The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-12-26
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
3 EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES 5
DoINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS ~.
-. OF THE AGE. . ,.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Mrs. Maggie Adams, WIDOW OF inc
famous Indian chief, Adams. is dead
at Garfbaldi, Ore She was 113 years
of age.
President Taft has decidefto accept
the Kent professorship at Yale and
probably will take up his duties at
New Haven in the spring,
j, H.iLogue, 55 years old, president
of ]. H. Logue & Co., diamond dealers,
was found murdered in his offices in
McVicker's Theater building, in Chi
icago.
Less cotton was ginned during the
period from December 1 to I3 this
year than last year. the total having
been $40, ,312 running bales, compared
with 953.92O bales last year.
. Richard tTankersly, first settler of
western Texas, died at Tankersly.
Texas. He. WIS SS' years old and
boasted that Since he was 20 years
old he had never slept indoors.
President Taft commuted to one
year the two and half year SEN
tence of Clarence d. Hillman.
wealthy real estate dealer of Seattle,
convicted of using the mails to- de-
fraud.
More rigid compliance with,tbe re.
quests OF this government for the pro
lection of American lives and prop
erty in Mexico, will be demaheeA by.
the Department of State in a note, tR.
President Madero. ~: :. -
. The President has granted a pardon
to Captain William H. Van Schaick.'
who commanded the steamboat GeR-
eral Slocum, which burned in, 1904, in
East river, off New York city, result
ing In the loss of 1000 lives. MOSTLY
women and children. = r.
Among the forty live blue: foxes
from the Aleutian islands. which ar
rived at Seattle on the steamship .Yu-
kon, bound for breeding farm in
New Brunswick, are a number of sill
yer .grays, which the owner values at
more than $1,000 each. -.
The Socialist candidate for Congress
from the First South Dakota district.
Edward NJ. jacobson. OF Siouxs'Falls,
spent two cents for his campaign, ac..
cording to his report to the Senate.
This was the price of the stamp that
brought his expense statement.
The Capitai-News Publishing. Ceu,,
pany. of Boise, IdahQ,' charged with
contempt of court for its criticism of
the Supreme Courts decision, which
prevented the printing of the names
of Progressive presidential electors. on
the ballots. has filed its answer.
Senator Guggenheim recommended
to President Taft the appointment of
Hugh Taylor as receiver of public
moneys at Denver. Taylors' present
term of office expires February 81.
six days before President Wilson and
the neY Democratic organization goes
into power. -.' 90. :
Representative Rucker of Colorado,
who; holds the. Endorsement of the Col
orado delegation in Congress and of
William j. Bryan and others for ap-
,pointment to the post of United States
minister to Cuba, after the Inaugural
ton of Woodrow Wilson, departed for
Havana to spend the Christmas holi-
days, looking over the situation.
Characterizing the :ArkaaSas, .peni,.
tentiary under the lease system as a,
burning. seething hell consuming hu-'
man beings. who are being fed into
it in a manner which results in. moth
ing but making fortunes for contract
ors," Governor Donaghey issued
statement in. defense Of his action in
issuing pafdons to 316 state convicts.
Forty-eight years an employe of the.
United States Senate-a record of con-
tinuous service beginning when
Charles. Sumner and Henry Wilson
were senators from Massachusetts
is the .apccicl claim to distinction
made on behalf of Charles N. Rich
ards Superintendent of the stationery
room at the Senate. Richards is II
years old. He looks about so. He is
At veteran of,the Civil war
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