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Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-24
rsLeoRApA NEWS.

An Indiana couple were married
while speeding along to take a train
for their honeymoon. This is surely
All age OF haste.
| Miss Eta Martin of Marysville. Ga,
had fever registered by three Their.
mometers at ZIG. This Is the highest
temperature on record that has not
resulted fatally
A Brooklyn inventor has what he
calls successful anti.snoring device.
1t is simple chin strap contraption,
which holds up the lower jaw while
| sleeping where nature Intended.
| The census OF Great Falls, Mont,
, by recent recount shows It was padded
1916. and instead OF showing an In
crease of over rs per cent actually
lost ss2 since the census OF 1900
The strike OF garment workers in
Chicago which was supposed to be
settled, is at a breaking out point
again. The employers refusing to re-
cognize the union in any way.
benjamin. Smith. aged %. of Mum
Gle, Ind. has confessed to the brutal
murder OF his father and then throw.
ing his body in an unused well. They
quar-eled when the father insisted the
son pay board
The Cunard line will go the White
Star line, which recently launched
the Olympic, the largest vessel afloat,
enc better. and has let contract for
vessel az feet longer. capable of
| carrying 300 passengers.
Nine. Lima Cavalieri. the wife of
Robert CHAMBER holds the upper hand
in their domestic affairs. II appears
she received $4,000 from CHAMBERS
family to break her contracts to ap-
pear in this country and will remain
in Europe.
A trunk mystery was brought to
light In New York last week when a
trunk containing the skeleton OF
| woman was found The only facts
| known is that the body In Its recepta-
Gle had been the place. undisturbed for
eight years
A Kewanee, ILL.,, woman who made
H declaration about o month ago that
| unless she had snake for pet she
would die. got the snake and improved
but the snake died and she is now
suffering relapse. Another reptile
has been ordered for her pet.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-24
COLORADO NEWS.

La Junta is to have new opera
house, to take the place of the one
destroyed by fire July last.
Colorado Springs has passed an ordi
| nance to the effect that $3.50 is to be
the minimum wage of any laborer EN-
ployed by the city.
Colorado won the Guerner trophy
at the Council Bluffs apple show. 1t Is
considered as one OF the most import
ant trophies given.
Times. James Mccarthy better known
| throughout the state as "Fitz Mae
died in Phoenix, Ariz..
improvements in the mines of C. F.
& l., company in southern Colorado
are a certainty, contracts for guard.
Ing the safety of employees being made
c. w. Gibbs, well known old resi-.
dent OF southwestern Colorado, il now
engaged In supervising railroad con.
struction for the Northern Pacific
from Frisco north.
The official vote of Prowers county
shows that Mrs. Nellie Reed
Democrat. of Lamar, was elected sup.
erintendent Of schools by one vote
defeating G. G. Cmeltz.
Operators in the Cripple Sreek dis
trict claim that a million dollars worth
OF ore is stolen in the Cripple Creek
district yearly. Prompt action will be
taken to stop the practice.
The case of the state against v. u.
Rodgers for embezzlement come up
for trial In Telluride Tuesday. Attor.
neys for the defendant asked that
the case be passed for the present
which the court granted.
Bert Weir. a ranoner near Delta,
committed suicide Friday by placing
shotgun muzzle under his chin and
pulling the trigger. His entire head
was almost blown off. He was we'll
TODD III health caused the deed.
A bill will be introduced in the next
legislature providing that any surgeon
who shall perform an operation for
appendicitis and thereafter be unable
to prove that the appendix was In Il
diseased condition shall be guilty oil
malpractice and punishable under tho
penal code.
Two men OF Steamboat Springs are
held on criminal charges because OF d
Joke" which they played upon fel
low man. The victim dozed off ant
| the men poured wood alcohol upon the
| mas shoes while he was a sleep, is
nited It and raised the cry OF fire. The
man was seriously burned.
Hon. o. c. Skinner. reelected tc
the legislature on the Democratic
ticket from Montrose county has an
nounced his candidacy for speaker
OF the house. Skinner is author Of
the initiative and referendum bill
which he introduced at the regular an,
special sessions and which became f,
law.
| Announcement has been made II
Denver that beginning the first OF tn,
year some clever snapshot man vii
be employed to get photographs o
the habitual hangerson. both male an,
female. who make the postoffice thei
rendezvous and interfere with thos,
who actually have business at tbs post
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-24
Colorado. ana 9. 9. Kendall, state rail-.

