The Springfield herald., 1912-03-22
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Wholesale accusations of fraudu-
lent registration in Chicago are under
Investigation by the election board.
established in the dining car depart
ment of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company.
The carpenters organization of
Bakersfield, Cal, has collected nearly
$2S,OOO, which is to be used for the
erection of labor temple.
Governor Hunt of Arizona an
rounced as one of his policies the
working of convicts upon the public
roads without guards.
Chairman Adamson of the House
commerce committee has introduced
bill providing for physical vaiLa-
tion of all of the common carriers.
Fifteen head of the finest elk ever
taken out OF the Jackson Hole, Wyo..
country arrived in the Wallowa coun
ty forest in Oregon. The elk were
transported over the Teton pass on
sleds.
Action has been taken by John S.
Dawson, attorney general of Kansas,
designed to stop loan sharks" from
bringing suits in that state to collect
from railroad men living in other
states.
Westbound Southern Pacific passen-
ger train was held up by robbers two
miles east of Sanderson, Texas, and
the robbers detached the engine, mail
10 o.
cape.
What is claimed to be the largest
range steer ever sent to market has
been shipped to Chicago from Billings,
Mont. The animal weighs more than
$500 pounds and brought 5000. which
is said to be record price for a range
steer.
The United States treasury would
be enriched S2,16O,000 if the maximum
fine were imposed upon ZIG corpora
tions operating in California which
are to be made defendants in a suit
to be instituted by the federal govern
ment.
Miss Viola Carver, young and
handsome Pasadena. Calf, girl shot
D. q
and real estate dealer, in Los Angeles
because of disappointed love. The
shooting was done in the corridor of
downtown office building.
Representatives of 1872 lodges of the
Modern Woodmen of America in Kan
sas decided to secede from the parent
organization and form an Independent
in
Kan. The recent increase in insurance
rates by the parent body was the
cause.
A Denver boy is governor of a real
island in the Pacific. 1t is no make
Lelieve island, but sure-enough one
that belongs to Uncle Sam. Mason
Lawrence, son of Albert j. Lawrenc:
of the Lawrence-Hensley Produce
Company, is the youthful governor.
The island is Bucas, one Of the Philip
pine group.
Three prisoners at the Nebraska
penitentiary at Lancaster, three miles
south of Lincoln, assassinated War
den James Delahunty, Deputy Warden
Charles Wagner, Usher A. C. Heilman,
and wounded Cellhouse Keeper Doody
The three convicts then made their
escape from the front entrance of the
penitentiary and were swallowed up in
a blizzard.
David A. Trousdale, the Wells-Far-
go express messenger, who killed the
two train robbers on the Southern Pa
cific train near Sanderson, Texas, re-
Gently, while defending the funds in
his charge, has refused the small re-
ward the express company Offered
him, $500. Citizens in the western
part of Texas proposed a purse of
100000 and this is being raised for the
fearless messenger who so cleverly
killed the two bandits. There was
nearly 100000 in express packages in
the safe in the car, and Trousdale
said the company expected him to de-
fend this with his life.