The Springfield herald., 1910-02-04
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. ooINGs. ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERiNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Many who have seen the plans OF
The Cage helicopter, now being COLI
structed in Denver. believe that it will
prove to be the coming airship.
The Transcontinental Passenger
Association has announced its inten-
tion of charging for next summer the
same colonist rates from Chicago to
Pacific coast points as last year.
The jury in the case of Frederick
w. Keitel and Franklin p. Fay, tried
in the United States Court at Denver
on the charge OF conspiracy to defraud
the government of coal lands in Routt
county, Colo. brought in q verdict Of
not guilty.
w. 1. Swain. n livestock raiser OF
Dwight, Kas.. has issued 10000 circu-
lar letters to prominent farmers In
Kansas. Iowa. Illinois and Missouri,
calling for delegates to hold a meeting
In Kansas City. to retaliate against
the unions that have instigated meat
boycott in that city.
Mrs. Josie Pettis. owning farm
near Dalhart. Tex, says that bolt
of lightning struck the ground on the
and uncovered spring of crude oil,
which is now producing 200 barrels
daily. 1t is claimed that she has been
offered $4,000 for the small tract of
land.
Missouri's Supreme Court has re-
versed the remarkable decision 1t gave
last March. holding that employers liza
bility insurance was against public pol
icy because 1t tended to encourage
negligence on the part of employers.
and that policy of such insurance
was null and void.
The Senate of Illinois has passed
the direct plurality primary bill which
carries the Gibson amendment provid-
ing for the blanket ballot. The Glib
son amendment provides that the vot-
er need not state his party affiliation
and may secretly vote any primary
party ticket he chooses, but must CON
fine himself to only one party column.
Governor Spry of Utah. on his re-
turn from Washington. where he at
tended the convention of governors, in
reply to questions in regard to the
Jeffries-Johnson fight, said: 81 see no
reason for changing my position in
the matter. AS have repeatedly stat
ed. there will positively be no fight in
Utah while am governor
Miss Annie Barber, formerly of Col
orado Springs. has been chosen by the
new sultan of Turkey to devise a new
heating plant for the royal palace. one
of the largest and most magnificent
structures in the world. She is in Lon
don, where she Is the manager of a
big contracting firm. She is n sister
of T. P. and William Barber, Colorado
Springs architects.
That the San Pedro. Los Angeles &
Salt. Lake Railroad Company will be
out of the trans-continental business
at least year. was the announcement
made at Los Angeles by officials of
that system, following the completion
of an investigation to determine the
recent flood damage along the right of
way. 1t was found that eighty miles
of track had been washed out in Ne
vada.
The question of the validity of the
California statute which provides the
death penalty for life term convict
who assaults guard or fellow con-
vict, has been placed before the
United States Supreme Court by Chief
Justice Beatty of the State Supreme
Court, who has granted writ of error
in the case OF Jacob Oppenheimer. the
San Quentin convict under sentence
to hang for assaulting a fellow con
vict