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The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02
GENERAL NEWS.

Cholera is still raging at Manila.
pert, who lives in Berlin announces
that he has made an arrangement with
Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplan-
list. to construct a seventy-five-horse-
power motor for use on the Wright ae-
roplane This motor, it is said, will
double the speed of the Wright ma
chine.
After an all day race Tuesday three
highwaymen accused of holding up B.
n. Devinsky, night telegraph opera
tor at Granfield, Kansas, were cap
tured by posse of $50 farmers. Tie
three men followed Deyinsky when he
left the depot Monday morning, robbed
him and left him gagged and bound
to a telegraph pole. After repeated eff
forts, Devinsky freed himself and gave
the alarm. In the chase the farmers
pressed automobiles and horses into
use.
Cholera has invaded the winter pal
ace of the Gear at St. Petersburg and
other palaces of the Russian imperial
family.
A. Russell Peabody, one of the at
torneys of Harry X. Thaw, died sud
denly Wednesday at Babylon, L. l., of
Pneumonia.
1t is reported from German South
west Africa that the native leader, ST.
mon Copper. again is on the warpath,
and the white inhabitants of the east
ern division of the protectorate are in
danger.
Because of a strike of quarrymen,
which started recently. all manufac-
turing departments of the Atlantic
Portland Cement Company. at Hannibal,
Mo, ceased operations Saturday night.
The shutdown is caused by lack OF
material and affects $500 men.
At Lemans. France, Monday, Wilbur
Wright made a continuous flight in his
aeroplane of nearly sixty-one miles, be-
ing in the air for one hour and thirty
one minutes. The performance was
witnessed by 10000 enthusiastic spec
tators.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02
AN EPITOME OF
LATE live NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FIR ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. OoiNGs, ACHIEVE
MENTS, sUFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

The Washington State Supreme
Court has upheld the state law prohib-
iting the sale of cigarettes and cigar
ette papers.
Present Indications are that fully
l 200 delegates will attend the nine
teenth annual Transmississippi Com
mercial Congress, which will meet in
San Francisco from October 9th to
10th.
Upon learning of his sons candidacy
for presidency of the sophomore class
of the University of Nebraska William
j. Bryan expressed his displeasure, and
William j. Bryan, Jr,, Immediately an
nounced his withdrawal from the race.
1t has been discovered that Finland
ers and Poles in Shoshone county, Ida
ho, have been mistaking marriage Ii
censes for marriage certificates and
dispensing with the marriage cere-
mony altogether.
Nearly an acre of wooden buildings
on the north side of the Boston &
Maine tracks in Chelsea, Massachu-
setts. which escaped the conflagration
of April 18th, were swept away Mon
day by another disastrous fire. entail
ing loss of about 100000.
The Montana State Board of Land
Commissioners have granted the
Northern Pacific right OF way for a
Eew line of railroad from Glendive to
Mondali in eastern Montana. 1t will
traverse the route of the new govern
ment canal.
httrn 20 ,,.t hrt
total of 4,575,i3S running bales con-
sumed in the United States during the
year ending August 31st last, COM
pared with 4,9S4,93G for 1907. The to-
tai number of cotton consuming spin
dies was 25,s11,6S1 for 1906
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad at Chicago announces the in
auguration October Sd of local service
to Butte, Montana, on the new Pacific
coast extension. The distance by the
new line from Chicago to Butte is CIV
en- as 1873 miles, and from St Paul
as lib miles.
A Japanese performer of the Sells
Floto circus was killed and two per-
sons injured Wednesday night at Hold
enville Okla, when severe electrical
and windstorm broke over the circus
tent. Hundreds of spectators rushed
panic stricken from the tents which
were demolished.
The will of the late John V. Farwell,
pioneer merchant and philanthropist
of Chicago, was iiled for probate Mon
day, disposing of an estate of S1,7I5.-
600 equally among his five children.
The Moody Bible Institute, in which
the decedent took n deep interest, is
given en- annuity of $4,000 for ten
years.
President Winchell of the Rock ISL
and railway. in an interview at Seattle,
declared that he was in favor of an
interstate commerce commission hav-
ing jurisdiction over all the roads in
the United States and he was in favor
of abolishing the state commission, for
no two states have the same regula-
tions.
Plunging from the east Sprague ave
enue trestle in Spokane, almost at the
same spot where o. n. Collins lost his
life in a similar accident two weeks be-
fore, an automobile belonging to j.
w Snyder fell sixty feet Thursday
night, killing the owner and severely
injuring two other occupants, w. IL.
Walker of Tacoma and Miss May
Thompson.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02
Women's Clubs Election.

