The Ordway new era., 1909-01-22
luz Latest IMPORTANT Die.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
,T0RY OF THE week
uow,No THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

II IA estimated that more than 200
potor cars are In use for renting out
.n San Francisco.
The Idaho Legislature has reelected
Weldon b. Hepburn to the United
stateS Senate.
The appraiser has placed the value
N the estate left by the late Marshall
FIELD Of Chicago mt $S3. 3.459.O32.
George C. Perkins was reelected to
HE United States Senate by the Call
fornla Legislature on the 18th inst.
One hundred automobiles have been
purchased by farmers OF La Sale
Bounty. H.. during the past year.
All records for cold weather at Great
Falls, Mont. were broken on the 10th
INST. when the temperature fell to "A
dcgrees below zero.
Two bills have been presented In the
Senate of the state OF Washington
baking the conducting OF pool rooms
hnd race track gambling n felony.
or twenty-eight workmen In the coal
mine owned by Joseph Letter at Zicg-
)er ILL.,, twenty-six were killed by the
Explosion on the 10th inst.
The California railroad commission
has fined the Santa Fe railroad $4,000
tor Illegal discrimination in the rates.
The Southern Pacific was found guilty
but was not fined.
Suit for nearly 100000 has been
iled against street car companies on
behalf of the city OF st. Louis. The
elaim is based upon the non-payment
pf tax OF one mill passenger.
Traffic representatives OF transcon-
tinental railroads have consented to
meet western shippers at Chicago Jan.
|nary 2Sth to hear complaints against
Increased freight rates. Nearly every
shipping organization on the Pacific
eoast will send representative.
The Wyoming Wool Growers Asso-
|eiation at its meeting In Rawlins
|faised fund OF $4,000 to defray ex-
tbenses OF n campaign against the re-
vision OF the tariff on wool. to fight
|the Pinchot system of forest reserva-
Ition, etc.
Lorin Farr, pioneer OF Utah. among
|she first converts to Mormonism. fa st
mayor OF Ogden. husband OF seven
wives and father OF 300 children,
grandchildren and great.grandchildren,
|and ore of the best known men in the
West, was drowned Mt Utah Hot
Springs. eleven miles north OF Ogden
on the 18th inst.
Edmund Burke. who posed rs Brit
ish nobleman, was sentenced to three
PEARS IN Leavenworth, Kan, peniten-
|tiary and fined $1,000 by jury In the
United States District Court at Chi.
|cago on a charge OF impersonating a
United States officer. A Decatur, ILL.,,
|girl, who married him in Denver, OBJ
|tained divorce upon his arrest in st.
Louis.
The Rev. John H. Carmichael. who
KILLED Gideon Browning. the village
carpenter at Battle Run, Mich, few
days since, committed suicide at Car
image, Ill, on the 11th inst. by cut
ing his throat with pocket knife. In
u letter found In his suit case he says
Ithat Browning had him under hyp-
hotic Influence. Browning attacked
MIN with knife and he defended him
|self with hatcilet.
Three of the men lost on the desert
IN Death valley have made their way
.o Ballarat. One remains unaccounted
or and hope of his being alive has
|Deen abandoned. The missing man is
=. ". A. Williams. mining man of
|handsburg. The three who arrived at
inallard were demented, having wan
aered sor nine days, most of the time
without water.