Semi-weekly herald., 1909-03-22
1sLEeRAPhlc RREvIrlEs.

TELEGHAPHlC ffENiI'CS'
Western mining men will wage war
on proposed reduction OF tariff on lead
ores
The Missouri legislature Killed the
bin providing for the reading OF
chapter of the Bible daily In public
schools.
While former President Roosevelt
was blithely cutting down rec We'd
nesday. the Oyster Bay AsY9 council
met and passed resolution declaring
him the first citizen of the land.
Captain Peter C. Hains. Jr., U. s. A.
will be put on trial April 19 at the
court house at Flushing on the charge.
of numbering William E. Annis at the
Bsyside Yacht club In August last
year. Justice Garretson of the su'
preme court will preside,
One OF the most important archae'
logical discoveries ever made in the
southwest is reported by b. r. Bond
of Long Beach, Cal, who has just re
turned from the Coachelia valley and
the San .Jacinto mountains, where he
found the ruins of an ancient city OF
unknown origin containing from 700
TO 1000 stone houses.
George w. King. a saloonkeeper
was shot and perhaps fatally wounded
at Telluride Tuesday by John Arms
piger of Sawpit, a camp near Tellu-
ride Armspiger was Immediately ar
rested and is in Jail He gave as his
reason for shooting King that the lat
ter had taken S150 of his money. which
he refused to return. King is In the
hospital in critical condition.
The county commissioners of JEFF
ferson county have demanded the pay
ment 10 the county of S2,040.3T from
ex-Comty Treasurer B. P. Quaintance
The county commissioners allege that
Quaintances books show a deficit OF
that amount. Quaintance states that
there is no deficit and has entered suit
for s25,O00 damages for defamation OF
character.
Stiff and cold In death, the body OF
John West. the young son of Il. S.
West of Bland, N. NJ, was dug out
of twenty-foot drift, Saturday, &C
cording TO messenger who arrived
from Bland, a mining camp in the up
per Jemez mountains. The boys sis
ter lay beside him unconscious, and Sc
near death that a few hours delay
ON the part of the searching party
would have meant another death. Her
feet were so badly frozen that they
had TO be amputated. DR.. Wells and
an assistant left Thornton Tuesday
for Bland, as the messenger reported
fearful suffering among the noun
taineers In that section, where the
snow ranged from four to six feet
on the level, with drifts twenty feet
deep in places.
At an enthusiastic convention of the
Canon City reform party Tuesday
night municipal ticket was noninat
ed and all indications point to its elec
tion without opposition in April. For
years the reform party has advocated
anti-saloon principles and has, with
varying success. opposed the tax pay.
Ing party, which advocated high IL
cense. This year, as the whole city
VIII vote on the liquor question un
der the local option law. the taxpay.
ers' party agreed to abandon its or.
ganization provided the reform peo-
pie would nominate ticket composed
OF representative business men select.
ed by a conference committee from
each party. This was done and the
ticket recommended by the committee
was nominated with the exception of
one alderman.
Charles W. Morse, the convicted
banker, who three years ago was re-
puted to be worth 1900, 900, is now
poor man, according to his friends,
and his wife reluctantly admits that
recent she sold all her jewels, valued
at s250,0O0, TO raise money to pay
her husbands lawyers and to help him
iiquidate other pressing debts. In one
instance Mrs. Morse sold pin that
cost $4,000 for sl,5OO In order to meet
the bill Of stenographer, amounting
10 more than $4,000. She had prom.
,isod him that part of 1t would be
paid ON certain day. and made the
sacrifice so that she might keep her
word. Her collection of Jewels was
one of the finest in New York city. and
included several necklaces. number
less rings. brooches, pendants. brace
let's and watches. They were disposed
OF at heavy losses to friends and Fifth
avenue dealers.
George Thorndike Angel. "the
friend of dumb animals" and the lead.
er In the humane educational move.
ment In the United States. died at
Boston Tuesday. aged So. He had
been I'm failing health for long time.
Mr.. Angel was president and one Of