The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-18
The LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF the week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WEST RN

A general rain has fallen in Nebras-
Ma and western Kansas. This was the
first rain of consequence in five
months.
Fire destroyed the garage OF the
Atchison 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.
Three persons were drowned when
Sheboygan, Wis, street car went
through an open draw into the She
boygan river.
A convention of women held in the
state house in Pierre, S. D., took first
steps toward the organization of
woman's party
Overcome by an irresistible desire
10 shoot something. John Cash,
street vender from Denver, shot and
killed Frank Harris at Los Angeles.
William keohn. the hghwayman
who terrorized St. Paul for three
weeks in December last, was sen
fenced to state prison for sixty years
Declaring persons guilty OF small
thefts are unknown TO the authorities.
citizens OF Fort Lupton, Colo, are
planning a vigilance committee to
trive thieves out of town
Tho in tor. ma ri pt ub bitGE with
Japanese or any other race is prohib-
tied in a bin passed by the Legislature
OF Nevada. II makes the performance
Of such marriage by minister o"
justice of the peace a misdemeanor
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
in a heap in the snow and left for
beasts to prey upon.
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
tall with high tide.
David Leahy, private secretary to
Gov. Stubbs. was summoned before
the bar of the state Senate of Kansas
TO give his authority for statements
made in a newspaper article written
by him that political crookedness is
rampant in the Legislature"
The power salmon sloop w 1893,
which is the number of the fishing
license issued to the boat by the state
OF Washington, was found bottom up
la Admiralty Inlet on the west coast
o. WILDLY Island. All who were in
the sloop when it was struck by last
Sundays furious storm must have per-
ished.
Western members of the Senate,
representing sheep and wool growing
states. are considerably concerned
over that part of the proposed recip-
Iocity treaty with Canada which pro-
vide for free admission into the United
States of Canadian sheep, The Pres-
dent, in transmitting the proposed
treaty TO Congress, called attention to
the fact that Canada raises compara-
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
oil the industry in Canada by remov-
ing the duty on the admission OF sheep
INTO the United States. the raising of
sheep there will increase at the ex.
pense of the industry in this country.
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