Semi-weekly herald., 1908-04-20

ings concerning President Roosevelt
and swung into line on the president,
, policy OF increasing the navy. Ht
was among the eighty-three congress
. men who joined Representative Hob
son and went down to defeat with the
four battleship plan. Il believe II
peace" he said, but We must have
battieships to maintain it." Bonynge
stayed by the house leaders and vot
ed steadily for two battleships. Hag
gott, who is in Colorado. was paired
against the presidents program OF
increase.
|. CRIPPLE CREEK, April 16.--Dan
iel NJ. Sullivan, postmaster of Grip
pie Creek. was decisively beaten yes
terday in the Republican primaries
| He carried but two wards. one In Vic
tor and one in Cripple Creek. After
consultation with the stalwarts Sui
livan announced that he would have
his delegates in the county conven-
tion demand that they be seated on
the ground that the winning ticket
was elected by fraud Failing there,
he says he will carry the contest to
| the Republican state convention
/ where he Is confident he will win.
GRAND JUNCTION, April ia
| deliberate attempt was made near
Cisco, Utah, Tuesday night to wreck
eastbound passenger train No. on
the Denver & Rio Grande, known as
the California limited. A man aged
| about % years. VINO refuses to give
his name or make any statement
| whatever, is under arrest at Moab and
will be held until an investigation can
| be made. He is suspected of taking
| the spikes from the rails on sharp
| curve near bridge mile from Cisco
and piled a number of old ties across
the track.
| PUEBLO. April 16.-Three thous-
and men were paid $780, 900 yesterday
at the steel works. This is 600 more
| men than received money last pay
day, and 1t is expected that 500 more
will be added before the next one.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 16.-Elev-
en- political prisoners at Penza stab
bed two wardens to death today, and
| after throwing number OF bombs,
| escaped from the prison. The guards
pursued and killed eight of them.
LEADVILLE, April 16.-SIx weeks
ago tiny beaconlight. far up near
the summit of snow-capped Mount
Ebert, which told the people of Twin
Lakes that Herman Neichke, 70 years
old and a prospector OF many years
| and many hills. was safe, ficked out
For several nights the people of the
town looked for the tiny glow on the
they knew that its extinguishing
| meant that the life was ended on the
| massive mountain. Yesterday sew
eral men from Twin Lakes after re-
the icy trail and through drifts to the
little cabin on the mountain. They
| found the body of Neichke in bed,
confirming their belief that he had
died early in March, Neichke went
| up to his cabin last fall, taking with
him a winters supply of provisions.
He realized that he was cut Of from
all human help. and told his friends
that he would place light In the win
dow every night to indicate that he
| was safe and we'll. They knew the
| flickering out of the light meant the
prospector's death.
WASHINGTON, April 16.-Provis-
ion for the enlargemet of homesteads
in some of the arid states was made
| by the passage of the Smoot bill in
the senate today. Amendments were
adopted by which the bill applies
only to Colorado, Montana, Nevada,
North Dakota, Oregon. Utah, Wash
ington, Wyoming, Arizona and New
Mexico. 1t authorizes taking 800
acre homesteads OF arid. non mineral,
non-irrigable land.
KANSAS CITY, NO., April 16.--Not-
thC iaCt tAdl JuuBG Vi
terfield In his Instructions said plain
ly that the Sunday law had been vio-
lated in the first theatrical case to be
| tried here, the jury stood ten for ac-
quittal and two for conviction. After
remaining out two hours they re-
ported their inability to agree and
| were discharged. This is the result In
the first Of the 1000 cases to be tried
Public sympathy is strongly with the
theater men.
PITTSBURG, Pa, April 16.-During
services at Hope church, between VIII
lock and Hayes. stations near here.
last night, a Hungarian miner shot
and killed companion in front of the
edifice. The dying mans cries at
tracted the congregation, which rush
ed from the church greatly alarmed.
The Mortified church goers ministered
to the victim and captured the muir
derer.
CHICAGO, April 16.-Francisco
| Nicolazzo. under arrest In connection
with death by poison of Mary Renda,
four years of age, cofessed to the po-
f! lice TODAY that he purchased the poi