The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-03-12
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
gA THE WORLD,
DURING THE PAST WEEK
A RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN NEWS,

The "ten-dollar hog" materialized
for the first time in Kansas City on
the 7th inst
At Chicago on the I'd inst, two car
loads OF hogs sold for $10.1O per hun.
o-ed weight, the highest price since
the Civil War.
The army transport Logan sailed
from San Francisco on the 7th inst.
for the Philippines with about 300 Of
Ulcers 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 sc, 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.
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 1886 and the hogs
for $10.17k per hundredweight.
With the range covered by snow.
$4,000 elk are said to be starving in
Jackson's Hole and the citizens there
are organizing to devise means of feed
ing the elk and preventing them from
pillaging the ranches.
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-
fornanCa of aHoprv VIII
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 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.
Sheep sold In Chicago on the Sd inst.
at $50 hundred weight, the highest
mark ever recorded in the history Of
the market. The animals, it is under
stood. were purchased for the use OF
the British army and will be shipped
to the Bermuda islands.
With a bound upward Of 20 cents
over Saturdays closing price, live
prime heavyweight hogs brought
$10.55 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 1,10O miles OF block sig
mails. 500 miles Of double track and 700
miles of telephone lines by which
trains are operated instead of by tele-
graph.
The United States Circuit Court at
st. Louis has issued an injunction re-
straining the Century Electric Compa-
ny from infringing the patents Of the
Wagner Electric Manufacturing Com
pany. and ordering an accounting. The
patents involved cover the Wagner
single phase motor.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company has inaugurated a 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 bust
ness has been cleared.