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Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21
Taft Refuses to
Become Involved

ROCHESTER,. N. NJ Mar. i9.-"The
middle of The road" is the position
President Taft assumed ;oday in re
gard to the Cannon-insureent struggle
at Washington. Before leaving Roch.
ester for Albany the president dictated
replies to a huge number of kilograms
from Washington.
Both insureent and Cannon leaders
do something to relieve the situation
To every request hat he interfere
the president sent an answer. which
stripped of its polite phrases, meant !:
This is none of my business
Having washed his hands of that af.
fair. the president took up again his
study OF the Canadian tariff siiuaiior
which will be thrashed out at Albany
tonight. The president, Canadian Min.
lister of Finance Fielding and probably
Earl Grey will take part in the tariff
conference. The vexed questions OF
the French tariff will finally be set.
tied The president ordered procIa
mation issued admitting France to a
minimum tariff.
New York politics took Oh a rather
strenuous aspect today The presi
dent. Governor Hughes and number
OF New York state leaders get to
gether at Albany today on tomorrow
for the good of the party" The re
suit may be startling.
The president left Rochester in his
special train this morning and will
reach Albany early this evening.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21
KILLED
AI'DANCE
Two Cousins in Deadly
Battle Over Slight
Of Girl Cousin

MONROE, Ia. Mar l9.-Two men
dead and four seriously wounded Is the
result OF fight during a dance at the
home of E. l.. Dodd, one of the wealth.,
esi planter in Union parish, last night.
The fight is .said to have started
when a cousin OF Arthur Nolan re.
fused to dance with him. Nolan be-
came angry and Jack Nolan, another
cousin, rebuked BIN Both men imme.
diately drew revolvers and opened fire.
Other relatives took up the fight. Both
of the Nolans died few minutes after
the fighting started.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

w. Goff Black has gone to Denver
on business connected with the Eden
canal, and good news Is expected upon
MS return. Geo. b. Anderson, the head
engineer for that company. spent sew.
eral days here This week going over
the proposition and says TINT every.
Thing is at present In fine shape The
Eden people are making survey that
miy u survey heretofore. II is tieir in.
tention to build ditch that win carry
a full head Of water from the first
day. Concrete fumes, deep cuts, etc.
are to be used. No expense will be
spared in the construction work Az
tee Index
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21


Spent it for chairs? Yes. that's Just
like n woman. Why didn't you put II
in the savings bank on interest? AS
II the old chairs weren't good enough
to sit on-without all this needless ex-
travagance.
What's that? Mrs. Jones got a
new fifty dollar bonnetp You mean
Mrs. Charlie Jones? Huh, I'D like to
Know how she can spludge around In
fifty dollar bonnet. Why, he don't
make half the money do. I don't see
how he saves cent with such a
wasteful wife. Goodness knows. YOU
are wasteful enough. but If had her
ID be In the poorhouse It's just such
foolish women as that who are driv-
Ing this country to ruin.
What's thai2 Men put ON Just az
much dog as women in these days %
You mean dudes-not men. You know
| never waste any money on clothes.
What? Nobody but me to blame p
Well. somebody's got to take the re-
sponsibility of saving in the family. II
didn't sacrifice to the last cent, we'd
be In the hands of the auctioneer
Cigars and suppers? Well, that's
lust like a woman. Would yon like to
rob me of that little grain of comfort.
hey?
"I'll tell you. Mary, II had my
way. there wouldn't he any such thing
as fashion. I'd like to know who
started it As II our ancestors didn't
get along Just as well without all this
fol-de-rol Seems to me Adam and
Eve managed first rate with plain fig
leaves. Huh, fig leaves, call that
sensible. No washing or mendng-
lust tie 'em on and there you are
But OF course Eve had to get "A Bee
In her head dress and spoil 1t all It's
been the same old story ever since.
II poor man thinks he's having II
little paradise, along comes woman
and ruins everything. ri bet that
serpent told Eve that her fig leave
dress wasn't swell enough; that she
ought to wake up and get in style or
she'd lose Adam.
What? You don't care to hear me
harp on that all day?' Well, who's
harping. I'd like to know? You start
ed it, didn't you? Wasn't reading my
paper in peace?
whats that? Mrs. Jones said at
the club that some men were sucn
iightwads their wives had to wear the
s..-...-ss mum ~ eIrn,
so? guess If she had new hat ev.
cry week she wouldn't look any bet
ter. Say. you don't 'spose she was
throwing any hints at anybody do
you? What? You think she was
making fun of your hat?' Well. those
Joneses are altogether too fresh He
don't make half the money do Why
| could dress my wife like bird OF
paradise II ] wanted to.
you say yon don't care anything
about swell clothes? No. that's It,
Mary. you don't care how yon look
You're as handsome as any woman II
you'd only dress yourself right.
What's that? You don't think you
can afford it?' lndeedl Wen see
whether you can or not. Here-hcre' 3
check for three hundred. and If you
don't get the swellest OUTFIT in town
and outshinc that Dragging Jones wife
why. ri get divorce-so there"
-Tilly Slowboy.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21
HOW THEY DO 1T IN FRANCE.

