The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-12-08


welded the paycls that started the
mills Of legislation
Six officials of the Philippine islands
on their way to Washington to testify
before the committee investigating
charges made by Representative Mar.
tin of Colorado in connection with the
administration of the friar lands ar
rived at San Francisco,
Population statistics are announced
as follows. Colorado, 759,02i, an In
crease OF 259,324. or IS per cent, over
J39, 700 IN 1900 when the increase over
1890 was l27,502. or 800 per cent,
Idaho, 325, 594, an increase of lG3 So,
or 1913 per cent. over l6l,772 in 1900,
when the increase over 1890 was H.
3Sj, or 81 per cent; Nevada, Sl,S75,
an increase OF $3.50, or 1914 per cent,
over 42,339 in 1900, when the popula-
ton showed decrease Of 3,42G, or rs
per cent. from that Of 1890; Oregon,
G72. 765. an increase OF 259, 229, or G2.1
per cent. over 1885 in 1900, when
the increase over 1890 was 81, 76s. or
3lS per cent
Mrs Mary Baker G, Eddy. discoV-
erer of Christian Science and founder
and head of the Christian Science
church, is dead Of pneumonia and old
age. She died at her mansion at
Chestnut Hin Boston, Mass.
Major General Wesley Merritt IT, S.
A.. retired died at Natural Bridge,
Va General Merritt was a resident of
the District OF Columbia.
The Oklahoma house passed the
capital location bin authorizing the
governor 10 accept as gift to the
state not more than eighty acres of
land for capitol grounds alta Oklahoma
City and not more than Ave miles be
ynud its corporate limits
A cut of sl4 100000 In the estimates
of the running expenses OF the gov
eminent during the next fiscal year
was reported to President Taft as a
result Of his ultimatum to the various
heads of departments at the cabinet
conference.
A bill giving the supreme court
original and exclusive Jurisdiction
over all matters pertaining to the re-
moval or attempted removal of the
state capital, or any other penal char.
table or educational state institution,
was passed by the Oklahoma house.
A new counterfeit 81 silver certltl.
cate has been discovered II Is being
widely circulated in Chicago The
note is not good one on close exam
nation, but would easily deceive any
one not accustomed to counterleits.
Dressed meats took big slump and
reached the lowest level in 1--WE
years. In the market at Omaha, Neb.
In some instances the drop was as
much as cents a pound, and there
was nothing on which the decline was
less than / cent,
Following conference at New
York between Mayor Gaynor and
General Organizer William H. AShton
of the International Brotherhood of
Transfers in the city hall. II was an
nounced that the taxicab strike had
been practically settled
Nebraska has 1,t922l4, an increase
of 1884, or 11.S per cent. The state
did not gain enough to entltle 1t to
another congressman.
Duluth Mimi, has population, &C
cOrdIng to the census report just is.
sued, OF 1896, increase of 25,497. or
4S.1 per cent.
Governor Haskell has granted a pa
role to Tom Jones. n member Of the
Dalton-Doolin gang of outlaws, who
has served sixteen years of n fifty-year
sentence for the murder OF Deputy
United States Marshal Houston ut
Ingalls,, Okla, in 1898
C, NJ. Schwab, president and chair.
man Of the Bethlehem Steel corpora.
ton. and b. f. Yoakum, chairman OF
the board Of the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco railroad, express themselves OPP
timistically as to business conditions
in the country.
d. L. Holland, a prominent Ran.
dolph county, Illinois. farmer, shot
and killed his child wife and then
killed himself at the home of his aged
mother, nine miles south of Chester.
Jem Mace, one of the old school of
fighters who won ring laurels in the
days when bare knuckles were used,
is dead. For nearly half century he
was one of the leading figures in fight
circles in Great Britain.
Followed by several hundred curious
persons, Joseph Vending, charged
with the murder of Alma Kellner, at
Louisville, KY, marched through the
streets with the jury and trial Judge
from the court house to st. Johns
church, the scene of the alleged crime
Things are quiet now in New Mex
leo and Arizona, but there is trouble
in Chihuahua, which appears likely
to continue" This sum mary OF condi-
lions along the Rio Grande was given
by Brigadier General Earl d. Thomas
at Denver.
A memorial painting of the late
Julia Ward Howe will be added to the
portrait collection in Faneull hall, &C.
cording to plans just perfected at a
public meeting In Boston.