Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-13

published reports are true lie should
90 to prison for life on bread and
water. This everlasting grating should
be stopped And along with it print.
ing gratis.
Every Protestant church in FL Paso
Sunday adopted resolutions of protest
against race track gambling in Juarez
opposite Ell Paso, in Mexico. The res
olutions call on the secretary of state
at Washington to urge the Mexican
government to withdraw the gambling
concessions.
1t Is now practically certain that
the cost to Big Horn county of the
conviction of five of the Tensleep raid
ers will not be less than $4,000. The
listed expense is now greater than
$40, 900, with many items TO be- added
II is planned by the county commits
sioners to appeal to the next legisla-
ture for relief. requesting the passage
of a bill making a state appropriation
to pay the trial costs.
Colonel Hugh L. Scott, superintend-
ent of the military academy at West
Point, estimates that 1t costs the gov
ernment of the United States $4,000
to produce second lieutenant out of
the raw material which is sent TO that
institution from the several states and
congressional districts every year. In
making this estimate he bases his cal
culations upon the current expenses
of maintaining the academy. which are
about 81 10000 a year, and the aver
age number of cadets for the last few
years, which has been about 400.
Whatever confirmation may be need
ed to remove all doubt of the won
derful prosperity which is prevailing
Is furnished by official returns of the
internal commerce of the country
compiled by the bureau of statistics
of the treasury department. The i'm
proved industrial situation is manifest
ed principally in the very heavy move
ments of coke and iron ore demanded
by the iron furnaces. The sight and
port receipts of cotton, notwithstand
ing the shorter crop of the year, ex-
ceeded like receipts for the first two
months of the two preceding seasons.
The grain movement of the month
proved fairly heavy, while The receipts
of live stock at interior and eastern
market. mainly because of the short
| age in the supply of hogs. were rather
| light.
Through the application Of "NOyo'
caine," a recently discovered anaes-
| thetic which is destined to revolutions
ize many surgical operations, Mrs. Ida
Moskowitz of New York, who says she
| is 1S but who looks much older. was
enabled to pray aloud for spiritual
with the physicians of the hospital
while they operated on her for stran-
gufatfo,i Of he he -igies.ines. The aged
woman was on the operating thhle is,
minutes and saw every move made by
the physicians.
| The neighborhood in which j. Pier
pont Morgan, Jr., and other multi-mil-
| lionaires live is no longer deemed ex
elusive by the courts. Commercial in
terests already have so far encroach-
ed on its confines that Mr.. Morgan
and others who sought to enioin the
| erection of a 16-story office building
were denied their application by ref
cree appointed by the supreme court
Mr. Morgan and his associates con.
tended that an office building would
greatly depreciate the value of their
property
John G. Woolley, former presiden-
tial candidate on the Prohibition tick
ell, took occasion to air his belief that
the dry party has outliyed its useful
ness and that the saloons can only
be driven out by the united efforts of
Christian people of all parties, in an
address Sunday night before the Sun.
day evening club at Orchestra hall
Chicago, says the record-Herald THE
Prohibition party did magnificent work
for WHILE" said Mr.. Woolley, but
| 'hS 'iDdbiV tSot " bt tHdN WtTt
five times as many Prohibitionists in
the Democratic party as in the Pro
hibitionist party and several more
times as many of them in the Repub.
lican party" Mr.. Woolley said that
the fight against the saloon will ulti-
mately be won. incidentally he said
the women could hasten the day If
they We're permitted to vote.
Bare-legged and bare-headed, Ray.
mond Duncan, with Mrs Raymond
Duncan and their son. Menaikas Dun.
can, arrived in America on board the
liner Friesland Monday morning Clad
in costumes fashioned and made by
themselves after the mode of the
Greeks of Biblical times the three
travellers were the most conspicuous
OF the 800 and more passengers land.
ed at the Washington avenue wharf,
Philadelphia. Mr.. Duncan is a brother
OF lsadore Duncan an exponent of
classic dances. For the last seven
years he has lived in Creeca stndvino