The French suffraectte knows that
she will not be elected to any office.
but, nevertheless, she VIII go before
the voters at the general election In
May, in the most polite way imagin-
able. her object being to attract at'er-
ton to the cause. The French voters
viii treat her Just as politely. will lis.
ten and admire. but viii not vote for
her. However. things may be different
In another half dozen generations. Il
she Is persistent.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21


hang between life and death.
Hazel c Currier. 10 years old, the
daughter of James r Currier. elevator
pilot at city hall. died at Mercy hog.
pital, Denver, Wednesday morning
from the effects OF an accidental burn.
ing which she received In the state
Industrial Home for Girls at Morrison.
Colo, last Saturday The fact that
the hospital authorities and the at
tending physician did not report the
death TO the coroner has started an
investigation by the coroner's Office
that will result In an inquest. The
girls clothing caught flre from a light
ed paper which she had dropped in
the ash pan of the stove, while cooking
supper for her cottage mates. The
girl was burned over one.third of the
surface of her body before The flames
could be extinguished. Her face. arms
and chest were badly scorched.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

Durango. but the advice was ignored
with results already made plain in
these columns. When politics are
placed ahead of interests of the tax.
payers it's a tough proposition.
w. C.. Miller of Denver last week
purchased of II. Schleusner the old
Wedell place for Sl25OO This is n
well improved ranch and Mr. Schleus.
ner paid $4,000 for 1t three years ago
lie farmed IL himself for the past two
years making net profit of $4,000
from the produce raised This gives
one an idea of what can be realized
from an improved ranch in Montezuma
county. also the rapid advance in the
land Dolores Star
A writer in the bayfield, Blade says:
Criminal SPORT allude to the shoot.
ing of birds, especially the owl and lit.
lie red hawk Mice are increasing
rapidly in the fields as consequence
and many apple trees have been killed
by mice during the past winter. Much
more damage will result from mice il
these birds are not protected Even
the large hawk that sometimes gets a
chicken and the robin that sometimes
finds cherry are OF far more value
to the farmer than harm
\. j. Cipherd OF Pueblo last week
closed a deal for William Coppinger's
lower l6o-acre place, about six miles
below town. through the Bozmans The
price paid was $1,000. Iuu IL is a
big bargain AT that price; in fact, Mr.
coppineer feels that he didn't do such
a wonderful thing in selling, as he
has probably taken off this place as
large crops as have been grown in any
part of Colorado 1t is in a beautiful
part of the valley, surrounded by other
good ranches. Mr.. Sipherd also owns
n fine eighty-acre tract in the north
eastern part of the valley. which he
purchased last year and which he is
now preparing for grain and fruit
planting. Mr.. Coppinger will now de
vote his entire attention 10 his home
place and the growing of hogs He has
turned off about $1,000 worth Of hogs
this winter at the average of S2S so
ner head for h.monfh-oId gtork flor.
tez Journal.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

The maiden primping in her glass
Is also very wise.
BY putting on gown thai shows
Her figure best, the winsome lass
Makes plain the fact that she. TOO
knows
1t pays to advertise.
New York Telegram
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

The rabbit and the rooster show
That natures ways are queer:
On has hair without comb mad one
A comb without the hair
Boston Transcript.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21
COLORADO BRIEFS

Governor Shafroth has issued proc
lamatlon designating April 18th as Ar
Dor day for Colorado.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

