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The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
Senate Proceedings March 10th.

Seven bills were passed on third
reading and three on second reading
by the Senate "Wednesday. Those dis
posed of on third reading are
S. b. 179, Cary-Placing Routt coun-
ty, for salary purposes, in the fourth
class, "division A.
S. B. 176, Crowley-Placing Otero
county in the third class concerning
fees of county officers.
S. b. 119, Misunderstanding a
State Capitol Art Commission.
S. B. 39l. Carpenter-Extendirg the
corporate life of territorial, colony or
colonial companies to 1929.
S. B. 121, Casaday-To establish a
State Board OF Osteopathy.
II. B. so, Stephens-To submit con-
stitutional amendment enabling the
University of Colorado to establish in
Denver medical. dental and pharma-
ceutical departments.
Senate bill II, by Harrison, to re-
duce the reserve required of insurance
companies, was killed through failure
to receive n constitutional majority on
the final vote. Seventeen senators
voted for it and fifteen against.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
GENE RAJ NEWS.

Mrs. George ID. Seeley. widow of
Colonel Seeley. U. S. A.. was asphyxi-
ated in her home in Washington on
the 9TH inst. The coroner gave GER
tifcatc of accidental death.
According to the statement of the
mayor of Brinllley, Ark. thirty-five
people were killed and more than 200
injured by the tornado that recently
destroyed the town. This is greater
loss than was at first reported.
The Standard Oil Company has been
cleared of the fine of $29 9.24O,OO0 i'm
posed against it by Judge Lands.
Judge Anderson on the 10th inst at
Chicago directed the jury to bring in
a verdict of not guilty" the govern
ment having failed to submit proof de-
manded by the judge in regard to
freight tariff regulations.
A tornado destroyed Brinkley, Ark.
a town of 5000 inhabitants, on the
night of the Sth inst. killing thirty or
more people and injurins sixty others.
OF the dead fourteen are white peo-
pie The property loss is estimated at
s1,000OO0.
The bodies of the late President
Rutherford b. Hayes and his wife,
Lucy webb Hayes, now resting in
Oakwood cemetery at Fremont, o..
will be reinforced in Spiegel Grove.
which for many years was the ho.le
Of the president. The grove is now
owned by a son, Webb c. Hayes.
At Wilmington, Del. John Goodwin,
prominent Republican politician, con
victed of offering money bribe to a
voter at the last election. has been
sentenced to fine of $500 and two
years in prison. Goodwin took an ap-
peal and WAS released on $4,000 bail
According to the present intentions
of ex-President Roosevelt and his en-
tire family, with the exception of Mrs.
Lonsworth and Theodore, Jr, they will
spend most of the time in l.aly while
Roosevelt is away. They will be the
guests of Mrs. Roosevelt's sister, Miss
Carew. ut her villa near Rome.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The Department of the Interior has
approved Wyoming land selection lists
Nos 10 and IL for $4,000 acres of state
lands in Douglas land district.
Joseph B. Foraker, ex-United States
senator from Ohio. has indicated that
he fully approves President Taft's view
on the negro question outlined in his
inaugural address.
President Taft, when interviewed by
several representatives, declined to
commit himself on the "insurgent"
movement to revise the House rules so
as 10 curb the power OF the speaker.
Arrangements have been perfected
for holding the annual matches of the
National Rifle Association of America
on the Camp Perry o., range, immedi-
ately following the national matches
about August 81.
Under an appropriation of 81 900 900
made in the recent Congress for inves-
tigating land entries in the West. Com
missioner bennett Of the General Land
Office is preparing to hire an addi-
tional force of 200 special land and
timber agents.
The Wyoming and the Arkansas are
the names selected for the two mon
ster $4,000 ton battleships recently au-
horized by Congress. The only states
for which battleships or armored
cruisers have not been named are Ne
vada and Oklahoma.
President Taft contemplates long
trip through the West next summer
and will probably visit Alaska So he
informed Senators Smoot and Suther-
land who called to invite him to be
present at the G. A. r. national en-
campment at Salt Lake, August 9th to
18th.
BY an order of the Interior Depart
ment about 100000 acres of land in
the counties along the eastern border
of Wyoming are TO be thrown open at
once TO homestcaders. who will be al
lowed to take either 100 or 800 acres
The land cannot be irrigated and will
be of use therefore for dry farming
only.
The Colorado senators will have
neighboring suites of rooms in the
new Senate Office building. Senator
Hughes and family will make their
home at the Willard hotel for the
present and later may take a house in
Washington.
AT an informal meeting OF more
than half of the Apache prisoners of
war at Fort Sill eligible to vote for
chief TO succeed the late Geronimo,
Asa Deklugie, son of Whoa of the
Nedni branch of the tribe. was chosen
chief A formal election will be held
later.
A settlement has been effected by
the secretary of the interior of the gov
ernment suit against the Union Pacific
company involving A,5GO acres of coal
lands in Wyoming estimated as worth
81 100000. This land is said to have
been acquired by the company through
what are known as dummy" entries
The company has discontinued mining
from the land which has been withdrawn
from entry until June LIST next. Be
sides reconveying the land and paying
respass damages. the company loses
the s9i 200 paid for the lands
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE
NOW IN SESSION AT DENVER
House Proceedings March 11th.

