The Glenwood post., 1911-12-09
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Creamery butter has reached the
price of Sc cents per pound wholesale,
in Denver, the highest price asked for
the year.
Denver Elks already are planning IA
capture of the prize trophy for the
best drill team at Portland next Au-
gust when the lodges of the United
States meet in annual convention.
w. E. d. Stokes, whose wife was
Miss Helen Ellwood of Denver, Colo.
is reported so ill at his apartments
in the Hotel Ansonia in New York that
his recovery is said to be matter of
grave doubt
George Lemberg and his fiancee,
Miss Helen Arnold, were married at
Waco, Tex, on the roof of the Acme
Insurance building, twenty-five stories
high, and the tallest building in Texas.
George Lemberg is a farmer.
The Kansas Flour Milling Company,
with capital stock of $9,OO00O0 has
been granted charter by the state.
II is "A merger of five large milling
concerns at Wellington, Great Bend,
Arkansas City, Enterprise and Kansas
City, Kan.
The Florence-G Goldfield mill, at Gold
field, New, owned by the Florence
Goldfield Mining Company, of which
A. ID. Parker OF Denver is vice presi
dent and treasurer, caught fire, and
this valuable property, costing approx
mately 100000, went up in smoke.
The entire Pacific fleet has been or
dered to proceed with all haste to
Shanghai, China American marines
have been sent to Pekin from both
Tientsin and Shanghai and orders
were issued for l,5O0 more troops to
sail from Manila for Shanghai imme
diately.
The Gary steel plant of Chicago,
which is considered a creGitable baro-
meter of business conditions in the
Middle West, is producing more steel
than ever before in the history. There
is much activity in all departments
and there are $500 men on the pay
rolls of the steel works alone.
1t has been learned that in Septem-
ber, 1910, dynamite bomb was found
in the plant of the Roberts iron and
steel works on the Tacoma tide flats
at Tacoma Wash. The discovery is
said to have been made just in time
to snuff the fuse and prevent an eX-
plosion A strike was on at that time
at the plant.
Manford a town OF 5000 persons,
twenty miles from Tulsa, Okla, re-
sembles an armed camp, according to
reports, N fear of a race war follow
ing a series of events in which one
white man, Fred A. Evans, was killed;
another, Rolly Johnson, was seriously
injured and one negro Ned Walker,
was lynched.
The United States government and
the California authorities are cooper
ating to uncover one of the most gi-
gantic conspiracies ever conceived in
the history of this country" This
| was the declaration of Assistant Dis
trict Attorney W. Joseph Ford, second
in command to District Attorney John
d. Tredericks of Los Angeles, and the
man who was arrested in Indianapolis
for alleged illegal eXtradition of John
| ]. Mcnamara.
In Judge Bordwell's court in Los
| Angeles, James b. Mcnamara pleaded
| guilty to murder in the first degree.
His brother, John j. Mcnamara, sec
retary of the International Association
of Bridge and structural Iron Work
ers, entered a plea of guilty to having
| dynamited' the Llewellyn Iron Works
| in Ios Angeles Christmas Day, 1910.
! James B. McNamara's confession
clears up absolutely the tragedy of
the explosion and fire which at ! OF
O'Clock on the morning of October /,
1910, wrecked the plant of the Los
| Angeles Times and caused the deaths
of twenty-one persons.