Semi-weekly herald., 1909-08-02

ago Rev. Walder visited Mrs. Wine
land to talk over the water difficulty.
she took up shovel and started for
him. There was lively chase through
the alfalfa and when the widow failed
to catch her pastor, she went before
Justice Foley and preferred charge
of assault and battery.
The three Colorado representatives
at Washington are getting busy in an
effort to land good committee places
in the coming assignment for the next
session Of congress. On account of
tkeir Independence in voting in oppo-
sition to their party all three stand
posed to give them about what they
want in the way of places AT the
outset Rucker and Taylor both wanted
places on the public lands committee.
They tossed coin to see who should
get 1t and Rucker won After his Por-
10 Rico visit and speech Rueker de-
cided he would rather have a place
oil the insular affairs committee and
he has applied for that, leaving the
public lands to Taylor's disposal. Mar
tin wants place on the labor COM
mittee. The speaker probably win
give each what he wants.
With the announcement from New
York that the Denver e. Rio Grande
railroad has placed orders for new
equipment and rolling stock to the
amount of nearly $4,000, 900. comes the
additional report that everything or
dered is of exactly the same type as
used by the Union Pacific and other
Hartman roads in the west; that the
specifications were drafted by a Har.
| riman official, and that the money
for this new equipment was raised by
an underwriting syndicate which plac
ed the bonds with Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Edward II. Harriman's private bank
ers. In other words, the New York
reports are trying to verify the fre
quent insinuations of late to the eff
feet that Edward II. Hartman has
formed an alliance with George ]
Gould and is in control of the Western
Pacific and Denver and Rio Grande
Golden special to the Denver Re
| publican says: Because Father Athe
nasius, of st. Joseph's Catholic church
in this city refused to allow the Amer
ican flag to be taken into his churcl
during the funeral ceremony, tn,
Grand Army men of Golden are up il
arms. The rupture between the prizes
and the veterans occurred when tn,
casket containing the remains of Mi
ciael Cowley, civil war veteran, wa.
being taken Into the church. Tn,
bearers were all old soldiers and tn,
coffin was draped with the American
nag, In accordance with the custom
and with the often-expressed wish o
the soldier whose remains were beinI
carried to the last resting place. TIL,
veterans, with the burden, were me
al the door Of the church by the priest
who firmly refused to allow the fla,
around the casket or that born by tn,
post color-bearer to be taken In hi
church. The cortege halted. the sol
diers and relatives held a conferenc,
and were on the verge of taking til,
body elsewhere, when IL was decided
to allow the priest to have his way
Father Athenasius claims that it /.
strictly against the rules of the churcl
to allow any emblem except those ap
pertaining 10 the church to be taker
into the house of worship AT Noun
Olivet, 1t is claimed. the priest at
tempted to have the body lowered
into the grave as soon as he hat
spoken his words, but the veteran.
were firm, and, after some argument
the priest allowed the Grand Army rit
ualistic service to go on.