The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-12-14
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS,
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS or
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Creamery butter has reached the
price of SO cents per pound Wholesale.
in Denver. the highest price asked for
the year.
Finding of twelve loaded revolvers
and four sticks OF dynamite in the
federal penitentiary yard at Leaven-
worth. probably prevented wholesale
outbreak.
Fire originating in the shoe shops
of the Huntsville branch OF the Texas
penitentiary destroyed prison property
valued at 100000 before it was
checked by dynamiting several build
ings.
Colonel w. L. Skinner of Denver
was reelected president OF the Inter
national Livestock exposition, at Chi
cago. This is the third time that
Colonel Skinner has been given this
honor.
DIR. A. w. McDavit. the dentist con-
victed OF statutory offense in con
nection with the holding Of Miss Jesse
Mcdonald. a school girl. a prisoner in
his office for sixteen months at San
Bernardino. Cal. was sentenced to one
year In the county jail.
James b. and John ]. Mcnamara.
brothers. natives of Cincinnati. Ohio.
felt the strong hand OF justice. at Los
Angeles. which they long had thought
to evade. the former being sentenced
to Imprisonment for live. and the lat
ter to fifteen years In the state pen
itentiary.
Mrs. Carrie +. Cope. plaintiff In n
sensational $4,000 damage suit for H.
bel against Bishop David II. Moore
OF the Methodist Episcopal church. in
Kansas. has been summarily removed
from official connection with the Ma
tioral Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety OF the church.
An explosion OF gas. followed by
fire destroyed the Wichita Pipe Line
Company's pump station. located one
miles south OF Caney. Kan. the sta
ton supplies gas from the Oklahoma
fields to Wichita. Hutchinson and
many western Kansas towns. Tho loss
is estimated at 100000.
II has been learned that In Septcm-
Der. 1910. u dynamite bomb was found
in the plant OF the Roberts iron and
steel works on the Tacoma tide flats
Mt Tacoma, Wash. The discovery Is
said to have been made Just In time
to snuff the fuse and prevent an eS-
plosion. A strike was on at that time
at the plant.
A message from General b. J. VII
jocn. Mexican peace commissioner to
the Yaqui Indians. received Mt FL
Paso from Guaymas, conveys the in
formation that the Yaquis have de-
clined to abide by the terms OF the
peace agreement signed with Prcsi-
dent Madero. The Yaquis not only re-
pudiated the former agreement. but
formulated demand for the entire
Yaquai valley. much OF which is now
occupied by American settlers.
Even while jury was celebrating
over his case, Ralph Fish. alias Rex
roke into the desk OF Sheriff Nc
MILAN, at Pueblo. Colo. stealing sew
eral letters that were unopened and
handful of revolver cartridges.
When the stolen property was found
in the pockets Of the prisoner he only
laughed and boastingly added that on
June 20, 1909. he stole a watch from
the pocket of an assistant district at
torney at Denver. while In conversa-
ton with the official.
Prohibition. represented in the most
drastic dry" ordinance ever proposed
in Los Angeles or elsewhere, probably.
went down in the ruck, with Social
ism. under the landslide. by vote of
two to one. This. too. in spite of the
fact that approximately 80 per cent of
the $4,000 women registered for their
first votes in California. exercised the
suffrage. The vote cast probably was
a record for any municipality of that
city's size. Los Angeles harbors some
where between 325.000 and 100000
people. The gross registration was
l92.70O: the net. after several thous-
ands of names had been thrown out.
something more than $4,000. OF
these. i40,SSO. according to official
figures cast their ballots