The Springfield herald., 1909-04-23
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WESTERN NEWS.


tice of the Supreme Court of Colorado,
18th from diabetis.
w. A. Harris, former United States
senator for Kansas, has declined the
position of president of the Colorado
State Agricultural College.
Several thousand slot machines in
San Francisco, into which 1t was de-
clared mere than $1,000,000 a month is
placed will be abolished after July 1st
The highest price paid for cash
wheat in st. Louis in thirty-one years
was reported on the 14th inst, when
sales of No. red were made at $1.47
to $l.50.
Governor Johnson OF Minnesota has
signed the anti-cigarette bill which
makes it misdemeanor to manufac-
ture, sell or give away cigarettes or
cigarette papers within the state.
Hogs reached the highest local mar
ket quotations since 1898 at the Ma
tional stockyards in East st. Louis on
the 18th inst. The best grades sold
for $500 a hundred weight.
More than $50 Des Moines, Ia,
school children have signed a petition
to Theodore Roosevelt asking him TO
change his mind and not kill defense
les wild animals in Africa. Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Baird. secretary of tie Humane
society, will send it to Mr. Roosevelt.
A prohibition bill has passed the
Missouri House for passenger trains,
making it unlawful to drink or expose
intoxicating liquors on passenger
trains in Missouri or to ride on a
passenger train in an intoxicated con
dition. The penalty is a fine of from
So to $25.
The District Court of Appeals ct
San Francisco has granted new trial
to Louis Glass. vice president of the
Pacific States Telegraph & Telephone
Company. Glass was the first man
convicted in the bribery graft cases
and was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary. He has been out on bail.
II is stated that an army balloon
corps will be used during the maneu
vers at Fort Des Moines Sept. Goth to
26th. The aeronaut drills will be un-
der the direction of Captain Ouray and
the equipment will include a dirigible
balloon of latest model. Attacks upon
an imaginary battleship will be made.
Donald Boyd was convicted at Mount
Vernon, Wash, on the 10th inst, of
kidnapping Patrick Mccoy, wealthy
Seattle lumberman, in the woods near
Bow last autumn, with the intention
of holding him for ransom. I'm
der the statute Boyd will receive an
indeterminate sentence of from . 10
20 years in the penitentiary.
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Company has applied to the
Kansas railroad commission for uer
mission to isue s73,00O,0O0 common
stock. The Chicago. Rock Island &
Pacific railway also has asked permis-
sion to issue S220,000 refunding bonds
to take up the Choctaw, Oklahoma g.
Gulf equipment trust bonds.
The lower house of the Missouri leg
islature, by vote of sc to 81, passed
a resolution to submit a prohibition
constitutional amendment to the vote
of the people November, 1910. The
measure must be acted on by the Sen
ate If the amendment is adopted it
will close all saloons, breweries and
distilleries in the state. 1t is to take
effect January l, 1913.
1t is stated that an investigation con-
Quoted by the Des Moines Tubercular
Association, at Des Moines, Ia. has re-
suited in the discovery that six out of
every ten children examined are in
fected with tuberculosis. The major
ity of the cases are incipient, but in
many the disease has progressed far
The association is considering estab
fishing children's tubercular camp
this summer. 1t is proposed to isolate
infected children to prevent further
spread of the disease.