The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-06-29
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
REC Ord OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

At Groton. S. D.. fire caused loss
OF $4,000.
Denver was chosen as the meeting
place in 1912 by the International AS
sociation OF Auctioneers.
Fire in Seattle. Wash. partly de-
stroyed the four-story brick building
of ths Seattle Cracker & Candy Com
pany. Loss $4,000.
An explosion on the oil barge Gum
BILE in the harbor at Port Arthur. Tex
as, caused the death of the captain
and loss by fire OF 100000.
The worlds first bale OF new crop
cotton for the season of 1911 has
reached Houston. Tex. and was sold
at public auction on the floor of the
Houston cotton exchange for i.Ol5.
Literally buried under nine mil
lions OF dollars in gold. Wadsworth s.
Williams. an employe of the San
Francisco mint. was so badly injured
that his recovery is doubtful
Dick Miller. e balloonist. giving
street carnival in Weiser. Ida. was
drowned In the Snake river. AS he
dropped with his parachute. the wind
carried him TO the middle OF the river.
While the sheriff at Bellefourche
was waiting for him with warrant
charging embezzlement. Odin c.
Hameister, aged 27. cashier Of the
Northwest State Bank at Newell.
killed himself In his room In hotel
Fire destroyed the electric light and
ice plants and n large mill. all In one
OF the largest buildings in western
Kansas City. Loss. 100000. J. C.
Hopper was the principal owner Of
the property.
The big frame building housing he
Santa Fe roundhouse. storehouse and
foreman's office burned at Barstow.
Cal. Sixteen locomotives were re-
duced to Junk and the loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
Capt. David II. Jarvis. formerly Of
the revenue cutter service. who won
fame and a gold medal from Congress
for a heroic rescue OF Arctic whalers.
and who was for many years the ac-
tive head of the Neutrality-suspicious.
enterprises in Alaska. shot and killed
himself In Seattle.
E. T. Earle. millionaire editor OF the
Evening Express OF Los Angeles. has
announced that the Morning Tribune.
a one-cent daily. published every day
in the year and never more than one
cent a copy. daily or Sunday" will
begin about July list.
Rev. T. II. Gardner. formerly of Bal
timore. Md. awaiting trial in the Jail
at Seattle. charged with beating his
wife to death because the spirits ad-
vised him to do So" tried three times
to kill himself. once by hanging.
once by poison and once by fire.
Harvest of wheat and oats has be-
gun in Nebraska along the southern
tier of counties and by another week
will be in full swing through the
South Platte country. Women are
displacing men as harvest hands
They are more reliable. quicker and
do the heavy work as well as men.
over Kansas. Missouri and Okla
homa scorching wind from the south
has blown. greatly damaging growing
crops and sending temperatures to
new high records. Reports from but
one county in Missouri tell OF rain.
This was at Hartville, in Wright
county. At Salina. Kans.. the TEN.
perature reached 116 degrees.
Mrs. Ortie McManigal. whose hus
band Is in Jail in Los Angeles under
charge OF murder In connection with
the dynamiting OF the Los Angeles
Times building October /. last. ap-
peared before the grand jury and on
advice of attorney Darrow. chief coun-
sci for John j. Mcnamara and his
brother James. who are under like in
dement's. refused to testify.