The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-01-12
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIoN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
oo,Nos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
w ESTERN.

Five inches is the average depth o.
fnowfall over northern Idaho. In the
.outhern part of the state the fall wd:
Tess.
The intense cold and deep snow
?ave brought severe suffering among
lomesteaders in the Black Hills in
sonth Dakota.
Three acres of buildings comprising
he plant of the Commercial Acid
Company, near East st. Louis. burned.
The loss was 100000.
George A. Nicely, Democrat, of
Hutchinson, was elected to the United
States Congress from the Seventh
Kansas district, to succeed the late
e. II. Madison. Republican.
Marooned for more than week in
"a way car attached to an Atchison,
Topeka 4 Santa Fe freight train,
stuck fast in the snow near Laird in
western Kansas, two brakemen lived
on jackrabbits.
Arthur Lewis. accused of numbering
ais stepniece. Helen Rumball, by
breaking her neck, at Oroville. Cal,
vas sentenced to ten years imprison-
nent in San Quentin penitentiary. A
Jury found him guilty of manslaughter.
The new county grand jury at Los
Angeles has determined TO renew the
dynamite investigation, and subpoe-
paed five persons formerly connected
with the Mcnamara defense. The
principal charge is that OF jury brib-
cry.
A sympathetic strike of more than
100000 members of the Federated
Railroad Shop Employees, to be called
within a month and possibly within
two weeks, was predicted by Ernest Il.
Reguin, president of the Federated
Shop Employees of the Hartman lines.
State Health Officer Steiner at Aus
tin, Texas, announces that the com
monweaIth board of health would meet
in Dallas to consider the spread of
spinal meningitis in Texas. Dallas
has had about 40 cases and Waco
eighty-four cases since Oct. l.
A suit against the Independence Gas
Company, the Consolidated Gas Com
pany and the Kansas Natural Gas
Company, charging conspiracy to
raise prices and to prevent competi-
ION. has been filed by Attorney Gen.
eral Dawson in District Court at In
dependence. Kan.
Most short railroad lines in the
Black Hills of South Dakota are
blocked with snow and the cold, and
the Burlington & Northwestern, while
.r;
encing much difficulty and ali the
traffic is considerably behind schedule
The temperature is SO degrees below
Hope for the lives of thousands OF
starving cattle on the Texas ranges
was held out by a sudden rise in tenn
perature to 40 degrees above zero
This is the first thaw in the Texas
Panhandle for three weeks. 1t was
feared that stockmen would lose
heavily.
George Rives of Goldfield, New, was
sentenced to seven years in Leaven'
worth prison at Sale Lake, on the
charge of taking young girl from
Salt Lake to Goldfield Tor immoral
purposes. Jessie Gray, alias Jessie
Rives, was sentenced to six years in
the Lansing, Mich. state prison on a
similar charge. They We're arrested
at Carson, New.
Unable to see the station lights in
the binding snowstorm which swept
over western Kansas Engineer C. C.
Deming of the Santa Fee passenger
train No. ran past the station at
Wright, Kan. Before he could back
his train into the siding after he had
discovered his mistake, his train was
hit by the Newton-Dodge City local
westbound. peming was fatally
scalded, Engineer j. W. Chalfant of
the local was killed and twelve pas.
sengers were hurt.