The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-12-13
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EleN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
IT, MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

| 1t cost $1.159.459 to elect Woodrow
Wilson President of the United
States.
The first Jury of women in Idaho
found one of their own sex guilty OF
threatening man with revolver at
Twin Falls.
Colorado-bred cattle again walked
away with the greater part of the
honors In the International Stock
Show at Chicago.
Citizens of Los Angeles awoke to
find with certainty that they had no
new city charter, but that the saloon
free lunch was left to them.
Good cooks are more necessary
than governors" said Governor Mar
shall in his address on THE Personal
Touch" before the Indianapolis Coun.
Gil Of Women.
The United States must lave a
bigger navy and must be prepared to
meet any chance of war. in the opin-
ion of Secretary Meyer of the navy
! department, il it Is to preserve its
national safety.
"Of the 6,973 applicants for mar
rage licenses so far this year." said
Clerk Sparks of the marriage license
bureau at Los Angeles, more than
200 admitted that the girls spoke
| first.
Mrs. Minnie La Duque Of Dallas.
Tex, was acquitted of the charge OF
numbering her husband, w. H. La
Duque, last summer because of his at.
tentions to other women. Hers was a
straight case of "unwritten law"
The Nebraska Womans Suffrage
Association has decided to petition for
Il submission to the people of con-
stitutional amendment providing for
woman suffrage. The petition will re-
quire $4,000 signatures and commit
tee was appointed to start work on 1t.
The President confirmed the ap-
pointment of X. Butler Wright of
Cody as secretary of the American
legation at Brussels. Belgium, and Of
Mrs. Elizabeth w. kieffer as post
mistress at Fort d. A. Russell, Wyo-
ming.
Elizabeth Lang. bride of one day,
Mrs. Mary Couple, who, at the we'd
ding supper is alleged to have told
other guests that the bridegroom had
selected an ugly and worthless wom'
an for life partner.
John Beal Sneed, acquitted of the
murder OF A. G. Boyce, has become
reconciled to his wife, whose elope-
ment with AL. Boyce brought about the
killing Of the Yoyces, father and son
Sneed and his wife left Fort Worth
| for n visit to Calvert.
Miss Priscilla Ellicott. daughter OF
| Captain j. NJ Ellicott, commanding of
ficer of the United States armored
cruiser Maryland. at San Francis %
enjoys the distinction of being the
| first female passenger upon an Amer
lean man-of-war in the last thirty-one
years.
Edward Delhantie paid the penalty
at Sacramento for the murder of viii
liam Kaufman, convict in Folsom
state prison, by hanging. He walked
4 to death apparently with no fear II
his heart and with the moose around
his neck addressed the spectators, ther
babe the hangman do his duty.
There are comparatively few mar
ried men in Kansas City charitable
institutions. Ninety per cent. of the
men in the Jackson county home art
bachelors, according to report is
sued. Official statistics on the womer
inmates were not available, but it wa'
said that most of them also had no
been married.