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The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
cLEMENcY TO coNVIcTs.
Colorado Board of Pardons Commutes
Four Sentences.

Denver.-Commutati of sentence
was granted to four convicts in the
penitentiary in Canon City by the
State Board of Pardons at meeting
held in the governors office June list.
The persons who will receive clemency
are Lee Bedford, a negro; Paul Bilious,
Alexander Norris and T.. E. Sonnan-
stine.
Bedford was sentenced from Pueblo
county by Judge Dixon on December
IL, 1902. to term of ten to fourteen
years for attempting to kill man OF
his own race. District Attorney Lowe
appeared in behalf of the convict and
put up plea of self-defense for him.
Bedford's petition for communication
was signed by the best colored people
of Pueblo, including several ministers
of the gospel The board commuted
his sentence to four to fourteen years.
Paul Bilious was committed from
Huerfano county by Judge Northcutt,
October 6, 1902, to from eight to four
teen years for criminal assault. There
was very little evidence upon which
to base a conviction, 1t is claimed, and
it was also represented that his alleged
victim, a seven-year-old Mexican girl,
was not injured at his hands. His
term was shortened to six TO fourteen
years.
Alexander Norris was sentenced
from Weld county by Judge J. II.
Boughton. October I, 1899. to fifteen to
twenty years, for assault. mistake
was made in the commitment. the sen
tence twenty to twenty being not
what was intended to give him. The
board shortened the term to ten to
twenty years.
n f. Sonnans:ine was convicted in
Ell Paso county and sentenced by Judge
f. E. Lewis in April, 1905, to five to six
years, for criminal assault. Ihe
mother-in-law and wife of the convict
worked INCREASINGLY 10 bring the case
up before the board. The motherln-
law was present in the governors re-
ception room when the commutation
was announced. The sentence was
committed to fifteen months to three
years.
Numerous applications were refused.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
SUICIDE OF CONGRESSMAN.
Robert Adams, Jr.. Of Pennsylvania,
Shoots Himself.

Washington. Representative Rob
ert Adams of the Second congressional
district of Pennsylvania died at Emerg-
ency hospital in this city as the result
of pistol shot fired through his
mouth into his head, with suicidal in
tent.
The act was committed at the club
chambers of the Metropolitan Club,
where Mr.. Adams had resided for sew
eral years. some time between 6 and Z
O'Clock Friday morning. 1t was not
until s o'clock, however, that he was
found by Horace Clark, one of the ne
gro bellmen.
Robert Adams was one of the most
popular representatives in Congress
and he has been identified with many
matters of worldwide Importance. His
position as ranking member of the ma
jority after the chairman on the House
committee on foreign affairs has, ow-
ing to the i'll health of Mr.. Hit, made
1t necessary for him to largely direct
the business of that important COM
mittee, and he was thus brought into
close contact with President Roosevelt
and Secretaries Hay, Root and Taft
The height before his death Mr..
Adams write the following letter to
Speaker Cannon:
my Dear Mr.. Speaker-The fact
that my personal obligations exceed
my resources is my only excuse for
abandoning the responsible position
occupy in the House. i am willing to
be buried at its expense, but | ask that
no committee be appointed or memo
rial services held. as have never been
in sympathy with the latter CUSTOM
In view of the request contained in
Mr.. Adams, no congressional commit
tee will accompany his body to Phila,
delphia. An officer Of the House will
go. however, and it is understood that
informally several members of the
House will also act as an escort.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
Continuous Business.

The fact that the first might and
day bank in the world opened in New
York n few days ago, and was an as
sured success from the start, is prob
ably of more significance than the av-
erage reader of the news imagines. Ac-
cording to some preternaturally far
sighted observers, the bank that never
closes is the first step tovard the zine
when the machinery OF metropolitan
commercial life. instead of stopping al
sunset, will roll on ceaselessIy day and
night, when three relays of clerks and
artisans and laborers and employers
will succeed each other and the me-
tropolis will become, in every sense of
the world, an all-day and all-nigh.
city. Such a state of affairs, say the
observers, is being forced forward by
the fact that New York's population
grows more and more congested and,
more than any other thing, room is
demanded. If we have our population
working in three relays, three men cal,
work in the space now occupied by
one, and the growing congestion will
be relieved. If such day ever arrives,
says a local correspondent, the city
will really have three separate popu
lations, one of which will be wholly
nocturnal. The thee will have their
separate newspapers, different amuso-
ments, different interests, different
outlooks upon life.7 While one shift
is breakfasting another will be dining;
while one is sleeping, another will be
at the height of its daily activity. But
the Imagination fails at the state of
mind of the housewife whose husband
and sons would be scattered through
the three relays and whose whole life
would be tumble OF conflicting break
fasts and dinners and sleeping hours
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
The Worlds Athletes.

