The Springfield herald., 1909-01-29
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.


sociation has pledged 100000 for the
construction of twenty-five-mile
speedway around the city.
The National Wool Growers Asso-
citation at Pocatello selected Ogden as
its next place of meeting and reelected
President Fred w. Gooding.
John c. Morgan of Denver. who for
years has been travelling engineer of
the Mexican International railroad
died at the City of Mexico on the 18th
inst. from injuries recently received in
q wreck.
Consideration of bills denying Jap
anese the right to own land or to be
directors of corporations was delayed
for one week by the California Assem-
bly, on the Goth inst, at the request
of President Roosevelt and Governor
Gillett.
A permanent bureau at Washington
for the purpose of opposing measures
that may be offered in Congress to
have the tariff reduced on any Ameri-
can products. particularly wool, will be
maintained by the National Wool
Growers Association.
United States District Judge Ander-
son at Chicago has set February 23rd
for beginning the retrial of the rebate
case against the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana. This is the case in
which Judge Lands fine of $29,24O.O0O
was reversed by the appellate court.
The charter of the Mountain, Valley
& Plains Railroad Company. with a
capital stock of $1.00O.0OO. has been
filed in Austin. Its purpose is to build
railroad across the Panhandle of
Texas, distance OF 40 miles. Its
principal office is at Higgins, Tex.
A bill has been introduced in the Ok
lahoma Legislature taxing corporations
the payment of accident and old age
pensions. Railroads are taxed one
fourth of one per cent. of their earn
ings, and ordinary corporations l per
cent.
Announcement has been made at Sc
attic by Great Northern officials that
beginning about March 1st the Hill
line will inaugurate a new passenger
service from Seattle to Kansas City
ton. This will duplicate the present
Seattle-Kansas City Burlington service
OF daily trains over the Northern Pa
cific.
Attorneys for Abraham Ruef con-
victed of bribery in San Francisco.
who was sentenced to fourteen years
in San Quentin upon conviction for
bribery, have been granted an addi-
tional thirty days to complete the bill
of exceptions upon appeal from the
verdict and judgment. The court
had previously permitted twenty days
for this purpose.
The lnmbermen's conventian at Min
neapolis went on record in favor of
reduction of first-class postage to 1
cent per ounce, also as opposing the
passage of the parcels post law in any
shape as it would be only the first step
toward the transportation OF merchan-
disc by the government, and would be
disadyantageous to the interests of re-
tail merchants.
The third annual meeting of the
Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress,
to be held at Cheyenne. Wyoming, Feb
ruary 23rd, cath and 25th, promises to
be a great success. Already 1900
delegates from the United States, Mex
leo, Canada, and even faraway Aus
tralia, Chill and the Argentine Repub-
lie have signified their several inten-
tions to attend, and the people of Wy
oming lave planned to spend $1,000 in
the special entertainment of the yisi-
tors.
The announcement comes from Fort
Worth, Texas. that the Hill interests
will put on the longest through SER
vice in the world June list. The trains,
which will have magnificent equip
ment, will run direct from Galveston,
Texas to Seattle, Wash. During the
journey, which will likely take five
days, passengers will not be required
to change cars at any time. The train
will run over the Texas & Brazos Val
ley, the Fort Worth & Denver City, the
Colorado & Southern roads to Denver
and thence on to the Pacific coast
over the Burlington and the Great
Northern.