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One death is credited to the recent
storm in Omaha.
Club women of San Francisco are
planning a 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
caused losses of $4,000
Further protests against the doc
tors trust" were voiced at luncheon
| given United States Senator John ID.
| 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.. l. 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 short time ago.
The discovery of 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 bt
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 il
has all been completed and placed in pc
stion 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 anG
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
Miss Mary Chamberlain, a. schoo
teacher of Shady Bend, last summer, is
being held in the District Court be
fore Judge Dallas Grover.
The controversy between Mrs. Car
re E. Cope of Topeka and BISHOP
David H. Moore of the Methodist Epis
coral church reached crisis when
| suit was filed in the Shawnee county
Kan, District Court by Mrs. Copo
against the bishop for $4,000 dam
ages. Mrs. Cope alleges that a lette4
by Bishop Moore was calculated t
injure her "as citizen, as wife, a
a mother and as Christian" She
declares she has been INUNDATED
panied and hurt and that she is en-
titled to damages.