Semi-weekly herald., 1909-11-01

Forest fires In the northern part
of the state are going considerable
damage.
The sad plight of three Florence
boys should be warning TO all young
sters. They are being held In jail for
trial for burglary.
La Junta is being stirred by the
religious revival in progress. over 800
attending a midweek afternoon gath
ering. including half of the business
and professional men OF the town.
| The Colorado Liberal Element
league is the name OF new society
formed for fighting the local option
interests OF the state. The league has
for its object the prevention OF the
spread OF local option and also the
prevention OF the submission to the
people OF the prohibition amendment.
The scarlet fever situation at Crest.
ed Butte is getting worse. general
quarantine has been established
against the town and no citizens are
allowed to depart without doctors
certificate Fourteen cases have now
appeared and two deaths resulted
Monday.
An epidemic of scarlet fever has
broken out in Coal Creek and II Is
reported that thirty cases are under
Quarantine at the present time. The
health authorities Of the camp claim
to have the spreading of the disease
under control. Durango should be on
the lookout as no germs of past years
are floating around.
Engineer Oscar Fl. Lessing. who was
held responsible by the coroner's jury
for the Rio Grande wreck at Hustled
on Aug. IA, when twelve were killed
and sixty-two hurt, was acquitted OF
the charge of manslaughier at Colo
rado Springs yesterday Lessing tes-
who was instantly killed in the wreck,
told him that the train they were
to meet was safely on the Hustled
siding, when the supposed train was
merely an engine and the train they
were to meet collided with them a
lquarter of mile farther on. The
other trainmen held by the coroner's
jury will be tried later.
The eight members OF the United
States senate committee ON irrigation
and the reclamation of arid lands will
meet in Denver Sunday, and will leave
that city Sunday night on Denver &
Rio Grande train No. Is for Montrose,
where they will investigate the govern
ment's Uncompahgre project in the
course OF their examination into the
32 projects which the government
now has under way throughout the
country.
Protected gambling again flourishes
in the downtown district, and the gam
bling kings, through their agents, are
raking in the pennies of the poor on
the west side The tears of wives
and mothers. who are making pitiful
complaints every day, fail to move
compassion in the hearts of officials
who are on the payroll of the gam.
bling syndicate says the Denver News
Every night thousands of dollars are
lost in Denver at faro, stud poker,
roulette and a game called black
Lack The city administration inter.
feres only when 1t is absolutely neces.
sary. Within the last few months
publicity has compelled the gamblers
to stop their games for twenty-four
OF forty-eight hours. Some places
(which have been reported closed have
been in more or less secret opera,
ton all the time. The official pay
roll mounts into the thousands every
month. Several men are receiving 81 :.
O0o every thirty days. and number
of them hold no official position, but
they demand tribute and II is paid
without protest by the syndicate chiefs
who know that the men in question
could do them harm is so disposed
Isn't 1t queer that wherever gambling
is permitted there is an official rake
off If there was not rake-off gam
Ibling would not be countenanced by
Iofticials. OF course there is no gam
bling going on in Durango.