The Springfield herald., 1910-06-03
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
eAYiNos, NOS, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN.

JOnn II. Mickey, ex-governor OF Ne
braska. is dying at his home at Osce
ola. Nebr.
Two cars OF the California Electric
railway on the Leona Heights line
Oakland, Calf, colllded !, Monday
morning and about forty persons were
hurt, some fatally.
Fire Tuesday night destroyed the
storehouse and oil tanks of the I'm
ion Portland Cement Company's plant
at DEVILS Slide. 80 miles from Ogden
Utah. Loss. $15O,OOO.
Burr Westlake, an architect OF Pasa
dena. shot and killed himself Sunday
in the residence of Miss Bertha
Schaetz in San Diego, Calf. He had
proposed marriage to Miss Schaetz
ard she had refused him.
Freight traffic was resumed Tues
day on the Western Pacific railroad,
which has been out of commission for
30 days as the result OF storm damage
to its tracks across Great Salt Lake.
The report reached Denver Monday
that the Western Pacific railroad has
again been washed out by floods and
that it is impossible at this time to
set definite date for the opening of
the extension of the Denver & Rio
Grande to the Pacific coast.
Louis and Temple Alternately. riding
bronchos two thousand miles. from
Frederick. Okla. their home. to New
York. to greet Mr.. Roosevelt next
month, arrived at Cumberland. Md
1o,, 10 f1h y
years old. and Temple is six. and they
are travelling alone.
Fifteen coal operators and represen-
tatives of about $500 coal miners of
District IA, embracing all of Kansas
except Leavenworth. came to work
ing agreement at Kansas City and at
Pittsburg. Kan. Thursday. The miners
will go to work within the next week
at the scale demanded at the Cincin-
natl convention.
Work is practically at standstill at
the Globe smelling plant. Denver,
since the sudden walkout Of the men
at IL O'Clock Saturday night. Although
trouble was expected Sunday among
the 500 men who are ont. the iay was
quiet. The men stood about the en-
trance to the works part of the time,
laughing and joking in their many
tongues.
Fifteen hundred pounds of giant
powder, under lock and key in tun-
hel of the Mogul Mining company's
workings at Terry, S. D.. was exploded
Thursday yet few people in town
knew it. The powder has just been
stored there and no one was working
near. The tunnel being near the sur
face, was wrecked, as was the black
smith shop.
District Forester Smith Riley of Dis
trict No. 2, located at Denver. has just
been informed by the bureau of ami
NAL industry through the forester that
it is considered important that bureau
classification be required to accompa-
ny sheep permitted to Craze in the
following national forests, all w thin
the state of Colorado: Coche opa.
San Juan. San Isabel. Las Ar mas,
Wet Mountain.
A dispatch from Monterey. Calf.
says: His body an unseen target for
the rain of bullets of Il firing squad
at rifle practice. Claude Hetheron,
private of Company X, Thirteenth in
fantry, stationed at the Preside. who
was taking measurements of the range,
was literally shot to pieces AID died
after lingering in the reservation hos
pital for two days. The accident oc-
Cured last week, but the facts have
just come to light"