The Springfield herald., 1909-11-12
WESTERN NEWS.

| Z. l.. Warmer, deposed Cincinnati
! treasurer of the Big Four railroad. is
said to have confessed that the short
age In his accounts. variously esti
mated at from $4,000 to 100000. was
due to his paying blackmail to man
and woman for the last three years
| More than 1000 indictments re-
turned during Sunday blue law cru.
sade" made by Judge William H. Wal
lace Of the Criminal Court a year ago
by Judge Latshaw. Prosecutor Virgil
Conkling moved that they be dis.
missed. in keeping with a prediction
promise.
Accompanied by six suffragettes
flom Denver, Mrs. Helen Refine Baker
OF Spokane, Wash, an ardent suffra.
gctte and said to be the heaviest tax
payer in that state, hoisted a flag on
the topmost point of the rocy summit
of Pixies Peak. The banner was made
BY Mrs. oliver H. P. Belmont of New
York and bears the inscription "Vots
for women"
Foreign representation will be one
of the features of the Irrigation con-
gress to be held at Pueblo next sum
mer. A state document has been pre-
pared and forwarded to ID. E. Nc
Queen Gray of Albuquerque. foreign
secretary of the congress. who will
make efforts to create interest in
Mexico. Canada, South America. ia
pan and China and European coun-
tries.
Reports received at Nome and other
Seward peninsula towns concerning
the Iditarod strike in Alaska have
caused great excitement among the
miners and the stampede promises to
eclipse the famous rush to the Klon-
dixie. The fever has spread to Fair
banks and the Tanana district, where
many prospectors are pulling up their
stakes and heading toward the Idi-
tarod country.
Arthur Finnigan. cattleman known
throughout South Dakota as Honest
Fin." was found hanging by the neck
from a beam In barn near Pedro in
that state. Cash and certificates Of
deposit were found on mis- body
amounting to more than $4,000. He
had recently sold his ranch, and it Is
believed that his departure from the
locality which he had called home for
years had affected his mind.
The revised itinerary of the Senate
irrigation committee in New Mexico
cuts out both Santa Fe and Albuquer-
que, and includes Roswell and Carls-
bad instead. The. committee will
reach Ell Paso November 18th, go to
the Engle project and Las Cruces the
next day, and that night leave over
the Belen cutoff for Roswell. whence
1t goes to Carlsbad to spend the after
noon of November 10Th, leaving in the
evening directly for Chicago.
On his return to Butte. Mont. after
two years absence. F. Augustus
Heinze was given an ovation the equal
of which has seldom been rendered a
private citizen in that city. From the
balcony OF the Butte hotel. Heinze
spoke to crowd of 1000 people. who
frequently interrupted him with
cheers. Heinze in responding to the
address, referred to the indictments
against him in New York predicting
that they would be quashed. or as he
expressed 1t, "the obstacles placed in
his path be swept aside"
The Denver Post is preparing to is
sue morning as we'll as an evening
edition. Messrs Tammen and Bonfils
together with John DeKoven Tower
of Kansas City, have Incorporated the
National Newspaper Association, CAPT
talized at $1,000,0O0, which will pub
lish, in addition to the Evening Post
the Denver Morning Post, the Kansas
City Post and a new st. Louis paper
A weekly Denver paper and an indus
trial magazine are said to be also con
templated.