The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-03-06
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THE WORLD.
CURING THE PAST week
A ARECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN NEWS.

South Dakota has passed an anti
cigarette law which has the approval
of the governor
A bill legalizing the playing of base
ball on Sunday has passed both houses
of the Indiana Legislature.
Both branches of the Tennessee
Legislature have passed the bill per-
mitting scientific boxing in the state.
Both houses of the South Dakota
Legislature have passed the House res
olution granting popular vote on an
equal suffrage amendment.
Only one farmer is on the Standard
Oil retrial jury, which was completed
in Judge Anderson's court in Chicago
March 1st. He is Roy Cunningham of
Belvidere ILL.,
The Reno branch OF the Nye & Orms-
by chain of banks in Nevada closed its
doors February 23rd. 1t is announced
by the cashier that the bank will pay
dollar for dollar
Secretary of State Frank E. Benson
became Governor of Oregon March 1st
by the resignation of Senator-elect
George E. Chamberlain, then en- route
to Washington to take the eoath of Of
flee.
Elias ]. Baldwin. known as Lucky
Baldwin" died at his home near Los
Angeles on the LIST inst, at the age of
eighty-one. His estate is estimated at
$.5,000.000. He leaves wife and
daughter.
At the meeting Of the Trans Mis-
souri, Dry Farming Congress in Chey-
enne it was voted to change the name
of the organization to THE Dry
Farming Congress" and to hold the
ably in October next.
1t is stated that ex-Vice President
Adlai E. Stevenson will retire from his
law business and his coal mining to
establish the LaSalle Extension uni
versity. The LaSalle Institutions aim
is an extension along the lines which
have been proved success by the
University Of Wisconsin.
Fire, supposedly of incendiary
origin. early on the morning Of F'ebru-
ary eth destroyed the barn Of the
Blackburn ranch, belonging to the
Laramie Development Company, eight
cen miles from Laramie, Wyo. The
loss will aggregate $4,000 and in
cludes twenty-five horses, 100 hogs
and much farm machinery.
According to a decision by Chancel-
lor Shackelford the Southern Pacific
Railway Company will only have to
pay the state of Kentucky tax of 81,
100000 on it's franchises. 1t was sought
to collect $5,065, 900 a year. liability
for its steamship lines between Gal
weston and New Orleans and New
York, and for stocks and bonds.
Suits have been filed by the state of
Arkansas against the Cudahy Packing
Company, National Packing Company
Jacob Dold Packing Company, the Nor
ris Packing Company. Swift & Co.,
and Southern Beef & Provisions Com
pany, asking penalties aggregating
$3,30O,000 each fol alleged violations
upheld by the Supreme Court of the
United States
The greatest of the engineering
works of the government reclamation
service undertaken to store the flood
waters of western rivers for distribu-
ton during the rainless months are to
be brought to completion this sum-
mer. The list includes the huge
Roosevelt dam in Arizona, the Gunni-
son tunnel. the greatest underground
waterway in the world, running d-
rectly through Colorado mountain
range, and the largest works of the
Wyoming and Idaho projects.