The Springfield herald., 1907-01-04

In order to prevent the Standard
OIL company from getting control OF
the pipe lines in Indian territory Sec
retary Hitchcock has prepared strin
gent regulations which give the in
terror department complete super
vision of the companies owning the
pipe lines.
w. E. Johnson, special agent sent
from Washington to stop boot
Logging" In Indian territory. recent
ly destroyed 20 consignments OF II.
quor at Muskogee
The G. A. r., of Denver and vicinity
are angry because national guard
commander sold cannon that we're
used at Gettysburg to Chicago junk
dealers. Gov Mcdonald will try to
recover the guns.
A 14-year-old negro boy was run
down and instantly killed in Wash
ington by the touring car of Levi q.
Letter.
One person was killed ahd IA
others injured at Ashtabula, o., when
a fast passenger train struck troll
ley car on grade crossing.
Reinforcements of United States
cavalry have been sent to Santa
Clara province, Cuba, to run down
insurgents who have been raiding the
plantations in that vicinity.
A letter has been sent to Secretary
of State Root by prominent New
Workers calling his attention to con-
ditions in the Congo Free State,
where 1t is asserted fragrant inhu-
manity exists.
Several negroes of the Ninth cavalry
stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
after beating up the conductor and
motorman of an electric car, raced
with the car to the fort where
they were locked up. Several white
women were on the car during the
disturbance.
The Kansas State Teachers associa-
ton held a three days meeting at To-
peka recently. Among the noted
speakers present were w. ]. Bryan, w.
A. White and Richard Outcault.
Fire originating from defective gas
lighting system destroyed three bus
mess blocks in Perry. Ia. recently.
The striking firemen on the South
ern Pacific railroad declare their in
tention to tie up the entire Hartman
system completely
The dead body of Lee b. Soper who
has just completed his second term as
| county clerk of Clay county Missouri,
was found recently in shed In the
rear of his home in Liberty. Despond-
ency over Ill hea!th is believed to have
impellci him to take his life.
Yaqui Indians recently raided Lem
chow, a railroad station in Sonora,
Mex, killing Mexicans and burning
the tent houses. Other depredations
in the same vicinity were reported.
Troops went in pursuit of the Indians.
London was recently covered with
two inches of snow and in the coun-
try districts mail any railway traffic
was interfered with
A negro member of the Twenty-fifth
infantry at FL Reno. Ok. threw the
wife of prominent physician into the
street from the sidewalk. The negro
made his escape. Race feeling is ut
white heat over the occurrence.
Representative Miller, of Kansas,
has turned over to the department of
commerce and labor facts and figures
bearing on several of the s0-called
lumber trusts in the middle west. In
quirfes are to be started simultaneous
ly at Kansas City, Chicago and st.
Louis.
Mayor Rose of Wichita. Kan. and
the &ity of Wichita have been granted
20 days additional time in which 10
tans6er to the custer suits filed against
FtheM by Attorney General Coleman.
President Diaz of Mexico has ordered
the Irrigation company responsible for
the sbrealI in the Colorado river to per
manantly return the water to It's origin
al ehannal or have its charter revoked.
Fl Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and four
sothef, Russian naval officers have been
Fsentshced to death for having surren-
desed to. the japanese at the battle of
fthe Sea of Japan.
George w. Perkins, formerly presi-
snt of the New York Life Insurance
company, and Charles S. Fairchild.'
trustee, have been indicted by grand
jury at New York for forgery in the
third degree. The indictments are the
outerowth of the legislative investisa-
tion of last winter.
| Five merchants of Alton have been
fined for violation OF the Illinois child
| labor law
An earthquake, lasting three hours
| was recorded by the seismographs on
the Isle of Wight and other points
in Europe.
The Chicago Commercial association
is planning to hold the greatest agri-
cultural exposition in that city next fall
that was ever held in this country.
| James j. Jeffries and William
Squires have signed articles for
| fight for the heavyweight champion
ship of the world before the Rhyooite
Athletic club of Nevada next April.
The club offers purse of 100000.
One hundred men and three women
attended the third annual banquet of
the "Bill' club at Excelsior Springs,