The Springfield herald., 1909-12-31
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAYiNGs. DoINes, ACHIEVE.
MENTs. sUFFERlNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Utah is to hold a Good Roads con-
Fention at Salt Lake on January 26th.
9th and 2Sth.
The fifth annual exhibition of the
National Western Stock Show will be
held at Denver January Sth to 18th
next
Governor Donaghey has declined to
call the Legislature of Arkansas In
special session to consider the Ques-
tion of statutory prohibition.
Minneapolis high schools are con
sidering the advisability of abandon
ing baseball and substituting lacrosse
as the spring scholastic sport.
The Colorado National Apple Expo
sition will be held at the great Au-
ditorium in Denver. January 3rd to
Sth. 1t will be one of the greatest
events OF the New Year in the West.
Governor Curry Of New Mexico has
called meeting of district attorneys
at Santa Fe on January 6, 1910, to con-
s!der and discuss the collection of
taxes, and means and measures to en-
force the payment of delinquent taxes.
OF which over a million dollars are al
ready Que.
with or without the sanction of the
Aero Club of America, the aviation
meet announced for this city January
1920, will be held" is the gist of a
statement Issued by the Merchants &
Manufacturers Association Of Los An
geles, under whose auspices the event
is scheduled.
The coroners Jury at Winona. Ari-
zona. investigating the Santa Fe col
lision in which Mrs. Alice Bennett was
killed and fifty passengers injured. re-
turned II verdict after four days ses-
sion, that tie wreck was caused by
criminal carelessness on the part OF
the Santa Fe Railroad Company, and
recommended that it be taken up by
the next ertnd jury.
The St. Joseph. Mo-, baseball asso.
citation has set aside January 6, 1910.
in which to complete the campaign to
raise $500 to assist in securing a
first-class ball team for st. Joseph
next season. The Pueblo franchise
which has been purchased by John
Holland of Wichita, will be trans
ferred to st. Joseph.
The Colorado Midland railroad has
a new president in George B. Harris,
who is also president Of the Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy and Of the Colo
RADIO G. Southern. 1t is not expected
that any change in the operation or
management of the Midland will re-
suit, owing to Harris accession to the
presidency of the road. George Val
lery. general manager, is an old Bur
lihgton man. the Midland having been
controlled by the Burlington for a
number Of years.
After battling six weeks with death.
Reed Crews. q young lineman at Wal
la Walla. Wash, terribly burned by
falling across power wires, finally sue
cumbed to his injuries. So great was
the public sympathy in his case that
355 persons submitted to skin graft
ing operations that the youths tor.
tured body might be relieved
Among those who gave up cuticle
were 100 school children, SO students
from Whitman college and 25 soldiers
from Fort Walla Walla. Approximate
ly 1000 square inches of human skin
were grated upon Crews body.
The Denver City Tramway Company
that operates the street car system Of
Denver, carried $s4,000,O00 fare-paying
passengers during 1909. This is A.
100000 more fares than the company
collected in 1908. The increase in bust
ness has been paralleled by an in
crease in expenditures for improve
ments. as 100000 has been spent
this year for improvement, an increase
Of 100000 over last year. An aver
age of 265 cars was run daily during
the present year, an increase OF TWEEN.
ty-five over the average daily service
of last year.