Semi-weekly herald., 1909-11-18
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

After Governor Curry retires from
the governorship of New Mexico il Ia
said he viii announce his candidacy
for delegates to congress.
The jury In the Steinheil case re.
turned verdict OF not guilty late Sat.
urday night. meeting general appro
baton, This is in line with Herald
dispatches Saturday afternoon.
The formation of giant copper
combine to force down the cost OF pro
ducing the metal and boost the price
of the finished product viii be begun
within few days, says dispatch to
the Denver Republican. The return
of Daniel Guggenheim from Europe
has set the machinery In motion. The
combination of the Guggenhelm inter
ests and the Amalgamated Cole Ryan
properties would give the Guggen-
helms practically the control OF the
worlds copper supply. as they are in
a position to dictate terms TO the
Amalgamated interests. The masslng
of the interests would result in n
sS44,000,000 copper trust and give the
combination control of between 1000,
600 and 100000 pounds of copper an
nually.
A report was brought TO San Fran
cisco from the United States military
prison on Alcatraz island that Quarter.
master Sergeant Roy Ford. after kill
ing Thomas Mullaly. an army clerk
by hurting him from window of the
barracks to the rocks, blew out his
own brains.
Experiments which give bright prom
ise OF the discovery of a serum for the
cure of one of the most dreaded and
little understood diseases of babies
infantile paralysis, have just been
made public by DIR. Simon Flexner
and DIR. Paul A. Lewis. of the Rookie.
feller institute.
Eleanor Joslin, member of one of
he most prominent families in Den.
yer. and suffering from acute religious
mania, who was sent to private asy.
lum at Eauwatosa. escaped from that
institution Wedaefday afternoon and
wandered all the way to Kenosha. She
reached that city completely exhaust
ed. She was taken back to Wauwal.
osa.
one OF the most important works
connected with the Panama canal Is
the spillway In the middle of The
Gatun dam for regulating the height
of the water In the lake. Usually II
Is preferred TO locate the spilway in
position more or less remote from
the dam; but in the present case the
existence at the center of the site of
The dam of a HILL which provided q
rock surface at about sea level. proved
the dividing factor. and led to the
choice OF the present site. The spill
way consists of concrete dam, whose
| crest Is to be built on the are of a
| circle, with its face convex to the lake
The crest will be at 50 feet above sea
level Above this. and placed between
thirteen concrete piers built at the
crest OF he dam, will be fourteen
gates. whose tops, when they are
closed, will be 81 feet above sea level
These gates will give absolute control
Of the lake level under all possible
conditions
An innovation in American ednca
tional methods Is contemplated By the
Chicago board of education as a blow
directly at the root of the white
slave" traffic and all other evils de
pendent upon sex relations by the es.
tablishment in the public schools of
course of lectures to teach children
In n scientific manner what now, they
usually learn only by experience. with
resulting injury TO their moral and
physical beings and detriment to the
communities IN which they live. SO
cial hygiene, AS the new study is to
be termed, is now a prominent feature
OF the curriculum of the schools OF
Germany according to DR. Alfred D
kohn, member OF the board of edu
cation, at whose suggestion. together
with that of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young
superintendent of schools. the school
management committee took up the
question. Every member of the com
mittee favors the introduction of The
subject, but they have not determined
how to establish 1t In the schools and
how TO leach IT,
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