The Springfield herald., 1908-10-09
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Heavy rains have extinguished the
forest fires in northern Michigan and
Wisconsin.
Pleased with the results given by n
motor police patrol, Los Angeles has
ordered another, which will be the larg
est in service in the United States.
Minnesota motorists are facing a
hard fight in the Legislature for the re-
vision of automobile laws, there being
general demand for the re-establish-
ment of the system of state registra-
tion abandoned two years ago.
Ten thousand school children in Chi
cago are insufficiently nourished,
some live constantly on the verge of
starvation, and many are not suffici-
emily clad to keep them in healthy
condition, according to a report just
made to the board of education.
Operating officials of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad deny the report that
inefficient motive power on their road
has caused congestion OF wheat along
the western end of the line. In fact,
200 cars day are now being handled
in excess of those moved last year.
The surveyors general of Utah, Col
orado, Nevada. Oregon, Washington.
Montana and Wyoming have been in
vited by ID. A. Uter, surveyor general
of Idaho. to meet at Boise at a date to
be fixed later, to consider the adoption
of a uniform system of conducting
their work.
Representative Knisely, in the 1ndi-
ana Legislature. having charged Gov
ernor Hanly with making him an offer
of $4,000 position if he would sup
port the county local option bill, the
governor Immediately read message
to the Legisla ,ure d~'uanding that
committee be appointed to investigate
the charge.
The committee appointed by the low
er house of the Indiana legislature,
which has been investigating charges
made against Governor Hanly by Rep
resentative Knisely, that the governor
had tried to influence his vote in favor
of the county option bill by offering
him position, reported to the house,
completely eXonerating the governor.
After exhaustive experiments con-
Quoted through long period. the man
agement of the Hartman lines has de-
cided to adopt steel constructed pas
senger cars over the entire system OF
roads. AS a starter in this direction,
an order has been given to the Pull
man company at Chicago by the Har.
riman people for go steel passenger
cars of miscellaneous types.
81,
ger depot of the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad. to be built at Mckenzie
and Madison streets, in Chicago, have
just been completed. Work on the
structure will begin in short time.
The present station OF the Chicago
Northwestern has capacity of $4,000
people a day. The new station will
be able to accommodate 250,000.
William Randolph Hearst and
Thomas l.. Hisgen, candidate for Pres
ident on the Independence party ticket,
drew an immense audience at the Den
Yer auditorium on the goth ult., but
there was little in the demonstration to
indicate sympathy with the new party.
An uncomplimentary allusion to the
late President Cleveland by Joseph K.
Buchanan, who was the first speaker,
awakened storm of disapproval.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
declared as unconstitutional the Wis
consin eight-hour railroad telegraphers'
law which was enacted in 1907, The
law is declared unconstitutional on the
theory that it is in conflict with the
provisions of the federal constitution,
which clothes congress with the power
to regulate interstate commerce, and
further on the theory that congress,
having already provided a law fixing
the hours of railway telegraphers, it
was not within the power of the state
to enact law which would in affect
change these hours of labor