The Ordway new era., 1909-06-04
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGS AND HAPPENINGS
THAT MARK THE PROG
RESS OF THE AGE.
WESTERN NEWS.

Wheat nuTNtSlIIS WuS DtSuH III
wichita county. Texas. on May 2Gth.
Actual construction work on the
San Diego & Arizona railroad was be-
gun May 27th.
A bill abolishing capital punishment
in Illinois has passed the House. 1t
substitutes life Imprisonment for the
death penalty.
President Winchell OF the Rock
Island says that the ratio OF increase
in business over that OF 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
panIes so as to permit them to make
all kinds OF insurance OH automobiles.
This will include losses by theft.
Two cantalOupes. the vanguard OF the
1903 crop from the Imperial valley.
shipped into Los Angeles. AS a part OF
a consignment from Hebar. Cal. sold
at s. each. The melons We're large
and well ripened.
Fire at Eugene, Ore. May 25th.
burned a livery stable and eight or
ten frame warehouses In the rear of
ytores. The Christian Science church.
three blocks distant. was partially
burned Loss between S50.000 and
100000
On the ninety-fifth ballot. after n
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 Ith.
Indictments against Governor Chas.
n. Haskell and five others were re-
turned by the federal grand jury ut
Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are charged
With obtaining titles from the govern
ment 10 town lots In Muskogee, Okla.
BY Illegal methods.
Mrs. Bertha Hillman OF Petersburg,
ihd, has been awarded $1,000 in her
damage suit against William +. Stew
ait, saloon.keeper of Jimtown. She
alleged that her husband was drowned
while under the influence of liquor
sold him by Stewart.
Governor Stubbs OF Kansas sent z
PARDON by long distance telephone to
Johh Hays. thought to be dying at
fIttSburg, kas.. from mine accident.
nays had been parolcd from the peni-
Nhtlary by former Governor Hoch. but
iad his friends ask for a pardon, that
He might die free man.
PostohCe inspectors have asked to
ahfaYel the mystery surrounding the
receipt by number of residents CT
,anora' Iowa, of letters containing
hundred dollar bills. No signature is
a'lached TO the letters, one of which
Gears the postmark of Portland. Ore.
rive persons admit having received
money totalling SLIPS.
on Wednesday, May 26th, light
f""NN SHuCk was Ielt ut chicago.
1t extended to numerous points In In
u'dha' Illinois. Wisconsin,. Michigan.
io"a' Missouri and contiguous terri
''y' The only damage seems to have
1eeh done in the breaking OF few
u'Shes and the overturning of an oc-
casionaI chimney.
Inc special train containing the pri.
'a'e cars Of James McCrea, president
'ne Pennsylvania road. and A. l..
aohler, general manager of the Union
acme made the run of 1lS miles be-
Neeh Laramie, Wyo.. and Rawlins In
wv nonrs and forty-flve minutes. Tho
acnedule time for the fastest train is
"'ee hours, seventeen minutes.
haward Payson Weston. the pedes-
'a.. reached Denver on the morning
"ay 27th on his 1890 mile trip
.om New York to San Francisco and
.n :" al midnight. having about 1900
es yet to cover. So far he has
'ased forty miles a day. walking
Drms bad owing to spring storms and
muddy roads.