Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
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Abercrombie, fifteen miles from
Wahpeton. N. D., was wiped out by
fire with loss of $4,000.
Cracksmen robbed the safe of sa-
loon at Washington. Cal. of $4,000 and
some costly jewelry.
A peculiar disease has attacked
many horses in the Platteville, Colo,
vicinity and farmers report losses of
iFaluable animals.
Richard Thiede, aged fifty, and an
old-time miner Of Cripple Creek, Colo,
district, was instantly killed by an ex-
plosion of dynamite.
Kansas fruit prospects have never
been better than they were this year,
according to the secretary of the State
Horticultural Society.
Employees of railroads. when riding
on passes In future, will be required
to give preference to cash passengers
in the matter Of sleeping car berths.
To colonize poor families of st. Paul
and Minneapolis on forty-acre farms
In northern Minnesota, provide homes
for them and give them a start at
farming, is move started by the Sal
walton Army.
/. At least thirty-two men were killed,
and parts Of their bodies strewn for
blocks around, when big passenger
engine In the Southern Pacific shops
blew up in San Antonio, Tex. Fifty
persons were injured.
Fourteen boys whose average age Is
fourteen years have incorcorpated the
youngest bank Instituted in New Eng
land, at Quincy, Mass. They will de-
posit SO cents week until the fund
is large enough to invest in business.
A tornado struck New Douglas,
Madison county, Illinois. ,unroofed sew
eral houses, wrecked the Pange flour
mill and broke scores of windows.
Smithboro and Greenville and other.
small towns were damaged. In Green.
vile 1875 houses were wrecked.
Herman L. Roth of New York, Nat
c. .Goodwin's personal lawyer, is in
Denver, 1t is reported, to begin suit
in the Federal Court of that city
against Perry A. Clay, editor and pub
Usher of Clay's Review of Denver, for
100000 criminal libel.
OF the 116 men at work in the Sans
Bois mine No. 2, when the property
was WI ecked by an explosion 107 have
teen accounted for. Twenty-six of the
~n1 hoe
died since), fifty-two bodies have been
recovered and twenty-nine bodies have
been located.
Foreign capital, mostly American.
aggregating $125,000.000 and invested
in the border Mexican states OF Du-
range, Coahuila and Chihuahua, is
nen-productive and threatened by rea-
son Of the revolution. according to
information in the possession Of Ell
Paso bankers.
Enough potash to supply the United
States probably for the next thirty
years has ben discovered by govern
ment scientists in Searles lake, San
Bernardino county, Cal. Estimates of
field men Of the Geological Survey
and the bureau Of soils is that the de-
posit may amount to four million tons.
The state flags Of Washington, Ida
6o, ontana and Utah have been plant
ed on the, Panama Pacific Information
al expositi0a, grounds in San Francisco
ON sites for state buildings selected by
Governors Hay, Hawley. Norris and
Spry, respectively. The sites adjoin
the. Oregon and Nevada plots. the Ida
no and Montana grounds next the bay
shore and the Utah and. Washington
plots across highway from them.
w. H. Walker, a farmer living near
Murphysboro, Ill, missed 2 hawk and
shot and killed his eight-ysar-old boy.