1 i0&h tOAAiilAopioHCi.
Mrs. Wilson and Miss wolcott arc
only two OF these who left Denver
with plurality. the former with four
hundred and the latter with twenty
three hundred Governor Shafroth
led his ticket in Denver with a plur
atty OF thirteen thousand. Ready Ken
chan with twelve thousand, others
averaging eight thousand.
| CHICAGO. Nov. 22.-with a bIare
of trumpets and flutter of finery the
international Horse Show opened to.
day in the great amphitheatre at the
Union Stock yards, to be continued un.
til the end of the week. Including
among the exhibits are many OF the
prize winners seen at the recent New
York show. and among the PARTED.
pants are all OF the American and Flu.
ropean cavalry riders who contributed
so much to the success and brilliancy
OF the Madison Square Garden exhibit.
ton.
That the show will be successful Is
assured by the record-breaking crowd
and number OF entries
The eaited borse tho roaas,a .,o
| four.in.band and tandsr, "a. -, 49,, 49,
about classes have grought out high.
er class of entries than ever before.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Lord Deoies and
other men of interpat,ono, r.n,,,.t,ou
are incIuded among tho i,dsas ,,h.
vii, mass IN tho var,o,s .,,s,a,
] SAVANNAH Ca Nov osIav,s,
decorations of husipass ho,so. ,a
residences and the arrival os man, r,s
| itors TODAY gave evidarca os Tho
approach of the date uxad ,or ~
dedication Of the mapp;s;c,a,t ro
ment erected In memorv os Gan I.mos
| Oplethorpe tho founder of caor.,u
snd one of the most nromirar, r.,
1 rres In the colonja lbistorv of Amor
cia The dedication 10 IN toko n,.oo
tomorrow and the event nromises 10
be the most notable of its bind In Tho
| history of Savannah pub,,c mon
| military organizations and ronrasor,
| atiyes of natr;ot;c orgap,,otiors In
Georgia and all of the ne,ebbor;n.
| s,.,os n,,u n,r,ta,,.. T., Az, ST. '"N
prooad,na ,ho ,,nra,,,.a A''
,,,u ha ,,,,..n
| o,ou IN noo .,,.
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| IoNnoN NJ, 90 ,., 80
10 mo ,o,n,,. .,.,a
and novs,,sts rooo,,oa g., ~ -
yrotu,a,iors from ,r,o,a. ,,,aas,.,'',
tho wor,d todov IN ,h, .aoa.,a -,
his eighticth birthday anniversary Mr.
| McCarty who has long been reqardod
\ az one of the foremost livinp man al
! letters. was born in Cork In 1920 and
al an early age began his career as n
| reporter in the gallery of the house of
| commons. He is regarded as the
greatest novelist Ireland has produced
since Charles Lever, but the work by
which he will probably be longest
remembered is his History of Our
own Times" Mr.. McCarty Is In good
health and continues actively at work
ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 22.-Co-oper-
alton and scientific methods In an ag,
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-24
school chapel expecting that q re-.

school chapel expecting that re-.
QUEEN would be sung. When informed
that this was not permitted she faint.
ed. Her condition is most serious
this afternoon.
MUSKOGEE, Ok, Nov. II. - Ye
humble editor has been hidden out to
do or die. and by a man who soon is
to sit in the legislative halls of con
gress.
James S. Davenport, true to the
Jeffersonian principles, Graves persdn-
al satisfaction that emanates only
from fists or pistol points.
Congressman-elect Davenport has
indited a letter to j. E. jenkins. edi.
tor of the Muskogee Phoenix. de-
manding he grid and come forth to
battle. If Davenport continues an
earthly existence he further proposes
to take on the entire reportial staff,
reporter al time. with the office
devil as dessert.
Davenport, Democrat, is conceded
congressional district, but only after
a campaign replete with personalities.
The Phoenix has been his most tena.
cious opponent 1t is to matter appear
ing in its editorial and news columns
that Davenport objects His written
challenge for affairs of honor with the
Phoenix staff has been published in
futl
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
HENRY NJ. H0YT PASSES AWAY
state Department Counsellor Dies OF
Perionitis After illness Lasting
but Four Days.