Olympic games" in which the win
ners are youths from America, Aus
tralia and Canada look like very
new thing, but there is really nothing
new about the success of the outlying
districts in these classic contests. 1t
was quite common thing in the an
cient day for athletes from the outly-
ing Hellenic states and the colonies
to take the prizes. and the conditions
that made victories for greater Greece
in those days are precisely the same
as those which win the laurels for
Sheridan, Sherring and Asty to-day.
That is to say, it is the pioneer who
has in him the spirit of the champion
and the tradition of overcoming. 1t
is the new country" that gives the
hope, the eagerness, the elasticity that
makes great athletes.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
PIXIES PEAK MEDAL.
Design Adopted by Pixies Peak Memo
rial Association.

Washington. d. C.-Representative
Brooks, who has been taking active
steps to have the Pixies peak celebra-
tion a success, makes the following an
nouncement:
THE design for the medal which the
government has authorized to be
struck off for the Zebulon Pike Memo
rial Association, to be disposed of in
connection with the celebration next
October. has been completed and ap-
proved by the association. Three
classes of medals will be put. on sale
in jewelry shops and curio stores in
leading towns of Colorado very shortly.
They will be of bronze, silver and gilt.
THE bust Of Lieutenant Pike is dis
played on one side of the medal and
a perfect reproduction of Pixies peak
itself on the reverse side. number of
the medals will be furnished with bars
and pins An order has been given the
mint authorities for 1000 of these med
ais for the first sale. which will begin
probably early in July. The prices will
range from 81 to 50, save for the first
twenty-six Of each class, which will be
numbered and put up at auction. 1t is
predicted that medal number / of each
class will easily bring large sum-"
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
REPORT ON STATEHOOD.
Conference Agreement Reached but
Bill in Danger.

Washington - Conferees on the
statehood bill Saturday signed report
covering all points in dispute, but ex-
ception was taken by the Democrats to
the agreement in relation to Arizona
and New Mexico. They refuse to ac-
cede to the terms of the House bill,
which they say provides elaborate
machinery" for the coming election
"and is intended to coerce voters to
favor joint statehood"
The opposition TO the admission OF
New Mexico and Arizona as one state
has been led from the first by Senator
Foraker. BY the aid of a few Republl-
cans and practically the entire Demo-
cratic strength he has succeeded in
preventing an agreement on any meas
ure that would not give the people OF
either territory the right, at special
election, to repect joint statehood.
BY the agreement signed to-day the
people of these territories can vote
separately on the question of statehood
at the regular election November 9th,
at which time territorial officers of the
proposed new state are elected and n
vote upon the constitution, heretofore
adopted, is also to be had.
When the conference report was pre-
sented TO the Senate Senator Foraker
declared that it was not acceptable to
him and he would do his utmost to de-
feat it. Senator Bailey declared that
the agreement would not be accepted
by the Democrats. The indications
are therefore. that the report will pre-
cipitate another sharp contest in the
Senate.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
BOMB THROWER DEAD.
Would-se Resicide Kills Himself to
Prevent Capture.

Madrid.-The capture and suicide
Saturday night at Torrejon de Ardos
of Manuel Morales. the chief suspect
of the bomb outrage against King Al
fonso and Queen Victoria, adds an
other dramatic chapter to the events
surrounding the royal wedding.
Morales was recognized in the little
town of Torrejon de Ardos. midway be-
tween Madrid and Aloala. A guard
sought to detain him, but Morales,
drawing a revolver, shot the guard
dead Then he turned to flee. but a
number of the inhabitants of the town
were upon him, and turning the revol-
yer upon himself. he sent a shot in the
region of his heart. expiring few min
utes later. Senor Cuesta, proprietor of
the hotel, from the balcony of which
Morales threw the bomb. viewed the
body to-day and completely identified
it as that of his recent guest.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
DISFIGURING SKIN HUMoR.
Impossible to Get Employment, as
Face and Body Were Covered with
Sores-Cured by Cuticura. 4

