Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-04-14


OF it's investigation Of drugs. Mr..
Heyburn asserted that half the foods
sold are adulterated. and half Of the
remaining half misbranded.
Denver Is to have a new $4,000
school building.
The federal grand jury at Pueblo
returned 2l Indictments.
Denver defeated the Chicago club
Saturday by score of 90 to I.
Steel works at Pueblo will disburse
s1l20o0 for labor for the month of
March
A tornado passed over the town OF
Mexca. Tex. yesterday, killing three
people and injuring many others.
The grand jury called some time
ago assembled in Denver today to
probe election frauds and other
crimes.
The French exhibit at st. Louis will
be the largest and best in the history
of that nation. consisting of 1900 diff
ferent articles.
Representative Bowers of Mssissip-
pi, in the house, declares that the con
dtion of the negro in his state is far
better than in Massachusetts.
The Colorado Springs Telegraph
has started war on the drug store
saloons OF that city Must have been
handed out the 40-rod stuff the last
| time.
| At a meeting Of 100 Republicans at
Pueblo Judge Walter Dixon was
unanimously endorsed as logical
leader of the national delegation 10
Chicago
| Walter Wellman says American pub
fishers are almost frantic in their
| quest for an author who will write Il
novel that will command an enormous
sale
Three miners We're buried under a
pile OF rock by blasts at Cripple Greek
Saturday evening, one being killed
and the others Were badly injured
All the troops have been withdrawn
from the Cripple Creek district.
Since martial law was abolished about
10 soldiers were kept at Camp Gold
field for an emergency, but conditions
are so peaceable that the governor
concludes there is no further neces-
sity of them remaining
Clerk Aichele refuses to turn over
the registration books to the new cleo
ton commission OF Denver until the
18th when it will be tor late to purge
the books of fraudule names II
seems TO be the intentioi for the Big
Mitt' to win and such men as AIchele
are not going to put any stumbling
| blocks in the way
Noble Leon Morton, only 10 years
old. physically infirm nearly to the
extent of disability, was Saturday
found guilty in the United States cir.
cult court at Pueblo of appropriating
slS6Ol7, while performing the duties
OF assistant postmaster at Olney.
Colo. He has been sentenced to a fine
of only $50 and costs by Judge Hal
lett. owing to the rather extenuatjpg
circumstances attending the crime
The boy is to be held in prison at the
VIII of the United States district at
torney until the fine is paid
A 3O-day pork eating contest WIS
won Saturday night by Harry Mulhali.
of Philadelphia, and he is glad it is
over. He is full of courage and pain
and does not want to hear of pork for
year, he says, He has been eating
as a result of wager, half a pound
OF pork chops each evening for din
her' Tor the past 80 days. The best
previous record was IS days, and he
topped on the contest by eating three
quarters of pound Saturday, just to
show what he could do. During the
last week, Mulhall suffered severe
D, pains and the last few days ate only
the pork. having no appetite for auy.
thing else.
strikes are hell" said Bishop
Spalding of Peoria, when he discussed
before the house committee on LABOR
the Foster bill for national arbitra-
tion commission. The bishop said a
| distinguished union general mad liken-
ed war to sheol and he would saw
That the modern strike was bad
strikes are great evil" he continu.
ed. Men who go ont for month or
SIX weeks are transformed. When
they return to work they are entirely
changed individuals. The moral life
OF their families is ruined. Their
children have learned to taunt fellow
oeihgs' me hrst aim of our govern
meht should be the good of human
beings. That should be placed before
the good of wealth or classes. and In
this condition solution of the strike
problem should receive first consider
alton"