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Hs Struck One Blow.

march" The soldiers shook hands
with their hostess as they babe her
farewell, fact which evoked another
emphatic protest from the president.
Then the narrative of the crime was
continued. Nolot said:
First of all took the woman's
head under my arm and threw her
down. She only said, II am not rich.
but do not kill me. I will give you
everything l have" She got up and
then Tisseau threw her down again
and made sign to me- Taking thick
stick, which he held out to me, said,
"Oh, we must have done with this!"
and l struck one blow, which was
enough. Then we searched the ward
robe and left with seventeen francs,
which wee shared as we went along"
You certainly hit hard" remarked
the president. and, undoing a parcel,
he added, Look, here are some bits
Of your victims skull" The two young
soldiers hung their heads and did not
utter a word. In the course of the
trial 1t TRANSFERRED that the two men,
whose antecedents were the reverse of
respectable and who had been in the
habit of Dragging about them to their
comrades. had previously contemplated
the murder of another old woman
dwelling in a lonely farmhouse, and
also of wealthy citizen residing at
LIE Mans. as well as the burglary of a
jewelers. establishment at La Fleche,
winding up with plan for the murder
Of corporal in their company, with
whom they were on friendly terms, in
order to obtain possession of his saw
ings bank book, the plan being that
they should hide his corpse and spread
report that he had deserted. The
verdict Of the court martial was unani-
NOUS
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01

Thirty thousand bales of cotton
burned in one of the big warehouses
in Bombay. ~
Reports from San Jose, Costa Rica,
state that the earthquake reported has
been felt generally over the whole of
the high plateau but no serious dam
age has been done so far.
The chamber of deputies at Rome
passed the bill for the annexation of
Tripoli by Italy by a vote of 431 to
38, amid enthusiastic cheering from
the floor of the chamber and the pub
lie gallery. es
While the memory OF George Wash
ington was celebrated by Americans
throughout the civilized world, the
new Chinese republic took cognizance
of the event and sent a cablegram of
greetings to the State Department at
Washington.
Jules Vedrines at Pau, France, broke
the speed record for monoplanes, fly
ing sixty-two miles in thirty-seven
minutes and 124 miles in one hour and
fifteen minutes. The previous record
for sixty-two miles was made by Ba-
THAT at Douzy Jan. &c. when he Gov
cred the distance in forty-one minutes
and twenty-four seconds.
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WESTERN.


1t is estimated that fifty residences
were destroyed by a fire Which swept
the portion of Houston, Texas, inhab
tied by the working classes.
A foot of snow has fallen at Lamar,
Colo, with the wind blowing constant
ly The snow is badly drifted although
the ground is entirely covered.
Tom Gun, the San francisco
Chinese aviator. had narrow escape
from death at the meet ins Oakland
when his biplane fell from q height of
$50 feet and buried him beneath the
wreckage. - -t
A company of Mexican federal sol
diers led by Commissario Gales of
Aqua Prieta fought brief b9ttle with
the rebel band which raided the Elias
ranch at Douglas, Ariz. The febels re,
treated under fire, leaving Two dead
on the field.
To develop more thoroughly the fer
tilizer and potash resources3 of the
United States. Secretary wilson has
ordered the establishment IT Reno
New. of a government laboratory,
where natural materials sui posed to
contain potash will be examined with
out cost. Those sending SAMPLES must
prepay transportation charger.
The total area of the tpblic do
main that I'm to date has bo6n CLASH
fled as applicable to the pfovisions
of the enlarged homestead act
amounts to nearly. two hundred mil
Anp
In Montana and Oregon were desig-
mated as lands from which, 32O-acre
homesteads may be selected. and
more lands are being classified ev-
ery month. Xxi
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In their stuffy prison before man
could be found who knew the combi-
nation of the safe. They emerged
pale and breathless. only to find De-
tective Crandall waiting to take them
to another lookup where you can get
plenty of air between the bars" he
told them.
Half the gambling fraternity OF the
city heard the story long before the
release came. One declared there
were more bets made on the chance
of the escape OF the two men alive
than there were on the ponies" in
every gambling place in the city du-
ring the afternoon.
A bookmaker in the vicinity saw
the detectives go Into the building.
and knew they were after the sixth
floor room. He sent a scout up to see
what had occurred. and in Ave min
utes the news that big Bill" and
"Bathhouse" Lynch were locked in
was humming over all the contraband
telephone wires In Chicago
THE betting odds all favored
'Bathhouse' because he's the runtiest
and 1t was figured he'd need less air
than the big fellow" one man said.
Say, II 1t hadn't, been for the cops be-
ing on deck there would have been
hundred of their friends waiting to
welcome them when they got out. The
Judge ought to remember their self
sentence of incarceration when they
are before him."
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
SPORT.

