The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-01-16
CAUGHT FROM The NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
W { STEM ne WS.

1t is estimated that more than 20o
motor cars are IN Use for renting out
iii san Francisco.
The appraiser has placed the value
of the estate left by the late Marshall
Field Of Chicago at $50. .i59,o ,o32.
One hundred automobiles have been
purchased By farmers OF La Sale
county. III. during the past year.
All records for cold weather at Great
Falls, Mont. were broken on the 10th
Inst. when the temperature fell 10 A
degrees below zero
1t is reported at Winnipeg that the
Canadian Pacific railway will, this
year. spend 100000 0o9 in construction
work on its Western lines.
OF twenty-eight workmen in the coal
mine owned by Joseph Letter at Zieg-
her. Ill. twenty-six were killed by the
explosion on the 10th inst.
Upward of $4,000. 900 will be ex-
pended by the American Locomotive
Company in the construction in its pro
jected plant at Gary. Ind. plans for
which are in preparation.
Suit for nearly 81 900 900 has been
filed against street car companies on
behalf of the city OF st. Louis The
claim is based upon the non payment
oi tax OF one mill a passenger.
The Illinois club. constituting with
its splendid art gallery one OF the
most historical landmarks OF Chicago,
Vas Dc stroyed by fire on the 9Th inst.
with a loss estimated at s325, 900.
Confident that he will be able to
solve the problems of the economical
use of gasoline for railroad motive
power. f. II. Hartman will shortly
spend a small fortune in experiments
at Omaha. Neb.
District Judge Pollack at Fargo, n.
d. decided that the North Dakota law
declaring that bleaching flour under
the AIsop process is in violation OF the
state pure food law and that the law
is constitutional.
Billings. Mont, Idaho Falls. Idaho,
and Douglas. AriZ.. are bidders for the
1910 convention of the TRANSMITS
souri, Dry Farming congress. and will
scnt large delegations TO the 900 con.
vention in Cheyenne in February.
Ht w oHIIHS W otl 'IIo:tts EAASp-
citation at its meeting in Rawllns
raised Il fund of $4,000 to defray ex-
penses OF campaign against the re
vision of the tariff on wool. to fight
the Pinchot system of forest reserva-
ton, etc.
Michigan Is pointing with pride to
the fact that 326 miles of new road
have been constructed in the past
three ard one-half years. This is be
lieyed to be better showing than an
other state in the Union. OF the roads,
1s3 mites are in macadam and 40
miles in gravel.
Alonzo Erastus Horton. founder OF
the present city of San Diego Cal.
and its oldest inhabitant, died on the
7th inst aged ninets-five, as result
OF infirmitIes incident to old age In
1s6T Father Horton, as he was un-
iyersally known. surveyed and pur-
chased at auction for % cents an acre.
$50 acres OF land around the bay, upon
which San Diego now stands. On the
day of his funeral every flag in the
city was placed at half mast.
The highest bridge in the world is
soon to be built in Idaho across the
Snake river canon, 500 feet west OF
Shoshone falls. The span of the bridge
VIII be LAO feet from cliff to cliff
aud the roadbed will be $50 feet above
the water. From the bridge one will
be able to look down at the falls.
which rival Niagara and rank among
the greatest natural wonders of the
Pacific Northwest.
The Rev. John H. Carmichael. who
Killed Gideon Browning, the village
carpenter at Battle Run, Mich. a few
days since. committed suicide at Car
.ttage, Ill. on the l1th inst, by cut
ting his throat with pocket knife. In
a letter found in his suit case he says
that Browning had him under hyp-
MOTTO influence. Browning attacked
him with knife and he defended him
self with a hatchet-