Semi-weekly herald., 1908-01-27
topIgbt and rlll attend with Mrs

Cook. Joel +. Vale OF Denver called
at the department OF justice and made
a plea for the early disposition OF GER
tain cases brought in connection with
alleged coal land frauds In Colorado,
Involving the Utah Fuel company,
which is largely controlled by the Dem
yer 4 Rio Grande railway. After his
visit Mr.. Vale reported that there was
a disposition in the department to dis
pose of the case at an early date.
Senator Guggenheim has introduced
bill providing that where an entry
man under the desert land laws loses
his entry through no fault of his own
he shall be allowed to make another
entry under the same act as II he had
never applied.
Senator Teller introduced bill pro-
viding for fixing the price of coal lands
taken under coal entry laws at $40 an
acre when more than fifteen miles
from a railroad. and 500 an acre when
less than FIVE miles. The object of the
bill is to fix definitely the price OF
these lands.
The senate has confirmed George W.
Miller as postmaster at Hotchkiss. AID
John C. ShuIl as postmaster at Ber-
thoud, Colo, A. w. Anson of Albu-
querque has been awarded the contract
for a public building at Albuquerque,
N. NJ. The price is s87,500
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.--Nils Nelson.
night tender at the lighthouse on the
New Haven breakwater, committed
suicide by cutting his throat today.
He had reputatin as hero, having
saved number OF lives by daring res
cues during storms on Long Island
sound. Two years ago he received a
medal from congress for heroism. II
Is thought that the lonely life in the
lighthouse unbalanced his mind.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-The opening
prices Of stocks today showed the sym.
pathetic effect OF the strength of the
London market, caused a reduction in
the official discount rate of the Bank
OF England. The Hartman and Hill
stocks, st. Paul. Atchison, Reading,
New York Central. Amalgamated Cop
per and American Smelling advanced
The market showed animation.
Washington, Jan. z3.-Plant and ami.
NAL breeders of the country, with Sec.
rotary OF Agriculture at their heads
will assemble in Washing next Tues
day for The 4th annual meeting of the
American Breeders Association. Nor
will they confine their attention to
the breeding of plants and domestic
animals. The committee on eugen
les, or scienctiflc culture of the humear
animal, will present its report at this
meeting. DR.. David Starr Jordan is
chairman of this committee and the re
port will undoubtedly attract great at
tention, since 1t marks the beginning
OF a scientific invasion into realms
heretofore largely given over to Cupid
the stork and other mythical charac
ters.
CHICAGO. Jan. 23.-The love OF o
girl who against the wishes of hel
mother had been secretly meeting Hor
ace Simmons, led to his arrest on the
charge of being implicated in the mur
der Of Policeman William h. Mooney
who was shot by highwaymen on the
night of January 2. O.
Grace Warner. 81 years old. has
been meeting Simmons every night
while all the detectives of the city
were searching in vain for him. The
police learned OF this and last nigh,
followed her from her home. Just as
Simmons greeted her half a dozen de
tectives surrounded the couple and
Simmons was forced to surrender al
the point OF revolvers.
Simmons, according to the police, is
the most desperate higbwayman who
has worked in Chicago since the days
of the street car bandits. William
Brown, the confessed slayer of Police
ihoh 4uohCss anu uoildS hCSduu, HI
accomplice, both say that Simmons
was with them at the time of the muir
der. Simmons is also under indict
ment for the murder of Herman Han
sen, a saloonkeeper Twenty or more
saloon robberies are charged to Sim
for his capture.
Advertising signs must be removed
from Fifth avenue houses in New Yorl
City. Holding that beauty must MOI
ge sacrificed TO the demands OF com
mercialism, Judge Leventritt in the
Supreme Court so decided in dismis
sing the suit brought by the Fifth Ave
Coach company to enioin the city
from interfering with the signs.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2S-Preparations fol
n possible clash between the police ane
the unemployed" commenced IL
earnest today, and the police were
massed at the downtown stations |.
anticipation OF trouble. Last nigh
thousands of copies of circular call
ing upon unemployed men to meet this
afternoon on the lake front and from
there to march to the city hall and
demand work, were distributed in the
saloons and the lodging house district