The Springfield herald., 1908-12-11
NEWS TO DATE
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CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN NEWS.

The flood in the Cottonwood river
in Oklahoma Sunday Is estimated to
have left 5000 people homeless.
Steel laying on those sections of the
st. Paul road which cross the noun
tains in Montana has been suspended
until the snow melts next spring.
An automobile speedway is to be
built from Salt Lake City to the Sal
tair resort on Great Salt Lake. a dis
tance OF about fifteen miles. Toll will
be charged.
The report of the state mine inspec-
tor shows South Dakota's gold produc-
ton fol- last year to have been $780,
900, which is the highest in the history
of the state.
A ruling by the Illinois insurance de-
partment compels all mutual fire insur-
ance companies organizing In that
state to make provisions for contin-
gent liability on the part of its mem
bers.
Fred Huyck's motor cycle turned the
Ascot Park oval at Los Angeles Mon
day in fifty-three seconds for one mile,
which is one second faster than the
worlds record of fifty-four seconds
that he already held.
Manipulation of the leading butter
markets of the country by cOterie of
Chicago, Elgin and Eastern produce
men is said TO be responsible to a
large extent for the present extrava-
CANT prices Cor butter.
Richard c. Kerens, former Republi-
can national committeeman for Mis-
souri, and defeated candidate for the
Missouri Republican senatorial nomina
tion at the November primary, spent
$59.570 in the campaign just closed.
The civil service commission of Los
Angeles recently issued an order that
any civil service employe, whether on
the active list or not, who was found
to visit the race track or bet on the
races, would be Immediately dis
charged.
The Peoples Mutual Telegraph Com
pany has asked the City Council OF
Chicago for franchise on two streets
leading to the city limits. Plans are
announced for line from Chicago to
ST. Louis and Kansas City. to compete
with the two old companies.
After an idleness of thirteen months,
the old Open Hearth department Of
the Illinois Steel Company plant at
South Chicago was reopened Tuesday
and 1000 men resumed work. Prepar
ations are Icing made to open five
other blast furnaces.
Judge David P. Dyer in the Federal
District Court at ST. Louis sustained an
order of Secretary Straus directing
that Samuel Bachmann be deported TO
his old home in England for preaching
anarchy on the streets of Belleville, Ill.
Judge Dyer held that Secretary Straus
had sole jurisdiction over the matter.
Englewood High school, Chicago, is
making arrangements to take the long
est trip on record for high school
football eleven. Terms have been made
with the Butte, Mont, high school for
a contest on Dec. 18th. and provisional
date filled with the Seattle eleven for
a match on Christmas day and for a
New Years struggle at Los Angeles
Newspapers at Los Angeles which
publish tips on races, persons who
Sell lutIu Ou tlie SlIetlS anu
who causes them to be circulated in
any manner will be subject to arrest
and prosecution under the anti-t'p ordi-
nance which was passed early this year
and which is still in effect. The new
prosecuting attorney announces that
he will enforce the law.
1t is claimed by Wyoming sheep
men that not only does the wool pro
duction of the state, about $7,50O,000
in 1908, place Wyoming at the head
of wool producing states, but that the
geographical center of the wool pro-
ducing industry is located in Wyoming.
This center. as located by a careful
comparison of wool statistics and
areas, is short distance from Dia-
mond, Colorado & Southern station,
about forty miles in bee line west of
north Of Cheyenne.