The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1907-10-18


town of Miss May Sapp. Whitlow
who is n married man, claims the girl
killed herself because her love for
him was unrequited.
i Railroad Commissioner Williams OF
Nebraska, after an inspection of the
Missouri Pacific railway in that state
pronounces the roadbed unsafe and
recommends restriction of the speed
of trains.
Growers. manufacturers and dealers
in cotton held an inter national confer
ence at Atlanta. Ga aid 500 delegates
from all parts OF tie world were
present.
/ BY cavern in the ballast Quarries
of the Mexican Central railroad at
Victoria 16 laborers were killed and
II others fatally injured.
Up to date there has been Ga cases
and 81 deaths from bubonic plague in
San Francisco.
The Santa Fe Railroad company has
announced a voluntary raise in salary
to all telegraph operators in the en-
ploy of the company.
An explosion caused by the upset
ting of a metal pot at the Standard
Steel works, Butler, Pa, caused the
death of foul men and the Injury of
40 others.
Augustus Hartje has filed with the
superior court n petition to reopen
the famous Pittsburg divorce case, al
leging that new evidence in the form
of letters has been discovered.
| Numerous Montana and Washington
investors have been swindled to the
extent of more than third of mil
lion dollars by sharpers who sailed
the Red Canon placer mine near Le-
ander, Wyoming. The property is
said to be worthless.
| The coroner's jury, which has been
investigating the mysterious death of
May Sapp at Moran, Kan, has rem
dered verdict that the girl was muir
dered. S. f. Whitlow has been arrest
ed charged with the crime.
r. N. Ford has been convicted of
wrecking the bank of Burton. Ohio,
which failed four years ago for $780,
900.
The Gentry Hills Lumber company.
of Pond Creek Ok. has filed charges
of discrimination in rates on lumber
against the Santa Fe and other rail-
| roads before the Interstate Commerce
commission.
The agricultural department of
Washington reports the condition of
corn for October l at rs per cent as
compared with 90.1 year ago.
| In New York recently 125 electric
cars were destroyed by the burning of
the Fourteenth street car barns. The
loss was placed at 100000.
A Belgian syndicate is being formed
to establish a direct line of turbine
| steamers between Antwerp, Boston
and New York.
The Metropolitan street railway
company of New York has been placed
in the hands of a receiver.
| A body supposed to be that of Jack
Simpkins. the long missing member of
the Western Federation of miners,
was recently found in Shoshone coun-
| ty, Idaho.
Mrs. Charles j. Romadke, wife of a
millionaire manufacturer of Milwau-
kee, has been arrested in Chicago
charged with theft. She confessed to
many robberies which have bafIled the
police.
| Two prominent physicians of Paris
created a sensation in the Academy
of Medicine by a report that they had
| succeeded in removing birthmarks
with radium. The operation is en-
| tirely painless and may be applied to
an infant while asleep.
The Santa Fe Railroad company has
contracted for s2,5O0.O00 worth of
ohia wood railroad ties to be deliv-
cred from Hawaii in the next five
years.
| The turbine steamer Lusitania
broke all records on her second west
ward trip from Queenstown to New
York. making the distance in four
days and 20 hours. The fastest days
run was Gil knots.
| The American delegation at The
Hague peace conference has succeeded
in getting favorable committee action
regarding obligatory arbitration.
The attorney general of Kansas is
preparing list of questions the in
surance companies made defendants
in an antitrust suit will be asked to
answer.
The vote of the New York Teleg-
raphers' union to call out the men
from leased wire offices has been
rescinded.
The earnings of the Santa Fe for
the year ended June 80 were 500, $685.
407. an increase of nearly $4,000, 900
over the previous year.
Nine blocks in the business section
of Oxford Neb., were burned over re-
Gently, causing loss of 100000.
A message sent by wireless tele-
| graph from Manila was recorded at
I Port Morien. n. s., e distance of 10 900
miles.
Canes and swagger sticks for young
women is the latest New York fad.
The Nebraska food commission has
notified the Omaha packers that cleo.
margarine sold in tina state must be
stamped with the net weight and must
specify the contents.
Wheat for May delivery recently
| sold in Chicago for $1,11Jh cents n