"Since the year 1894 l have beef0
troubled with very bad case of &C.
zema which l have spent hundreds of
dollars trying to cure, and l went to
the hospital. but they failed to cure
me, and it was getting worse all the
time. Five weeks ago my wife bought
a box of Cuticura Ointment and one
cake of Cuticura Soap, and l am
pleased to say that l am now COM
pletely cured and we'll. 1t was i'm
possible for me to get employment.
as my face, head and body were COW
cred with it. The eczema first ap-
peared on the top of my head, and it
had worked all the way around down
the back of my neck and around to my
throat, down my body and around the
hips 1t itched so l would be obliged
to scratch 1t, and the flesh was raw.
I am now all well. and I will be
pleased to recommend the Cuticura
Remedies to all persons who wish a
speedy and permanent cure of skin
diseases" Thomas NJ. Rossiter. 290
Prospect Street, East Orange, N. ].
Mar. 80, 1905.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
willinp IN oh1;ao

"Give me the city hall. please" said
the lady to the conductor OF the street
car
"1 should be glad to do SO. madam"
replied the conductor, who was a new
man and had been greatly impressed
by the rules of the company, which
insisted upon employees being courte-
GUS and obliging. Il should, indeed,
be glad to do so, but the lady over
there with the green feather in her
hat asked for the city hall before you
got on the car. Is there any other
building that would suit you Just as
well?"-Detroit Free Press.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
WOULD ExPEL SMooT.
Decision of Committee is Against Utah
Senator.

Washington. That Mr.. Smoot is
not entitled 10 his seat in the United
States Senate as a senator from utah
was the decision of the Senate COM
mittee on privileges and elections, de-
clared by a vote of Z to 5.
The decision was on Senator Dubois
resolution offered at the meeting two
weeks ago, which was carried by sena-
tors Burrows, Dolliver. Pettus, over
man, Bailey. Dubois and Frazier Vot-
ing in the affirmative. and Senators
Foraker, Dillingham;. Hopkins, Bever-
idge and Knox in the negative. The
vote of Senator Depew was not cast
Votes We're had on the constitutional
questions of expulsion and exclusion.
after which the members of the com
mittee expressed themselves in favor
of a vote in the Senate at the present
session of Congress.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
PAINTING SPELLS
Cured by Or. Williams Pink Pills, the
Remedy Which Actually Makes
New Blood,

An8mia makes the patient shosS 81
breath SO that there is often a sense Of
suffocation, sometimes there is cough
and the sufferer seems to be going into .
consumption, Mt others there is mur-\
mur Of the heart and heart disease is
feared. In the following case severe
fainting spells were an alarming symp-
tom resulting from "too little blood"
Mrs. George Forester. Of Curtis
street. Watertown, NY, says: "Some
time ago took heavy cold and it left
me in a very weak condition. be-
came worse and worse until finally
had anemia. lost flesh and appetite,
had no color and was subject to fainting
spells. Sometimes they would attack
me suddenly and would fall to the floor
with hardly any warming.
81 had one of our best physicians,
but after lie had been attending me
about n month without any improve
what DIR. Williams Pink Pills would do.
1.-THE pills were well known to me
for, about two years before, members
of my family had taken them with the
best results. soon found that the pills
We're Just what needed for soon be-
gan to notice an improvement. After
had taken them while longer I was en-
tirely cured. and we all believe in DIR.
Williams Pink Pills and recommend
them highly"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills actually make
new blood. They do that one thing and
they do it well. Impoverished blood is
deficient i'll red corpuscles. DIR. Williams
Pink Pills increase the number of these
red corpuscles and in this way send
health and strength to every tissue.
All druggists sell DIR. Williams Pink
Pills or they will be sent by mail, post
paid, Oh receipt of price, so cents per
box, six boxes for $3.50. by the DIR. Will
liams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
FIGHT In MEXICO
MARY KILLED IN STRIKE OF
MINERS AT cANANEA.
MEXICAN TROOPS on GUARD
Labor Troubles in Mines and smeIters
Of Greene Consolidated Copper
Company Lead to Deadly Conflict
Two Americans Among the Dead.

