Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-25
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

ordinary session of the Seventeenth
General assembly the sum of work &C
complished is practically OF negli
ers up to date is more than $4,000
In the two weeks of the session
conservatives in the senate have
shown they hold the whip hand. al
though by narrow margin. Through
this control they give it out that the
bills demanded by Governor Shafroth
in his call will be stripped OF all radi-
cal features.
The initiative and referendum bill
has passed the senate in committee
in form that is repugnant to men,
bers OF the direct legislation league
by which organization the bill was
prepared. The bill is now on the
senate calendar for the third reading
and final passage but requires twenty
four votes to get by and as there are
only sixteen Democrats who will vote
for it, it is necessary that five will
have to come from the Republican
side.
Before the house adjourned for the
noon recess several leading members
declare there will be vote on the
Skinner initiative and referendum bill
today. The same members say that
after the bill has been handled by
the senate Representative Skinner, its
author, will not recognize it.
The house is resigned to conference
and does not expect to put in hands
of Governor Shafroth the measure
which the radicals want to adopt
1t is expected the Hicks primary
bill Will be taken up tomorrow. Rep
resentative Hicks says he believes the
house will discuss his bill two days
at least.
Several followers of Governor Shat
roth are advocating night sessions in
order that the special session may not
last more than four weeks, the time
set by the governor.
MEIGKER, Colo, Aug. 22.-m a quar-.
rel over the payment of bill of less
ehah uoiiar Oh ulce game, Joe
Williams, lumber camp follower ia.
tally slashed Everett Baker with
razor in a saloon here yesterday and
the latter died while stumbling into
Strothlke's drug store to seek medi-
cal attendance half hour later.
Baker was but 10 years old and
resident of Meeker and fought VII.
liams after the latter had severed his
Jugular vein and cut his throat al
most from ear to ear. Not until VIII.
liams struck him over the head with
chair did Baker fall.
After the tragedy Williams walked
down the principal street to the post.
office. No effort was made to arrest
him, though the murder was known.
Williams was unmolested until Cor
oner Hollowari held an inquest. When
the jury returned verdict of felonious
killing warrant was issued and Sher.
1ff Ellison arrested Williams and plac.
ed him in jail this morning.
LAFAYETTE, Colo, Aug. 22.-Dur.
ing a drinking orgy yesterday among
Mexican strike-breakers in the Stand.
ard mine, Conrado Cadero was shot
and instantly killed by William Seader.
a guard employed by the COLORADO Cap.
ltal Coal company. Seader escaped
Sheriff Capp of Boulder with a posse
searched all day for the fugitive, but
up to this morning no trace of him
had been secured. The posse returned
TO the Capital mine where 1t was
thought that Seader might be hidden
last night. No one could be found who
would volunteer to lead the officers
through the tunnels. Seader may have
escaped to Denver where his mother
lives.
LONDON, Aug. 22.-Further misfor.
tunes encountered by John B. Mois
SAINT, the American aviator today
when after second trial he attempted
to fly from Upchurch to London to
complete his Paris-to-London flight be.
gun last Tuesday. Accompanied by
Albert Filux, his mechanician, and a
kitten, which has been named Paris
London, Moissant assembled at Up
church at 4 this morning in the teeth
of forty-mile gale. He flew for near.
ly an hour, but owing to the violence
of the wind could not preserve his
course and finally alighted at Seven
Oaks, after an IS" shaped flight as
far as from London as when he start.
ed. Moissants descent was made at
terrific speed, the aeroplane alighting
in plowed field after narrowly escap.
ing a hedge. The propeller and rud.
der were broken and the wheels were
buckled. 1t is a far more serious ac-
oident than last week Moissant tele-
eraphed for repairers to come at once
to fix up the machine so that he can
make another attempt tomorrow.
Moissant showed himself an aviator
OF wonderful skill in today's flight,
despite his inexperience. His Bleriot
monoplane rolled and tipped in the
terrific wind and repeated dropped dis.
tanceS OF from fifty tn 100 faat Moic