The following bills We're passed by
the House on third reading:
S. b. 2O7, Senator Establish
ing the office of public examiner and
establishing Il uniform system of public
accounting.
H. B. 233, Misunderstanding to the
railroad commission.
H. b. 352, Lehrritter-Appropria
for paying water commissioners and
assistants.
S. b. 80, Senator Burris-Raising the
salary of the city attorney of Pueblo.
II. b. 149, Bell-Creating the office
Of state penitentiary physician.
H. B. 431, Weiser-Providing for con
structive notice of attachment.
S. B. 14S, Senator Lines-Appropri-
alton for maintenance of state peniten-
tiary
II. B. 32S. Sltinner-Amending bill
creating state entomolosist and in
spection of nurseries and protection of
trees.
H. b. 67, Foley-Payment of county
judges salaries.
H. B. 155, Foley-Forbiddin girls
under eighteen in saloons, dance halls
and the like, and providing for punish
ment of proprietors for violating same.
H. B. 5, .ehrritter-Appropria
$4,000 for building and $25,OOO for fur
nishing state normal school at Gunni-
son.
II. B. 355, Walker-Forbidding any
employer demanding an employe to re-
sign from any secret society, including
labor unions.
deputy county superintendent of
schools in counties of the first class.
H. B. 412, McCoy-Fixing classical
ton of Yuma county concerning fees
and salaries.
II. B. 22S. McCaskill-FiXing classifi-
cation of Otero and Bent counties con-
cerning salaries.
H. B. 237, Ashby-FiXing classified
ton of Pitkin county concerning salar-
les.
H. B. 272, Luxen-Preventins the
president of the State Agricultural Col
lege from being n member of the state
board of agriculture.
II. B. 76. Walbridge-Appropria
$1,000 per year for system of free trav-
cling libraries.
II. b. 257, Dunn-Concerning bee cul-
ture for the protection of bees.
II. B. SCI Skinner-Appropriat
$4,000 for premiums for annual agri-
cultural and horticultural fairs, 10 be
distributed by state fair board.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
House Proceedings March 18th.

The following bills were passed;
II. B. 324, Lafferty-Eightho la"
for women.
II. b. 207, Senator Burris-Establisi-
ing a public examiner and uniform pub
lie accounting.
II. b. 76, Walbridge-For mainte-
nance of free travelling libraries.
II. B. 307, Dunn-Providing for de
struction of wolves, mountain lions,
wild cats, lynx and coyotes.
II. b. 435, Old-Relating to payment
of county judges.
hours day and six-day week for drug
clerks.
II. b. 304, Durfoe-Providing for
publication of financial statements of
school districts.
II. B. 3O6. Durfee-Relating to sal
aries of county superintendents OF
schools.
II. b. 325. Durfee-Classifying Ere
mont county and fixing salaries of Of.
ficials.
II. b. 1863, Whiting-Classifyin Delta
county and fixing salaries of officials.
II. b. 391, Ballard-Classifying Nor
gan county and fixing fees of officials.
II. b. 1874, Long Classifying Arapa-
hoe county and fixing salaries of Off
cials.
Fl. B. 572. Durfee-Providing for the
consolidat ion of school districts.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
Senate Proceedings March 18th.

The Senate passed the following bills
on third reading:
S. b. 20. Requiring the in.
surance commissioner to make inquiry
of the chief representative of each COM
pany concerning the reputation and
standing of each applicant for per
nit to act as agent or solicitor for Ger.
tain classes of companies.
S. b. 100, Carringer-Authorizi
State Land Board to sell tracts of less
than forty acres.
S. b. $40. Submitting a pro,
posed constitutional amendment to eX-
empt reservoirs from taxation.
S. b. PIC, Cary-Requiring the live
stock inspection commission to take
sole and exclusive charge of suffering
range stock.
S. b. II, misunderstanding insur-
ance companies TO reserve on lower
basis.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
Railway Bill Weakened.

