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sand race.
The strike vote taken recently
among employees of the Chicago. Rock
Island & Pacific railway, in Chicago.
was in favor Of strike.
Incomplete returns from the city
primary in Los Angeles give for may
or. Hartman, Socialist, 9.703, and
Alexander. Republican. 9.206.
For the first time in the history OF
Milwaukee county, Wis, woman has
been sentenced to life Imprisonment
for the murder of her husband.
The first complete woman jury to
be empaneled In California has been
sworn for duty In Justice of the
Peace Cassidy's court in Watts.
New York's great land show was
formally launched at banquet in the
Waldorf-Astoria, and the West Is fast
becoming the talk Of the great city.
Kyrle Bellew. one of the foremost
actors of the English speaking stage,
author and explorer, died in Salt Lake
City of penumonia, after a brief i'll
ness.
In the presence of his father and
brother, William Glissin of Antelope,
Ore. aged forty-five, sheepherder.
stabbed and killed his aged mother,
who had demonstrated with him for
intemperance.
Slight earthquake shocks, the cen
ters OF which are believed to have
been located far out in the Pacific,
have been registered in the last twen-
ty-four hours at the Santa Clara col
lege observatory.
Three bodies were recovered from
the wreckage OF the east span of the
partly completed Mountain Quarries
Company bridge, at Auburn, Calif.,
which collapsed. Five injured were
taken from the tumble. 1t is thought
that the clearing OF the ruins will
yield still more bodies.
Negotiations which have been pend
ing for some time are practically
closed In Council Bluffs,for the sale of
the Atlantic, North & South railroad,
syndicate headed by Leslie M. Shaw.
former secretary of the treasury OF
the United States. The purchase price,
100000, is to be paid into court No
vember 21.
The thirty-third degree was con-
ferred upon five Masons at the Mason
ic temple in Denver. This is the larg
est number of men who have taken
this degree at one time in the history
of the order in Colorado. The men
who became thirty-third degree Ma
sons were Richard w. Corwin of Pu-
eblo, George w. Vallery of Denver,
James r. Killian of Denver, Darius A
Barton of Denver and H. Bruce Teller
of Denver.
Aviator Galbraith p. Rodgers, ap-
preaching a successful completion OF
his ocean to ocean jaunt across the
American continent, scared into Pasa-
dena, Calf, at mile minute clip
on the last spurt Of thirty miles from
Pomona, and dropped from an altitude
of several thousand feet to a graceful
landing. He will fly to the coast, land
ing at the edge of the Pacific ocean.
His official record for the trip is 4,231
miles in 1924 minutes.
Farmers of the South must withhold
from the market every remaining bale
of the seasons crop of cotton and fol
low this with concerted and binding
agreement to reduce next seasons
acreage at least twenty-five per cent
if they hope to restore the staple to
normal Price and relieve the losses
sustained by present low prices. This
is the plan decided upon at the con-
ference of Southern governors at their
concluding session in New Orleans.
John H. Hadley, for many years a
roadmaster for the Missouri Pacific
railway, and later employed by the
Denver & Rio Grande road, committed
suicide at Independence, Kan, by
shooting. He sat on a curbstone on
main business street and fired bull
let through his brain. Hadley was to
have been tried in Canon City, Colo,
Nov. 13, on a charge of padding Den
yer G Rio Grande payrolls. 1t is be-
lieved he was Respondent over the
coming trial.
The third venire of prospective ju-
rors has been exhausted at the close
of court in the McNamara murder
case in Los Angeles. Altogether 207
veniremen have been drawn. and out
of these ten have been accepted.
Editor A. A. King of the Watts
News, Los Angeles, who. through his
paper fought women's suffrage during
the campaign preceding the recent
election which enfranchised women.
was acquitted by the first jury COM
posed exclusively of women in Cali
fornia of charge of printing an in
decent story in his paper.
That the Wabash railroad may be
involved in strike of shopmen for
more wages was made known in Chi
cago when officers of the Federation
of Craftsmen for the Wabash system
said that the negotiations with the
railroad had reached critical stage.
The express car on the Rock Island
passenger train which left Memphis
Tenn, was blown to pieces by dyna
mite used by robbers, near Hurlburt,
Ark. The express car was entirely
wrecked and scattered over the tracks,
blocking traffic. The robbers got