Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-07-11
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

A Colorado Springs boy was knock
ed from n bicycle at Fountain on the
Fourth by a frightened horse and
trampled to death.
A three months Denver bride, II
years of age. attempted suicide be.
cause her husband was johnson
hacker. Well. a girl of II ought to
know better than get married at that
age.
| The politicians have prevailed and
Gov Shafroth will not include the re-
call in his extra session call The
recall would be disastrous for Speer
and many other Democrats and, of
course. cannot he countenanced in the
new alliance.
The United States circuit court of
appeals at San Francisco upholds va
lidity of the reclamation act.
| President Baker at Boston conven-
ton of the NJ e. A. says universities
are governed too much by the spirit OF
the times.
The pilot engineer of the Big Four
passenger train blames c. H. & ID.
dispatcher for Middletown. o., wreck
which cost twenty-one lives.
DIR. Hughes, eminent alienist of St.
Louis. says human life can be pro
longer ID 100 years and over by elimi.
nation of distracting noises.
Fire at Arnprior, Ont. Monday night
and Tuesday destroyed lumber worth
$3,00O,000 to $5,000,000 in the Giles
lumber yards. The burned area GOV.
ers half a square mile. The mills
were saved after hard fight
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago
was elected president of the National
Education association at Boston yes
| terday evening over President Snyder
of Colorado who was nominated by the
committee. the vote standing 6l7 to
376. San Francisco was voted the
next place OF meeting.
Fully $4,000 Denverites passed
| through the gates of the union station
from Saturday morning to Monday
morning TO spend the Fourth of July
in the mountains. This years crowd
was estimated as the largest which has
left the city on holiday for many
years. Receipts for ticket sales at the
depot exceeded previous records by
$4,000 1t is estimated by the railroad
officials that more than 100000 per.
sons passed through the gates of the
station from Saturday noon until noon
Sunday The cash receipts of the I'm
ion Depot company are placed at $751;
900, received from those who left Den.
yer during the three days.
Unusually large sums were wagered
on the outcome at Reno, IL is esti.
mated in sport centers where the
wagers all over the world have been
followed, that the total will aggre.
gate $3,O00,000. London, Berlin. Paris
and Australia clean up heavily. for
they backed Johnson to win. More
than 100000 was handled in commits
sions. Much money was put down
after the fight began. In Chicago the
colored population has trebled its
spare wealth, for nearly every negro
put down all the money he could raise
at good odds. most of II at / to 9.
Chicago comes next to San Francisco
in the matter of wagers placed be
fore the fight
while the parents of James Shea of
omaha, who was reported killed at
Ithaca. N. Y. Saturday. were awaiting
the arrival of his body. ordered sent
home for burial, young Shea walked
into the house alive and we'll On
the train which brought him home was
the body of the man who had been
Identified as himself. and for the trans
poration OF which to Omaha the She Us
had paid. The body is being held
awaiting instructions, and unless iden.