On second reading in the House the
railway commission bill was amended
in the section relating to unjust
charges. The section gives the com
mission the right TO investigate and
empowers it to hear complaints and to
determine what would be just rates
and charges, but that is all. The part
stricken out was what would be Just
and reasonable rate or rates, charge or
charges to be thereafter observed in
such case as the maximum chargc.'
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
Annie Reason.

During the trial of man who had
made an unsuccessful attempt at sui
eide, a lawyer had badgered the wit
nesses to an eXasperating degree, and
evidently intended to pursue the same
course with a meek appearing little
Irishman who next took the stand.
you say you talked with the ac-
cused an hour after his attempt? the
lawyer demanded.
"Oi did" was the direct reply.
"And did he give any reason for at
tempting to commit suicide?'
"He did. an it was good reason.
well, and what reason did he
give?"
Sure. an he said he wanted TO kill
himself" Pat answered. and for mo-
ment even his honor could not control
his aughter.-Harper' Weekly.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
Bills Favorably Reported.

The Senate judiciary committee
Wednesday reported favorably on the
following bills:
Hurds bill concerning the ventila-
tion of coal mines, Strickland's bill
concerning the disconnection of terri
tory from municipalities, O'Connells
bill concerning chattel mortgages,
Gove's bill concerning mortgages. De
Longs and Campbells bill to punish
the mutilation or theft of legislative
records and Croke's bill to fix sher-
offs compensation for dieting prison
ers.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
CONDENSATION.
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
sHoWlNG THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
w ESTEkN NEWS.

A bill TO establish the initiative and
referendum has been defeated in the
Nebraska Senate.
The California Senate has passed
the Wright railroad rate bill, which
gives the railroad commission power
to fix maximum rates.
The California Senate passed bill
introduced by Senator Wolfe, provid-
ing for bond issue of s9,O00,OO0 for
Improvement of San Francisco harbor.
Ruth Bryan Leavitt, eldest daugh-
ter of William J. Bryan, has been
granted divorce from her artist hus-
band, w. II. Leavitt, on the ground
of non-support.
The Utah Legislature has passed the
bill giving smelters right of eminent
domain in counties of less than 10000
populatic~, over the veto of the COVER
nor.
Equal suffrage was defeated in the
Iowa Senate on the nth inst. by vote
of 81 to II. The limited suffrage bill
for women was also defeated by vote
of 36 ayes and II nays.
Murray George and jerry Peterson.
the two miners who were entombed by
ray, Utah, were released uninjured af-
ter fifty hours confinement.
Mayor A. C. Harper of Los Angeles.
who had been recalled from office un-
der the recall act of the city charter,
has rendered his resignation and will
not be Il candidate for reelection under
the act.
The finance committee of the Brink
ley, Ark. Relief Association has is
sued an appeal TO the country for aid.
The property damage is estimated at
100000. More than 200 injured peo-
pie are under treatment.
Arrangements have been made by
the Canadian Pacific railroad for the
Soo-Spokane trains to run through to
Portland over the lines of the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation Company, an in
vasion of the Hill territory.
Governor Stubbs of Kansas has
signed the anti-discrimination insur-
ance bill. Under the new law the state
authorities will act in connection with
the fire insurance commissioner in es-
tablish!ng and maintaining reasonable
rates 10 be charged for fire insurance.
The warehouse and storage company
organized by Chicago and western men
from the great wool-growinS states,
has begun the erection of a warehouse
in Chicago that will hold 25,O00,O00
pounds of wool. Ii will occupy nearly
two acres of ground.
Governor Deneen of Illinois has
signed the bill authorizing the erection
and maintenance of tuberculosis sana-
toriums in cities. The bill becomes a
law and can be submitted to the refer
endum vote by the citizens of Chicago
at the spring election.
The Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad,
following the lead of other Nevada
roads, has announced concessions on
shipments of low grade ores from the
southern Nevada camps to the smelt-
ers in the valley. The reduction par
ticularly applies to Tonopah and Gold
field
That the growing scarcity of oak TIM
Der suitable for barrels threatens the
whisky trade of the country was the
pronouncement of w. Palmer Clark
son of St. Louis. president of
the National Coopers' Association
at its national convention in st. Louis
He declared that owing to waste and
creased 30 per cent.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19

