The Raymer enterprise., 1912-03-28
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AueTcEouUle, 1Iteeu niles IEOm
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
valuable 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 a move started by the Sal.
vation 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.
post so cents a 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 125 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.
or the 116 men at work In the Sans
Bois mine No. 2, when the property
was WI ecked by an explosion 1O7 have
teen accounted for. Twenty-six Of the
number were rescued alive Zone has
died since). fifty-two bodies have been
recovered and twenty.nine bodies have
been located.
Foreign capital. mostly American
aggregating $l25.OOO.OOO and invested
in the border Mexican states OF Du.
range. Coahuila and Chihuahua, is
non.productiye and threatened by rea.
son Of the revolution, according tc
information in the possession OF El
Paso bankers, fa
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.
ho, a.ontana 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.