The new era., 1909-12-23
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF the week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OP
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Isadore Newman, millionaire phil
anthropist, who died a week ago, re-
membered the Jewish hospital for con
sumptives at Denver, Colo, in his will
! for $1,000.
| Cornelius Vanderbilt announced at
Wichita, kas., that the Vanderbllts
have become financially interested in
the Missouri Pacific Railroad and con-
firmed the rumor that he has been
made director of that company.
The highest price ever paid for hogs
at the South Omaha market is sS.40
per hundred, which was paid for a
carload received December 9th from
Western Iowa. They averaged 275
pounds each.
Mrs. Allen F. Read, convicted at
Denver of threatening Mrs. Phipps
with dynamite in order to extort mon
ey has been sentenced to from one
year to eighteen months in the state
penitentiary.
1t now seems almost centain that
Denver will secure the International
Aviation Congress next fall. This will
bring with it spectacular flying ma
sands of visitors.
Charles B. Wilmington, inventor of
the first automatic grain binder and
known as the father of the grain
binding industry" died on the 18th
inst. at Janesville, Wis. He was born
in Middlebury, now Akron, Ohio, in
1880 and settled in Janesville sixty
two years ago.
With the reply filed in the case of
Dunsmuir VS.. Dunsmuir, arrangements
are now being made at Victoria, b. c.,
for the trial which will involve a fight
between the heirs of the late Mrs.
Joan Dunsmuir and the retiring lieu
tenant governor. James Dunsmuir, for
recovery of an estate valued at be-
tween s15.000.000 and SlS,000,000.
The Santa Fe is receiving in Install
ments the several million dollars
worth of equipment recently built for
it in the East. and designed to facili-
tate operations on its western division
west of La Junta. New equipment in
cludes thirty-seven new engines, 100
passenger, baggage and mail cars, sew
eral hundred refrigerator cars and
about 1000 freight cars.
Upon Pixies Peak there has just
been established by the United States
an experiment station of forestry, the
first of its kind in Colorado and The
second in the country. The station
will serve the same interests in the
forestry division of the government
as the agricultural experiment sta
tions in the agricultural department.
William G. Smith formerly lieuten-
ant-governor and speaker of the House
of Representatives of Colorado, now
tax agent for the Denver City Tram
way Company, has filed suit in the
District Court at Denver, asking $780,
900 damages from Harvey j. O'Hig-
gins and Judge Ben B. Lindsey for an
article relating to his career as speak
er of the House in the Twelfth Gen
eral Assembly, which appeared in the
October number of Everybody's Mag
azine, and which, he claims, is libel
Gus, false and defamatory.
At public auction sale at Austin.
Tex, resulting from the late antitrust
suit and custer proceedings, the prop
erty of the Waters-Pierce Oil Com
pany was sold to S. w. Fordyce and
associates of st. Louis. The price bid
was s1,4S1 ,741. The property of the Sc
curity Oil Company was bought by
John Sealey of Galveston for $4,000
and that of the Navarro Refining Com
pany of Corsicana was also sold to
Sealey for $75O,0O0. Sixty cars of the
Union Tank Line Company were
bought by Mr.. Sealey for $4,000