Semi-weekly herald., 1908-02-06
rELeeRApHIc sREvIrles.

Only 20 below at Laramie. Wyo.
Saturday morning. We certainly es-
cape the real wintry blasts.
Albuquerque is confidently looking
forward to the erection OF q sugar
beet factory in the lear future.
The flag OF the old man-of-war Chcs-
apeake, aiken in fight in 1913. and
the Balaklava bugle were purchased
for Americans at an auction In Lon
don.
The Chicago business mems relief
committee has issued an appeal to
business men for the raising of a
| 100000 fund to relieve distress
among that oity's poor.
| Governor Hughes opened his cam
paign with declaration of principles;
favors prison rather than fnes for
convicted corporation magnates and
approves of rate law.
| The grand jury at Salem, Mass, re-
turned an indictment against John N.
Cole, speaker of the Massachusetts
house of representatives. charging
him with SOLICITING low rate railroad
tickets for studeats.
f. II. Gary. chairman of the board
of the United States Steel corpora
tion, tells of the meeting of iron and
steel men at the Waldorf in Now
York, at which 1t was agreed that
prices are to be maintained.
| w n
of the New York Central lines, says
the Hepburn law released railroads
from the helpless conditions of re.
bates and preferential rates. and It's
value to the railroads and the pub
lie cannot be overestimated.
Six New York letter carriers re-
| duced 800 year for soliciting Christ
mas and New Years presents. These
men, all of whom are on duty in the
residence district, left cards of greet.
ing for the people they daily deliver
mail to- Complaints were made to
the postmaster. who after investigat.
Ing the matter, reduced the grade OF
the men In question. The postmas.
ter has also directed the letter car
riers to refrain from the attempt to
sell tickets for the coming annual ball
of their organization.
AT this time of the year It is Gus
tomary for the poets TO sing OF the
golden rod and the frost-painted
leaves of the autumn woodlands. The
ha ha,
ceived their merited share OF atten-
tion from the bards. Perhaps Judd
Mortimer Lewis and Frank Stanton
| occasionally let the autumn leaves
and the golden rod take care of them
selves and give the possum pean
or so. but generally speaking he Is
sadly sllghted by our makers of nset-
Ing rhyme.
medal from the Paris school OF fine
arts for what he has done to make
New York beautiful.
A New York philanthropist offers
$1,000 to the bartender who will in
vent a drink that will taste as good
coming up as it did going down.
Secretary Taft in his speech at
| Cleveland declared that the distin-
gushing characteristic of McKinley's
administration was the growth OF the
United States into world power. and
favored greater navy.
The police of Yublin. Russian Po-
a.
bers composed entirely OF women.
and the leaders have been taken into
custody. The women are said to be
responsible for long series OF high
way robberies.
The Prince Of Monaco has given
public notice that he will not be re-
| sponsible for the debts incurred by
his son, Louis, who is at present liv-
ing gay life in the French capital.
| The latest exploit OF Louis was the
abduction of his natural son from the
child's mother.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
I-eupp has recommended to Secretary
| Garfield the restoration to the public
domain of nearly 100000 acres which
was added erroniously to the Navajo
Indian reservation In northwestern
New Mexixco. The lands to be re-
stored to the public domain are in Rio
Arriba county and were added TO the
Navajo reservation by error in the
survey made by an agent of the In
dian Office. the Intention having been
to include in the reservation lands
west OF the New Mexican meridian
west. but the area was doubled by ad-
ding lands west or the first New Mex
ican meridian east.
| A RoTHSCHIlD FOR AMERICA.
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