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Show flashes From due Wire DES MOINES, hi.. July 0. Iowa flood conditions were improved today and the Dos Moines river, which touched the high mark for the season at midnight, was gradually receding, although scores of people were still homeless. TOPEKA. Kan.. July 0. The Kansas river has risen slightly since last night and Its stage is now sixteen feet. All tho tributaries aro falling rapidly. The railroad rail-road washouts have all been repaired and trains are running on the regular schedules. sched-ules. HELENA, July 0. The state board of health today passed a resolution abolishing abolish-ing the quarantine now existing In the state after January J, 1910. The resolution resolu-tion states that as vaccination has been proved to be an absolute preventative against smallpox quarantine Is no longer necessary. SAN FRANCISCO, July 9. The steam schooner V. J. Abler, bound from Seattle to Bethel, Alaska, recently reported to have been seen struggling. In a heavy storm and for whoso safety fears were entertained, arrived safely at her destination destina-tion on July 1, according to a dispatch received today by the Merchants' Exchange. Ex-change. SEATTLE, Wash., July D. The Pacific coast conference of tho Unitarlon churches, which met hero today, was attended at-tended by delegates from nearly every rOmrnli In thu Pnnlflr- Ktiilnc A I Ihn morning session. Mrs. Lloyd Baldwin of San Francisco delivered an address on "Social Power of the Woman's Alliance." Rev. W. T. Brown of Salt Lake City extended ex-tended greetings. NEW YORK, July 9, Charlotte Grnl-ter, Grnl-ter, who has been a voluntary prisoner In the Yorkvillo police court prison for live years. Is insane In Bellevue hospital. When she first asked to bo committed to the prison she adopted a little kitten, which became her sole companion there. Tho cat died recently and the woman grieved over tho matter until she lost her mind, the doctors say, permanently. LIVINGSTON,. Mont.. July 9. The remains re-mains of George B. Scott, a mall carrier, In the employ of the Northern Pacific railroad rail-road at this place, who disappeared Inst Tuesday, were found floating In the Yellowstone Yel-lowstone river this afternoon by M. L. Baker, a ranchman, eighteen miles south of Livingston. Scott Is believed to have leaped into the river with suicidal Intentions Inten-tions while In a state of temporary dementia, de-mentia, VICTORLY, B. C, July 9. breaking all previous records made by other than the Empress liners for the run from Yokohama, Yoko-hama, the steamer Tcucer of the Blue Funnel line reached port this afternoon from Liverpool and the far east after a run of twelve days, twenty-two hours and twenty-one minutes from Yokohama to Victoria, The best previous time was that of her sister Hner Bellerophon, which made the run in thirteen days, one hour anu lorty-nvc minutes last August. SEATTLE, Wash.. July 9. The excursion excur-sion steamer Yosemlto went on the rocks near Bremerton, tho seat of the Pugct. Sound navy yard, at i o'clock tonight while returning with a party of excursionists excur-sionists from a. trip about tho sound. A large hole was stove in tho steamer amidships amid-ships and she was hung up .on the reef with five feet of water in her hold. The 150 passengers were taken off by passing steamers. There was no panic and no one was injured. MISSOULA, Mont., July 9. Ptomaine poisoning caused by tho eating of somo canned fruit resulted In the death this evening of Coralette G. Masten, the 3-yeur-old daughter of Mrs. Dora Masten of this city. Tho child ate some berries for supper and shortly afterward was taken violently 111 with symptoms of poisoning. poison-ing. Mcdlcul aid was summoned, but the child hnd gotten sb -much of the poisonous poison-ous fruit that nothing could be done to save her. SAN FRANCISCO., July 9. After six hours of deliberation, the coroner's lurv Investigating the death of Caroline I3resch, the girl bookkeeper of Gray Bros., who was shot and killed in their office last week, returned a verdict tonight, to-night, charging James 10. Cunningham, the self-confessed murderer, with the crime, and recommending that laws bo framed and adopted that will do away with tho 'lime cheek system" of paying laborers used by Gray Bros DENVER. July 9. According to the figures of the United States weather bureau, bu-reau, the ralnfull ho far this year in Denver and eastern Colorado In general Is In excess of the normal precipitation for the entire year. Some parts of east-oru east-oru Colorado, the land of tho so-called "dry farms," show a rainfall In June alone of more than seven Inches. The total fall In Denver since January 1 Is 14,30 Inches. Slncu July 1 the full has been nearly six Inches. MILES CITY. Mont... July 9. J. V. Sweetzer, president of tho First National bank of Forsythe, was given a hearing today on the charge of grand larceny in stealing 301 head of sheep and taking 3000 pounds of wttol, tho property of E. M. Howard. The defendant was discharged, dis-charged, the evidence showing that Sweetzer had turned over S00 head or sheep to Howard, all that were branded sufficiently plain, and made restitution of tho balance as soon as Howard proved his claim. CHICAGO, July 9. Mrs. Emma E. Kershaw, Ker-shaw, after spending ninety-five days of her six months' self-Imposed sentence In the county Jail, capitulated yesterday In-paying In-paying $50 of tho $195 debt which hnd caused her plight and thus secured her release. Airs. Belle McClelland, who was responsible for the woman's Incarceration Incarcera-tion on a judgment obtained for slander, accepted the compromise settlement. Mrs. Kershaw's husband, who Is wealthy, desired de-sired to pay tho Judgment when It was rendered, but his wife forbade him, preferring pre-ferring to go to Jail rather than give money to Mrs. McClelland. OLYMPIA. Wash., July 9. State Tnsur-anco Tnsur-anco Commissioner John 11. Shlvoly to-day to-day served his answer to Impeachment charges on Attorney General YV. T. Bell. Schlvely challenges the right of sixteen senators to sit as members of the Impeachment Im-peachment court by reason of previously expressed bias and prejudice and opinions of guilt publicly cxpresed by them. He denies any misconduct as Insurance commissioner, com-missioner, and says that all matters complained com-plained of took place. If they did occur, while the Insurance department was under un-der the management and control of Secretary Sec-retary of State Sam II. Nichols. |