Sailor Ed Petroskey, the San Fran
cisco aspirant for middleweight hon
ors, took terrific drubbing at the
hands of Frank Klaus, the Pittsburg
claimant of the championship. at San
Francisco. Klaus won the decision
with nearly every round to his credit.
Joe Ketchel. the prize fighter who
Billy Walters near Waukegan, Ill /,
died. eva b.
Mike Gibbons of st. Paul knocked
cut Willie Lewis of New York in the
second round OF scheduled ten-round
bout in the latter city.
Frank Klaus, the Pittsburg middle
weight, who defeated Sailor Petros-
key in a one-sided two-round contest
in San Francisco has been matched
by Promoter James Coffroth to box
Jack Dillon of Indianapolis next
month. saa
Jim Flynn, who is to battle with
Jack johnson during the coming sum-
mer, blasted the aspirations, of Wal
ter MacLachlan for pugillstic honors
in a three-round bout at the Star
theater in Milwaukee.
A new champion was born to pugi.
ism in the Vernon arena at Los An
gsles when Johnny Kilbane OF Cleve.
land, Ohio, decisively outfought. out.
gained and outpunched Abe Attell in
their twenty-round contest, and at the
close was awarded the featherweight
title by Referee Charles Eyton.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
WARRINGTON.

President Taft and the German am
hassador. Court Won Bernstorff. both
heartily fatpfa tho earliest consumma-
ton of anTarbitration treaty with
Germany VS9t
An official order for changing the
stars Of the national ensign and the
union jack in use by the navy to show
the. addition of two new states to the
Union kAs been issued by the Navy
Department.
The Borah bill to reduce the time
years Iland to grant entrymen six
months' leave Of obsence annually has
found new advocate III Speaker
CLARK ,of the House. =.st .il
4 President Taft, has informed Con
gress that he does not approve Of Post
master General Hitchcock's sugges-
ton that the government buy and OPP
crate all telegraph lines as an adjunct
of the postal system.
| A request for American intervention
in Mexico was made unon the War De-
partment when the mayor and dele
CATION OF citizens of Ell Paso, Texas.
urgently asked Secretary Stimson to
sent troops into Juarez to preserve or
der and to protect Americans.
The Washington National Monu-
mental Society has sent letters to the
governors of states which have not
placed memorial stones in the Wash
ington monument. and urging that
these states furnish memorials sim
liar to those already placed there. The
states not represented are Colorado.
New Mexico,- Arizona, Oklahoma. Tex
as. Washington and Idaho.
President Taft. speaking at the
peace meeting of the Navy league in
Washington declared the time had not
come for this country to be economi-
cal at the expense of an adequate
naval establishment; expressed the
hope that the present Congress would
authorize the construction of two bat
tleships, and said he gladly would
Sign bill that carried such an author
Iization. ai' ~ NH
Authority to send American troops
across the Mexican border to quell
conditions of anarchy or fighting that
might threaten lives or property on
this side of the line may soon be
given to President Taft. A resolution
probably will be introduced in the
Senate soon,i with the knowledge OF
the administration, which will be sim
liar to Senator Stones of last May
which directed the foreign relations
committee to ascertain the duty OF
this government in connection with
the killing of Americans by firing
from the Mexican side or may pro-
pose to delegate to President Taft au.
thority to take whatever steps he
deems necessary in an emergency.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
TWO SOLD|ERSK|LL
THE|RAGEDH0STESs
They Are Sentenced to Death by
Court Martial for the Unus-
uaIIy Brutal Murder.
SHOW VICTIMS SKULL
Wanted Money for Their Amusement,
and Finding the Old Woman Alone,
Beat Her to Death With
Club, After Struggle
for Life.

