The Colorado statesman., 1910-03-12
BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND
OTHER COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS
THAT MARK THE PROG
RESS OF THE AGE.
WESTERN NEWS.

The "ten-dollar hog" materialized
for the first time in Kansas City on
the 7th inst.
The army transport Logan sailed
from San Francisco on the 9TH inst.
for the Philippines with about 300 Of
ficers and men.
AS soon as the frost is out of the
ground the Department of Agriculture
will plant 100000 pine seedlings in
the Savenac nursery in Montana.
Twelve new theatres to cost $6,O00,-
900, are to be built by the Shubert
Theatrical Company in the principal
cities between st. Paul and San Fran
cisco, including Denver.
Driven to desperation by the taunts
of his schoolmates, who had been teas
ing him about young sweetheart,
Eddie Bart, aged eleven, committed
suicide at Lothrop, Montana.
Colorado lambs and hogs from Illi-
nois made record prices at the stock
yards at ST. Louis on the 7th inst. The
lambs were sold for $9.35 and the hogs
for $10.17h per hundredweight.
Three hundred and fifty men were
thrown out of employment by a Den
yer fire which destroyed the plant Of
the Griffin Wheel Works at Overland,
entailing a property loss of 100000 or
over.
Jake S. Schaefer, the famous bill
lard player, died at his home in Den
yer on the Sth inst, from tubersulo-
in
past two years, having come West for
his health.
Louis James, the noted actor, died
at Helena, Mont, on the morning OF
the 5th inst, following an attack of
heart failure the night before, just be-
fore the curtain went up for per-
formance of Henry VIII"
With a bound upward of 20 cents
over Saturdays closing price, live
prime heavyweight hogs brought
S10.55 per hundredweight at the Pitts
burg stock yards Monday. This is the
highest record since 1865, when hogs
brought $13 in western Pennsylvania.
A compilation of statistics now be-
ing made by the Santa Fe Railroad
Company is expected to show that the
system has LOO miles of block sig
nails, 500 miles of double track and 700
miles of telephone lines by which
trains are operated instead of by tele-
graph.
Plans are being perfected by the
Associated Danes, an organization
comprising all the Danish societies of
the United States, for the erection of
a large sanitarium for the treatment of
tuberculosis, to be built in Denver or
the near vicinity.
At a special meeting of the board of
governors of the Aero Club of Ameri-
ca in New York City, it was announced
officially that st. Louis had been Sc
lected as the starting point for the
1910 international balloon race, the
date being October 18th.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company has inaugurated new night
letter service. Letters will be handled
under the usual regulation covering
the transmission of messages and will
be received at any time of day up to
midnight, but will not be put on the
wires until night, after the day busi-
ness has been cleared.
Unless the railroads of the West, the
Northwest and Southwest make addi-
tional concessions, their firemen and
engineers, numbering upwards of 30,-
900, will strike to compel higher wages
and improved working conditions.
This is said to be the ultimatum of
the employees as expressed by COM
plete returns received at Chicago from
the strike vote" recently taken by
the men on about fifty railroads in
these sections of the country.
GENERAL NEWS.