The Springfield herald., 1912-06-28
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DURING The PAST week
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Warren. nine-year-old son of o. C..
Collins, was drowned in creek lead
ng to the Uncompahgre river, near
heir home at Delta, Colo.
The mangled body of an unknown
nan was found in the railroad yards
1t Pueblo recently. The coroner be-
ieves he committed suicide.
After losing their nine-year-old son
rom diptheria, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Wagner of La Sale, Colo, are critical
y i'll with the same disease.
Twelve inches of snow has fallen at
Bailey, Idaho. and the weather is ex-
.remely cold for this time o. the year.
This is the heaviest snowfall recorded
lere in June for years.
Two hundred and fifty-five thousand
iollars in gold dust, the first spring
shipment from the interior OF Alaska
and the Yukon territory, was brought
lown to Seattle by the steamboat
Humboldt, which arrived from Skag-
way recently.
In a feud battle between the SHARP
and Waldrop families at Sperry's
ranch, near Sherman, Texas, four per
sons were killed and two wounded. Be
lore she was slain. Miss Georgia Sharp
killed one man and wounded another
man and his wife.
Scores of armed men from Bokchito,
Durant and McAlester, OKLA, are
securing the country for five bandits
who robbed the First State Bank Of
Bokchito of $4,000. and in an hours
battle with citizens, probably fatally
wounded two men.
Mission architecture, the most
unique and beautiful of all forms OF
American buildings, is the salient fea-
ture OF San Diego's exposition, to be
held in 1915. The foremost authority
in the world on architecture IS design
ing all the buildings in this style.
The franchise of the Pueblo baseball
team in the Rocky Mountain League
has been transferred to Trinidad busi-
ness men for the remainder Cf the sea
son. The Colorado Springs team is
now representing Dawson, New Mexi-
co, and the Canon City nine is playing
at Ration. New Mexico.
To test the right of the government
to regulate power companies which
use water sites in forest reserves, 4
suit has been filed in the Federal Court
at Denver by the government agains.
the Central Colorado Power Company.
the biggest corporation of its kind in
the state.
For hundreds of miles in either d.
rection from Needles, Cal, the low
lands along the Colorado river are in
the grip of the worst ravages of floods
since the river began to rise. Though
the water is receding, heavier dam
age is being done than occurred with
the rise. Needles is threatened with
destruction.
Abandoning its old channel almost
completely, the Colorado river. accord
ing to a report, has thrown itself upon
a barren stretch of sand dunes at the
great bend in the stream In the north
western part of Arizona. News of the
big break was carried to Fort Mojave
by Indians. who thought the strange
change in the channel was warning
from the gods of impending disaster.
The West is face to face with the
biggest railroad strike in it's history.
Between 100000 and 100000 men have
voted in favor of walkout. The Or
ders were not issued on account of ne
gatiations between Julius kruttschnitt
director of maintenance of way OF the
Hartman lines. and representatives OF
the shopmen on that system looking tc
settlement of the strike which has
been on for more than year.