Colorado Springs.-The Colorado
Federation of Women's Clubs closed
Its sessions Friday after electing the
following officers:
President-Mrs. Harry L. Hollister,
Pueblo.
First Vice President-Mrs. Edwin A.
Sawyer, Colorado Springs.
Second Vice President-Mrs. A. r.
McLain, Canon City.
Recording Secretary-Mrs. T. B.
Pyles, Fountain.
Corresponding Secretary-Mrs c. D.
Ray, Pueblo.
Auditor-Mrs. w. S. Morgan, Trini.
dad.
Treasurer-Mrs. Amanda Herr Lew.
is, Denver.
General Federation Secretary-Mrs.
Sadie E. Flint, Denver.
District Presidents-Northea Mrs
J. r. Rigdon, Timnath southeast,
Mrs. w. ]. Van Buskirk, Rocky Ford I;
western slope, Mrs. Sprigg Shackle,
ford, Grand Junction.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02
CALL FOR FULL
mine REPORTS
STATE COMMISSIONER WANTS
STATEMENT OF ALL COLO
RADIO MINING PROPERTIES
REQUIRED BY STATUTE
STANDING OF DISTRICTS TNFLU-
ENcED BY THE REPORTS,
WHICH ARE KEPT ON FILE

Denver-T ]. Dalzell, state COM
missioner of mines, knowing the i'm
portance of having a complete record
showing the condition of all mines in
the state that are being worked, has
sent out blanks to every mine oper-
ator in Colorado, with the request that
the recipient obey the statutes and
make report on the essential points
necessary to condensed record of
each property. The general assembly
of 1899 made law that such reports
be made out each year and sent 20 the
bureau of mines, but Commissioner
Dalzell states that only about one in
every ten blanks sent out Is filled in
and returned.
Hundreds of letters are received by
the bureau of mines from all over the
world, asking for information on the
condition of certain properties. 1t is
the intention of the commissioner to
compile and index all reports sent in.
and subsequently to keep them in
book form, where they will be acces-
sible to the public.
The importance of such a record
can hardly be stated to strongly. The
mines of Colorado have worldwide
reputation, which must be maintained
and nothing can do that more effect
ually than simply the publishing of
the actual conditions existing in the
mines of the state at the present
time. In discussing the matter, Com
missioner Dalzell said:
''If the parties interested in the sew
eral districts of the state could be
made to realize that on the reports
received from their districts, to a
great degree depends the favorable or
unfavorable reports as 20 the number
of men employed in their districts,
the number of mines being worked
and so on. they would doubtless be
more interested in seeing that the
blanks were properly filled out, and
promptly returned to this office.
For the purpose of securing as IA
vorable a showing from each district
as possible, each person should make
it his individual work to see that every
mine owner and manager sends to the
bureau of mines for blanks, and have
them neatly and correctly filled out,
showing the name of the mine or
Lining company together with the
names of officers, owners of the
property and managers of same"
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Capt George ii. Scott, medical corps,
is relieved from duty at Fort Logan
and ordered to duty in the Philippines
division.
The President has decided not to
give permission for the establishment
of wireless telegraph station on the
Washington monument.
The little daughter of David CHS
holm of Eagles Nest, Alaska, was car
ried away by huge American eagle
the middle of last July and three weeks
later its torn and mangled body was
found in the eagles nest and the bird
was captured John Kalem of Seattle
bought the eagle and shipped it to Sc
attic, where it has been on exhibition
in his store. State Game Warden Hen
ry Rief has ordered the release of the
captive bird.
Indemnity school land selections by
the state of Wyoming, amounting to
2,6i0 acres in the Sundance land dis
trict and embraced in clear list number
7, have been approved to the state.
The unappropriated public lands in an
area of about 53,775 acres which were
recently excluded from the Montezu-
! ma national forest in Colorado will be-
come subject to settlement on and
after Dec. 10, 1908, and to entry, etc,
Jan "A, 1909, at the local land offices
at Durango and Montrose, Colo.
| Col. f. F. Stewart of the Coast ar
| tillery, whose case, because of his de-
tail to the ungarrisoned post at Fort
| Grant. Arizona has been before the
public for some time, has been Or
dered to appear before the retiring
board at Washington, d. c., where he
will be examined as to his disability
its nature and whether it was incurred
| in the line of duty. A board at Fort
Huachuca, Arizona, where he appeared
recently for the purpose of taking the
test ride of ninety miles directed by
President Roosevelt. reported that the
colonel was practically blind in one
| eye and that. because of this and the
additional fact that he had heart trou-
| BILE. he was disabled for military ser
vice. Privilege TO take the ride was
denied Colonel Stewart, the examining
board in its report declaring that to
do so wou!d endanger his life.
President Roosevelt has declined to
deliver an address at an educational
/ meeting in Philadelphia on the
ground that he will not make any
speeches during the presidential cam
paign.
President Roosevelt in letter to
William b. Mckinley, chairman of the
Republican congressional committee,
made public Sunday, appeals to citizens
to join with the national Republican
| committee and the congressional COM
mittee in movement to elect william
II. Taft as President and Republican
Congress to support him.
| President Roosevelt returned to
| Washing, IN September 23d from his
summers vacation at Oyster Bay. He
was the picture of health and vigor.
class A" church. the first of its
