The new era., 1910-02-03
fHE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAeRAPHs.
STORY OF THE WEEK
sHoWiNo THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Many who have seen the plans OF
The Cage helicopter, now being con-
structed in Denver. believe that it will
prove to be the coming airship.
Glenn H. Curtiss has gone from Los
Angeles to Hammondsport, N. Y,
where he will begin at once the con-
struction of q new and heavier aero
plane than the one he used at the
meet here.
Wholesale arrests of Iowa bankers
may follow discovery made today by
Auditor of State Bleakley that state
and savings banks are evading assess
ments by sending large sums of money
to Chicago Just before the assessor
makes his annual visit.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
company has paid its semi-annual divi-
dend Of 21s per cent on its $50.000.U00
preferred stock. amounting to $780,
900. The dividends are distributed to
stockholders in all parts of the United
States and in several European coun-
tries.
w. l. Swain. livestock raiser Of
Dwight. Kas.. has issued 10000 circu-
lar letters to prominent farmers in
Kansas. Iowa. Illinois and Missouri.
calling for delegates to hold a meeting
in Kansas City. to retaliate against
the unions that have instigated a meat
boycott in that city.
Sidney Flower. recently the publish
er of magazine in Goldfield. New,
has been arrested at Chicago by fed
eral authorities on instructions that
he had been indicted in Neveda
charged with fraudulent use OF the
mails. He is said to have been known
as Parmeter Kent in Goldfield.
All the employees OF the forestry
bureau in the district which includes
Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota
will receive a substantial increase in
salaries this year. The appropriation
for salaries in this district will be $27,-
Quo larger this year than last and each
Of the 1855 members of the service
will receive an increase.
According to statistics gathered by
the Kansas board of control, nearly
ope-eight Of the marriages in Kansas
are failures. During the last year
there were issued in the entire state
17.107 marriage licenses, and in the
same period the District Court issued
DEGREES in 2.021 divorce suits. OF this
total of divorces. $50 were on the
grounds Of abandonment.
Mrs. Juana Corona, said to be the
Oldest person in Arizona, died at Pata-
gonia. Ariz.. few days since at the
age of 116 years. Her youngest sur
viving child is sixty years old. Mrs.
Corona was born in Sonora. Mex, Oct.
20. 1894. She had been married three
times. From her tenth birthday until
her death she was a constant user of
cigarettes.
Nine business men of Des Moines.
Ia, headed by Postmaster ]. 1. Myerly.
Col. H. B. Hedge, vice president of the
Central State bank, and County Treas.
urer George L. Dobson, have made up
q fund with which they will, establish
cooperative meat market and sell
meat at profit Of only six per cent
above the wholesale price to the poor
people of the city for one year.
At San Diego Charles K. Hamilton
flew in his Curtiss biplane across the
border line of the United States and
Mexico and over the ancient Mexican
city Of Tia Juana, surprising the inhab-
itants Of that sleepy little place into
unusual life and then flew back to the
polo field of the San Diego Country
club ON Coronado island, without
stop, going thirty-four miles in forty
minutes.