Washington Nov 2l.-Henry NJ.
Hoyf COUNSELLOR OF the state depart.
Nth' died here Of peritonitis after
n Illness 81 only four days.
Nr iioyt was graduated from Yale
III President Taft's class. 1873. Mr..
hoy' bad just concluded the prelim.
mary work at Ottawa for the reel.
IFocity treaty between the United
states and Canada He held the DO.
silon o. solicitor general at the de.
paTiment Of justice. in which he was
succeeded year ago by the late
Aaoyd Bowers. He was Of the legal
'aiioer which entitled him to consid.
Grafton BY the president for a position
~ The Supreme bench. President
az had an eminently high regard
'oF Mr Hoyt and he was placed in
lne state department by the president
70 deal with some OF the grave prob.
'ems which are now before Il.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
DENY CRIPPEN REPRIEvE;
MUST HANG WEDNESDAY
Reported in London Wife Murderer
Has Made Confession-Leneve
Girl Visits Prisoner.

London. Nov 22.-Dr. H. H. Grip
pen, convicted of killing his wife.
Belle Elmore. will be hanged Novem-
Der 20, the home Office having denied
his petition Tor reprieve. When
Crippen's attorneys informed him Of
the decision OF the home. Office he
merely bowed his head
When Solicitor Arthur Newton. who
conducted the defense OF Crippen. was
asked regarding the rumor that his
client had confessed he refused to con
firm or deny the report.
Regardless of the fact that officials
Of Scotland Yard denied the report
that Crippen had confessed. 1t is as
serted that a newspaper has obtained
confession from Crippen and in re-
turn will pay large sum of money TO
Ethel Clare Leneve.
The Leneve girl visited Crippen in
the Pentonville prison after the de-
cision of the home secretary had been
announced The young woman for
whose love Crippen was charged with
killing his wife wept and cried out
Historically as they talked. Crippen
was deeply moved himself more so.
the prison attendants said. than at any
time since his Incarceration.
The friends of Doctor Crippen have
not given up all hope of saving him,
and second petition is being. pre-
pared urging the home secretary TO
grant a reprieve on account of the
doubt existing whether Belle Elmore' 5
death has been conclusively proved
The news of the death OF Doctor
Crippen's father in California has been
mercifully withheld from him.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
SUFFRAGETTES' ARMY
ATTACKS PARLIAMENT
Women Descend on Session Of British
Lawmakers and 116 Are Arrested
After Lively Fight.

London. Nov. i9.-One hundred
and sixteen OF the 100 militant SUI
fragettes who marched on the parha.
ment building were arrested after a
lively fight with the police.
Led by Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst.
the women made determined at.
tempt TO force the police Gordon about
the house OF commons and. reaching
Premier Asquith. 10 insist upon the In
PRODUCTION OF woman's suffrage bill
The women made every effort with
In their power TO break the lines.
bringing into play some rare military
strategy and football tactics. Fight
ers in the front ranks retired many
times TO make way for fresh reserves.
but the police were too strongly in
trenched. Orders had been given the
officers TO make as few arrests as
possible, but IL soon became neces-
sary TO jail as many OF the women as
could be captured
After Parliament square had been
cleared the three leaders OF the dem
onstration. led by Mrs Pankhurst.
were permitted TO enter the lobby Of
the house OF commons. where they
were met by Mr. Asquith's secretary
and informed that the premier would
not see them and said that there was
no chance for suffrage bill al the
present session.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
SANE" FOOTBALL KILLS ID
i,tured Number 43 During Season Just
cIoslna-New Rules Slightly les
sen Casualties.