Paris.-Two young soldiers belong
fig to an infantry regiment have been
sentenced to death by the court mar
tial sitting at LIE Mans On the sec
ond Sunday in October these men.
whose names are Tisseau and Nolot.
murdered under extremely shocking
circumstances an old farm woman,
who had treated them in a most hos
pitable manner.
They wanted money for their amuse-
ments, and, arriving about noon at the
house they asked the old woman, who
was alone, to give them some refresh
ment, request with which she will
ingly complied. AS they were eating
Nine. Luceau talked to them about
her husband. who had fought in the
war Of 1870, and said that he was ex-
pecting the medal for 1t.
She went to a wardrobe. took from
it some documents which she and the
veteran treasured, showed them with
pride to the two soldiers, and then
they spoke of the heroism which had
been displayed by the French troops.
So indignant was the colonel who
presided at the trial when all this was
related that he exclaimed. $50 you.
who were wearing the uniform of the
army, had no pity on this poor wo-
man.?
NO." replied Nolot, "the converse
ton had even made US forget our pro-
ject, and we were going to leave
empty-handed when Tisseau reminded
me with glance that We had to
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
He Picked Her Up.

In her delirium she has been able to
moan only: Don't let that negro
throw me out of the window. Don't
let him throw me out"
Had 1t not been for the fire Mrs.
Thompson might have lain for hours
undiscovered in the rear of the tea
shop, which Is favorite meeting
place for the fashionable women Of
this town. The fire was giving out
much smoke when one of the firemen,
going to the rear of the building,
stumbled over Mrs. Thompson's un-
conscious form.
When she was revived she was too
hysterical and delirious to tell what
had happened. She kept shrieking
that she had been thrown out of a
window by negro, but could tell
nothing else of what had occurred.
She appeared to have no bruises or
other marks Of violence aside from a
confusion of the head where 1t had
come in contact with the frozen
earth. The windows of the tea shop
under which she lay are about ten
feet from the ground.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
Price of Metals.

New York. : Copper : Standard
steady. Spot. s14O0@14.10; Febru'
airy, $14O5014.1O; March. s14O7h q
1412k April s14.O7A @14.15; May
and June, $14.O714 @14.2O. Lake cop
per, 14h @14A; electrolytic. 14B @
14kc; casting, 13B@14Hc.
Tin-Steady. Spot, $4,000 43.10;
February, $42.75@43.1O; March. $42.6O
@42.s7k; April, s42.25@42.62A; May,
$42.25@42.5O; June, $42 121A @42.5O.
Lead-Steady. $4.0O@4.10 New York
and $3.S5@4.O5 East st. Louis.
Spelter-Quit. s6.5O@6.75 New York
and $6.37k @6.621s East st. Louis
Antimony-Dull. Cookson's, $7.25.
Iron-Locally iron is unsettled. No.
1 foundry Northern, s14.75@ 1925; No.
2, $14.25@14.75; No. l Southern and
No. 1 Southern soft, $14.75@15.25.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
HURLs WOMAN FROM WINDOW
Woman Found oeIlrIous by Firemen Is
Thought to Have Been At
tackled by Negro.

South Orange, N. found deliri-
GUS in the rear Of her tea shop. THE
Hopper Kettle" in South Orange av-
enue the other day by firemen. Mrs.
l.. Thompson has been unable to tell
the police how she got there.
1t is believed that she went to the
tea shop from her home. a few doors
away, to see that some valuable new
silver she had just received was safe.
and that she was attacked by a negro.
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Boy nanI.hed to Australl.

