Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-10
TELEGRAPH NEWS.


| ephone message received here yester
) day from Meteetse. Wyo,. states tina
: during quarrel there between w
Dean Hayes, well known banker
| and w, l.. Smithson. the latter sho
and killed the former Hayes TO
many years was prominent in Dem
ocratic circles and at different time,
was candidate for the yarlou.
state Offices. Attorney Smithson /.
brotherin-law OF State Senator
keister, candidate last fall for gov
ernor on the Democratic ticket
WASHINGTON, Jan. s.-Col. God
frey of the Ninth cavalry will he
appointed general to succeed Gen.
Bell, according to an announcement
made by Secretary Taft.
TELLURIDT, Jan. Sword reach.
ed this place at this afternoon that
the tram connecting the smuggler-
Union mine and mill had broken and
this Will necessitate closing the mill
a few days until the damage can be
repaired.
| CHEYENNE. Wyo, Jan. S.-U. S.
Senator Francis T. Warren was
unanimously nominated this morn.
ing by the caucus OF Republican mem
bers OF the ninth legislature. to sue.
coed himself as United States senal
tor when his term expires January 20.
| The legislature is overwhelmingly
Republican and the formal election
OF Senator Warren was . foregone
| conclusion.
CLEVELAND, o., Jan. S.-Barred
from matrimony in Ohio by the law
Of the state which forbids the mar.
| riage of cousins. Miss Claire Hanna
| and II. NJ. Hanna, Jr.. niece and
nephew of the late Marcus A. Hanna.
left for Thomasvlle. Ga, aecompan.
ed by score OF friends in three pri-
vate cars. They viii be married at
Thomasville on some date not yet
announced. Society folk crowded
The cars, many TO go. the rest to say
farewell, though others will follow in
/ few days.
CARMI. H.. Jan. ST viii never
take another drink as long as | live
and hope the Lord will strike me
lumb If | do" This was VOW which
Alonzo Johnson made on New Years
lay. He kept his resolution until
asst night, when his old appetite re-
turned. He began drinking and few
hours later was stricken dumb. Doe
ors are unable to account for the
strange loss of speech
DENVER Jan. S.--What seems ON
he face of II TO be murder and sui
indicate may he double murder
'ame to light this morning when the
lodies of r. ]. Beam and wife were
ound, his throat cut from ear to ear
md her mouth discolored with car
1olic acid in their room, 1877 Twen-
ey-lrst street. The mystery In the
>ase lies In telephone message.
which reached Mrs. Kinsman, land
lady Of the house where the Beams
iyed, asking her to call Mr. Beam TO
he phone to talk with her husband
Mrs. kinsman went to tell them
md found that both had been dead
many hours, The police are now
bending all their energies to find the
nan who sent the message and who
al hA lI..., l.. u
rhey are certain that he knows some
! hing about the two deaths, II indeed
ie did not commit the murder. The
iouble crime was committed some
ime In the night, perhaps about mid
1ight. 1t was about 500 this morn
ng when the strange message came
lepot, and only a few minutes later
he police were put on the case by
he startled Mrs Kinsman.
II was discovered at noon that the
nan found dead with Mrs. Beam was
1ot Mr. Beam, but her cousin. with
whom she had eIoped from Pueblo
dtts ii' NbiuaH idh
repented and wrote to her husband,
N engineer on the Santa Fe. to come
for her. The husband arrived this
morning and telephoned from the
Union depot, only to find that during
he night Mrs. Beam and her cousin
iad killed themselves. Both bodies
're at the morgue and the coroner
Jronounces death by suicide.
Al the third annual convention OF
the Western Fruit Jobbers' assocla-
ton II was reported that although
the new rate law was OF great bene-
/ At. there were stIll abuses OF the
railroads that would have to be rec
| tifed to give justice to the shipper
| During the nine months ended Sep
tember 1906. 4,1S4.lS1 dozen eggs.
valued at $se5,4s7. were exported
from the United States. against g.
l60.339 dozen exported during the
same period In 1905. This Is one