The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1911-12-01
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DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Siguard Hartlg, real estate deal
er OF San Francisco. accidentally lit
a cigarette with $1,000 bill.
Eight Jurors have been finally accept
ed in the Mcnamara dynamIting case
In Los Angeles. The case was called
over six weeks ago
The Colorado Springs. Colo, Chan
Der of Commerce will distribute thou
sands Of postcards showing scenic at
fractions in Pixies Peak region.
!, The first Sunday In December is
every lodge Of the order In the coun-
try will hold memorial services.
Several armed men dynamited the
safe Of the bank OF Clarita, fourteen
miles west of Colgate. Okla, and got
about $500 In currency, and es-
capped.
Col. Clifford Ham Of Dubuque has
been appointed collector general of
customs for the republic of Nicaragua.
Col. Ham. for the last eight years has
been connected with the customs ser
vice of the Philippines. For two years
he has been surveyor of customs at
Manila.
Vice President and General Manager
Whittenton of the Chicago, Rock Is
land & Texas railroad. says that a
strike of 1900 shopmen under his iur-
isdiction in Texas. Oklahoma, Louisi-
ana and Arkansas is expected at any
minute. The dispute is over wages
and hours.
The flood waters in western Wash
ington are subsiding nearly as rapid
ly as they rose. Seattle's municipal
lighting plant has been restored and
the broken water pipe mended. The
inhabitants have suffered great incon-
venience. their dwelling places being
without drinking water.
Given the choice bewteen hanging
and shooting by District Judge Chris
Jensen at Price. Utah. two convicted
murderers chose the bullet and were
sentenced to be shot at the state pen
itentiary Jan. 10. Frank Romeo and
Robert Zaffy, the men who are to die,
| murdered Albert v. jenkins at Sunny
side Utah. for the purpose of robbery.
Wholesale grocers of Duluth, Mimi.
are circulating blank petitions seek
ing to obtain support for movement
to influence Congress to reduce the
duty on raw and refined sugars. The
petitions are being spread boardcast
through the country. The tax amounts
to 2 cents per pound on refined SUI
gar. equivalent to an eighty per cent
advalorem duty.
Greeley.-Finding cordial and
ready response to the call for a fund
of $4,000, to. continue farming at the
State Agricultural college, W. r. Nc
Clellan. R. E. Haythorn and E. r.
Bliss. the committee of the Weld Coun-
ty Farmers Club, have returned from
their trip. Following the pledge of
$500 by the Great Western Sugar
Company, come pledges from Rio
Grande and Eagle counties. of $3.50
each. Other Western slope counties
say they are ready to give. The Colo.
RADIO Telephone Company and milling
and creamery companies SAY they are
ready to help.
Two of the defendants in the tar
party case, at Lincoln Center, Kan,
John Schmidt and Sheriff. Clark.
were found guilty of assault and bat
terry by a Jury in Judge Growers
court Sentence on the two men was
deferred. Sentences of one year each
in the county Jail, the extreme penalty
in Kansas for the offense charged,
were passed on Everett G. Clark. Jay
Fitzwater, Watson Scranton and Ed
ward Ricord. confessed assailants o,
Mary Chamberlain. These defendants
were accused of the same crime as the
other men In addition to the SEN
fences, the court ruled that the men
must pay the costs of the prosecution.