The Colorado statesman., 1912-01-13
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
HiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Five inches is the average depth OF
snowfall over northern Idaho. In the
southern part of the state the fall wda
less
The intense cold and deep snow
nave brought severe suffering among
homesteaders in the Black Hills in
south Dakota.
Three acres of buildings comprising
the plant of the Commercial Acid
Company, near East st. Louis, burned
The loss was 100000.
George A. Neely, Democrat of
Hutchinson, was elected to the United
States Congress from the Seventh
Kansas district, to succeed the late
E. H. Madison, Republican.
Marooned for more than week in
a way car attached to an Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe freight train,
stuck fast in the snow near Laird in
western Kansas, two brakemen lived
on jackrabbits.
Arthur Lewis, accused of numbering
his stepniece, Helen Rumball, by
breaking her neck, at Oroville, Cal,
was sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment in San Quentin penitentiary. A
jury found him guilty of manslaughter.
The new county grand jury at Los
Angeles has determined to renew the
dynamite investigation, and subpoe-
naed five persons formerly connected
with the Mcnamara defense. The
principal charge is that of jury brib-
cry.
A sympathetic strike of more than
100000 members of the Federated
Railroad Shop Employees, to be called
within a month and possibly within
two weeks, was predicted by Ernest L.
Reguin, president of the Federated
Shop Employees of the Hartman lines
State Health Officer Steiner at Aus
tin, Texas, announces that the COM
monwealth board of health would meet
in Dallas to consider the spread of
spinal meningitis in Texas. Dallas
has had about lao cases and Waco
eighty-four cases since Oct. /.
A suit against the Independence Gas
Company, the Consolidated Gas Com
pany and the Kansas Natural Gas
Company, charging conspiracy to
raise prices and to prevent competi-
ton, has been filed by Attorney Gen
eral Dawson in District Court at In
dependence, Kan.
Most short railroad lines in the
Black Hills of South Dakota are
blocked with snow and the cold, and
the Burlington & Northwestern, while
they keep trains moving, are expert
encing much difficulty and all the
traffic is considerably behind schedule
The temperature is 33 degrees below.
Hope for the lives of thousands of
starving cattle on the Texas ranges
was held out by sudden rise in tenn
perature TO 40 degrees above zero.
This is the first thaw In the Texas
Panhandle for three weeks. 1t was
feared that stockmen would lose
heavily.
George Rives of Goldfield, New, was
sentenced to seven years in Leaven-
worth prison at Sale Lake, on the
charge of taking young girl from
Salt Lake to Goldfield for immoral
purposes. Jessie Gray, alias Jessie
Rives, was sentenced to six years in
the Lansing, Mich, state prison on a
similar charge. They were arrested
at Carson, New.
Unable to see the station lights in
the binding snowstorm which swept
over western Kansas Engineer C. C.
Deming of the Santa Fe passenger
train No. ran past the station at
Wright, Kan. Before he could back
his train into the siding after he had
discovered his mistake, his train was
hit by the Newton-Dodge City local
westbound Deming was fatally
scalded. Engineer ]. w Chalfant of
the local was killed and twelve pas
sengers were hurt.