Naco, Ariz.-Many men were shot
down at La Cananea, Mexico, forty
five miles from the international line,
at 5 O'Clock Saturday afternoon. The
wholesale slaughter occurred immedi-
ately after Col. William c. Greene,
president of the Greene Consolidated
Copper Company. had finished speech
to the Mexican strikers, endeavoring
to pacify them.
After firing upon the Americans.
with whom they swore no longer to
compete. the MeXicans began to set
fire to the city and to dynamite the
vast works of the Greene Consoli-
dated.
Thirteen are known to have been
killed in the fighting. They are:
George Metcalf.
William Metcalf, nephew Of
George
Ten Mexican strikers.
One Mexican child.
A. S. Dwight, general manager OF
the Cananea Consolidated Company,
was slightly wounded. A few other
Americans and scores of Mexicans
were wounded.
A Cananea dispatch Tuesday says:
Scarcity of guns and cartridges among
the striking Mexican miners and Wig
orous resistance by the Americans and
a portion of the city police force alone
prevented u wholesale slaughter here
yesterday.
Colonel Kosterlitsliy. commander OF
the Mexican rurales in this district,
arrived at Z o'clock last night with a
strong force, and the rioters fled to the
hills.
Colonel Kosterlitsky threw out
guards and with the aid of the city po-
lice has been rounding up suspects all
day. There was some desultory firing
during the night. but since morning
the town has been quiet.
But two Americans were killed yes
terday, though several were slightly
wounded. Ten strikers are known TO
have been killed and many wounded.
Governor Ysabel of Sonora arrived
to-day noon with 275 American rife
men from Naco. When the governor
reached Naco the Americans rendered
their services. He told them that II
trey would forget their American citi-
zcnship temporarily and promise to
obey his orders implicitly, he would
take them to Cananea. They assented
with cheers and We're at once ordered
on board his train.
The governor has assumed supreme
command here and .the mines and
sInelters will soon be in full operation.
The property damage is not serious.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
Rural Water Supply.
COLORADO.

When great sums of money are be-
Ing expended by city governments that
the inhabitants of towns may have a
sanitary water supply 1t seems strange
that the supply in rural towns should
receive little or no attention. This lat.
ter population may seem relatively in
significant, but according to the last
census it comprises about 40,000,000
souls. This means that the 40.000,000
people are drinking the water most
available without thought of Its san
itary condition. These various sources
OF supply, whether wells, springs, or
small streams, are similarly unreliable
for furnishing drinking water. The
statistics of mortality in the country
are very indefinite, but even these
show that the rural population is not
as free from illness as it should be.
And though everywhere the rural
death rate is lower than tho urban
death rate. yet the lowering in the
country has not been as great as in the
city. An examination of typhoid sta
tistics shows that the death rate of 9TH
er diseases is generally lower in the
country than in the city, but the prev
alence of typhoid is almost equal to
II not greater In the rural districts
than in the cities. Several instances
have been reported which show the ru
raj typhoid rate to be ten times great
er than the urban rate for the same
district. To partcularize a certain dis
trict in central Pennsylvania proves
this fact. 1t is made up of rural pop
ulation with one hundred inhabitants
to the square mile. 1t is region of
fine farms, wild mountains and woods;
country residences and picnic groves
And in this valley there has been as
much typhoid fever as in the city of
Philadelphia. Sad as this condition is,
there seems to be no remedy for it.
The sources of a city water supply are
few and the city government easily
cotnrols the conditions affecting it.
But what can be done when the sources
OF supply are numered by the thou
sands? A mint of money and an army
of chemists would not be sufficient to
give the same care to the country sup
ply that Is given to that of the city.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
Deaf and Blind Graduates.

Colorado Springs. Colo.-The gradu-
ating exercises OF the Colorado School
for the Deaf and Blind were held on
the night of June 1st at the institute,
nine graduates receiving diplomas at
the hands of Governor B. B. Brooks OF
Wyoming.
The graduates were Alfred Bates,
Ella Duffey, Mabel J. johnson and
Edith NJ. Williams of Denver; John
C. Closson. La Junta: Stephen II. jan
ovick, Querida; Baxter w. Mosey,
Evanston, Wyoming; Edna p. Will
liams, Steamboat Springs, and Nellie
Mccormick, Colorado Springs.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
InterestinE Items Gathered from All
parts of the World COndensea
Into Small Space for the
Denent of Our Readers.
persOnn nj.

