The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-10-06
GEN ERAL.

Rev. Arthur Wilde Lyttie. for the
last ten years rector OF ST. Marks
Episcopal church In Evanston, H..
committed suicide Wednesday.
Two masked robbers invaded the
mail car OF the Southern Pacific train
leaving New Orleans Monday. secured
patches OF registered mail and es-
capped.
Three persons were killed and two
seriously injured At Gloucester. N. j..
Sunday when an electric train on the
West Jersey railroad struck an auto
mobile.
The consolidated reports com
piled Of the condition Of the
Oklahoma state banks OF Sept. 1. 1910.
show = decrease both In numbers and
deposits since the last statement.
made June 80. 1910.
The trial Of Governor c. N. Haskell
OF Oklahoma In the Muskogee town lot
cases came to = sudden end Thursday
whom the government announced that
court 1t would be unable to make out
. case against Haskell or any Of his
co-deendants.
DR.. Morris d. Stepp. = Cleveland
surgeon. drove his automobile directly
before = speeding electric freight car
Sunday. Mrs. Stepp and her two
small children were killed. DR.. Stepp
suffered three fractured ribs and In
ternal injuries. DIR. Stepp is \ lee
turer At Western Reserve Medical Col.
lege.
Many persons may be forced to
90 with . short supply Of coal
this winter while In some Sec
tions serious hardship may result from
= dearth of coal shipping facilities At
a time when demand becomes univer-
sal. Such is the unpleasant prospect
which coal operators assert threatens
. large portion Of the country.
Completion Of the task of double
tracking the Santa Fee from Chica-
go to Kansas City is near enough for
officials OF the road to announce def
mite dates for. the opening g traffic
over the new rails. This marks the &C.
complishment Of one OF the first great
sltps tht piokttsS vi Tie EdilTodu
toward a complete system OF double
tracks. from Chicago to the Pacific
coast.
Frank Darkcloud, descendant of a
famous Chippewa Indian chief, former
halfback on the Carlisle Indian foot
ball team. went to Chicago with his
wife five weeks ago to make an effort
to take advantage Of the education he
had received. He hunted for Job
and at the last moment he succeeded,
but his money was gone. his wife In
delicate health and starving He could
get no credit, and, for the first time
in his life. he says. he broke the law.
He stole a gun and a shirt, sold the
gun. was caught. and Sunday spent the
first of 113-day sentence in the bride
well.
At Atlantic City Walter wellman's
big dirigible America. in which he and
a daring crew of four men expect to
establish the first air route over the
Atlantic ocean, is now in readiness
for her trial flights. which will be
held as soon as weather conditions
permit The air-ship was Launched"
in the Inlet on Saturday at noon. since
then the immense silk envelope, with
Its skeleton steel car with a capacity
of seventy people. has been floating
free in the balloon shed. The opper-
alton of releasing the balloon from the
way was accomplished without a
hitch.
To find legal heirs to a for
tune of million and half
dollars left by Robert Potter who was
killed by vigilance committee In
Texas in 1874. lawyers from three
states are delving into the court rec.
ords at Durham. N. c.. Greenville, 8.
c.. and in Marshall county, Tex. Pot
ter, who for three terms was q mem
ber Of the North Carolina Legislature,
left that state 76 years ago and In.
vested in wild Texas lands, which r.
Gently developed natural gas and oil
wells.