At Wilmington, Del, on the 9Th inst.
eighteen culprits were whipped at the
workhouse for various offenses, princi-
pally larceny. and the total number of
lashes inflicted was 255.
One result of wire prostration at
Philadelphia due to the blizzard will
be the establishment by the city Of n
wireless plant on top of the city hall
tower.
General Booth will be eighty years
old on April 10th. and, all over the
world, Salvationists OF every degree
and almost every color are preparing
to celebrate the event.
Reports of the employees relief fund
of the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad system,
east and west of Pittsburg. show that
the total payments since the organi
2ation of the relief departments amount
to S25,7G5 403.1S.
The steamer Empress of China.
which arrived at Victoria, b. c., on the
18th inst. brought news of landslides
burying three villages, involving the
loss of hundreds of lives, probably
over thousand, at Pendjolo, Java.
But one man, one woman and two chill
dren escaped to tell the tale. A part
of Kentjana mountain fell.
To sisnalize the opening of the
greensboro bridge to Long Island
the first real automobile bridge in the
country-free rides in motor cars over
the structure will be given to all per
sons attending the celebration, June
I 10
will be placed at the disposal of the
committee in charge.
The February statement of the Cop
per Producers Association shows that
the stock of marketable copper of all
kinds on hand at all points in the
United States March LIST was 173,2S4,-
24S pounds, an increase OF 29,000,000
as compared with February 1st. The
production during February was 103.-
700,S17 pounds, and deliveries aggre-
gated 74,546,c14 pounds.
Head officers of the Modern Wood
men OF America, who have been at
Colorado Springs inspecting their new
national sanitarum north OF the city,
announced that the order will spend
during the spring the first installment.
$4,000, of the 100000 to be devoted
to buildings and equipment. A cen
trail building and another colony of
sixty tents for patients are the imme-
diate improvements contemplated.
A new company wants to build an
'inter-terminal belt line" for passen-
gers and freight in New York City.
The proposed line, which includes both
elevated and subway roads at various
portions of its route, practically circles
the city, taking in the entire water
front and touch also the Grand Central
station and the Pennsylvania new
terminal. The scheme has the back
ing, it is said, of foreign capital. The
cost will probably be between S50,000,-
900 and s60,OOO,0OO.
Medicine enough for regiment and
surgical instruments enough to do the
work of an ordinary hospital, will be
carried by Theodore Roosevelt to
Africa, all condensed so as to fill
suitcase. There are $4,000 doses in
the tabloids, nearly forty per cent of
them quinine. The other medicines
are to ward off disease most prevalent
in equatorial Africa, chemicals to make
swamp water pure and palatable, cures
for snake bites, stimulants. opiates.
knives and bandaSes.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
Unfortunate Expression.

That fruitful source of mirth, the
mixed metaphor, is ever with us. 1t
illustrates on almost every appearance
the truth of the saying that the sub
lime and the ridiculous are but step
apart.
In book on the laboring man. con-
tanning some excellent ideas. there
appeared the following sentence:
What manner of woman is she who
would turn her eyes toward other
things, which would become ashes ON
her very lips?"
The tlippant answer is. of course, "A
cross-eyed woman.-Youth' Compan-
ion.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
Bill to Check Land Grabs.

Huge coal, lumber, oil and other com.
panies of like character that organize
in the future for the purpose of leas.
ing school lands for their mineral
wealth will. if bill by Senator Car.
ringer and passed on second reading
by the Senate becomes law, be pro
hibted from holding these lands as a
speculative Investment The bill pro
vides that such lands must be devel.
oped within reasonable length of
time or failure to do so will be deemed
valid cause for the cancellation Of the
lease.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
ECZEMA 80 YEARS; -
SIMPLE OIL CURES
Wintergrcen Compound Stopped Itch
at Once-Disease Soon Disappeared.

Eczema first appeared on my BODY
when | was a child S years of age.
For over thirty years l scratched and
scratched and doctored. 1t simply
drove me wild. About one year ago,
the disease covered my entire body
from my scalp to my toes. My doctor
and my friends all gave me up as IN
curable. , ,,o n n
d. Remedy for eczema. The first ap-
plication stopped the. horrible Itchlns
and gave me n nights sleep. me &C
zema gradually left my body and am
now entirely cured excepting llttie
roughness of the skin on my lett
ankle" -. n,
years in the employ Of the G 5. Daniels
Furniture Co. OF Wichita, Kan. in the
presence of MIR. Higginson of the HiE-
ginson Drug Co, made the above state
ment. -, - ,
Eist more about d. d. ID. prescription
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19

