Semi-weekly herald., 1909-01-21

| until in the afternoon and the Sat
r urday afternoon holiday dispensed
with until the hot summer months.
} The senate committee on agrlcul
tpre has authorized a favorable repor
on the McCumber bill providing fol
national inspection and grading OF
grains.
Boulder will engage in another fab.
with saloon and antisaloon forces al
the coming city election. A fight OF
this character is promised in most
Colorado towns, Durango ,nc,rde1.
Both the sheriff and district at.
torney of Leadyille say they will sup.
press gambling and have issued an
order to this effect In this district
the sheriff and district attorney say
they must have warrants to act.
w. S, Hockey. prominent farmer,
living nine miles northeast of Delta,
shot and killed an unknown young
man at midnight Friday night. Heck
ey claims that the young man had at.
tempted to steal horse which belong.
ed to him.
| Gov Shafroth delivered an inaugural
address highly eulogistic of the policy
, of Patterson but when 1t comes to
appointments is naming Speer men
Thus Patterson followers will get wind
while Speerltes and corporatlonists
will secure the pudding and all that
goes with it,
With the signing OF an arbitration
treaty between the United States and
| Austria-Hungary conventions of that
character with more than twenty ma.
tons have been agreed to. Secretary
Root also signed an extradition t,eaty
with Honduras.
Mrs. A. A. Beard q we'll known so
ciety woman of Denver, is accused OF
embezZling funds from the children's
hospital at Denver and several of the
members of the board have resigned.
Mrs. Beard is a well known club won.
an and was president of the Denver
Woman's club some years ago.
Walter Wellman tells of the prog
ress of the conflict between congress
and the president, the latest moves
being one to order the executive to
restore the marines to the naval Yea
sells and the inquiry into the status
and services of Mr. Roosevelt's bnrber
The question as to who the 81 900
insurance on the life of Lowther should
go to is being heard In Denver this
week. Lowther Is the man killed at
Alamosa year ago by son of Judge
llolbrook. The man. before he died,
transferred the policy to his sister,
The wife claims he had no right to
| do so and is suing for the money.
The cholera continues to show a
large number of new cases daily at
ST. Petersburg. Twenty.eight cases
| were recorded for the twenty-four
hours which ended at noon Satur-
day, and the previous four days show.
ed total of ninety. Three cases
have been discovered at Helsingfors,
Finland.
| Presumably stricken to death by a
sudden attack of heart disease, John
c, Beatty. a guest at the Brown Pal
ace hotel, was found dead In the bath
tub of his room. his body being literal.
| ly cooked TO pieces. and the hot wa
ter still running into the tub at 9
o'clock Friday afternoon. The body
had evidently lain In the bath seven
teen hours.
| Colonel William f. Tucker, assist.
ant paymaster general, sonin law OF
the late John A. Logan, has been
ordered before an army retiring board
at Chicago for examination to deter
mine his fitness, for further active
duty. Colonel Tucker is still at Hot
Springs. Ark. where he was ordered
for treatment.
Over hundred farmers living along
'nois-Mississipp canal in White
side and Bureau counties have made
demands for $4,000 from the gov
eminent, claiming that seepage from
the canal has damaged their lands to
that extent, II the money is not forth.
coming they say they will file suit
in the United States court of claims.
| Smallpox is breaking out in many
places in southern Illinois. At Cairo
| all public school children are to be
vaccinated At Diswood two hundred
we're exposed at a school entertain
ment and there are nine cases In one
family Cases are reported at Ullln,
Villaridge. Pulaski. Unity and Prog
ress. repetition OF the epidemic of
several years ago is feared.
Count Bonl de Castellane intends to
renew the fight against his former
wife, who was Anna Gould, now Prin.
cess de Sagan, with even greater bit
terness than he has manifested here
tofore. He has lodged an appeal from
the judgment OF the court granting his
former wife custody Of their children,
and he Will use every means In his
power to take the three boys away
from the princess and his cousin. De
sagan.
A total of $4,000 shares OF stock has
been allotted by the United States
Steel corporation to its employees thi.
year under Its profltsharing plan, &C
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