The Ordway new era., 1910-02-04
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
Il, PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
"a HOME AND ABROAD,
IRON ALL SOURCES
AWNINGS, DOM oo. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERiNes. HOPES
iF AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Many who have seen the plans OF
he Cage helIcopter. now being COLI
Ptructed In Denver. believe that 1t will
Drove to be the coming airship.
The Transcontinental Passenger
Association has announced Its inten.
don Of charging for next summer the
same colonist rates from Chicago to
Pacific coast points as last year.
The jury In the case OF Frederick
W. Keitel and Franklin p. Fay. tried
In tho United States Court at Denver
onstAe charge OF conspiracy to defraud
the OF coal lands in Routt
\, county, Colo. brought In a verdict Of
NtfSuilty.
=, ~. I. Swain. a livestock raiser Of
Jght, Kas.. has issued 10000 circu-
letters to prominent farmers In
Bas, Iowa. Illinois and Missouri.
ing for delegates to hold meeting
Kansas City. to retaliate against
y unions that have instigated meat
bycott in that city.
Mrs. Josie Pettis. owning . farm
hear Dalhart. Tex. says that a bolt
NJ lightning struck the ground on the
fAountain side near her home recently
and uncovered spring Of crude oil.
which is now producing 200 barrels
daily. 1t Is claimed that she has been
offered $4,000 for the small tract Of
land.
Missouri's Supreme Court has re.
versed the remarkable decision 1t gave
last March. holding that employers la
billty insurance was against public pol.
IN
negligence on the part of employers,
aud that q policy Of such insurance
was null and void.
The Senate of Illinois has passed
the direct plurality primary bill which
carries the Gibson amendment provid-
Ing for the blanket ballot. The Glib.
son amendment provides that the vot.
er need not state his party utilization
and may secretly vote any primary
party ticket he chooses. but must con.
fine himself to only one party column.
Governor Spry of Utah. on his re-
turn from Washington, where he at
tended the convention Of governors, in
reply TO questions In regard to the
Jeffries-Johnson fight. said: II see no
reason for changing my position in
the matter. AS I have repeatedly stat
ed, there will positively be no fight in
Utah while l am governor
Miss Annie Barber, formerly of Col
orado Springs, has been chosen by the
new sultan Of Turkey to devise a new
heating plant for the royal palace, one
OF the largest and most magnificent
structures in the world. She is in Lon.
don, where she Is the manager of a
big contracting firm. She is sister
of r. P. and William Barber. Colorado
Springs architects.
I That the San Pedro, Los Angeles &
Salt Lake Railroad Company will be
out Of the trans-continental business
at least year. was the announcement
made at Los Angeles by officials Of
that system. following the completion
OF an investigation to determine the
recent flood damage along the right of
way. 1t was found that eighty miles
of track had been washed out in Ne.
vada.
The question of the validity of the
California statute which provides the
death penalty for life term convict
who assaults guard or fellow con-
vict, has been placed before the
United States Supreme Court by Chief
Justice Beatty of the State Supreme
Court, who has granted a writ of error
In the case Of Jacob Oppenheimer, the
Sen Quentin convict under sentence
to hang for assaulting a fellow con.