The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1909-11-26

Before leaving New York for Eu.
Upton stated that he will challenge
for race for the American cup, to be
sailed in 1911.
Shareholders of the Cleveland. Gin
cinnati. Chicago & st. Louis (Big
Four) railroad met at Cleveland and
voted a bond issue of $20.000,000 for
physical improvements.
A new $1,000. 100000 company will
be the result of an action Of the Am
erican Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany in securing control Of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company
through the purchase of Gould Stock.
Mrs. Alice Smith, wife of Leroy T.
Smith, superintendent OF the Ameri
can District Telegraph Company of
York. died at her home in Newark. N.
j., few days ago after swallowing
some tablets taken to relieve head.
ache.
The Pilgrims of England played
their final game of association foot
ball on their American tour at Bay
Ridge. l. l.. on the 10th inst. defeat
ing the Crescent Athletic club, G to /.
rhe Pilgrims played 90 games While
in the United States, winning lG and
losing 2, with four games drawn.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
has emphatically denied the state
ments published as coming from a wo-
man in Berlin, to the effect that his
wife, while she was still Miss Alice
Roosevelt, had been photographed by
him astride the sacred elephant of the
Koreans at their national capital.
The will of the late Mrs. Franziska
Speyer, widow of George Speyer, a
partner in the banking house OF
Spsyer u Co.. of New York. London
and Frankfort on the Main, be-
queaths between $s.OOO.OOO and $780,
OO0,c00 to charity. The gifts include
sl.O0O.000 for research into the sub
iect of cancer and lupus.
Director Lowell OF the observatory
at Flagstaff, Ariz.. reports the first
apparent Antarctic snowfall of the
season on Mars. Two patches appear
at the altitude 62.72 longitude 100.190.
The first was November II. and was
small. with great increase Novem-
Der 16. The second was observed for
the first time on the latter date.
Legislation for the District of Co
lumbia to prevent brutality in foot
ball and possibly to actually prohibit
the playing of the game, is
likely to follow the mortality
which has marked contests this
season. The district commissioners
have the corporation counsel at work
on the subjects. and. il the situation
can be handled by police regulation,
Congress will be asked to pass bill
which the district commissioners Will
draft
The American Federation OF Labor
in it's convention in Toronto. in addi-
ton to indorsing the attitude taken
by President Gompers in the Bucks
Stove & Range Company injunction
proceedings, voted to continue the
salaries of Gompers and Secretary
Frank Morrison, and to compensate
Vice President John Mitchell. who is
not salaried officer, during their
terms of Imprisonment, in case 1t is
decided they must go to jail for con-
tempt of court. They will be paid at
the rate of $1,000 year.
Statistics have been collected from
1858 cities in AZ states and the District
of Columbia, showing what has been
accomplished to discover and remove
physical defects mong pupils Of
these cities, 147, with school popu-
a of inc
attempt whatever to discover trans
mitatle diseases; 211 are inspecting
for such diseases; 226 are inspecting
for defective vision. ITO for breathing
troubles and lis for bad teeth, while
104. with a population of 100000,
have no examination of any kind for
their 100000 school children.
Captain Road Apundsen. discov-
erer of the Northwest passage, who
recently arrived in New York from
Copenhagen, explained that his visit
tao America was to fit out an oceano-
graphic expedition for the Norwegian
government. The expedition would
start, he said, from Christiansand in
Nansens old ship, the Fran. next
July, and probably would cruise for
live years. The first year will be
spent in the southern portion of the
North Atlantic, studying the currents.
temperatures, the ocean bottom and
sea life. Then the Fran will he nav
igated around the Horn to the Pacific.
fitting out in San Francisco probably
for an Arctic trim.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.