The Springfield herald., 1908-10-30
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WESTERN NEWS.

The proposed ordinance 10 oust
gambling was defeated in Reno, Ne
yada, Saturday at a special election
by vote of 1,77G against and 1910
for, a majority of 5GG.
Shippers should remember that un-
der the new western freight classifi-
cation rules old marks must be re-
moved or effaced before packages,
bundles or pieces will be accepted for
transportation.
Experts appointed by the attorney
general to investigate shortage OF
$4,000 in the San Francisco city
treasury have reported that the total
amount of the shortage Is 100000, of
which $4,000 belonged to the state.
Mrs. w. L. Tucker, who came from
Washington to Chicago to prosecute
her husband, Col. w. F. Tucker, on
the charge of wife abandonment, has
become convinced that he is now in his
last illness and has returned with her
mother Mrs. John A. Logan, to Wash
ington.
The United States Circuit Court at
St. Louis refused to issue an injunc-
ton restraining the Interstate Com
merce Commission from putting into
effect an order reducing rates on cat
tie shipments from the southwest ter
ritory to Chicago, Kansas City, st.
Louis and other points.
Forest Ranger John Booth reported
1T Santa Fe Saturday that 10000 head
of sheep belonging to the Los Pinos
Sheep Growers Association were
frozen to death last week during bliz-
zard and that heavy losses from the
same cause also fell upon sheep grow
ers in Rio Arriba county.
Charged with fomenting a revolu-
tion on United States soil against
friendly nation, Preciliano G. Silva and
Lecardio Trevino were found guilty by
a jury In the United States Court at
Ell Paso Friday. Benjamin Silva and
Jose Maria Ramiriz were acquitted on
the same charge.
1t is reported at Tacoma, Wash, that
an enormous whale in the west pass
age of the Sound upset n rowboat in
which there were three duck hunters
and all were drowned 1t Is said the
men began firing with shotguns upon
the mammal when it rose to blow
and that the maddened leviathan at
tackled their boat.
Maj. Harry Benson, who has been
stationed at the Preside. San Fran
cisco, for three years, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the Yellow
stone National park to succeed Gen.
Samuel NJ. b. Young. Major Benson,
since coming to California. has had
charge of the summer encampments in
the Yosemite valley.
There have been SO many incendiary
fires of late in and around Baker City,
Oregon, that the people are at last
aroused, and the mayor has issued the
following order: ITO the People of
Baker City: Believing that the many
recent fires are of incendiary origin.
any and all officers and good citizens
are hereby instructed to shoot on the
spct any person caught setting fire to
any building"
The transcontinental freight bureau
has just issued a bulletin cancelling
through rates to Asiatic ports. The
contention of the big roads with Pa
cific steamship connections is that the
compulsory publication of these ex-
port rates gave Japanese merchants
the advantage Of underbidding the
Americans and their ships plying be-
tween the Pacific coast and Oriental
ports were in position to control the
commercial situation. The railroads
are preparing a campaign in next Con-
gress to secure an amendment to the
law or modification by ruling of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.