The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-12-27
A BRIEF RECORD or PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR =
EIoN couNTRiEs.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Mrs. Maggie Adams, widow of the
famous Indian chief. Adams, is dead
at Garibaldi, Ore. She was 113 years
of age.
President Taft has decided to eccept
the Kent professorship at Yale and
probably will take up his duties at
New Haven in the spring.
]. H. Logue, 55 years old, president
of ]. H. Logue & Co., diamond dealers,
was found murdered In his offices in
McVickers Theater building. in Chi
cago.
Less cotton was ginned during the
period from December 1 to 10 this
year than last year. the total having
been 57O,312 running bales. compared
with 953.920 bales last year.
Richard Tankersly, first settler of
western Texas, died at Tankersly.
Texas. He was SO years old and
boosted that since he was 90 years
old he had never slept indoors.
President Taft committed to one
year the two and a half year SEN
tence of Clarence d. Hillman. a
wealthy real estate dealer of Seattle,
convicted of using the mails to de-
fraud.
More rigid compliance with the re-
quests OF this government for the pro-
lection of American lives and prop
erty in Mexico, will be demanded by
the Department of State in note to
President Madero.
The President has granted a pardon
to Captain William H. Van Setback.
who commanded the steamboat Cen
eral Slocum, which burned in 1904 in
East river, off New York city, result
ing in the loss of 1000 lives, mostly
women and children.
Among the forty live blue foxes
from the Aleutian islands. which ar
rived at Seattle on the steamship Yu-
kon, bound for breeding farm in
New Brunswick, are a number of sill
Yer grays, which the owner values at
more than $1,000 each.
The Socialist candidate for Congress
from the First South Dakota district
Edward NJ. jacobson. of Sioux Falls.
spent two cents for his campaign, ac-
cording to his report to the Senate.
This was the price of the stamp that
brought his expense statement.
The Capital-News Publishing Com
pany, OF Boise, Idaho, charged with
contempt of court for its criticism of
the Supreme Courts decision, which
prevented the printing of the names
of Progressive presidential electors on
the ballots. has filed its answer
Senator Guggenheim recommended
to President Taft the appointment of
Hugh Taylor as receiver of public
moneys at Denver. Taylor's present
term of office expires February 81,
six days before President Wilson and
the new Democratic organization goes
into power.
Representative Rucker of Colorado.
who holds the Endorsement of the Col
orado delegation in Congress and Of
William ]. Bryan and others for ap-
pointment to the post of United States
minister to Cuba, after the Inaugural
ton of Woodrow Wilson. departed for
Havana to spend the Christmas holt
days, looking over the situation.
Characterizing the Arkansas peni-
tertiary under the lease system as a
burning, seething hell, consuming hui
man beings, who are being fed into
it in manner which results in moth
ing but making fortunes for contract
ors," Governor Donaghey issued a
statement in defense of his action in
issuing pardons to BIG state convicts
Forty-eight years an employee of the
United States Senate-a record of con-
tinuous service beginning when
Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson
We're senators from Massachusetts
is the special claim to distinction
made on behalf of Charles N. Rich
ards, superintendent of the stationery
room at the Senate. Richards is II
years old. He looks about so. He is
a veteran of the Civil war.