The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-10-28
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In . Few Lines.
INTER-MouNTAIN.

III Oc men were Dduly nult ana ZOZ
head of cattle were burned to death,
In a collision between a cattle train
and freight train near Calhan, Colo
William II. Bailey, a cigarmaker, OF
Grand Haven, Mich, who suicided at
Denver, because of i'll health, left a
note, which read: BE sure | am
dead. Then bury me in the cheapest
pine box you can find and dress me
In my cd clothes. My wife and
babies need every cent they have"
By the terms of the will of Rufus
Clark, known as Potato Clark, which
was admitted to probate at Denver,
Thursday, the United States govern
ment is bequeathed $500 because,
according to the WILL in 1868 Clark
knew of the defrauding of the gov
eminent of an equal amount by man
whom he does not name.
The first snowstorm of the season
in Colorado occurred on October 10,
snow being reported from all parts of
the state.
Henry Schroeder, aged SO, killed his
three-year-old niece, Ruth Taylor, at
Seattle. and then committed suicide.
Schroeder, who was from Chicago, left
note declaring the crime was in re-
venge for his wife leaving him for an
other man.
The extra session of the seventeenth
general assembly, of Colorado ended
Tuesday night. The extra session
lasted seventy-one days and is esti-
mated to have cost approximately ST.
400 day, or total of $99,400
Mrs Matilda Work, living 1913 miles
west Of Salt Lake, may die as result
of burns caused by can of turpen-
tine exploding.
The silver spike of the last rail of
tho Nevada & California railroad,
running $50 miles from Mojave, Cal,
on the Southern Pacific to Lone Pine,
CAL, in Inyo county, was driven on
Wednesday.
DOMESTIC.
The raising of silk worms is to be
undertaken on large scale by Eng
fish capitalists at Great River, l.. l.,
a suburb of New York
Two women were killed and a score
Of other persons hurt when three
coaches Of the Hooking Valley pas
senger train, northbound, was ditched
near Harpster, O.
Charles Little has confessed to the
assassination of Mathew Crawford, at
Jackson, KY. and has been sentenced
to death, the jury being out but six
minutes
Ten persons were injured, none of
them fatally, when building in
Louisville, KY. collapsed.
Approximately $500 men employed
In the mechanical ,rades on the Mis-
souri, Pacific g. Iron Mountain system
walked out in sympathy with the
striking machinists on Friday.
Walter Dipley and Mrs. Stanley
Smith, charged with the murder of
Stanley Ketchel, have filed a motion
IN the justice court asking for a
change of venue for their preliminary
hearing
After stating that he could find no
precedent for his decision, Superior
Judge Graham, at San Francisco, has
granted letters of guardianship over
the person of her unborn child to Mrs.
Annie Toich.
An intercostal canal. not less than
nine feet deep and with bottom
width of ITO feet or more, to extend
from New Orleans on the Mississippi
river, to Brownsville. Tex, on the
Rio Grande, is the aim of the Inter
state Inland waterways league, in
session at Beaumont, Texas.
After using Welsh coal in the city's
fire engines for nearly fifty years, the
New York fire department has de-
cided that the home product, selected
coal from Indiana fields. is not only
cheaper, but also develops greater
energy.
A sensation has been sprung in the
New Mexico constitutional conven-
ion by the committee on boundary,
which insists that the 1913 meridian
is the true historical boundary be-
tween New Mexico and Texas. This
would give New Mexico 200 square
miles, now a part of Texas.
An unusual damage suit was decid-
ed in Gadsden, Ala, when Mrs. Leila
Ashley was awarded verdict of So
600 against X. X. McMahan, who is
now serving a life sentence for the
murder of Mrs. Ashley's husband. Sam
Ashley.
An explosion OF carbon gas IN the
kiln of a Portland cement plant at FL
Paso, Texas, burned to death Thomas
C. Shearer. an employee. His clothing
was entirely burned from his body.
Queen" a trick elephant, became
enraged at Robert Shields, new
keeper, who tried to shackle her in
her winter quarters in Jersey City,
and crushed him to death.
Matt Crawford, politician, distiller
and business man, was shot and in
stantly killed from ambush at Jack
son, KY, by four assassins whose
Identity has not yet been learned.