Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-18

LYNNE persons drowned. OF whom
thirty-two were passengers. Survivors
We're landed here. A dense fog pre-
vailed at the time of the collision.
| DENVER, Aug 16.-According tc
Senators McCue and Burger, Governor
Shafroth unwarrantably elaborated on
the information sent him from Okla
homa in his reference to the effect OF
the bank guaranty law in that state
Governor Shafroth stated in his mes.
sage to the special session that since
the operation of the bank guaranty
law in Oklahoma three state banks
and three national banks had paid
their depositors in full, but national
banks are still In the process of Ii.
quotation. Today Governor Shafroth,
in response to resolution introduced
by Senator McCue, transmitted TO the
senate copy of the correspondence
upon which he based the state. He
qualities his declaration in his first
message.
| VI Lana, NuIS-t aug. 1O.-.JaIneS
| Hurley, general manager of the Santa
Fe railroad. died from heart trouble
at Carlsbad, Austria, at noon today.
| The first word of his death was re.
| ceived in this country by Henry b.
| Lautz. assistant to the general mana.
ger, when the cablegram was deliver
ed to his office in Topeka this morn.
ing. General Manager Hurley left To
peka July 10 for New York City, and
sailed for Carlsbad, Austria, where he
intended spending a few months at
that famous health resort to regain his
strength and find relief from contin.
ued attacks of Indigestion. He was so
years old.
F. e. Forman, who has been here
for the past week looking over the
country with N II. A. Walker of the
Empire Realty company, left for Den.
yer this morning. Mr. Forman is pres
ident of the irrigation district living
between Denver and Greeley. which
was constructed at cost of 50 900 600
1t produces about 250. 900 acre feet of
water. and has some $50 miles of ditch.
es. MIR. Walker organized the ditch
and was its first secretary.
Mr.. Forman, who came to Durango
through Mr.. Walker, said he was sur.
prised at the opportunities the county
affords in the line of irrigation prof.
ects. He confessed that he came not
because he had any idea of making in.
vestments, but through Mr.. Walkers
solicitation. He was much impressed
with the resources of this section, find.
ing water, soil, climate and local con.
ditions very desirable. He thinks.
however. that new people are needed
to develop the country. which he con.
siders should be done by dividing the
large tracts of land into smaller ones
and then using more intensive farm.
ing.
Mr.. Forman said he expects to re.
turn, and should he locate here. will
be the means of interesting many
friends he has in Longmont, Fort Col.
Inns, Greeley and other points in that
part of the state, who are farmers of
standing and high degree of eff.
cheney MIR. Forman has the reputa.
ton of being a practical and progress.
sive farmer, who has high standing
in his community.
MATTEAWAN, KY, Aug. 16.-The
police here are hunting some clue to
the identity of an automobilist who
killed the 3-year-old son of George
Verdi. farmer The child was play.
ing by the roadside when the automo.
bile whizzed by. A projecting bolt
caught his clothes and he was dragged
beneath the wheels, which passed over
his body, killing him instantly.
According to the police, the driver
stopped his car, picked up the baby's
body and threw It over a low fence
onto lawn beside the road. Persons
in cross street, too far away to
identify the automobilist. saw him stop
the machine, pick something from the
road and toss 1t aside. They thought
it trifling obstruction of some kind
and paid no attention. A few minutes
later the baby's body was found on the
lawn.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1G.-The Inter.
Ocean prints an interview with Joseph
C. Cannon, speaker of the house OF
representatives in which he denounces
insurgents and says this morning he
will be a candidate for the speaker.
ship OF the next house, and declares
the contemplated reorganization of the
Republican party originated with the
insurgents and Democrats.
Referring to the dispatches from
Beverly. Cannon said:
81 don't believe Taft contemplates
any such action. The president is not
the kind of a man to yield TO every
passing within OF the minority. The
story that Senators Aldrich and Hale
and myself are to be thrown out of
the party Will be found when traced
to its source, originated with some
insurgent or Democrat allies whose
wishes were father to the thought