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Diagram showing “Careyvillethe twelve-acre colored colony promoted by 'Pony” Moore; fashionable Wheaton residences near tohich it tv as to have been built, and four of the suburb's society women, owners of adjoining homes.WHEATONCHICAGOGolfCLUBMR 5. o’Af?vis r\o— HUNTGEOC-OEPLAMONDCNWORTH I MO TOri£S. Arthurrzjaky/z hunt .f rank' lt;5CoCTONThe news of the sale at a sacrifice of Harlow N. Higinbot ham's world famous herd of Jersey cattle yesterday served to bring to light the fact that Mrs. Higln-botham is in au Evauston sanitarium suffering from a nervous breakdown: that the *Higinbotham mansion at Twenty-ninth street and Michigan avenue is closed, and that the family lias been scattered.Mr. Higinbotbam’s reasons for selling the I sixty Jerseys, known the world over as the Arden herd, was because of the temporary breaking up of his family. The herd was disposed of for a song, as its value is said by experts to have been approximately $100,000. The cows and bulls were sold at Joliet yesterday for prices ranging from $50 to $75 a head, the sale price of the entire herd being about $4,000.Mrs. Higinbotham is an inmate of Miss Catherine Hayes’ sanitarium in Evanston. The disclosure that she was at the sanitarium came as a surprise to many of her lriends. she entered the rest cure seven weeks ago because she was suffering from a nervous breakdown. Her health has been steadily improving and it was said at the sanitarium last night that she would leave iu a couple of weeks.Mr. Higinbotham is stopping at the Me-tropole Hotel during his wife’s illness, one of his sons.' Harlow M., is living on the big .Higinbotham farm near Joliet, while the other. Harry M.. Is living in Evanston. Mr. IIiginbotham’s two daughters, Alice and Florence, married Joseph Medill Patterson and It. T. Crane) Jr., respectively.Mr. Higinbotham took great pride in bis Jersey herd, headed by King of Arden, one of the most famous Jersey bulls in the world, who was purchased in England several years ago by Mr. Higinbotham at a reported price of $4,000. When the prize bull was put on the block yesterday there was only one bid and that of $32 for him. lie was retained bv his owner.Several tine cows whose reputed valueis in the neighborhood of $2,000, were soldfor $50 and $00. One cow, which is said to have cost Mr. Higinbotham $3,GOO, was sold for $110.•‘Father sold his herd because our fain ily has been scattered to the four winds by marriage,” said Harlow M. Higin botham last night. “There was no ust in keeping them and so he decided to dis pose of them at any price that thej would bring. The sale was not exten sively advertised and the prize cows dii not sell for any more than common aui uials.”ROOSEVELT RODE 108 MILES INSTEAD OF 9*Error Found by Officers Who Measure Course of Seventeen-Hour Trip.WASHINGTON. I). C., Jan. 21.—It wasn’ ninety-eight miles that the President rodlt; in seventeen hours the other day. It’s al a mistake. It seems that some of tin army officers had doubts about that ninety eight-mile story and they decided on an sic curate test. They went over the exac route will a tested cyclometer ami mens urod the d stance with the utmost care am accuracy. They found It was 108 statutlt;miles.HUNDREDS ARE REPORTED DEAD IN MOROCCO QUAKETANGIER, Jan 21.—A landslide, following a severe earth shock in the regionsouth of Tetiiah, :as wiped -ir severe! \irted that hundreds of pto dr injured.Want a receiving clerk? Phone Mai:15000. m 1Continued on 5th Pagel 2d Column, pie wer
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Fri, Jan 22, 1909
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