Proceedings have begun for the for
nation of an irrigation district for
southwestern Weld county to be
known as the St. Vrain district. to en-
brace $4,000 acres lying west of Platte.
vile. Fort Lupton and Brighton and
to include the undeveloped dry terri
tory in the vicinity of Firestone and
Frederick.
Prof. J. r. Morgan has been elected
superintendent of the public schools of
Trinidad. He takes the position made
vacant by the resignation of j. r.
Treat, who becomes president of the
Colorado Baptist college for women at
Montclair. Professor Morgan has been
teaching for thirteen years. He is n
graduate of the University of Colorado.
Company II, Colorado National
Guard at Brush has opened It's armorv
for an opera house by presenting "Tlo
Prisoner of War" to large audience.
The armory gives Brush much need.
ed hall for entertainment.
At meeting of the Western Slope
Fair Association in Montrose Septem-
Der 2Sth, 29th. SOth and October 1st
were the dates fixed for the holding of
the Western Slope fair The following
officers were elected: President. w.
o. ReddinS: secretary S. v Hobaugh:
treasurer, j. S. Hill Seven directors
were also elected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Valentine MishIar col.
ebrated their siXtieth wedding ami.
versary at their home in Loveland on
the Sth inst. Mr.. Mishler is eighty.
five. his wife is only three years
Younger.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
Protection of Cattle.

The most important of the meas
ures passed on second reading in the
Senate Wednesday was Senator Cary's
bill PIG to place the care and protec-
tion of cattle on the range in the hands
of the State Live Stock Commission
instead of in the hands of the Humane
Society. The bill drew a hard fight
from Senators Campbell DeLong and
Bohn. who asserted the stockmen
wanted to rid themselves of the HUI.
name Society so there would be no
one to complain when they permitted
their stock to so hungry during the
winter
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
Land Bills ApproYed.

Senate bill 100, by CarrinSer, to
bring certain sections of the act ere
ating the land board in harmony with
the federal laws, and Croke's bill. $40,
for constitutional amendment to ex-
empt reservoirs from taxation, passed
second reading in the Senate with lit
tie debate.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
State Highway Commission.

One result of the appeal made to the
committee on appropriations of the
House by the commercial bodies of the
state was seen when that committee
reported, with favorable recommen-
dation, the bill for the establishment OF
a state highway commission. Asita-
ton TO this end has been prosecuted
with vigor for several years.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
Fiqht on BANKING Bill,

Senator Crowley recently gave out
paragraph from a letter sent to the
Peoples Home Bank of Rocky Ford
asking a contribution of s25 as a pro
rata share to fight the banking bill
introduced by Senator Crowley. He
said that if the same proportion was
maintained in raising money from all
the other banks in the state, fund
of 100000 had been raised to kill his
bill
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
New Laws Affecting convicts.

Two bills affecting convicts We're
signed by Governor Shafroth on the
9Th inst. One allows an appro-
pr:ation of $1,000 to pay for
the road work up to date, and
the other gives the TRUSTEES on the
farm outside of the prison walls the
same good time allowed convicts who
work on the roads.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
Tioht.

Tight.
81 would that | might share your
griefs!"
You'd look mighty funny with one
OF my shoes on"
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
The Human Eve.

A marveousiy constructed instru
ment delicate in the extreme, re.
spending to the slightest influence.
What a crime against nature to drug
the eye. Everyday eye troubles are
speedily cured by applying externally
DR.. Mitchelrs pure, harmless. soothing
Eye Salve. 25 cents. Ask the druggist.
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19

Quite Contrary.
81 started out to get business open
Ing"
Did you find it,
Il did. I'm in hole"
The Springfield herald., 1909-03-19
INSTRUCTED.

Doctor-What are you doing in that
tub? You'll catch your death.
Patient-3ut, doctor, didn't you tell
me TO take the pills in water?
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-06-01
V00DMEN BAND To
GIVE CONCERT

An open air concert will be given
by the Wenatchee Woodmen band
tonight at the park. The Woodmen
band is the official musical organiZa
ton of the Red Apple camp of the
Modern Woodmen. The band has
accepted an invitation to go to
Ephrata, the capital of Grant county,
for the celebration on the 3rd and
4th of July.
The following are the members Of
the Woodmen band: Charles E.
Writ, director; John Deitch, yelling
ton Deitch; Otto Koehler, Earl Ross,
Ralph eNal, Arthur Ketchum, H. A.
Guthrie, r. Duncan, r. H. Duncan,
Jas Gormley, Mike ebony, Arthur
Chaplin, Eugene RumbolZ, Frank De-
mers, Fred Finch.