Semi-weekly herald., 1909-01-21

AaA NhANh 7tAt AllbNE Gu
Postmaster Thomas stated toda
that when the inspectors were brough
here 70 locate If possible the soure
of leakage in the local office, no sus
picion was attached to Mr.. Slade, an,
only by the merest accident he wa
discovered in the act OF extracting
money from letters.
GRAND JUNCTION. Jan. 1s.-Pay
ment of s350,O0O to the fruit groweri
of the Grand valley and $4,000 t.
the Utah growers who ship their prod
ucts to the local associations and IL
taddition commission and retail bust
ness amounting to S175,000 is TIL,
record of last year of the Grand juno
tion Fruit Growers association. De
spite frosts, which caused loss OF
the larger part of the fruit crop. 42s
cars OF fruit were shipped by the
association from this city to nearly
every state and territory in the union
~ meeting is to be held in few
| days, in which the capital stock OF the
| association win be increased from one
hundred thousand TO quarter million
dollars.
PUEBLO, Colo, Jan. 1S.-Afissouri
Pacific passenger, known as the st
Louis fast express, which leaves here
at 6;05 p. M. ran into a ditch IaN
night near Boone, thirty-one miles east
of Pueblo According to reports re.
ceived here up to this morning there
We're no fatalities, or no one seriously
injured, although many passengers
were badly bruised from the sinking
mp they received. That many were
not killed is considered a miracle The
train was running at the rate of thirty
five miles an hour when the tender
jumped the track. The engine and cx-
press cars were thrown from a bridge
in an arroyo and five other cars piled
into the ditch. The damage To The
rolling stock was heavy.
WILLIE. France, Jan tS.-Three
American sailors from battleships in
the harbor had an encounter this morn
ing with a gang of local ruffians. A
party of the sailors comrades came to
their rescue before anybody was Sc
riously hurt, and by the time the po
lice arrived four out of the five assail-
ants were prisoners in the hands of
bluejackets. The fifth escaped
CHICAGO, Jan. 1S.-Dr Emil G
Hirsch. in a sermon declared yester-
day that Jews were no longer He
brews, in his opinion, "either in blood
or in belief"
THAT word is gradually disappear
ing" said DIR. Hirsch. 1T crops out
occasionally, as in the Hebrew insti.
tute. but usually we speak of Jewish
institutes, Jewish hospitals and the
like. The Hebrew God was one of
power The Hebrew religion was one
of sacrifice. It was the custom to
offer up the first child that the others
might be spared from disease and
death. That is not our belief. We be-
lieve in different sort of God"
NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-Although the
life savers worked practically all night
and resumed their endeavors early To-
day. sailors of the Refer. which was
cast up about quarter of mile down
the coast from the scene of the wreck,
the only trace found of the crew of
the ill-fated little fishing schooner
Swallow of st. Johns, N r., which was
driven into the breakers OF Long Is.
land and torn to pieces during the
storm which ragged Saturday night
The victims are thought to be twelve
in number, as yet unnamed. and 1t is
probable the story of the disaster will
never be told, as there appears little
doubt that every man on board per
ished.
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, Jan. 18.-
Mistaking a band of serenaders, who
had come to congratulate him upon
his recent marriage, for chicken
thieves, John II. Vivian. a rancher
near West Four Mile, fred five shots
into crowd of young men, seriously
wounding Clinton Wilson. II years old
the son of John Wilson, a prominent
rancher. Wilson is at the Sisters
hospital here. where physicians hold
out little hope for his recovery to-
day. Vivian has been arrested by
Sheriff Henry and is now in Jail.
SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. Isl. d.
Wood of Salt Lake, millionaire mine
owner and perhaps the largest sheep
owner in the west, was instantly kill
ed by a Union Pacific engine in the
Oregon Short line railroad yards last
evening. His body was discovered ly-
ing between the rails by car inspec-
tor. 1t is not known how the accident
occurred, but presumed that Mr.. Wood,
who was intending to take a train for
Pueblo, was taking a walk about the
yards and failed to hear the approach
ing train.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The su-
preme court of the United States to
day decided against President Meyer
of the Western Federation Of Miners
in the damage suit brought by him
against former Governor Peabody OF
Colorado on account of Meyers i'm
prisonment on the governors orders
because of his alleged connection with
riots at Telluride in 1904.
DENVER, Jan. 1S.-With .3S cali.
ber bullet in his brain, the lifeless
| body OF Charles Brookman, aged 55
years, was found in the basement OF
his home at Downing, street, shortly
before o'clock this morning, his hand
still clutching the weapon from which