The Holly chieftain., 1912-09-13
CONDENSED RECORD or THg
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAVINGS. D oiM q .. ACHIEVE.
MENTs. sUFFERiNes. HOPES
AND FEARS or MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union news Service.
WESTERN.

Two men were burned to death in
the Central hotel at Bellevue, Idaho.
Five Mexicans were killed by United
States soldiers ON the Lang ranch. fiji
ty miles east Of Douglas. Ariz.
Just because her husband hugged
her, Mrs. Laura Seaman of Fort
Worth. Tex. filed suit for divorce.
Positive orders for the Ninth cav
der were received at Fort Russell.
Rain storms sweeping California
from the Oregon line far to the south
are the heaviest at this season for
sixty-three years.
Chicago and the Middle West was
still baking under terrific heat while
frosts we're being reported from Idaho,
Nevada and Utah.
Miss Grace Riley, aged twenty, died
at Erie. Kan. as the result of being
struck behind the left ear by a foul
ball at ball game.
Col. H. M. Minor. G. A. R. depart
ment commander of Colorado and Wy
oming, was stricken with form OF
vertigo at Los Angeles.
Aqua Prieta, the Mexican town op-
posite Douglas. Ariz., is expecting an
attack by more than 500 rebels who
are marching toward the border.
Mrs. Jennie Crocker Whitman of
California. accompanied by carload
Nf h,,p1 oh
Omaha en- route to New York City.
The Ninth cavalry. which has been
stationed at Fort d. A. Russell at
Cheyenne. Wyo., is moving to the Mex
ican border, on orders from Washing
ton.
Gov Oswald West of Oregon issued
a proclamation notifying liquor deal
ers that they must put on identifying
mark upon liquid shipments into dry"
territory.
The greatest irrigation feat in the
United States now under construction
is the Eagle dam, a portion of the Ele-
phant Butte irrigation system. 125
miles from Ell Paso. Texas.
Nearly 1000 men in stripes paid
tribute to the memory of the late Gen
eral William Booth, founder of the
Salvation Army. at memorial services
held at San Quentin prison. Abraham
Ruef delivered the main address.
Failing in his appeal to the Circuit
Court of Appeals, Charles L. Hyde. a
Pierre, 8. D., banker reputed to be
the wealthiest man In South Dakota,
must serve one year and three months
in the Leavenworth penitentiary and
pay a fine $1,000 for using the mails
for fraudulent purposes.
The New Mexico Democratic State
convention at Albuquerque renominat-
ed Congressman Harvey B. Ferguson
and selected Lieut.. Gov. E. c.
DeBaca of San Miguel county; ]. H.
Latham Of Sierra county and F. D.
Stennis of Eddy county, as candidates
for presidential electors.
Strewn with flowers and rejoicing
in the glory OF the sunshine of a per-
feet California day, 100 veterans of the
department Of Colorado and Wyoming,
G. A. R., arrived at La Grande sta
tion, to be greeted by reception com.
mittee Of the Los Angeles G. A. R. and
Women's Relief Corps.
Vilhtalmar Stefansson, after an abb
sence of more than four years in Arc
tic exploration. returned to Seattle by
steamer from Nome, Alaska, and told
of his probable discovery Of the de-
scendants Of the Scandinavian colon
lists OF Greenland, who were last heard
of in 1412, and who, when trade with
Greenland was resumed in the seven
teenth century, had disappeared.