The Ordway new era., 1910-01-21
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. DOING ACHIEVE
MENTs. sUFFERINos. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

The principal mine owners In the
Black Hills have declared their inten-
tion to inaugurate the card system and
permanently shut out union labor.
An exhibition OF flying machines
will be held at Denver soon. accord
ing to the statement OF DR.. F. l.. Bart
lett. president Of the Denver Chamber
CT Commerce at Los Angeles.
Jesse II. Tourville. who recently
wrote TO the common council OF Lon
don on a method to dispel the fogs by
psychic waves. shot himself at St.
Louis a few days since while on a
downtown business street. He prob
ably will die.
United States reclamation service. has
made filings OF water rights for more
than $4,000 acres OF land on the Flat
head reservation in western Montana.
which will be opened to settlement
next spring.
II is reported that Denver will short
ly be connected with Wichita. Kas..
and other points east by a line Of rail-
road to be built from Sharon Springs
just across the Kansas line. on the
Kansas Pacific division Of the Union
Pacific. to Wichita.
Professor William Robertson. aged
fifty. head of the Minnesota Agricul-
tural branch school at Crookston. and
recognized as an authority in agricul-
tural affairs. was found dead in his
berth on a Great Northern train at
St. Paul. Heart disease was given as
the cause OF death.
The graders who are building the
Burlington roadbed across the state
hot springs reserve. near Thermopolis.
Wyo.. have opened many new flows OF
hot water. the greater number OF them
heavily mineralized. So copious are
some OF the springs that they have in
terfered with grading, although not
seriously.
Central Wyoming sheepmen. who
faced determination Of their flocks be.
cause OF the difficulty in getting feed
to the starving animals. have succeed
ed in securing enough grain and hay
and great caches OF feed have been
made on the range. While losses have
been staggering, it is not thought that
they will be nearly so severe as had
been anticipated.
More than 5000 soldiers will partic-
| ipate in encampment maneuvers at
Fort Russell. Cheyenne. next August.
Notice has been received that twenty
seven troops of cavalry. thirty compa-
nies of infantry. six batteries OF artil-
| lery. hospital and signal corps details
frnF hn xI-tl1 irfy, 10
in addition to the militia from several
neighboring states.
| State Game Warden D. c. Nowlin of
! Wyoming has been informed by ranch
men Of the jackson Hole country
south of the Yellowstone park, that
| $4,000 elk and deer in that district are
beginning to suffer from short feed
and that it is probable many will
starve before the spring thaw sets in
The elk and deer have been driven by
| the weather and snow from the upper
ranges, and are now finding it hard
picking on the lower ranges, which
were fed over by cattle last fall.
Doubling. that Thomas H. Swope
the millionaire philanthropist who
died at Kansas City October 3rd, came
to his death by natural causes, rela
tfves have started an investigation to
determine the exact cause Of his de-
mise. Attorneys representing the
Swope estate say they are convinced
a deep laid plot existed to kill. first
Colonel Swope and then other mem
bers Of his family. A person who
hoped to become sole beneficiary OF
the Swope millions plotted the deaths
they assert.