The Springfield herald., 1909-01-22
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF the week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

1t is estimated that more than 200
motor cars are in use for renting out
in San Francisco.
The Idaho Legislature has reelected
Weldon B. Hepburn to the United
States Senate.
The appraiser has placed the value
OF the estate left by the late Marshall
Field of Chicago at S3,45s,032.
George C. Perkins was reelected to
the United States Senate by the Cali
fornia Legislature on the 18th inst.
One hundred automobiles have been
purchased by farmers of La Sale
county. ILL.,. during the past year.
All records for cold weather at Great
Falls, Mont. were broken on the 10th
inst, when the temperature fell to "A
degrees below zero.
Two bills have been presented in the
Senate of the state of Washington
making the conducting of pool rooms
and race track gambling a felony.
OF twenty-eight workmen in the coal
mine owned by Joseph Letter at Zieg-
ler ILL.,, twenty-six We're killed by the
explosion on the 10th inst.
The California railroad commission
has fined the Santa Fe railroad $4,000
for illegal discrimination in the rates.
The Southern Pacific was found guilty
but was not fined.
Suit for nearly sl,O0O0O0 has been
filed against street car companies on
behalf of the city of st. Louis. The
claim is based upon the non-payment
of tax of one mill passenger.
Traffic representatives of transcon-
tinental railroads have consented to
meet western shippers at Chicago jan
uary 2Sth to hear complaints against
increased freight rates. Nearly every
shipping organization on the Pacific
coast will send representative.
The Wyoming Wool Growers Asso-
citation at its meeting in Rawlins
raised a fund of $4,000 to defray eX-
penses of n campaign against the re-
vision of the tariff on wool, to fight
the Pinchot system of forest reserva-
ton, etc.
Lorin Farr, pioneer of Utah, among
the first converts to Mormonism. fast
mayor of Ogden, husband of seven
wives and father of 800 children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren
and ore of the best known men in the
West, was drowned at Utah Hot
Springs, eleven miles north OF Ogden
on the 18th inst.
Edmund Burke. who posed as a Brit
ish nobleman, was sentenced to three
years in Leavenworth, Kan, peniten-
tiary and fined 81 900 by jury in the
United States District Court at Chi
cago on charge of impersonating
United States officer A Decatur, Ill,
girl, who married him in Denver, OBJ
tanned a divorce upon his arrest in st.
Louis.
The Rev. John II. Carmichael. who
killed Gideon Browning, the village
carpenter at Battle Run, Mich, a few
days since, committed suicide at Car
thage. ILL.,, on the 11th Inst, by cut
ting his throat with pocket knife. In
n letter found In his suit case he says
that Browning had him under hyp-
motto influence. Browning attacked
him with a knife and he defended him
self with hatchet.
Three OF the men lost on the desert
in Death valley have made their way
to Ballarat One remains unaccounted
for and hope of his being alive has
been abandoned The missing man is
b. " A. Williams, a mining man OF
Randsburg. The three who arrived at
Ballard were demented. having wan
dered for nine days, most of the time
without water.