1t is said representatives OF foreign
brewing companies have been active
In having saloon men OF Denver ar
rested who we're not patronizing them
While returning from duck hunting
OIL the Rio Grande river at Alnmosa
Dennis ]. Foley. Rio Grande boiler
maker. was accidentally shot and his
left arm nearly torn off.
Colorado Springs and other state
cities are extending invitations to
Roosevelt to visit their respective
places when he comes to Colorado
AS Teddy Is great on hunting why not
have him visit La Plata county.
Grand Junction orchardists nre all
busy with their annual pruning and
spraying operations. The fruit grow
ers' associations are kept hustling to
fill the large orders for spraying ma
terials. etc.
A paroled convict named Wills Pow
ers is In for more confinement, hay
ing stolen an automobile. forged a $50
check and otherwise raised cain. Next
time the man will not find It quite 80
easy to be paroled.
Just when the Denver city admin.
istration thought II was out OF the
woods with the civic center plans,
there bobs up another injunction suit,
this time In the United States circuit
court. to restrain the city council from
proceeding further In the matter
Three Austrians were seriously In
jured "Wednesday morning In the
Smuggier mine at Aspen, when one
OF them dropped a match into box
OF caps. which exploded. knocking all
three OF them down and bruising each
about the face and body. They were
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

The Massachusetts Legislature voted
option in that state
At New Orleans a car load of babies
from the founding home in New York
were given away and the demand be
ing so great another car is being ship
ped TO that place.
Nebuehadnezzar. the Babylonian
king, imagined he was hebiverons
quadruped and ate grass. Ralpha Mad.
ison, the l3-yearold Son of wealthy
rancher living near Palo Alto. Cal.
thinks he is a dog and when he hears
footsteps he crouches and barks.
Consul Junior. the so-called educated
chimpanzee, who was dressed and
taught to act like man. died at Dal-
las. Tex. Wednesday of bronchial
pneumonia. after an Illness of four
days. Consul was valued at $50 1000
and was insured with London insur.
ance company for that amount. Dur.
ing his illness physicians attended the
monkey as they would have ministered
to a human being The body will
be embalmed and sent 10 Europe for
burial.
Tickets for the Juffries-Johnson fight
July at Frisco, reached Pittsburg
Wednesday and there was a rush for
them. The wary Plttsburgers figured
that there might be speculation later
and there were more than 500. possi.
bly, 1000. OF the s. seats sold there
and sold to those who intend really
to go to the fight II has been set.
tied behind club doors in almost every
exclusive club Of Pittsburg that there
will be good representation of the
club at the ring side. though In most
cases those going from the swell clubs
will not want it made known publicly
The fashionable Pittsburg club bought
ffty-three tickets and another social
club 200-all for its own members.
Mayor Mccarthy is building In San
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

1t is said representatives OF foreign
brewing companies have been active
In having saloon men OF Denver ar
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

PHILADELPHIA. Mar l9.--Thls /.
the twentynlntb day of the stree
car strike and the fifteenth OF The
general walkout There have been
few desertions from the ranks of the
trolleymen, but there is slow move
ment toward return to work on the
part OF general strikers The return
IL not general but each day finds q
few more men returning.
President Greenwait OF the Stat,
Federation of Labor is still determined
to put statewide strike into effect
Monday
The dynamitlng OF three cars In diff
ferept parts Of the city last night were
the first serious acts of violence re
ported in nearly week and the po
lice are making a rigid investigation
of the affair
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

Silverton is going TO engage in II
Hard Times ball on the evening of
April 9th.
Arthur Caldwell who played with
Durango. Telluride and Silverton
clubs off and on, has signed with
South Michigan league team.
Grand Junction Sentinel claims TO-.
zoo people for that city. According 10
the advertising given the papers one
would take the city to be one of at
least 5000.
Thomas II. Henahan. representative
Ia the legislature from San Juan coun-
ty, is now resident of Clear Creek
county where he has been appointed
manager of the Chesapeake Mining
property.
Bayfield, Blaze says capitalists are
looking over that place with view OF
starting bank. We have been won.
dering how a newspaper could run
in town without a handsome place
to get money enough TO run.
Il. NJ. Pierce. C. c. Pitrat, w. A.
Hunter, A. NJ Amsden and Willet
Brown have been nominated for city
officers of Pennington by convention
that resoluted against saloons and for
a dry town. the general talk being
thai Pennington must be kept in the
dry column.
The government is putting in con
crete wall along the west bank of Pine
river between the pumping plant and
the bridge at the Ignacio Indian agen-
cy to prevent the water during flood
times from encroacbing on the agency
property. The laborers employed are
nearly all Ute Indians.-Bayfleld
Blade.
II A. Kent was In town Tuesday
with some eggs from his White Leg
horn flock which he has on his chick.
Ell ranch In the glade. The eggs were
from flock of young pullets and
were beauties. He is getting eighteen
to twenty eggs daily from a flock OF
ree.-Farmington Times-Hus.
tier.
Silverton Republicans have adopted
sensible resolutions-that municipal
government is business, not politics.
and TO this end favor on-partisanship
in the conduct OF city affairs. This is
the position taken by The Herald In
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

