The Holly chieftain., 1909-03-26
WESTERN NEWS.

The Missouri senate has defeated q
bill providing for the reading of a
chapter of the Bible daily in public
schools of the state.
A bill has passed the House in Min
nesota allowing the city councils of
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth to
permit boxing bouts of ten rounds.
Both Houses of the California Legis-
lature have passed the Wright railroad
BILL giving the state railroad commits
sion power to fix maximum rates.
The National Corn Exposition has
selected December 9th to 18th as the
dates for the National Corn exposi-
tion of 1909. 1t will be held at Omaha.
The recent blowing up of the C9ur
d'Alene powder works. near Wallace.
Idaho, by which three men were killed
and one seriously injured. is believed
by the company to have been the work
of an assassin.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, has decided to
have a worlds exposition in 1912. A
committee of citizens sent to st. Louis,
ed favorably on the project and 1t was
decided to raise fund of $2,000,000
for it.
The cloud upon the title of Gov.
Charles S. Deneen of Illinois to sue
coed himself was removed when the
gubernatorial contest brought by Ad-
lai e. Stevenson was finally disposed
of by the Legislature in joint session
in favor of the governor
Several survivors of the Fifteenth
Pennsylvania Volunteer cavalry, who
are now living in Los Angeles, CAL,
have passed res buttons on the death
of Gen. William ]. Palmer, who was
commander of the regiment during the
Civil War.
Under the auspices of the Aero Club
Of Seattle, Henry H. Clayton OF the
Blue Hill observatory. will undertake
balloon voyage across the breadth of
the United States. He believes that
favorable air currents will be found at
the height of about two miles.
c. l.. Mayhem, In Jail at Boulder,
Colo, charged with the murder of
William Collier, near Longmont, last
January, hanged himself on the 21st
inst. in the corridor of the jail and was
found dead. 1t has developed since
that he made full confession ten days
previous to his suicide.
Acting Governor May vetoed the bill
passed by the Washington Legislature
authorized the issuance by the state
board of hotels Of so rooms or more in
first-class cities, licenses to sell intox-
icants and liquors with meals on Sun
da.. The governor expressed the view
that the bill was unjustly discriminat-
ing between cities and classes, mans
thirst having nothing to do with the
size of the town.
Both branches of the Utah Legisla-
ture have passed bill regulating the
sale of liquor. The bill gives counties
local option and cities of 10000 popu-
lation or over separate vote on the
abolition Of saloons. Where prohibit
tion is not adopted. saloons. are to be
open only from a. m. to p. m. ex-
cept Saturday, when the hours shall be
from a. m. to p. m. Special cleo
tions on this question Of local option
are to be called on the petition Of 25
per cent of the legal voters.
Bills passed by the Arizona Legis-
lature. which has just adjourned, in
clude those for the creation of rail-
road commission; territorial good
roads department; local option by
majority vote, municipalities to have
separate vote If demanded; creating
the Office of territorial historian; ex-
empting new railroads from taxation
If notice be filed in fifteen days. All
railroad rate legislation failed. Woman
suffrage, was defeated as was the EN-
ployers' liability bill urged by the
unions. but vetoed by the governor as
leveled only against corporations as
employers. The separate negro school
bill was passed over the governors
veto.
GENERAL NEWS.