Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-08
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

| Saying to five men who looked on
We'll. boys, here's a go" Samuel Ross
shot himself through the heart at Har
din, Mont, in a saloon. The bartender
OWNED Ross intention and entreated
him not to shoot, but Ross only laugh
ed and before the spectators could
| restrain him, fired.
Lightning has performed some queer
FRANKS in Wyoming this summer, but
perhaps the queerest occurred at the
ranch of j. T. Payne Monday. Payne
was driving moving machine when
bolt struck the implement. rendering
| the operator unconscious. When Payne
regained consciousness he found him.
self lying beside the machine, while
his team browsed several hundred
yards away. The lightning had un-
hitched the animals by Remembering
the harness.
Charges of an extensive system of
grating which defrauded the Fraternal
Order of Eagles--a society OF 800, 900
members in Canada and the United
States-of thousands OF dollars, op.
Grated by former officers of the soci.
ETY., were made in Chicago Tuesday in
connection with suit of recovery for
$1,000 started in the municipal court.
Present officers OF the order declare
that this is only the start of what
may prove one of the biggest graft ex.
posures of the year.
Dogs in the national capital will
have TO run around with mu2zles on
for the next year. In an effort to
stamp out rabies in the District of
Columbia. the commissioners have sen.
fenced all dogs, of both low and high
degree, to submit to this indignity.
During the last month twenty-four per.
sons bitten by dogs have been under
treatment.
Frozen stiff and dead, with the Their.
mometer standing at los in the shade,
was the experience OF n homeless Mex.
lean at Maricopa station, 300 miles
west of FL Paso on the Arizona desert.
carload of Ice had been unloaded
on the depot platform and covered
with heavy tarpaulin. The man,
seeking place to sleep and to escape
the terrific heat, crawled beneath the
tarpaulin, where he was found the
next morning, frozen stiff.
In a peppery statement given out,
State President John II. Walker OF
the Illinois miners, refers to National
President Lewis as a cheap, disgrun.
tied and disgraced demagogue, who
has openly betrayed the miners and
allied himself with coal operators
and says: HE has proved his abso
lutte incompetence and worse. He went
into office with a solid and united or
ganlzation and nearly 81 900. 900 In the
treasury. He spent most of the money
on strikes, thousands OF miles away
to break up existing miners unions
AT n meeting of counsel, traffic Off.
GERS and operating officers of Chicago
railroads, Tuesday, discussion was car.
rled turther OF the situation in regard
to freight rate advances, and final
steps were taken In preparation for
representation of the roads before the
interstate commerce commission at the
hearing to be held here Aug %. The
roads will seek to justify their conten.
ton that more revenue is needed from
the standpoint OF the road itself and
reasonable from the standpoint of the
public. To substantiate the former
contention, data Is being gathered by
the accounting and operating depart.
ments to show increased costs and ex.
penses, while the traffic departments
will emphasize the probable effect on
the public of an increase.