Chicago Nov. PA total of IA
dead and 43 seriously injured was the
price paid for football by its followers
during the season just closing. despite
the use of the new rules. which were
brought into being in an effort to re
form the game and make II less PERIL
Gus 10 the players.
That the new rules were successful
10 a more or less extent In keeping
down the list OF victims. is shown by
the decline in the list of victims. as
compared with the previous year.
During the football season OF 1909
there we're 23 players killed and Ga
,n,ured. or the latter. eight died be-
tween the close of the 1909 season and
the opening OF the 1910 Two years
ago there was one less death than in
1910 but the number OF injuries ran
much higher. There were 1874 youths
SO badly hurt that they were forced
"a have the attention Of surgeons
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
RAID STOCK FIRMS
PosToFFiCE INSPECTORS AR
REST HEADS OF BURR BROS.
AND CONTINENTAL WIRELESS.
MlSUSING MAILS Is CHARGE
Said TO Have Robbed Investors Out OF
Nearly s5o,ooo.ooo With Worthless
Mining, Farming and Trsnsporta-
ton Companies.

Kew York. Nov. 22.-In raids so i'm
portant that Postmaster General
Hitchcock took charge In person. his
inspectors fell on two concerns which
they charge with swindling the public
out OF more than $4,000, 900 by frau
dulent use of the mails
Heads Of Firm Arrested.
Sheldon II. Burr. president OF Burr
Brothers: Eugene II. Burr, secretary
and treasurer OF the firm. and Frank
II. Tobey. it's vice-president, were ar
rested in the first raid and held in
$4,000 bail each. The government
charges that the firm sold between
s40,0O0.O00 and $4,000 C0 of mining
and oil stock worth little or nothing
Charles L. Vaughan. a director of
the Continental Wireless Telegraph a.
Telephone company. incorporated in
Arizona. was taken in the second raid
and held in $4,000 bail Inspectors
say his company has sold stock to the
amount OF at least sl.000.000 which
has brought in no return TO the in
vestors Vaughan is treasurer OF the
Columbia Finance company. which
acts as fiscal agent for the Continen-
tai company.
Government After Swlndlers.
Both raids are further evidence that
the government means business and
no longer will be content with issuing
fraud orders denying them the use OF
the mails. but will press for convic-
tons on criminal charges.
Postmaster General Hitchcock esti-
mates that the public has been
feeced out OF at least 100000. 900 by
get-rich-quick concerns in the last
five years, but says their hey-day has
gone. and said that other arrests, in
yolving corporations that have sought
investors the length and breadth of
the country are expected shortly.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
EDITOR MUST GO TO JAIL
Fred w. Warren viii Have to Pay
$1,000 Fine and Serve Six Months
at leavenworth.

ST. Paul. MINI, Nov. 22.-Fred ID.
Warren. editor and proprietor OF
Appeal TO Reason, a Socialist paper
published at Girard, han. must pay
a fine of $1,000 and serve six months
in the federal prison at Fort Leaven-
worth according TO a decision hand
ed down by the United States circuit
court of appeals.
Warren was convicted on a charge
of violating the law forbidding the
use of the mails for the circulation of
scurrilous defamatory or threatening
language on the outside of an enve-
lope or wrapper Warren's ofYense
consisted of using wrappers on which
he printed these words:
"One thousand dollars reward will
be paid to any person who kidnaps
Ex-Governor Taylor and returns him
to the Kentucky authorities"
This referred TO William S. Taylor.
former governor OF Kentucky.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
WILSON SPEAKS OF PRICES
Secretary Declares Homestesders Are
Partly to Blame for Present
High Values.

Chicago. Nov 2l.-Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson blamed the home
steader OF the west in part for the
present high cost Of living in an ad.
dress at the opening here OF The
United Land and Irrigation exposition.
The home steader." he said. lis re-
ducing the field OF operations OF the
ranchman. which is reducing the meat
harvest of the west and becoming
quite a factor in the cost of living.
Other causes. he said. were the
great immigration 20 this country and
the movement TO the cities. The re-
cent tumble in prices OF meat he at
tributed TO drought in the range coun-
try and to the big corn and oats crops.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
INVENTOR GETS RICH REWARD
G. A. r. Veteran 10 Receive $f7,ooo.-
oco for Concrete Railroad Tie
Which He Devised.

