The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22
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81. A general rain has fallen in Nebras-
ka and western Kansas. This was the
first rain of consequence in five
months.
Fire destroyed the garage of the
htchison Motor Company. Atchison.
Kan. with a loss of $4,000. Twenty
autos burned.
The gasoline schooner Oshkosh was
wrecked on the south spit of the Co
lumbia river, Portland. Ore, and seven
lives were lost.
Overcome by an Irresistible desire
to shoot something. John Cash, a
street vender from Denver. shot and
Killed Frank Harris. at Los Angeles.
Declaring persons guilty of small
thefts are unknown to the authorities.
citizens of Fort Lupton, Colo, are
planning vigilance committee to
drive thieves out of town.
The summer hotel at Moclips.
Wash. containing 1926 rooms. one-half
OF which was washed into the sea,
probably will have to be abandoned,
as large part OF the remaining wing
Is hanging over the water and may
fall with high tide.
The most brutal and revolving
crime ever committed in Nevada has
been perpetrated in northern Washoe
county. four men being butchered.
their bodies being stripped and piled
Ia heap in the snow and left for
beasts to prey upon.
David Leahy. private secretary to
Gov. Stubs. was summoned before
The bar of the state Senate of Kansas
to give his authority for statements
made in newspaper article written
ly him that political crookedness is
rampant in the Legislature"
Using one of his hydro-areoplanes
Glen Curtis alighted ON the water
alongside the armored cruiser Penn
sylvania, at San Diego, Cal. and was
hoisted on board. Soon afterward the
water and the aviator flew away to
his hangar on North Island.
The power salmon sloop w. 1888
vhich is the number OF the fishing
license issued to the boat by the state
OF Washington. was found bottom VI
liz Admiralty Inlet on the west coast
c. WILDLY Island. All who were in
the sloop when II was struck by last
Sundays furious storm must have per.
ished.
That twenty-five million of the hun
dred million dollars rehabilitation
fund raised for the Gould lines would
be used to double track the Rio Grande
from Denver to Salt Lake was the
statement made at Salt Lake by a
high official OF the Gould system
The work. he added. would be Tin
i,hed by 1915.
Twenty years after the crime was
committed. Gov. Cruce has honored
the -requisition for James Bremen. a
wealthy farmer of Kiowa county
Oklahoma. to be returned to Woods
county. Kansas. to stand trial for the
murder of Sam Woods. the founder OF
I Woodsdale, Kan, and a pioneer OF
Stephens county.
Western members Of the Senate
states, are considerably concerned
over that part OF the proposed recip
iocity treaty with Canada which pro
vide for free admission into the United
l States of Canadian sheep. The Presi
dent. in transmitting the proposed
treaty to Congress. called attention tc
the fact that Canada raises compare
| lively few wool sheep and that her tex
tie manufacturers are unimportant
| The Western senators familiar with
the sheep and wool growing business
are apprehensive that with the stimu
las which will be given to the growth
OF the industry in Canada by remov
ing the duty on the admission of sheer
INTO the United States. the raising OF
sheep there will increase at the ex
pense of the industry in this country
FOREIGN.