The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-28
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WESTERN

senator NIXON WdS Te-tlttltu W VIC
United States senate from Nevada.
Three men were blown 10 pieces
when a powder mill at Fayville, H.,
tiew up. .
Farmers near Atchison, Kan. are
installing coal oil stoves in their hog
pens.
Thomas ]. Fields is dead and five
others are in serious condition as the
result of a disastrous fire in Omaha.
Tacoma, Wash. James Lawson,
aged ~. former member of Jesse
James gang, was found dead on his
ranch at Page.
Cyrus Corning. prominent in the or
ganization of the Populist party in
Kansas and identified with several
Populist newspapers, is dead.
Senator Culberson was nominated
in both branches of the Texas Legis-
lature to succeed himself and in joint
session was reelected.
Nevada, the last of the wild and
woolly West,'' is going TO reform.
Carson City reports a movement TO
carry through the Legislature meas
res to bar cigarettes and easy di-
,orces, and give the ballot to woman.
C. Jensen and three children were
tremated and Mrs. Jensen escaped
with three other children, all badly
burned, when fire, which started by
pouring gasoline over kindling. CON
sumed the Jensen home near North
wood, Iowa.
Matt Harrison and four of his chill
dren are dying and a fifth child is
dead, as the result of an explosion Of
can of powder in the kitchen of the
Harrison home at Roslyn, Wash. Mrs.
Harrison, who was also badly burned,
is expected to recover
The petition for a rehearing of the
judgment and order sentencing Abra-
ham Ruef to San Quentin for four
teen years on charge of bribery of
the RuefSchmitz Board of Super
visors has been granted by the State
Supreme Court OF California.
Calling the bluff of those who stated
that he would find a bomb under him,
Mayor Charles p. Nevin of Butte,
Mont, summarily ordered the closing
up of the red light district, giving its
denizens until February 1st to move
out. under pain OF being raided.
The Western Development Associa-
ton was organized by representatives
from all Western states who have
been exhibiting at the land show at
Omaha. The object is to divert the
tide of immigration from the South
eastern states and Canada to the
West.
East st. Louis. Ill, Is about to pass
an ordinance fixing the age limit Of
eggs, in other words, preventing the
sale of eggs after they have been laid
for some time. The blow is intended
at the cold storage houses and those
PEOPLE who would corner the egg mar
ket
San Francisco's aviation meet pro-
duced new American endurance rec
ord when Phillip o. Parmalee, pilot
ing Wright biplane, remained aloft
TOR three hours and thirty-nine min
ute sand forty-nine and one-fifth sec
onds. The best previous record was
three hours, eleven minutes and fifty
five seconds.
Roger Wilson, who paid $4,000 for
the exclusive rights to the Jeffries-
Johnson fight pictures in Oklahoma.
Kansas. Arkansas and Nebraska, at.
tempted to exhibit the pictures in
Lawton. He was arersted on the
charge of disturbing the peace, and a
large crowd, which had paid to see
the pictures, was given the admission
money and told there would be no
show.
Representing an aggregate capital
of 5o,00o,000 invested in apple orch
ards, and an output of 10000 cars
yearly, having a value of from s6,000,-
600 to sS,0O0,000, more than 100 apple
growers from Oregon, Washington and
Idaho gathered in Portland for the
purpose of forming a national selling
agency of sufficient scope to control
and dispense of the apples produced
in the three states mentioned.