The Springfield herald., 1912-08-09
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San Francisco's municipal railroad
is well on the way to completion.
Denver, Los Angeles and Omaha
won the prizes for mileage at the re
cent Portland Elks' grand lodge con
yention.
The Williams and Bartlett Springs
stage was held up at the Prim sraoe'
about thirty-five miles from Williams
California, the robbers obtaining 80
500 in cash. besides much jewelry.
While en- route from Kansas City
to Helena. Mont. Mrs. II. ]. MOCK Oh
the first named city jumped through
the window of the Pullman sleeping
car in which she was travelling anu
was instantly killed.
Meagre and delayed advices from
Lovelock. Nevada, state that in re-
currence of the flood at Mazuma ana
Seven Troughs. high wall OF water
swept both towns and sent the terri
fled inhabitants to the hills.
1t is estimated that ninety per cent
of the street railway employees on the
surface lines in Chicago have voted
in favor of strike unless their de-
mands for increased wages and i'm
proved working conditions are met.
Information tina. Sidna Allen and
Wesley Edwards, the Virginia outlaws,
were believed to be in hiding in the
vicinity of Seattle, caused the authori-
ties to conduct thorough search OF
the surrounding country for the men,
but neither was found.
Frank Holloway. who confessed in
Chicago to robbihg the Westminster,
b. c., bank OF s375,Oo0; the Panama
City bank of $4,000, and to the kill
ing of seven men, escaped recently
from the Texas penitentiary. The gov
ernor has offered a $4,000 reward for
his re-capture.
That her pets may not be annoyed
on their journey to New York. Mrs
Malcolm Whitman of San Francisco,
the former Miss Jennie A. Crocker.
has engaged special car for a score
of high-priced animals. including Sir
Barney Blue, the champion Boston
terrier, and Halcyon Alexandra. the
worlds famous French bull.
In the twenty-one years of the his
tory of the National Irrigation Con
gress, there never has been another
time when such widespread interest
was manifested in the splendid work
of that organization as is now shown
in its twentieth session, which is to
b. held in Salt Lake City Sept. 80
to Oct. s,
The United states has become a
half billion ton coal country. During
the last two years the total production
has averaged just trifle short of the
500 100000 mark, exceeding that fig
ure in 1910 and almost reaching it in
1911. 1t is considered probable that
in the future it will be bad year
whose production falls far short OF
this quantity. The figures of produc
tion have been compiled by Edward
w. Parker, the government coal sta
tistician in Washington.
Articles of incorporation have beer
| fiNsd in Salt Lake City for the Prove
| & Eastern Utah Railroad Company
1t is announced the new company viii
build railroad from Springville tc
Jensen, Utah, a point near the Utah
Colorado line, and later will eXten;
the road to Steamboat Springs, Colo.
the present terminus of the Mofia
line. The incorporators denied tha
the new road is to be affiliated witt
the Moffat line. The new company i!
incorporated for S10,000,0O0.