The silver lance., 1899-07-21

18th.
William Heiber shot his wife fatally
the other night while under the i'm
preston that he was shooting at q
burglar.
The game warden decides that he
cannot Interfere with farmers who
take water from streams, even though
the fish be killed by it.
Charles T.. Kunsmiller, who was con-
victed of Irregularities in the German
National Bank, has begun to serve his
term of five years in prison. His prin-
cipals escaped punishment.
President Frank Trumbull of the
Colorado & Southern returned on the
10Th from three months trip to
Europe. He was met in New York by
b. L. Winchell, vice president.
The bodies of the unclaimed dead of
the First Colorado volunteers will be
brought home for burial in special lot
by the Colorado Volunteers Relatives
Union.
The mining subcommittee Of the
United States industrial commission
has been sitting in Denver for the
purpose of Investigating the smelter
strike Congressman Bell is the
chairman.
George Dixon retains the feather
weight championship of the world. He
gained the decision in twenty hercely
contested rounds over Tommy White,
in the arena of the Olympic Club, last
Tuesday night.
The Supreme Court papers and rec
ord in the appeal of Harley p. Mccoy,
sentenced for life for killing Police In
spector Charles A. Hawley, are MISS
ing. Whether they were stolen OF
simply lost is a mystery. He Is asking
for pardon.
A naval recruiting station will be es-
tabiished in Denver. but the exact date
has not been settled upon. The matter
is now under consideration in Wash
ington. and when n decision as to date
is reached it will be announced in the
newspapers.
The contrcGt for Colorado yellow
kid, to be exhibited at Paris as gol-
den girl, has been signed by the com
missioner-in-chief and the secretary of
the Paris commission. Maude Adams
will be the model and the coat of arms
of Colorado will be embossed on one
of the twelve plates around the base.
Assistant District Attorney Daniel
Prescott, assisted by Mr.. G. w. Ever
EFT, a lawyer retained by the Denver
reform organizations, have been delv-
ing into that part of the history of the
state known as the records of the last
General Assembly, and as a result Of
their labor have reached the conclusion
that the Cannon prize-fight bill did not
pass the Legislature. They claim that
the bill was not properly passed by
either house.
Rules to govern the parolng of pris-
oners from the state penitentiary, as
provided for by law of the last Leg
islature, are being drafted by Governor
Thomas. The law goes into effect Au-
gust Sd. The rules of parole will pre-
scribe frequent reports to the warden
of the penitentiary by all liberated
prisoners. The behavior of the prison
er while outside prison walls will be
prescribed. All but life termers may
be paroled.
The Board of Direction of the Festi-
val of Mountain and Plain is now pre-
pairing a pictorial souvenir and pro-
gram of the Festival and State Fair
for 1S99 This will be in half-tone cuts
of three colors, with covers lithograph-
ed and embossed on the same lines as
the souvenir of 1898. The work of
preparing the book is now under way.
This official souvenir will contain no
advertising matter. 1t will contain pic
lures of floats, photographs of the
maids of honor. and the queen Of the
Festival, whose identity. until the ap-
pearance of the book. will be absolute
ly unknown.
Every soldier in the First Colorado
volunteers will receive handsome
bronze medal if the people of the state
will take hold of "A proposition launched
yesterday by Governor Thomas, Major
s. X. Hooper and Dr. G. J. Hartung.
The medals will cost $780, which will
be raised by voluntary contributions.
When the soldiers return from the
Philippines these tokens of the states
honor to the men VIII be presented.
Those who died will not be forgotten.
In memory of the sacrifice of many
brave lives in the field and in the hos
pitals the nearest relatives of the dead
soldier will receive the medal which
he won with is life. The plan also
contemplates presenting medals to the
members of Chaffee Light Artillery,
Volunteer Engineers and Torrey's S
Rough Riders should there be a surplus
in the fund of $1,000 to be created.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Svetinic of this
city are thanking modern science for
the X-ray, since it has been used to
discover a penny their baby boy had
swallowed and which threatened his
life. June 21st, George, who is about
years old, swallowed a penny and
soon gave. evidence that 1t was
troubling him. He grew SO pale and
sick that a doctor was called, who
stated that the X-ray must be used to
locate the coin. Drs. Parr and Kin
ney, after administering chloroform,
took picture of the body of the baby
with the X-ray machine. To the de-
light Of all this showed the penny very
plainly lodged in the aesophagus, near
the second rib and near the upper part
of the breast bone. The boy was then
taken to ST. Luke's hospital, where he