| Show carbondale DESTROYED BY FLAMES glenwood springs colo july 4 A telephone message from carbondale fifteen miles south of here reports tho explosion of a gasoline tank late afternoon which set anre to the building in which the tank was located the alre quickly spread and four buildings were consumed fire then cut off communication by telephone the message stated that two people had been injured in a fighting the names it la feared that the whole town has been destroyed as the buildings were mostly frame carbondale isa coal mining town of about 1000 inhabitants SCOTTY BUYS SPECIAL TRAIN five thousand dollars for his chicago ticket barstow july aw scott the death valley plunger who Is supposed to have made a wonderful gold strike in the mountains above this ehas sprung a brand new sensation in his freak career from poor and obscure prospector to gilded plutocrat scott has just made a deposit of with the santa fe agent here to cover the price of a special train to take him to chicago save for a boon companion or two he will travel alons the train will be made up of a special pullman and a buffet diner one of the stipulations he made in closing the contract was that the diner should be loaded with the very best edibles and liquors that money could buy it is likely to cost him nearly 1000 for his little private whirl across the country on a hurry up schedule scott could have secured a special car and have traveled like a wall street magnate for but he scorned the suggestion he must have the whole thing coaches engine crew and right of way all to himself or it would be no go ho declares that he has sufficiently burnt up the village of los angeles with his golden flood of bonzas and now has designs on chicago he uenta darkly at what he may do to new york should the town of chicago pall upon his appetite for slinging money the eccentric whirlwind money does not even pretend to have business in chicago he says that the trip is a little diversion nothing more he chuckles with a keen joy at the gloom of mourning which will pervade certain quarters of los angeles which he has been stirring into strenuous cupidity for several weeks past he grows hilarious at thought of the weeping and gnashing of teeth which will sweep the local horizon when the hangers on at hotels and cheap graft ers of the streets and the curbstone curb stone warmers who fondly imagined they had made a hit with him discover that he has gone off by himself and is spending his golden harvest elsewhere KANSAS BANK TROUBLES kansas city mo july 4 the creditors committee so called which was named late yesterday to form some plan for continuing the defunct dev alln concern will meet at kansas city late today C S jobes president of the american national bank of kansas city who is chairman of the committee stated today that the plans of the committee as formulated at this time include the drafting of a ug to creditors of a basis upon which an agreement for the future management of the devlan estate can be made this statement mr jobes said probably would be mailed to all creditors tonight he was not in a position to state in advance what suggestion the statement would contain |
