The Springfield herald., 1911-10-06
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Gov. ]. NJ. Carey of Wyoming was
the principal speaker at a luncheon of
the Denver chapter of the American
Institute of Banking in Denver.
/. Five hundred Italians living in San
Francisco have notified the Italian
consul that they are ready to return
to their native land for military serv-
ice.
Acting without reference to the re-
fineries at New York or San Fran
cisco. Tacoma jobbers have reduced
the price of all grades of sugar 70
cents hundred pounds.
Progress by the ocean-to-ocean avia-
tors has not been SO great during the
week. So small has been the number
of miles made by any that there seems
little chance the big prize will be won
Gen. Irving Hale, whose record at
West Point and in the Spanish-Amer-
lean war has made him nationally
known, was stricken with apopleXy in
the street of Denver and his condition
is serious.
Fire which broke out in ware
house In Wichita. Kan, was not con-
trolled until the property loss was
100000 and two firemcn and three
spectators were reported buried under
fallen wall.
William f. Dawson, his wife and one
daughter were found dead in their
beds in Monmouth. ILL.,. the skulls of
each crushed in. Dawson was the
caretaker of the First Presbyterian
Church.
Euthanasia as means of providing
an easy death for incurrable sufferers
to prevent prolonged agony was ap-
proved by several ST. Louis physicians
in discussion of the st. Louis Socie-
ty of Medical Research.
In 1910 the state of Texas produced
in farm products the vast sum OF
1864, 10000, Illinois, heretofore the
banner state, dropped to second place
with 1920, 0,295,0OO in farm products
Iowa comes third, and Kansas fourth.
A special from Wallace, Idaho. says
three men were killed and eight in
| jured on the Milwaukee logging rail
| road, twelve miles from Herrick, when
| the brake on the locomotive failed and
the train ran wild through the derail
ing switch.
Communication has been established
with the fourteen miners entombed in
the Shakespeare mine at Fairbanks
Alaska A steam pipe running into
the collapsed shaft was opened. enab
ling those above ground to talk to the
men imprisoned IT'S feet below.
E. E. Calvin of San Francisco, vice
president and general manager of the
Southern Pacific railroad, in formal
statement, intimates that it will &c
hard with the men who strike, mas
much as some of them are nearly en-
titled to service pensions, which will
be forfeited.
In a speech in Waterloo, Ia, defin
in 1.-The Relation of the Government
| to Business" President Taft an
nounced that the trust prosecution
begun by the Department of Justice
at Washington would continue despite
the recent criticism that business was
being made to suffer. He served no
tice that the big business interests
of the country must be brought with.
in the law, just as the railroads have
been.
The Public Lands convention in Den
yer was run according to program, but
a considerable number of the delegates
were dissatisfied with the methods EN-
ployed, they say, to give control to
| Colorado. Some favored conservation
and the government policy toward
public lands. Some are opposed to
| this and want the public domain
| turned over to the several states. All
resolutions were referred to a com
mittee of ten men.