The Ordway new era., 1909-12-10
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. DOING ACHIEVE.
MENTS, SUFFERlNes. Hopee
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

"Co GfN NEWS.
because he laughed aloud in churcn
whey Rains. country boy living near
Springfield. Mo, was sentenced to iuIl
for ten days.
Losses by the recent floods in north
west Washington are very great
Many place the loss at $500 ,OOo In
Skagit and Whatcom counties.
The Milwaukee Press Club has ex.
tended an invitation to Theodoro
Roosevelt to be the principal speaker
curing the silver jubilee exercises
next year following his return from
Africa. the date to be selected by MIR,
Roosevelt.
The Des Moincs Life Insurance
Company has decided not to insure
Christian Scientists. following the pay.
ment OF $4,000 loss on Paul l..
Parks OF Parksville. Miss, who, when
taken Ill. refused to employ physlc.
ian and died ten days later.
The cabinet Of Premier GlolIttI OF
Italy resigned on the I'd inst. because
the Chamber of Deputies defeated the
government bill for the reduction Of
Indirect taxation on necessities, the
loss OF revenue from that source to
be offset by progressive income tax.
Working drawings for the new fed
eial building at Denver have been
completed and turned over to the
treasury department The depart
ment expects to be ready to receive
bids for the work by January LIST and
to let some OF the contracts by March
LIST.
Prime steers December ist reached
the highest price ever paid In the
open market In Chicago, when 10
steers averaging l.572 pounds sold at
$3.50 per hundrcdwciEht. and 10 year
llngs weighing i.OSl each also sold at
the same price. A single head sold at
II cents a pound.
The call for the annual convent IN
of the National Wool Growers Asso-
citation has been issued by Secretary
Walker. II is to be held at Ogden.
Utah. January 6. and s. and II is cX.
pected that the range question Will be
the most important one up for consid-
Grafton.
According to n decision by Police
Judge Crawford at Omaha. BARRIERS
are common laborers' and are there
fore amenable to the Sunday labor
laws. Fifteen BARRIERS had been prose-
cutcd for pursuing their calling on
Sunday and their defense was that
their work is a profession"
The forest service has just an
nounced the following appointments
on national forests in district .. for
the month of November: Walter l..
Mickey was appointed forest guard on
the Cheyenne national forest: Walter
G. Brown, Joseph d. Orme and Sam
uel X. Quick on the Medicine Bow,
and August II. Taylor on the Routt.
Judge Kohlsaat in the Federal Cir
cult Court at Chicago has appointed
receivers for the Illinois Tunnel Com
pany and the Chicago Warehouse &
Terminal Company, companies held
by the S5O,OOO.OOO Chicago Subway
Company. The receivership is the in
itial step In a plan to reorganiZe the
two companies under friendly terms.
Capt. w. A. Johnson. formerly gen
eral superintendent of the Guggen-
helm mining syndicate. and at one
time an associate Of John Hays Ham
mond, committed suicide at the Bel
mont hotel at Salt Lake December
1st by cyanide poisoning. The act is
attributed to financial reverses. which
threatened his ownership OF Vaiu'
able group of mines in Yerington'
New.