kind in the state, If not in the country,
is to be erected by the Episcopalians
of the fashionable Burlingame colony,
according to a San Francisco dispatch,
The edfce will be proof against both
fire and earthquake and will be in the
carly English Gothec style. A building
fund of 100000 has already been sub.
scribed.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Congressman Longworth has been
renominated by acclamation by the Re-
publicans of the first Ohio district.
Mrs. Eliza Bragg. widow Of Maj.
Gen. Braxton Bragg of the Confederate
army died at New Orleans, September
25th.
Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia has
signed the convict lease bill, which
hereafter prohibits the leasing of fel-
ons except by the consent of the gov
ernor and prison commission.
AT the Chicago Association of Com
merce banquet, October 7th, at which
William ]. Bryan and William II. Taft
will meet, there will also be present
the leaders of other political parties If
they accept the invitations sent them.
Miss Annie Peck, the American
mountain climber, who recently sue
ceeded in reaching the summit of Mt.
Huascaran, has arrived at Lima. Peru.
in good health. Miss Peck had sew
eral narrow escapes during her adven-
turous climb.
Captain Van Schaik, convicted
commander of the steamer General
Slocum, by the burning of which more
than four years ago, nearly 100 excur-
sionists lost their lives, is now skipper
of little river Graft between the new
Sing Sing prison site and the prison
pier at Ossining.
Attorney General Bonaparte, in an
swer to Mr.. Bryans structures, says
that both the President and himself
have been anxious to land a criminal
trust magnate In jail. but the right op-
portunity has not presented itself, and
he did not wish to give the defendant
the benefit of an unmerited white
wash.
Wilbur Wright, the American aero
pianist, made Il flight at the Field of
Auvours Friday morning that lasted
thirty-six minutes and fourteen sec
ton. He covered twenty-five miles
at an average height of forty-five feet.
He came to the ground because one of
the gasoline tanks, which had not been
firmly closed, leaked.
The publishing board of the Colored
National Baptist association, under the
management of II. II. Boyd. will es-
tabish factory at Nashville, Ten
nessee, for the manufacture of negro
dolls. The association objects to the
uncomely and deformed features OF
negro dolls as at present manufactured
and heartily endorses the new factory.
President Roosevelt has given to the
press letter written by William II.
Taft in 1907 to friend in Ohio, in
whicn Mr.. Taft declared that he would
emphatically object to compromise
resolution in the Ohio convention en-
dorsing him for the presidency and
Senator Foraker for reelection to the
Senate. Mr.. Taft wrote: 81 don't care
for the presidency If it has to come by
compromise with Senator Foraker, or
anyone else, in matter of principle.
He has opposed the vital policies OF
the administration and in his opposi-
ton has seized upon and magnified an
important but incidental matter to
embarrass the administration, using In
this without scruple. blind race preju-
dice to accomplish his main purpose.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Greeley men are interested in a
proposition to bring lumber from Old
Mexico and are about to incorporate a
company to take valuable timber from
a $4,000 acre tract near the City OF
Mexico.
Work is being rushed on the Stand
ley Lake irrigation system and it is
expected that by the first of the year
10000 acres of land will be brought un-
der irrigation. BY the progress being
made, total of 100000 acres of arid
land lying north and northwest of Den
YER will be irrigated in 1910.
Head Master c. B. Dyke of the State
Preparatory school at Boulder. reports
Is per cent. increase in attendance this
week over that of a like period last
year, and estimates that the attendance
will reach close to 600.
]. II. Empson of Longmont, who con.
templated opening a canning factory
at Fort Collins this fall, has given up
the enterprise for the present. 1t is
stated that the peas raised at thirty
experiment plants were found up to
the standard.
Governor Buchtel has appointed Geo,
w. Cook. Robert W. Bonynge and War
ren A. Haggott delegates to the Lake
to-Gulf Deep Waterway Association
congress to be held at Chicago Oct. 7th,
Sth and 9th this year.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Hon. George w. Honey, National
Chaplain U. v. u, ex-Chaplnin Fourth
Wisconsin Cavalry, ex-Treasurer State
of Wisconsin, and ex-Quartermaster
General State of Texas G. A. r., writes
from 100 First St., N. E., Washington,
ID. c., as follows:
II cannot too highly recommend your
preparation for the relief of catarrhal
troubles In their various forms. Some
members of my own family have used
it with most gratifying results. When
other remedies failed, Peruna proved
most efncacious and cheerfully certi-
fly to it's curative excellence"
Mr.. Fred l.. Hebard, for nine years a
leading photographer of Kansas City,
Mo, located at the northeast corner of
18th and Grand Aves., cheerfully gives
the following testimony: ''Itis proven
fact that Peruna will cure cakarrh and
Ia grippe, and as tonic 1t has no equal
nEuagists have tried to make me take
something else just as good, but Peru
ma is good enough for me-"
Pe-ru-na in Tablet Form.
For two years DR.. Hartman and his
assistants have necessarily labored to
create Peruna in tablet form, and their
strenuous labors have just bee n crowned
with success. People who object to
liquid medicines can now secure Peru
ma tablets, which represent the solid
medicinal ingredients Of Pcruna.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02
Heavy yield Of Potatoes.

