The Glenwood post., 1912-03-30
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DO IN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTS. SUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.


!oon 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
valuable animals.
Reuben Harris, 81 years old, mar
shal of Quitman, Mo-, is dying as a
result of the excitement attendant on
his first arrest.
Kansas fruit prospects have never
been letter than they were this year,
according to the secretary of the State
Horticultural Society.
One life sacrificed for each million
tons of coal produced, was the human
toll eXacted by the coal mining indus
try of Colorado of 1911.
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.
Three of the train crew were killed
when the westbound limited freight
on the Great Northern plunged into a
rock slide six miles west of Sand
Point, Idaho.
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 a move started by the Sal
walton Army.
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 80 cents week until the fund
is large enough to invest in business.
OF the 1l6 men at work in the Sans
Bois mine No. ., when the property
was WI ecked by an explosion 107 have
Eeen accounted for. Twenty-six of the
number were rescued alive Gone has
died since), fifty-two bodies have been
recovered and twenty-nine bodies have
been located.
Foreign capital, mostly American
aggregating s125,000,000 and invested
in the border Mexican states of Du-
range. Coahuila and Chihuahua, is
nun productive anu luledltleu ny Ied-
son of the revolution, according to
information in the possession of El
Paso bankers
The war department is considering
the advisability of removing to some
western reservation the remnant of
the Apache band captured at the time
of the surrender OF Geronimo. The
males from the original band, six in
number, are still held at Fort Sill,
Okla, as prisoners of war.
Enough potash to supply the United
| States probably for the next thirty
years has ben discovered by govern
men. 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-
post may amount to four million tons.
The state flags of Washington, Ida
no, Montana and Utah have been plant
ed on the Panama Pacific Information
al exposition 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 a highway from them.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion decided that the proposed in
crease of 33 1-3 per cent in the trans
portation rate on feeder" cattle and
sheep made by all the western rail
roads was not justified. The commits
sion expects the carriers to cancel the
proposed advances by April Is. If they
should fail to do so voluntarily, the
commission will issue a preemptory
order. Existing rates on feeder" cat
tie are approximately rs per cent Of
the rates on fat cattle.