Durango, but the advice was ignored
with results already made plain in
these columns When politics are
placed ahead of interests of the tax.
payers it's a tough proposition.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21
NOTHING DEFINITE
ACCOMPLISHED YET
Railroad Situation Does Not Look as ROSY as
Might Wisfl---State Wide Strike in
Pennsylvania Monday

CHICAGO. Mar. 19.-Another confer
ence between representatives of the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Firsmen
aud Commissioners Knapp and NELL
was held today. during which the fed.
erai mediators made another effort
to get the firemen to coucede some
thlng and take step toward averting
strike on forty.nine western rail
roads
Compromise propositions of various
sorts have been suggested. but the
outlook does not appear very hopefn
The report that one of the mediators
remarked that he expected to be In
Washington before Monday Ia not re
garded as auguring well for a settle
ment
The question of seniority and the
representation rules still remains n
rock ON which the negotiations threat.
on to split, neither side having con
ceded single point in regard to them
The negotiations have already been
III progress longer than the firemen
wished when they called in Knapp
and Neil. and the fear Is expressed
that the brotherhood leaders may have
diihcnlty in holding the rank and file
o. the organization IN check much
longer 1t is reported that when the
brotherhood committee voted early in
the week 10 strike 1t set Monday, Mar.
~ as the date of The walkout It Is
believed the present negotiations win
have 10 be e. flni5hal by that day II -irn,,-
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

WASHINGTON, Mar. 19.-The first
test vote came soon after ! o'clock,
when Dalzel moved the Norris resolu
lion appealing from Il decision of the
chair be laid on the table The vote
taken was. regular Republicans 16l,
insurgents and Democrats 1874 the in.
surgents winning by tweniythree. The
main question on the Norris resolution
is debatable and no vote may be reach
ed today.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21
NEW sIoNERs TO RAIL
ROAD GUARANTY FUND

The following have signed in full
TO the railroad guaranty fund:
pvapan Af,a Isap,ga ,-n an
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

taken to the local hospital. where they
hang between life and death.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21
INSURGE:s!!.T!!S Is WIN
FIRST TEST VOTE
Cannon and Regular Republican Organization
Defeated by q Votes on the First
Vote Of the Day

WASHINGTON. Mar. l9.-At 1890
this afternoon Speaker Cannon gave a
ruling on the Dalzell point of order
10 the Norris resolution, su aiming
the point OF order, declaring III. reso-
luton TO be out of order.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 19-"No con
clusion has been reached The fght
Will go on at noon
This is the official announcement
made at the conclusion of confer
ence of the leaders of the allies and
regulars after a two-hour session mis-
morning In an effort TO reach com.
promise on the rules question.
How TO save Speaker Cannon ftom
humiliaiing defeat That was the prop
osirion around which all interest cen.
tered at the capitol early today, as
far as the Republicans of the honse
Of representatives is concerned. It
WAS the one thought that dominated
the united regulars and u considerable
portion OF The insurgeui forces. A mum.
Der of the most radical members of
the insurgent faction, however is not
concerned about what may happen 10
the speaker The Democrats of course
are interested only in inflicting as
much damage TO the majority as pos.
sible, II is admitted on all sides,
boastfully by the insurgents, but very
quietly by the regulars that the iigh,
on revision of rules had been won
and that The present rules of the com.
mittee would be overturned and Il
new committee selected by the house
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

