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the federal prison at Leavenworth'
Frank G. Bigelow. the Milwaukee
banker. will be released.
Abraham Ruef will appeal to the
Federal Circuit Court against the SEN
tence of fourteen years imprisonment
by the state courts of California.
Muskogee. Okla.-Con Comisky OF
Chicago knocked out Jack Burns OF
Cripple Creek in the third round be-
fore the Empire Athletic Club.
The first of new series of dining
cars built by the Union Pacific rail-
road, arrived In Denver. and went out
for the first time on the Chicago fly
er.
The Montana Assembly. on the sew
enty-ninth joint ballot, elected Henry
l.. Myers. Democrat, United States
senator to succeed Senator Thomas II.
Carter.
Confirmation of press dispatches
| telling of battle between the Nevada
| state police and twelve Shoshone In
| dams has been received in Washing
ton.
The first considerable furry OF
snow in San Francisco In fifteen years
gave the youngsters of the city
chance to play for few minutes at
snowballing. The heights around San
Francisco remained white for half an
| hour.
With worlds records broken for rap
i'd and low cost OF construction. the Dor
ing of the great five-mile Elizabeth
tunnel, the most important feature OF
the new $26.0OO,O0O municipal water
project OF Los Angeles has been COM
pleted.
A worlds aviation record was brok-
en- between Laredo. Texas, and Eagle
Pass when Lieut.. Benjamin Foulois.
United States army. and Aviator Phil
ip c. Parmalee drove an army aero
plane log miles In hours and Z
minutes.
Reports to the Census Bureau from
the Strengthening and meat-packing es-
adjustments and slaughterhouses OF
the United States show that during
1909 there were 6s.iO3.000 animals
slaughtered for food in those estab-
lishments.
Thirty-five western railroads de-
cided to make no appeal from the re-
cent decision Of the interstate COM
merce commission denying the roads
the right to increase freight rates.
| They will accept the decree OF the
commission as final. Advanced rates
will be withdrawn.
Two masked and heavily armed rob-
bers held up the express car on an
Iron Mountain train within the city
limits of St. Louis, escaping with sew
eral packages and the money box.
which they removed from the safe
after binding and gagging the mes
senger.
What appears to be the las. hope
OF Abraham Ruef, political boss or
San Francisco during the regime OF
Mayor Eugene L. SchmitZ. OF escap-
| ing his sentence of fourteen years in
San Quentin, was dissipated when the
State Supreme Court vacated its re-
cent order granting Ruef n ,rehearing.
Ruef was convicted on one of the
seventy-odd indictments charging brib'
cry Of supervisors returned during the
bribery graft investigation in 1907.
Suicide by poison as method OF OF.
fetal execution Is provided in bill
submitted to the Nevada State Legis-
lature by the code commission. The
suicide clause. which is n part of the
proposed criminal practice act drawn
up by the commission. provides that a
criminal condemned to death may
take his choice between hanging and
suicide. II he elects the latter meth
cd, the state will furnish him a bottle
of hydrocyanic acid one drop of which
will produce instant death. and permit
him to take the poison. II he fails &c
do SO, hanging will be resorted to.