Greeley, Colo.-The biggest yield of
potatoes so far this year is claimed to
be that of Charles Smith of Kersey.
From thirty acres he gathered nearly
$4,000 bushels or over 400 bushels an
acre. He will receive for his crop be-
tween $500 and $4,000. Six potatoes
picked haphazard from his field
weighed 13k pounds.
Dealers say there is a big demand
for Greeley potatoes farther east than
ever before and that the Oklahoma de-
mand is rivaling that of Texas. Gin
cinnati and Chicago men have con-
tracted for as much of the crop as can
be spared, and one firm has promised
ten carloads a week to Chicago dur
ing October. r. B. Rough shipped six
teen carloads to Oklahoma Thursday,
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02
Tn Rouob for the Cows.

Mrs. Rorer. of cookbook fame. tells
of seeing maid drop and break a
beautiful platter at dinner recent
ly, says Everybody's Magazine. The
host did not permit tritle like this
to ruffie him in the least.
These little accidents happen most
every day." he said, apologetically.
You see, she isn't a trained waitress.
She was dairymaid originally. but
she had to abandon that occupation
on account of her inability to handle
the COWS without breaking their
horns"
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02
Fears PLAQUE Infection.

Washington-Tha the Gulf and At
lantic coast of the United States are in
danger of an infection of the bubonic
plague was the serious note of warning
sounded here by DR.. N. X. Foster of
California, before the delegates in at
tendance upon the the twenty-third
annual meeting of the conference OF
state and provincial boards of health
of North America 81 firmly believe
said DR.. Foster, ''that the United States
will become generally infected, not
from California. but from ports having
communication by water"
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

The decent element of South Da-
kota seems to be making a struggle
to rid the state of its divorce odium.
But while the easy ways of loosing
the marriage bond brings a revenue
into the state, the matter will be hard
to fight. Temptation should be re-
moved from states to make money in
this way by a uniform federal divorce
law. Until that is done the evil is
not likely to be corrected, as one state
has always the power TO abrogate the
laws of another, and people cannot be
prevented from living where and for
what purpose they please.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

