The Elbert County tribune., 1911-01-06
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN.

The Los Angeles Times has per
1ected arrangements for the first de-
livery of newspapers by aeroplanes.
Arch Hoxsey, of Pasadena. Cal,
holder of the present worlds altitude
record of 11,474 feet, flew over Mount
North Texas is shivering under a
cold wave. Amarillo, in the Pan
handle, reports half an inch of snow
and high winds
The city and county of Denver
spent $167,797.7S to care for its poor
in the year ending November Both, ac-
cordins TO report of county clerk.
Luther Burbank has announced the
creation of strawberry of new type
the Patagonia" which commences to
ripen first and continues to bear the
longest.
Edward Tracy was arrested in
lutte. Mont, after chase of a year
and is charged with an unusual of
Tense against the statutes, namely,
stealing the same horse twice
The body of man forty years old
was found in Paola, Kans., in car
loaded with bricks. In his pocket was
found receipt from fraternal lodge
at Anadarko. Okla, bearing the name
Of w. o. Bruze.
Fred Cutler, messenger boy, was
run down and probably fatally injured
in Guthrie, Okla, by an automobile
carrying State Treasurer James Men
efe. The car used emergency brakes.
1t was demolished.
Eighteen feet of gold ore worth S75
Fer ton is the verified report of the
big strike made recently at the Ital-
ian mine. belonging to the Leesburg
Mining Company. about twenty miles
from Salamon City, Idaho. The min
ers predict a stampede.
Gold shipped by Alaska operators to
the United States assay office at Seat
lie for the month of November, 1910,
amounted to approximately $3.50, 900
as against about $4,000 for Novem-
ber 1909; the operating season was
considerably longer than previous
seasons.
England and France, in a speed
coalition. defeated America at Los An
geles, in the first aerial derby ever run.
Jas Radley, the British speed cham
pion, in French Bleriot monoplane,
beat Eugene Ely, driving a Curtis
racer, and Phil Parmalee, in a baby"
Wright, in an eight and three-uuarter
miles race.
Disclosures following the forced IL
quidation of the Quanah National
bank of Quanah, Texas, caused the
comptroller of the currency to issue
ar order directing every one of the
7;10O national banks in the United
States to install what practically
amounts to uniform system of book
Keeping.
The secretary of the interior has
approved the contract entered into by
Supervising Engineer Savage of the
reclamation service on behalf of the
United States, with Samuel Thomas
OF Byron, Wyo., for the construction
OF dlstributory bitches under the
Frannie canal and lateral A. of the
Shoshone irrigation project, Wyoming
In support of a motion for a new
trial for James McLachlan, convicted
of murder in the first degree for kill
ing his wife in Cheyenne, his counsel
has produced affidavits of a physician.
a police sergeant and a newspaper re-
porter. stating that few minutes aft.
er the shooting McLachlan, who had
shot himself with suicidal intent.
made to them what he considered n
dying statement, asserting that he had
shot his wife in self-defense, after she
had attacked him with butcher
knife.