Semi-weekly herald., 1909-09-06

uiatioH VI WhieH uuiuDSTS many IdHli-
lies of wealth and influence, Oscar
Hammerstein, the impressario, VIII
soon build his Chicago Grand Opera
house. at cost eli more than a mil
lion OF dollars. In connection with IT
and under one roof the Mansion hotel,
part OF which is the former Joseph
Medill mansion, In Cass street, will
be constructed The enterprise in
voivesvolves the expenditure of sl.500.-
COO.
Denver Post celebrated its eigh-
teenth birthday Wednesday.
1t is said President Taft Will ener-
getically defend the tariff on his west
ern trip.
Yesterday was watermelon day at
Rocky Ford and 10000 melons were
provided for the feast.
On n rush order a Greeley citizen
received 2S head of Missouri mules by
express from Kansas City.
Denver Post has started subsctip-
ton list for aviators to assemble in
Denver with $1,000. and next In line
is the Albany hotel with $500 Sam
Dutton is a get there" boy.
Denver's new milk code went into
effect Wednesday and is very distaste-
ful to the dairymen who have tilted
prices from Is to 25 per cent and
also joined the brewers to fight the
measure. The dairymen want to feed
brewery swill TO milch cows.
Complaints have been fled by the
district attorney against Judge Grow.
| ley. proprietor of the Topic Cafe and
saloon and John O'Reilly. proprietor of
| the Saddlerock restaurant and saloon
| at Cripple Creek, charging them with
| violating the Sunday closing law.
Owing to the recent floods and the
| changed course of the Arkansas river,
| the Santa Fe railway has began the
| construction of dikes at Canon City
along the tracks to prevent further
washouts The channel of the river
! Is now over 100 feet from the original
bed of the stream.
| Queen City No. of Denver, com.
manded by Capt. E. R. Seifert, won
the 500 prize in the competitive drill
Of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Ply.
thas at colorado Springs Tuesday
Victor company No. s, Capt. Fl. A
| Naylor commanding, was awarded the
second prize Of 800.
Three thousand people gathered
Tuesday night at the tabernacle, Z
temporary structure built by the Evan
gelical association for the reviva
meetings, to listen to the initial ser
mon by Rev "Billy" Sunday, who for
the next six weeks will carry on his
meetings in that city
"Not only the Gunnison tunnel, bu
the 12-mile canal which viii connect
river will be completed and ready fol
the president when he comes formally
to open the system Sept. 2S," says
w. Mcconnell, supervising engineer o
the United States reclamation serv
Ice 1--WE will be able to show a flow
of about 400 second feet of watel
J through the tunnel and canal on open
ing day"
Experts sent out over the state BY
the Colorado Elevator company to In
vestigate crop conditions report prac
tically unprecedented yields of wheat
1t will be a close race this year be
tween wheat and potatoes for suprem
acy, and in the matter of fruit ther,
II a third tie. Conservative estimat,
, of the value of the three crops is Sc
0C0,000 for each, although wheat ant
} potatoes will probably run much high
| er
II. G. Benson of Denver was electe,
) chand chancellor by the grand lodg
! of Colorado, knights of Pythias, a
: their meeting at Colorado Spring
Wednesday. The other officers elect
, ed are: l.. ID. Grain, Fort Collins
vice chancellor; II. II. Wolbert, Delta
) prelate; w. S. O'Brien. Denver, re
elected keeper of records and seal
, G. II. Winchell, La Junta, master o
!; eyohequer; C. NJ. Kellogg of Denver
master at arms; A. II. Hollenbeck
5 Trinidad. inner guard; F. F. Schrieber
Colorado City, outer guard; II. Bar
tells, Telluride, trustee for three years
: F, e. Sisson, Pueglo. trustee for ON
: year. After a protracted fight, Charlie
. 8 Davis of Denver was reelected b,
+ the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias
supreme representative from Colorado
The other contestants were w. II
: Wadley and w. F. Robinson, both o
Denver.
For the purpose of torturing L
: Roghi, the rebel leader, pretender tt
J the Moroccan throne. until he tell
where his wealth is hidden, the sultaI
has ordered constructed woodel
l shirt studded with nails. FL Rogh
viii be fastened In this queer con
tuyance and the nails will be pressed
! into his body. The bandit chieftain II
known to have large amounts In for
, eign banks, however. and he has per
sistently refused to give up any par
OF his wealth unless the powers woult