A story comes from a New York
village of a rooster which flew upon
the steering-gear of an automobile
while the hens followed and settled in
the tonneau. The rooster. while try
ing to keep his balance. started the
machine, and the car with its fowl
occupants went of, one of the hens
settling on the rubber bulb OF the
horn sounding the "honk" to warn
the startled villagers. The fish-story
experts of the indianapolis Star, de-
clares that paper, are down in the
depths at this new development in
motor tales.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Forest fires are among the regular
annual sufferings of the eastern states.
The dry weather this year has made
the loss unusually heavy in New Eng
land. New York and other states. Not
only valuable timber, but farm houses.
planted fields and precious forest loan
have been destroyed. Scientific for
estry and wise legislation are neces-
sary to protect our trees against the
combined armies of flames, bugs and
unintelligent lumbermen.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

A Pennsylvania mans horse went
lame. When he started to investigate
the trouble he found n stickpin with
a diamond worth $3.50 in the animals
hoof, which had caused the trouble
AS. the horse showed signs of distress
In another foot that was examined
and n flve-dollar gold piece extracted
PaEsdoSically to pick up gold with
one foot and diamonds with the other
is anything but lame performance.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

The formation in Germany of com
pany. with capital of more than
s6,250,000, to lay cable between
Germany and South America is, of
course, not n violation of the Monroe
doctrine, but it suggests that the Uni
ted States ought to be making efforts
to increase and facilitate its business
with South America, too.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

The retirement of Capt. Watt, com
mander of the Lusitania and commo
dore of the Cunard fleet. having
reached the age limit. comes oppor-
tunely. His ship is at the head Of the
ocean greyhound class. That's glory
enough
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02
A Good Witness.

Bystander-Did you see 'ow it 'ap-
pened, lady?
Fair Motorist-Oh, dear no! / was
asleep just then.
Bystander-Ah then you'll be able
to prove lullaby.-Punch.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

High winds during the summer have
blown enormous numbers of crabs out
OF the Chesapeake bay into the ocean.
Fortunately the oysters are naturally
anchored.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

By chasing and holding in team OF
runaway blooded horses and saving
three lives Kermit Roosevelt is quail
flying for shooting lions in Africa. 1t
is strenuous training after his IA
Tiers own heart.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Not one of the 10000 depositors in
13 banks and trust companies which
closed their doors in the panic last
fall will lose a dollar. Banking insti-
tutions in the United States are evil
IDENTITY conducted on pretty sound
business principles.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Some friend of Castro's should call
him mp by ong-distance telephone and
let him know that in this mixup with
Queen Wilhelmina the sympathies of
all the bystanders are with the royal
lady
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

The chief of the secret service po
lice of Sydney says that no better-be-
haved. manlier lot of fellows has ever
come under his observation than the
American sailors. The nation is
proud of its jolly tars who are SO
well upholding its prestige.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

A West Virginia magistrate prides
himself on the fact that he is the only
Justice of the peace in the state to
hold court in his bare feet. In most
other places it is the head which
counts in the position.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Kermit is sure TO bring back some
remarkable photographs from Africa
II only he doesn't get 80 excited that
he forgets to snap the shutter.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Don't misunderstood the announce
ment that Mr.. Edward w. Demins is
going to paint the Ojibways In north
ern Canada. What Mr.. Deming really
Is going to paint Is canvas.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

A sober. elderly person certifes in
the New York Sun that she has seen
old mosquitoes helping or pushing the
young ones through the window
screens. Could there be more touch
Ing Illustration of parental interest?
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Now 1t is a revolution which is on
the Persian carpet. The movement
has just camped. apparently perma-
nently. upon the Turkish rug.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Berlin must be getting SO used to
seeing airships that before long the
Berliners will decline to strain their
necks.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

A New Jersey man won't pay his
bills because his wife is out of work.
Some charity organization should look
up this pitiful case.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Indiana steer ate dynamite; enraged
owner threw brick at him. Much
noise. Result, bum steer.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Some men ought never to have
been born" says the Philadelphia In
quirer. How true!
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

The human body is rs per cent
water. says scientist. the other 2'
per cent. being spirit. we presume.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

In these modern days the raging
of the dog star" is not taken Siriusly.
The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02

Castro Is defiant. So was the bull
that 'rled to throw the locomotive off
the track