The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1911-12-08
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK or
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
CURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDEMNED FOR DUsv
PEOPLE.
WESTERN.

titled to alimony and support under
certain conditions. according to de-
cision of the Supreme Court, handed
down at Bismark. N. d.
w. E. D. Stokes. whose wife was
Miss Helen Ellwood of Denver. Colo.
is reported SO Ill at his apartments
in the Hotel Ansonia In New York that
his recovery is said to be matter OF
grave doubt.
The Florence-Goldfield mill. at Gold
field, New, owned by the Florence
Goldfield Mining Company, of which
A. d. Parker OF. Denver is vice presi-
dent and treasurer, caught fire, and
this valuable property. costing approx
mately 100000. went up in smoke.
The entire Pacific fleet has been or
dered to proceed with all haste to
Shanghai. China. American marines
have been sent to Pekin from both
Tientsin and Shanghai and orders
were issued for 1900 more troops to
sail from Manila for Shanghai imme-
diately.
The Gary steel plant of Chicago.
which is considered creditable baro-
meter of business conditions in the
Middle West, is producing more steel
than ever before in the history. There
is much activity in all departments
and there are $500 men on the pay
rolls of the steel works alone.
Manford, a town of 5000 persons.
twenty miles from Tulsa, Okla, re-
sembles an armed camp, according to
reports, in fear of race war follow
ing a series of events In which one
white man, Fred A. Evans. was killed !;
another, Rolly johnson. was seriously
injured; and one negro Med Walker"
was lynched.
Amid a din OF whistling from river
craft, the replica of the steamboat
New Orleans, the first steam vessel to
ply the Mississippi river, came into
the harbor at New Orleans, complet-
ing a cruise from Pittsburg in celebra-
ton of the centennial anniversary of
the Inauguration of steamboating on
the Father of Waters"
1.-THE United States government and
the California authorities are cooper
ating to uncover one Of the most 81
gantic conspiracies ever conceived In
the history of this country" This
was the declaration of Assistant Dis.
trict Attorney w. Joseph Ford. second
in command to District Attorney John
d. Fredericks of Los Angeles, and the
man who was arrested In indianapolis
for alleged illegal extradition OF John
j. Mcnamara.
H. A. johnson of Denver, traffic
manager of the Colorado & Southern
railway, who is travelling through
southern California in his private car,
had desperate encounter in Coronado
bay with a man.eating shark, twelve
feet long. After fierce and sangui-
nary battle, lasting over two hours.
Mr.. johnson succeeded In killing the
vicious monster. During the fight for
life the shark stowe in the bow OF
Johnson's boat and ate the blade off
one of the oars.
In Judge Bordwell's court in Los
Angeles, James B. Mcnamara pleaded
guilty to murder in the first degree.
His brother, John ]. Mcnamara, sec
rotary of the International Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers, entered a plea of guilty to having
dynamited the Llewellyn Iron Works
in Los Angeles Christmas Day, 1910.
James B. McNamara's confession
clears up absolutely the tragedy of
the explosion and fire which at 1907
o'clock on the morning of October 1,
1910. wrecked the plant of the Los
Angeles Times and caused the deaths
of twenty-one persons.