DIR. Mary X. Benedict, formerly con-
nected with the Warrensburg, Mo-.
state normal, has been appointed pres
ident of the new women's college at
Amherst, Va, at salary of $4,000
year.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas will deliver
an address before the National Editor
ial association at Indianapolis. Ind.
1t is reported General Nogi has wired
asking Russia II it is true that Gen.
Stoessel, who commanded Port Arthur
has been sentenced to death for sur
rendering the fortress adding that in
his opinion the capitulation was jus
tifiable
James E. Scripps, founder and for
many years publisher of the Detroit
Evening News, is dead at his home in
that city.
President Roosevelt delivered the
Decoration day address before the
Army and Navy union at Portsmouth,
Va
A rumor gained currency in Pana-
ma that Chairman Shonts of the canal
commission was to resign. Mr..
Shonts who is now in this country,
has registered an emphatic denial OF
the report.
Michael Davitt. the noted Irish par
liamentary leader. died recently in
Dublin hospital of blood poisoning.
Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural
department, after conference at the
White house, announced in positive
terms that the president would not
sanction amendments radically chang
ing the meat inspection bill, nor
would he tolerate new measure.
In telegram to the Associated
press A. j. Cassatt denies that he in
tends resiening as president of the
Pennsylvania railroad company.
George w. Skies. manager of the
Butte. Mont, Miner. formerly of the
ST. Paul Globe, is dead at his home
in Butte.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
Congressional.

Both houses of congress adjourned
over Decoration day.
The statehood conferees have agreed
to fix the capital of the new state of
Oklahoma at Guthrie until 1915.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
has been completed and reported to
the house. 1t is the lars st sundry
civil bill ever reported. carrying s94,-
3iG,573. of which S25. AGO .991 is for
work on the Panama canal, which
will be returned to the treasury when
the canal bonds, already authorized,
are sold
The senate committee on privileges
and elections has declared by a vote
of seven to FIVE that Reed Smoot is not
entitled to his seat in the United States
senate as senator from Utah. The
senate as whole will vote on the
question before the close of the pres-
ent session.
Representative Sulzer, of New York,
has introduced resolution in the
house calling on the president for the
Neill packing house report and any
facts relating to same in his possess
sion If not incompatible with the pub
lie interest.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
SkidQooi

The young man was trying to think
of something else to say when the
young woman suddenly spoke up.
by the way, Mr.. Lingerlong," she
said. 81 tried to call you up by tele-
phone this morning, but didn't get
any response"
You tried to call me up by tele-
phone?"
Yes; l wanted to ask you ques-
ton"
why, I haven't any telephone numn
ber"
20, yes you have. Double six tour
seven"
The young man made rapid mental
calcule,iin.
"Twenty-'hree!" he gasped. reaching
for his ht.t.-Chicago Tribune.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
Sympathy With the Strikers.

Denver.-The convention of the
Western Federation of Miners has
gone on record as upholding the Mexi-
can miners at La Cananea in their
struggle for an advance in wages. The
following resolution was presented and
unanimously adopted:
BE it resolved, That, while we de
plore the loss of life and property, the
Western Federation of Miners. in con
vention assembled, send greetings to
the Mexicans. trusting that their ef-
forts for higher standard of living
will be crowned with success"
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08

Officials of the New York city ad-
ministration have at their disposal
two dozen automobiles, which cost the
city originally over $4,000, nearly
half as much being required annually
for their maintenance. 1t is believed
that by the end of this year the num-
ber of city owned autos will be in
creased to so and inquisitive alder
men are limiting that this is an alto
gether unnecessary expense especially
as some of the officials use the ma.
chimes in going to the races and in at
tending to other private affairs.
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
Miles Saws. ~ Told You So."

Kansas City.-Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
who is here on his way to Colorado to
address the State University students,
said tonight:
"The disclosures about beef and
other packing house products now be-
ing exploited are no news to me. i
knew it seven years ago. | told what
knew then. Had the matter been taken
mp at that time thousands Of lives
would have been saved. The adultera-
ton of food products is the colossal
crime of the times. believe that 5000
United States soldiers lost their lives
because of adulterated, impure, pois-
onous meat"
The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08

In describing a wedding an Indian
Territory exchange announced that one
of the bridesmaids wore "a velvet out
fit mile long, and 16 rows of but
tons ON her gloves. Her hair was dead
yellow. tied up like bun and had a
lot of vegetables in it"