The Springfield herald., 1911-01-06
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN.

The Los Angeles Times has per
fected arrangements for the first de-
livery of newspapers by aeroplanes.
Arch Hoxsey, of Pasadena. Cal,
Eolder of the present worlds altitude
record Of ll,474 feet, flew over Mount
North Texas is shivering under a
cold wave. Amarillo, in the Pan
handle. reports half an inch of snow
and high wirds.
The city and county of Denver
spent $1G77977S to care for its poor
in the year ending November 3Oth, ac-
cordins to report of county clerk.
Luther Burbank has announced the
creation of strawberry of new type
the Patagonia" which commences to
ripen first and continues to bear the
longest.
Edward Tracy was arrested in
Eutte, Mont, after a chase of year
and is charged with an unusual of
Tense against the statutes, namely.
stealing the same horse twice.
The body of man forty years old
vas found in Paola. Kans., in car
loaded with bricks. In his pocket was
found a receipt from fratcrnal lodge
at Anadarko, Okla, bearing the name
of w. o. Bruce.
Fred Cutler, messenger boy, was
run down and probably fatally injured
in Guthrie. Okla, by an automobile
carrying State Treasurer James Men
efe. The car used emergency brakes.
1t was demolished
Eighteen feet of gold ore worth $75
Ter ton is the verified report of the
big strike made recently at the Ital
ian mine, belonging to the Leesburg
Mining Company. about twenty miles
from Salamon City. Idaho. The min
ers predict stampede.
Gold shipped by Alaska operators to
the United States assay office at Seat
lie for the month of November, 1910,
amounted to approximately s1.540,O0
as against about S723,OOO for Novem-
Der. 1909: the operating season was
considerably longer than previous
seasons.
England and France, in a speed
coalition, defeated America at Los An
geles, in the first aerial derby ever run.
las. Radley, the British speed cham
pon, in a French Bleriot monoplane,
beat Eugene Ely, driving Curtis
racer, and Phil Parmalee, in baby"
Wright, in an eight and three-quarter
miles race.
Disclosures following the forced IL
quidation of the Quanah National
bank of Quanah, Texas, caused the
comptroller of the currency TO issue
as order directing every one of the
7,1O0 national banks in the United
States to install what practically
amounts to uniform system of book
Keeping.
The secretary of the interior has
approved the contract entered into by
Supervising Engineer Savage of the
reclamation service on behalf of the
United States, with Samuel Thomas
Of Byron, Wyo., for the construction
OF distributory bitches under the
rrannie canal and lateral A. of the
Shoshcne irrigation project Wyoming.
In support of a motion for a new
trial for James McLachlan. convicted
of murder in the first degree for kill.
ing his wife in Cheyenne, his counsel
has produced affidavits of physician,
a police sergeant and a newspaper re
porter, stating that few minutes aft
er the shooting McLachlan. who had
shot himself with suicidal intent,
made to them what he considered a
diving statement asserting that he had
shot his wife in self-defense, after she
had attacked him. with a butcher
knife.