes.
Reports of two new gold strikes in
the Allegheny district have caused
much excitement in Grass Valley and
Nevada City, Cal. 1t is reported that
$4,000 was taken out in few hours
from one claim and $4,000 is said to
have been taken from another prop
erty located on Kanake creek. Both
properties were guarded by men with
rifles