Santa Cruz, Cal.-Exile to Australia
for five years was the penalty i'm
posed upon Harold Bower. nineteen
years old, when he pleaded guilty to
charge Of burglary the other day.
Bowers parents are said to be well
known in the literary world. Judge
Smith, learning that he had an uncle
in Australia, agreed to place the boy
on probation upon assurance that he
would live with the uncle for five
years.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
Live Stock.

South Omaha. : Cattle = Market
strong Native steers, $525@7.75; cows
and heifers, $3.3O@5.65; Western
steers, $4,000 $50; Texas steers, $3.75
@5.35: range COWS and heifers, $500
@4.s5; Gamers, s2.5O@3.6O; stockers
and feeders, $a.75@6.25; calves. 1915
@7.25; bulls, stays, ETC., $3.S0@5.30.
Hogs-Market SC lower. Heavy, $6.O5
@6.20; mixed, $5.90@6.05; light, $50
@6.1o; pigs, $4.25@5.50; bulk Of sales
$5.S0@6.05.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
Americans Are sesieqed.

Marea, Textile headquarters OF
the Nelson Morris ranch. opposite
Sierra Blanca, is surrounded by insur
gents and a battle between American
lanchmen and Mexicans was carried
on for twelve hours. A band OF
tot -.Kmerican cowboys, well armed. have
started southwark for the Rio Grande,
ale determined to release the besieged. "A
:, Mexican cowboy brought an appeal to
"-n the Texas cowboys for assistance.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
See Wedding for 2s Cent?.

The Dalles, Ore.-Capt. Bernhard
Anderson Of The Dalles corps of the
Salvation Army and Capt Nellie E.
Wilkins Of North Yakima, Wash. were
married at the Congregational church
in this city by Brigadier R. Dublin of
Seattle. Many The Dalles folk paid
the admission fee of 25 cents and wit
messed the ceremony.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
FACE DEATH HIDING
IN BUILDING VAULT
Two Alleged Bookmakers Almost
Smothered Under Lock, Res
cued, Then Arrested.

Chicago-Two alleged bookmakers
are declared to have been almost
smothered the other afternoon In a flu
tile endeavor to avoid arrest. They
locked themselves in vault in a
room on the sixth floor Of the Adams
Express company building.
"Bill" Haldeman and "Bathhouse"
George Lynch. said to be the two men
who sought escape by hiding IN the
airless stronghold, spent three hours
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
Thought Cat Was POSTUM,

Warrensboro, Kan.-William Palmer
while out 'possum shooting fired re-
peatedly at an animal his dogs had
freed. The "varmint" leaped out of
the branches and made tracks toward
Palmer's home. Then the nimrod
learned he had been trying to kill the
family cat.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
GEN ERAL.


