The Holly chieftain., 1911-11-17
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One death is credited to the recent
storm in Omaha.
Club women of San Francisco are
planning system Of pensioning wild
ows with children.
During the recent cold weather the
thermometer at Deadwood, S. D., was
twenty-five degrees below zero.
A correspondence course In prosely-
ting. for missionaries has been ar
ranged by officials of the Mormon
church at Salt Lake City.
John Smith, for thirty years presid.
ing patriarch of the Mormon church,
and nephew Of its founder and first
president, Joseph Smith. died in Salt
Lake, Utah, aged seventy-nine.
Col. James Lambert. owner of the
Pecos ranch, in Texas. plans to use
an aeroplane to rid his ranch. which
covers an area of several thousand
square miles, of wolves. panthers and
: other wild animals that last year
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Further protests against the doc.
tors trust" were voiced at luncheon
given United States Senator John D..
Works at the Palace hotel In San Fran.
cisco by delegates of the northern Cal
ifornia branch OF the National League
for Medical Freedom.
Seventeen of the twenty-one bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal churches
OF the world met in Denver for the
annual meeting of the general COM
mittee OF home missions and church
extension, which is the supreme con-
trolling body Of the church.
Patriotism to the ultimate degree is
exemplified in new breed of hens now
Haunting the national colors at the
poultry farm Of DR., |. g. Royte OF
Mountain View, Cal. Bright red Of
head, pure white Of body and indigo
blue Of tail, the fowls came into the
world a short time ago,
The discovery OF a second beach line
at Bluff City, sixty miles to the east
ward of Nome, Alaska, has given a
new lease Of life to prospecting in
Seward peninsula. Rich pay dirt was
found at a depth Of eighteen feet be-
low surface and at an elevation of thir-
ty-two feet above the present sea
level.
Across the Sacramento river at Sac.
ramento, Calf, is being constructed by
the Southern Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny the heaviest swing span of any
bridge in the world. The span is 400
feet long and weighs 100000 pounds.
The entire bridge, however, when it
has all been completed and placed in po.
sition will weigh more than 10000
900 pounds.
Petitions are being circulated in
Shady Bend, Kan. asking that the
sending out Of reports Of the tar and
feather" case. which has gone to trial,
be prohibited for the sake of the hon
or of the community. The trial OF four
teen men charged with the tarring OF
Miss Mary Chamberlain, school
teacher Of Shady Bend, last summer, is
being held in the District Court be.
fore Judge Dallas Grover.
The controversy between Mrs. Car
rie E. Cope Of Topeka and Bishop
David H. Moore Of the Methodist Epis
copal church reached crisis when
suit was filed in the Shawnee county,
Kan, District Court by Mrs. Cope
against the bishop for $4,000 dam
ages. Mrs. Cope alleges that letter
by Bishop Moore was calculated to
injure her "as citizen, as wife, as
a mother and as Christian" She
declares she has been Inundated,
panied and hurt and that she is en-,
titled to damages.