Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-14

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.--Mrs. Pap'.ne
Brooks. the Oldest resident in New
York city, who lived in three centuries,
is dead al her home here. She was
il3 years old
PARIS. Fab 10--The livil chamber
today condemned Harold Vanderbilt
the young New York millionaire, to
pay workman named Guidnard near
ly 5000 for injuries sustained by the
lat err In la07 when he was struck by
4 Nanderhilts automobile. Gudnard
SIZED for s14 900 out the court decided
that he was entitled to medical and
doctor bills and s2.5Uv damages.
| PARIS, Fet. 10.-Bright sunshine
and clear bracing air carried touch
of frost. which cheered the inhabi
this city today after many hours OF
rain had renewed their terrors. The
Seine is stu rising, but more slowly
The watern are ten inches higher than
yesterday, but the crest of the present
flood is ,pecied tomorrow
BAE CITY, Mich, Feb. 10.-Price.
ling's min at Crump, eighteen miles
northwest of here. blew up today. kill.
ing six workmen outright and fatally
injuring two, besides badly iniuring
several others.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-Gifford
Pinchot has another row on his hands
This VIII be known as the Pinchot.
| McCab0 controversy.
Absolutely untrue" is the way So.
Hector McCabe OF the agricultural dc
partner Mt today characterized the state
ments made by Pinchot in speech
last night before the National Artists
ed against the solicitors conduct of
the forest service while acting tenn
porarjly as chief forester after Pin.
cbot's dismissal
Pirchot accused the solicitor of cut
ting off the salary and expenses of
two hundred forest rangers whom serv-
ice had been sent to state UNIVERSE
ties without consulting division chiefs.
and OF sending letter to the comp
tro'ler of the treasury. purposely fran
ed so as to secure a decision against
the schools. Pinchot holds that as
there was no charge for tuition there
was practically no difference between
sending them to universities and to
instruction camps which the service
always held.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-The $i0,-
100000 rivers and harbors appropria.
tion bill was completed by the COM
mittee today and will probably be re.
ported to The house late this afternoon
Mississippi. Missouri and the Ohio
river PROJECTS are given large lump
sums and generous continuing appro-
prlations. The upper Mississippi will
get two millions and from st. Louis
to Cairo half million in addition to
the appropriation of two millions car
rled In surdry civil bills from Cairo
to lSew Orleans. The committee rec
ommends two millions in addition 10
The equal sum carried in the sundry
civil bill The Ohio river is given one
million INN ediately available and two
and half millions in continuing APP
pIopi'ations The Missouri from Kan
sas city to its mouth will get one
million.
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 1O.-The nuc-
leus of murder league has been
disco, cred here as the result of an
Investigation following the attempted
assassination of Premier vi. The
would.be assassin was not fully sue.
&C ssfui, as the victim, while he may
live for some time, will be an invalid
for life.
The Korean who made the attempt
on the life of the premier confessed
and gave the names of his associates.
1t would appear that there is close
connection between the assassination
of Prince Ito and the attempt on the
premier. Tho prisoner in Seoul says
that there is an organized plot TO do
away with Ill of the Korean cabinet
and leading Japanese officials.
KANSAS CITY. Feb. 11.-Five wom-
en- hold the fate of DIR. h. Clark Hyde,
accused of poisoning Col. Thomas II
Swope, the millionaire, in a plan 10
secure q part Of Col. Swopes four nil-
lion dollar fortune. The women on
whose testimony the prosecution will
largely ely are nurses who cared for
the aged millionaire just before his
death last October. and who, in secret
meeting. branded DIR. Hyde's actions
as suspicious and brought on the In.
vestigation that led to the physicians
arrest yesterday.
Today both sides are busy preparing
for the hearing of the special grand
jury which will begin tomorrow. The
county marshal, acting under instruc-
tons of Judge Lathaw, today began
summoning a panel and the issuance
OF subpocnas was also began The
special grand jury will go into every
detail of the strange case. which from
the beginning has been surrounded by
battling mystery. and not only will
the death of Col Swope on Oct be
gone into. but the death of Chrisman