The state herald., 1912-04-12
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Mrs. J. A. Thalzgraph OF Oklahoma
City gave birth to four boys. The ba-
bies are all alive and vigorous.
The first through Eastern mail to
reach San Francisco in several days
arrived on special train of nine cars.
The explosion of a gasoline tank in
their sod house near Mead, Kan,
brought instant death to Mr.. and Mrs.
j. II. Miller
April 10 has been set by Mayor
Speer of Denver and the city forester
as the date for the seventh annual dis
tribution of free trees.
John Brisben Walker of Denver has
been appointed director of exploitation
of the Panama-Pacific exposition, to
be held in san Francisco.
To make smooth the path of the bor-
rower'. the legal authorities OF Salt
Lake county. Utah. are making war
on loan sharks.
Colorado Springs is to entertain the
annual convention OF the supreme
council OF the Knights of Columbus. an
international organization, Aug G. I
and s.
Pertccting its plans for Intervention
in Mexico. the war department at
Washington is receiving hourly details
as to the militia strength and condi-
tiUn from adiutant generals of militia
from the states.
To enable the poor to aid themselves
in securing a food supply, the Spokane
City Council has made arrangements
for the free plowlng of back yards and
vacant lots for those who wish to raise
vegetables and grain.
1Two men were killed and three
others were injured, one fatally. at the
Missouri Pacific railroad shops at
Huntington. Kan. when a discharged
negro employ6, engaged in revolver
battle with shop employees.
Sergt. John Walsh, L. $. A.. retired,
sixty-oue years old, holds a record Of
nc days for walking from san Fran,
sciscosio New York land return. The
previous record held by Edward Pay
son Weston was eighteen days longer.
Mrs. Emma Rumbull entered a plea
Of guilty to a charge OF manslaughter
in connection with the death OF her
stepdaughtcr. Helen Rumbull at Oro-
vile. Cal, and was sentenced to two
years in San Quentin penitentiary.
The police aided by volunteers, have
begun in earnest the expulsion of the
Industrial Workers OF the World from
san Diego. cal, and declare that the
work will continue umil all have been
sent away Nearly hundred have
been driven from the city recently.
Abraham Ruet, convicted political
boss OF san Francisco. now serving a
sentence OF fourteen years In san
Quentin penitentiary. has begun in a
san Francisco paper series Of ar
tioles. which, he declares, viii consti.
tute complete expose OF the men ac-
cused with him In the graft prosccu.
tions. but not convicted,
Calbraith z. Rodgers. the first man
TO cross the American continent In an
acroplane. was killed at Long Beach.
Cal, almost Instantly when his Wright
blplane. In which he had been soaring
over the ocean. fell into the surf from
a height Of 200 feet and buried him
in the wreck, His neck was broken
and his body badly mashed by the
engine OF HIS machine. lie lived but
q few minutes.
The seventeen irrigation states shoN
an increase In population during the
last decade OF forty.two per cent. The
Increase In population In the remain
Ing thirty-ono states was seventeen
per cent. The value upon farm lands
OF the United States by their owners
has increased III while In eleven OF
the western irrigation states It has In
creased 203 per cent during the past
decade.