Semi-weekly herald., 1912-09-05
FROM BUSY cENTERs
Stories of Real Life as Told by
Wire. from Every Section Comes
Tales Of the Busy " ord.


SALEM, Ore, Sept, 2.-The Ore
gon State FAIR one of the grandcst
agricultural exhibitions of the year
> IN the northwest, opened its gates
today for a weeks business. The
management has added many fine
attractions this year and record
breaking attendance is expected.
ROME, Aug. 3o.-Marquis Imper-
ial, inventor of new explosive per-
ished today in the destruction of his
factory. The building was hurled in
to the air by the explosion and the
inventor was blown to pieces.
The marquis was badly injured
last year by an explosion in the same
factory. The marquis had claimed
that while his explosive contained
destructive powder it was absolute
ly safe to handle.
AUSTIN, Tex, Aug. 3O.-Attor-
ney General Jewel p Lightfoot, one
of the original trust busters" vol
unfairly retired from the office of
attorney general of Texas today. Mr.
Lightfoot declares that after eight
years of service of the state in con-
nection with the office of attorney
general, he is poorer than when he
entered it, and that he will take up
private practice.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 30
The head camp meeting of the Mod
ern Woodmen of America in 1914
will be held either in Colorado
Springs or Denver in the opinion of
Dr.. j. A. Rutledge, superintendent
of the national sanitarium, located
in Colorado Springs and a member
of the committee on selection of the
next meeting place.
The head camp meeting will mean
an expenditure of about 100000 in
the city that gets it.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 81
a storl, not an actual bird, put that
mysterious creature whose activities
influences the census figures, chose
a downtown store here IN which to
pay its first visit to Mrs. Robert
Moore of Joplin, Mo. Mrs Moore
had just arrived from Joplin and
was on her way to the hospital She
went into the corner cigar store and
asked that an ambulance be called,
but the stork bringing with him an
eight and one-half pound, blue-eyed
baby boy, arrived first.
Mother and child are doing we'll
BAR HARBoR, Me, Aug. 3d. c.
Clark, speaker Of the house of rep
resentatives, delivered speech here
today in which he said:
=" We have recently witnessed at
Washington a spectacle of a Demo-
cratic house passing good bills which
would have greatly reduced the high
cost of living an (Which would have
zone far towards relieving the bur.
of heavy taxes-and of Re-
publican president vetoeing these
bills as fast as they reached him"
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt, Aug. 81
"If the crowds turn out on my west
ern trip as they have done in Yer
mont, ! don't know as | shall live
through it )" said Colonel Roosevelt
as he started out on the last day of
his campaign in this state prior to
the state election next Tuesday. 81
don't need to keep my hat in the ring
now, there are too many bandanas.
Col. Roosevelt woun dup a siren
uous day of speech making here last
night by scathing denunciation of
bossism and trusts.
The colonel said that he had been
recently converted to woman suffrage
and came out unequivocally for the
right of women to vote.
DALLAS, Tex, Aug. 3O.-The
federal grand jury of the northern
district of Texas, presided over by
Judge Macy, has returned criminal
indictments against prominent STAN
dard Oil officials and other oil men,
charging them with violation of the
Sherman anti-tax trust laws.
Among the individuals as defend
ants are John ID. Archbold and H.
C. Flagler, jr, Of New York, John
Sealey of Galveston, w. C. Tagle of
Plainfield, N. J, and they are ac-
cused of conspiring to break up the
prices of the Fordyce Oil associa-
tion in Texas and operating a great
monopoly.
MUSKOGEE, Okla, Aug. 3O.-A
negro porter in a Muskogee hotel,
while trying to escape arrest today,
was shot by an officer. He was
then taken to Jail and laid on the
floor while a negro doctor was sum-
moned. Finally a pompous looking
negro with gold glasses hustled up
to the guard and walked by him with
much Importance. The guard be-