A ten-inch fall of snow covers Mis-
souri,. Kansas and parts of Oklahoma
and Arkansas.
In an explosion and panic in NOV
ing picture show at Albrightsville, w.
Va. twenty-nine persons were in
jured.
Never. before in the history of New
of robberies as within the last fort
night.
= Capt. Theodore F. Townsend, one Of
the most noted weather experts in
this, country died at his home at Cape
May. n. ], aged seventy-four.
John Harmon, a laborer was a vic
tim of the storm in Chicago. His
body was found frozen in snow
drift in the yard of his home.
Seven persons are known to have
been killed and score injured in a
tornado which swept portions of Lin
coin, Jefferson and Arkansas counties,
Ark. The greatest destruction was re-
ported near Almyria, in the prairie
and lice lands of Arkansas county.
Eight persons are dead and about
fifty injured as the result of tor
nado which swept through the west
ern part of Shreveport, La. The dead
includes -two-months-old baby of A.
]. Mannheim, whose home was demol-
ished.
Unprecedented prosperity is being
enjoyed by the Philippine islands.
,.Jp Al, Of do ho
tween them and the United States,
and the cry of hard times" there no
longer can be raised. say the members
of the Philippine commission in their
report for 1911. The United States has
shared in this prosperity by increasing
its exports to the archipelago to $40,
100000, or more than $12,5O0,0O0 dur
ing the year.
A binding snowstorm. backed by a
fifty-mile gale swooped down on the
Middle West, blocked traffic. played
pranks with the routine of human af-
fairs and swept eastward in the direc-
ton of northern Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New York. A temperature rang
ing between twenty-nine and twenty
four degrees made the wind and snow
bearable and little suffering was re-
ported. Several deaths in wrecks are
attributed indirectly to the storm. The
storm reached its greatest intensity in
Chicago and northern and central ILL
nois. although eastern Iowa and Mis-
souri,, southern Wisconsin. Michigan
and Indiana felt the blizzard to con-
siderable extent.
Black Hand murders, safe crackers.
burglars, footpads, pickpockets and
daylight bandits have operated in st.
Louis almost without molestation for
two weeks. The police have been ut
terly unable to cope with the situa-
ton aa-Hht
Four trainmen are dead and Hoosac
tunnel at North Adams, Mass, Is SO
effectively blocked that 1t may be days
before the tracks are cleared, as the
result of a rear-end collision between
freight train and Boston-bound
express on the Boston & Maine rail-
road. rf
The mystery of eight deaths of ba-
bies in the Brooklyn nursery and in
FAINT hospital was solved. the police
say, by the confession Of Winifred
Ankers, a kitchen woman at the hos
pital, admitting that she placed oxalic
acid in the babies milk bottles.
Sermons on the prevention Of con
sumption will be preached in thou
sands of churches on April 2sth, which
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention OF Tuberculosis. &C.
cording to an announcement made re-
Gently. has set aside as tuberculosis
| Day.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
House Favors eieht-Hour Day.

Washngton.-The House went on
record as favoring the adoption of the
eight-hour work day on all govern
4 ment works. when provision for
u hpNthtion of the hours of labor was
(.n@A bn the appropriation for the
nMnufactare OF armament in the arm.
Notifications bill.
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! Municipal Bank for Spokane.

spokane. = The municipal govern.
ment and the labor unions Of Spo-
kane have united in project to form
a uuasi-municipal bank, which will
eliminate the contractor from the mu-
rffcipal work Of Spokane. according to
a statement issued by the commits
sloner of public works. Sla
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01

Chicago-The storm which brought
n heavy snow to the Middle Lake re-
zion and rain and thunder on line
south of the Ohio river, Is moving
RAPIDLY. eastward. Snow is falling
tftoa the Lake Brie region on the
north to Kentucky, and below the
1n6W 6eH there II rain.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01

Portland, Ore-The burning of the
Gilman hotel. landmark of pioneer
days, resulted in the death of two
men, and three others are missing.
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st. Louis.-Wool-Stea Medium
grades combing and clothing, 200
21hc; light fine, 15@19c; heavy fine,
12Q15c; tub washed, 27@30c.
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Price of Sugar.

New York.-Sugar-Raw firm. Mus
covado, SO test, $4.3O; centrifugal. So
test, $3.50; molasses, SO test, $4.O5.
Refined firm.
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Preference Primaries Not Popular.
Chicago. - Presidential preference
primaries are not proving as popular
as had been anticipated. Only seven
states will hold such elections.
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Poultry in New YoI

New York. - Poultry - Dressed
steady. Western chickens, 12k @15c,
fowls, 12h @16c; turkeys, 12@21c.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-01
Price Of Flax,

Duluth.-Linseed-I store, $2.02;
on track. to arrive. $2.04; February,
12.02 bid; May, $2.05.
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Hay.

Hay.
prices Paid by Denver Jobbers F. o.
B. track Denver)
Colorado upland, per ton. .1o.O0@16.oO
Nebraska upland, per ton. 1880 14.5o
Second bottom, Colorado
and Nebraska. per ton. .00@12.0
Timothy, per ton 1910. 10000 $500
Alfalfa. per ton W12.oo
South Park, choice, per !
ton $500 1850
San Luis Valley, per ton. .13.OO@ 14.OO
Gunnison Valley, per ton. .15.O0q 1870
Straw, per ton ........... 4.O09 5.oo