Thomas r. Henahan. representative
ia the legislature from San Juan coun-
ty, is now resident of Clear Greek
county where he has been appointed
manager of the Chesapeake Mining
property.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

Silverton Republicans have adopted
sensible resolutions-that municipal
government is business, not politics,
and TO this end favor non -partisanship
in the conduct OF city affairs. This is
the position taken by The Herald In
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

Arthur Caldwell who played with
Durango. Telluride and Silverton
clubs off and on, has signed with a
South Michigan league team.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

Slverton is going TO engage in Il
Hard Times" ball on the evening Of
April 9th
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

Grand Junction Sentinel claims TO-,
600 people for that city According 10
the advertising given the papers one
would take the city to be one of at
least 5000
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

locking over that place with view OF
starting bank. We have been won
dering how newspaper could run
in a town without a bank-some place
to get money enough 10 run.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-21

Mayor Mccarthy is building in San
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-22
,irs. TIhb. Pnrdnned.

Governor Mann has granted a par
don to Mrs. Annie Tibbs. of Richmond.
sentenced to jail for six months in Pc
tersburg for shaving aided in the es-
cape of her nephew. Junius a. VIII
hanson, who was awaiting trial for
bieamy. Williamson was also charged
with having murdered his second wife.
TRACES of arsenic poisoning having
been found in her stomach on an au-
topsy performed by Coroner Taylor, OF
Richmond. Williamson was captured
In North Carolina. While in fall In
Petersburg he was visited by his aunt.
VINO Was said 10 have brought him the
saws with which he effected his es-
cape. She has served about half OF
her term. The application for pardon
was Endorsed by the trial Judge and
Commonwealth's Attorney. Williamson
Us now serving term In the peni-
Tertiary for bigamy. and may later be
trie DIOR murder
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-22
BROTHER BRINGS
SUIT FOR $4,000
Action Instituted Against the
Petersburg Telephone
Company.
MAsoNs ELECT OFFICERS
Fraternal Organizations to Look
After Children Christ
MAsoNs ELECT OFFICERS
Times-Dispatch Bureau,
lO9 North Sycamore Street,
PETERSBURG, Va, December q

petersburg va, December Il.
BY his counsel James NJ Quicke, Jr.,
and Paul Petit. w. o. Newsom. ad-
ministrator of the estate of his broth
er. Robert O. Newsom, to-day insti-
tuted suit in the Hastings Court for
$4,000 damages against the Peters,
burg Telephone Company and the Vir-
ginia Railway and Power Company
On the Sd of July of last year Rob-
ert o. Newsom. an employe of the
railwav company. while at work on
a pole at the corner of Sycamore and
Fillmore Streets. was shocked by a
live wire, ella 'med to have belonged to
the telephone company, and which
rendered him helpless until his death
in May of this year. The suit is
brought, as next of kin, on behalf of
the children of Robert Newsom
Mnsons Elect Officers.
At the stated meeting of Powhatan
Lodge, No. 124, A, F. and A. NJ, last
night. officers We're elected and in
stalled as follows:
Worshipful Master Emmett L. Rock:
Senior Warden, Robert G. Bass; Junior
Warden, j. n. Harrison: Treasurer,
Robert E. Gill; Secretary, Louis l.
Kidd; Senior Deacon, George w. Wat
son; Junior Deacon. Charles H. God
sey: Chaplains. Rev. +. w. Moore and
Joseph Gresham; Tiler Joseph Will
liams: Stewards, John Wilkinson and
Sidney B. Gill,
The installation ceremonies We're
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-22


Miss Martha Alice Tucker and Robert
p. Kelly, both of Dinwiddic county.
We're married
At 2:t5 o'clock at the residence of
Mrs. Williams. on jefferson Street.
Miss Bessie Adelaide Bratton and
Charles Lumsden Cox. both of Prince
George county, were united in mar
riage
Mrs, Charles Williams has issued in
sitations to the marriage of her daugh-
Ter Annie LAURA Lauterback, to Nell
son P. Pollard. to take place January
!. at o'clock P. NJ, at the residence on
High Street.
A telegram received from Dallas.
Texas to-day. by Mrs. A. A. Allen, an
nounced the death of her son-in- la "
Roy Wilson, at that place Mrs Will
son was formerly Miss yirgie Allen.
of this city. who, it is expected. will
return to live with her mother.