San Francisco. Nov. 22.-Tbe first
payment OF total OF sl7.00O.000
which is to be turned over TO George
Gates, a seventy-year-old @. A. II.
veteran Of San Jose. who has invented
the concrete railroad tie. Is now in
escrow in the Croker National bank.
A syndicate Of eastern railroads has
been formed to buy the patent rights
Of the San Jose man and 100000 will
be given TO him when the contract is
signed and by January 2, 1911. the
total Of sl7.OOO.ooO will be placed to
his account.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
SEES WIFE BURN TO DEATH
Disabled Husband Unable to Aid
Woman Who 10 Ahre-Chiid
Starts the Blaze.

Chicago. Nov zl.-Unable to move
because OF injuries sustained In a
boiler explosion two weeks ago. Thorn
as Kelly. Waterman. was com
PEELED to remain seated in chair
ten feet away and look on while his
wife. Mrs. Alice Kelly. forty-hve
years old her clothing In flames.
stood screaming for help.
The woman's hair and nearly all OF
her clothing had been burned OF when
a neighbor reached her. She was
taken unconscious to hospital.
where death followed several hours
afterward.
Mrs. Kelly's six-year-old boy acci-
dentally dropped lighted candle.
which ignited his mothers gar
ments.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
IOWA MAN HELD FOR FORGERY
son Of Justice Weaver Must Stand
TRIAL for uttering Spurious
Mortgage.

rs Moines. la. Nov. 22.-The Iowa
supreme court he'd that w. l..
weaver. son OF Justice S. NJ. Weaver.
'.ls' stand trial on the Indictment
,uAfg'ng him with uttering a forged
mortgage. In the deliberations over
Us sons case Judge Weaver took no
part
:, "oTa was received here from
JASON City that George L. Weaver.
" - son Of Supreme Judge
:, eaver. had been expelled from the
"'tnorial university faculty.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
KAISER PUTS BAN ON DRINK
Tells Naval Cadets They Need Strong
Nerve and Character to
Succeed.

Rerlin, Nov. 22.-sThe nation which
consumes the least amount OF alcohol
vii be found at the head OF the col
umn on the fields OF art and war.
uas the keynote of emperor Williams
sre-c Oh at the opening OF the new
naval academy at Flemsburg. Prussia.
The kaiser warned the cadets
AGAINST the use OF alcohol and said
,ha, n fighter needs strong nerves. :"
The times, the emperor said. required
,ron.hesrted men. Character was the
frst essential and character was
founded upon strong moral and re-
ligious convictions.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
GUN EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR
aia. Test n indian Head Proves Fa-
taI-BIast Blows Breech Lock
Back Among Crew.

Washington. Nov. 2l.-Four men
were killed by the premature explo-
sion Of a five-inch 5l-caliber gun at
the Indian Head proving grounds Of
the navy
The breech block Of the gun. which
was being tested. blew backward into
the crew. Lieut. Arthur G. Chaffee.
who was in charge OF the gun. was
one of the men killed
The ordnance bureau has ordered a
board OF inquest TO Inquire into
causes of the accident the only wit
nesses 10 which we're John c. Cole
man and Sidney Dyson. both colored.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
BRAND HIT BY R0YALIST
Man Who Police Save from
Mob.

Paris Nov. 2l.-Felled 10 the
ground by blows OF youthful Roy
alist. Premier BRAND pleaded with a
mob that threw itself upon the as
sailant not to harm him.
President Fallieres. also attacked
by the same man. assisted BRAND be
fore he looked 10 his own injuries
But the pleading of BRAND would
not have saved the attacker had not
the police quickly whisked him
away. for the crowd had jumped upon
him and had started to kick and beat
him.
BRAND was struck twice In the
face and Fallieres was punched In the
breast
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-25
KETCHEL'S BODY Is ExHUMED
Brothers Of Former Fighter Discover
Evidence That He Was Beaten
and Shot.

Grand Rapids. Mich. Nov. 22.-The
body OF StaRley Ketchel. middle
weight champion. who was murdered
near Springfield. Mo. was exhumed
by three brothers-John. Leon and
Alexander Ketchel.
They explained they had heard
Stanley was beaten to death and not
shot. The brothers reported that
they found the bullet holes and also
evidence of club having been used
about Stan,ey's head The body was
Immediately reburied.