The Fort Sumner review., 1909-07-31
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STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Sheep shearing has been practically
completed in Wyoming. The total clip
is estimated at 3S,OOO,OOO to 4O,O0O,O0O
pounds, as against 36,OOO,O0O pounds
last year.
Upwards of 500 head Of sheep, which
on the Helena national forest reserve,
in Montana, were poisoned by loco
weed and died.
Harry Orchard, life convict in the
Idaho penitentiary for the murder OF
Governor Steunenberg, was baptized a
few days since by Elder Steward Of
the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
The convention of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners at Denver by prac-
tically unanimous vote, decided to call
alton between the Federation and the
United Mine Workers of America.
Ella Gingles was cleared at the close
of her sensational trial in Chicago
from the charge of stealing lace, but
the story she told on the witness
stand of being white slave" victim
was denounced as untrue by the jury
that freed her.
Cne of the features of the Grand
Army of the Republic encampment at
Salt Lake next month will be living
flag, composed Oh 1884 children in Co.'S
tune. OF this number 544 will be
dressed in red, 4S0 in white and 224 in
blue.
The Utah Automobile Club is CO.
operating with boards of trade and
commercial clubs in Utah and Idaho
to secure the improvement of bad
stretches of road between Salt Lake
City and the Yellowstone National
Park
James ]. Hill and Edward H. Harri-
man, the two most prominent figures
in the railroad world, will be in at
tendance at the Transmississippi Com
mercial Congress which is to attract
thousands OF visitors to Denver from
August 18th to 21st
/. On the goth inst. Paul ]. c. Der
Lkum, known as Dare Devil Derkum, y
rode three and one-half horsepower
motorcycle from Los Angeles to San
Diego and return In the remarkable
time of 10 hours, SO minutes, 80 Sec
onds The course is 800 miles.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad Company has quit the state
of Montana, according to document
filed with the Secretary Of State at
Helena, and the inference is that its
lines in the southern part of the state
will hereafter be conducted by the
Great Northern exclusively.
A verdict of acquittal was rendered
at Los Angeles in the case of Will
liam c. Mitchell, the youth who killed
Cecil Thayer, a messenger boy, on ac-
count of his association with Mitch
ellis sixteen-year-old sister. This was
Mitchell's second trial, the jury in the
first case having disagreed.
According to a decision reached by
Western railroads, tariffs will go into
effect October 1st equalizing the grain
rates to the Southeast from all points
in Iowa, North and South Dakota
Minnesota and Nebraska, SO that grain
ican be moved through Chicago al
rates equal to those of St. Louis and
other junction points.
The Iowa Board of Pardons has rec
commended an unconditional pardon
for Samuel Francis Smith, son of the
author of the hymn, America" who
was convicted five years ago and sen
fenced to the penitentiary for eleven
years on charges of perjury, larceny
and embezzlement. Smith, now "
years old, formerly was Mayor of Dav'
export. He was arrested for the al
legged appropriation of the funds ol
several estates entrusted to his care.