The Springfield herald., 1909-02-19
WI ESTEkN NEWS.

Minneapolis reports that the flour
mills are running on fuller time than
ever now.
The judge of the agricultural exhib-
its at the Dry Farming Congress at
Cheyenne, February 23rd to 25th, will
be Prof. b. c. Buffum of Worland, Wy
oming.
1t is reported that every city, viii
lage and town in Illinois, Lincolns
home state, held centennial exercises
on Lincolns birthday.
For the first time in the history of
Texas many of the cities this month
observed the anniversary of Lincoln's
birth. The day was also celebrated at
Little Rock, Ark
The Montana Senate by strict
party vote, killed the House primary
election bill, which is patterned after
the Oregon law, and which relates
solely to the election of United States
senator's.
There were few if any towns in Col
orado where the centenary of Lin.
coins birthday was not fittingly cele-
brated. Many of the orations were of
| Il HlSu OIueT- ScHUOl CnlluTell lOOh II
a large part in the exercises.
Emphatically denying the statement
printed a week ago in n Salt Lake pa
per to the effect that Italy needs no
more money for its earthquake suf-
ferers. Consul Rossi of Denver says
that financial help is still needed.
Both House and Senate of the Wash
ington Legislature have disclaimed any
intention to adopt legislation attempt
ing to require Japanese visitors to the
laska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition to
give bond for their return to their ma
tive land.
Two huge mountain lions, captured
in December by George w. Spencer
ner Silver City, N. NJ, have been
| shipped to Milwaukee. where they have
been purchased by a man who makes a
| specially of tanning wild beasts. The
lions, which are beautiful specimens,
were shipped in heavy, wooden crates.
G. Hill Howard died AT Albuquerque,
| n. NJ, on the 18th inst, at the age of
sixty-four He was a resident of New
Mexico for twenty years, and son of
Gen. Volney E. Howard. Confeder-
ate leader in the Civil war, and at one
time congressman from Mississippi. G
Hill Howard was claSsmate of Ad-
miral Sampson in the Naval academy
at Annapolis.
On the 18th inst Mr. and Mrs. Fred
erick Hildebrandt of Seattle, WASH
and Mrs. Hildabrandt's brother, Fred
erick Lange of Olympia started from
Seattle on a 3.S00.mile walk to New
York city by way of the Southwest.
The route will be through Portland to
San Francisco. then through northern
Texas, etc. 1t will take at least a
year to reach New York.
There was remarkable sale of the
special Lincoln postage stamps issued
by the government, at the Los Angeles
postoffice on Lincoln's birthday. When
the 10000 stamps bearing the like
ress of Lincoln were placed OH sale at
o'clock, more than fifty people We're
in line to purchase them, and the en-
tire number of stamps were sold in
five minutes time, orders being left
for many more.
A sweeping antitrust bill has been
introduced in the Iowa House. It's pur
pose is to stamp out the grocers' trust.
the coal dealers and the ice trust. and
even the doctors trust. The latter
are charged with fixing excessive
prices. Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary for not less than one nor more
than ten years is provided for persons
convicted of violating the law.
Suits asking for damages aggregat
ing nearly quarter of a million dol
lars have been filed in the District
Court at Cheyenne against the Union
Pacific Coal Company by widows and
other heirs of miners who were killed
in the two explosions that destroyed
mine No l at Hanna March 2S, 1905
Several of the suits are for 5000
each and others for $4,000 each. In
almost every instance the petition
AYERS that the body of the deceased
has not been recovered These cases
involve six widows and twenty.six Or
phans.
GENE RAJ NEWS