Eastern Colorado times., 1912-08-09
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San Francisco's municipal railroad
Il is well on the way to completion
Denver, Los Angeles and Omaha
won the prizes for mileage at the re-
cent Portland Elks' grand lodge con-
vention.
The williams and Bartlett Springs
stage was held up at the Prim grade
about thirty-five miles from Williams,
California, the robbers obtaining W.
500 in cash, besides much jewelry.
While en- route from Kansas City
to Helena. Mont, Mrs. H. ]. Mock OF
the first named city jumped through
the window Of the Pullman sleeping
car in which she was travelling. ana
was instantly killed.
Meagre and delayed advices from
Lovelock, Nevada, state that In re-
currence OF the flood at Mazuma and
Seven Troughs, high wall of water
swept both towns and sent the terri
fled inhabitants to the hills.
1t is estimated that ninety per cent.
of the street railway employees on the
surface lines in Chicago have voted
in favor of strike unless their de-
mands for increased wages and i'm
proved working conditions are met.
Information that Sidna Allen and
Wesley Edwards, the Virginia outlaws,
were believed. to be in hiding in the
vicinity of Seattle, caused the authori-
ties to conduct thorough search OF
the surrounding country for the men,
but neither was found.
Frank Holloway, who confessed In
Chicago to robbing the Westminster,
B. c., bank of $375,000; the Panama
City bank of $4,000, and to the kill
ing OF seven men, escaped recently
from the Texas penitentiary. The go'-
ernor has offered $4,000 reward for
his re-eapture.
That her pets may not be annoyed
on their journey to New York, Mrs.
Malcolm Whitman of San Francisco,
the former Miss Jennie A. Crocker,
has engaged special car for score
Of high-priced animals, including Sir
Barney Blue, the champion Boston
terrier, and. Halcyon Alexandra. the
worlds famous French bull.
In the twenty-one years of the his
tory of the National Irrigation Con-
gress, there never has been another
time when such widespread interest
was manifested in the splendid work
of that organization as is now shown
in it's twentieth session, which is to
be held in Salt Lake City Sept. 80
to Oct. 3.
The United States has become
half billion ton coal country. During
the last two years the total production
has averaged just trifle short OF the
500 100000 mark, exceeding that fig
ure in 1910 and almost reaching 1t In
1911. It is considered probable that
in the future it will be bad year
whose production falls far short Of
this quantity. The figures Of produc.
tion have been compiled by Edward
w. Parker, the government coal sta
tistician in washington.
Articles Of Incorporation have been
filed in Salt Lake City for the Provo
& Eastern Utah Railroad Company.
It is announced the new company will
build q railroad from Springville to
Jensen, Utah, point near the Utah
Colorado line, and later will extend
the road to Steamboat Springs, Colo,
the present terminus of the Moffat
line. The incorporators denied that
the new road is to be affiliated with
the Moffat line. The new company is
incorporated for $10,000,000.
SPORT.