Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-14
COLORADO NEWS.

COLOhAOO NEWo.
At intervals In recent years niuth
coIicerli has been expressed that tne
Great Salt lake, the Mormon capt. ais
main resource, should go dry. Dis
patches now say the stage OF water
Is the highest known in the memory
o. white men and the waters are slop
ping over the long railroad trestle
known as the Lucian cutoff, which
when built was twenty feet above the
water.
The recent stock flurries are said
to have been brought about to scare
| President Taft and put a stop to his
administration program. OF course
the big slump in stocks does not harm
the big manipulators as they simply
hold their stocks and bonds while
Inc small investors become scared and
sell at sacrifice. Panics as a rule
help the big fish and eat the smaller
ones.
Mrs. Maude CLAWS, wife of the chief
assailant of Secretary of the Interior
Rallinger. and defendant in divorce
proceedings instituted at Seattle,
Wash, has arrived in Washington with
promises of a sensation that she will
spring. "Of course, I wish to avoid
any trouble" Mrs. CLAWS says, but
since the matter is begun. intend to
see 1t through. and you can say for
me that the public will hear some
thing within a few days that will be
a great surprise. 1t will be given
out pretty soon, but just at present |
am not ieady to say anything about
It. Whea it is made public 1t will
lie a big sensation"
| Estelle T. Gibbs, negro girl, IA
years old. who lives with her parents
at 512 First street, Hoboken. has re.
| ceiyed the first prize, gold medal at
| the graduating exercises of the Ho-
boken public school pupils in the Gay.
ETY. theater. She had the highest av-
| erage of any public school student in
| the city-99 1-3 per cent in six sub
jects. The medal was presented by
Mayor Gonzales. There are 10000
white pupils in the schools and only
| fifteen negroes. Only eleven pegro
families live in Hoboken
Mayor Gaynor is one of the fore
most Bible students in the country
according 10 lev. DR. James NJ. Far.
lar of the FIJI st Reformed church OF
Erooklyi. Il heard Judge Gaynor
| criticised not long ago for his frequent
| use of The scriptures in quotation >
| said DIR. Farrar al banquet, II want
TO say that his familiarity with scrip
lures gives him the right to quote
| from 1t. AmonC theologians who know
| him he ranks as n leading authority
on The trial OF Christ and as one OF
The closest students of the Bible In
'he United states.
Five thousand pairs of shoes and
1000 pairs of stockings were given
| away Sunday ly big Tim" Sullivan
| Tammany boss of the Dowery and
state senator. In the days when he
mas small and own-at-the-heels. with
no thoughts OF ever becoming a DO
ltical power, his school teacher gave
| Tim" a pair of shoes. Tim" never
| forgot the kindness, and for many
years he has COMMUNICATED it on the
sixth day of each February by dis
trllbtion of stockings and sole leathe.
to all the needy of the Bowery. First
aid went to the lame. the halt and the
blind One deaf and dumb man block
ed tho line because of his inability to
tell what number he wore. But In
the main the distribution went for
ward with a speed that would have
shan ed the most fluent salesman. II
was bitter cold. and while those with
in Were served hot coffee was passed
down the line TO those that waited
without. Not all could be remember
ed, for some are spending the winter
OH Bla ckwell's island as guests of the
city, but tickets have been furnished
them and they all will find shoes wait
ing for hem when they walk The
| Bowely again.
The Rio Gralde officials held a con
ference Wednesday in the office of the
railroad commission with the mem
hers of the commission and represen
tatives Of several block signals com
panies with view of deciding on Q
/ iock signal sy stem on the Rio Grandt
road. For some time past the read has
been in conference with block sigma
companies With "A view of securing g
signal that Win be efficient. is the
ic'- ntion to ,u1, Ii the signal system
between Del Yer and Pueblo and later
through TO Grand Junction on the
main line OF the road.
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