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Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
THE REAPER CAME.

There are many parents in Durango
today. who will sympathize with that
father and mother whose hearts are
sore because Of the double Lose they
have suffered within the past few days.
II would seem that the hand of af-
Fiction that has been laid upon Mr..
and Mrs. Colvin is heavy indeed. On
Sunday, their little girl, q smiling tot
OF four years. closed her eyes forever
on This world. victim of scarlet fever.
Last night at 1870 6-year-old Philip
followed his little sister through the
ivory gates of rest Now the little
hands are crossed on quiet breasts,
and The dancing feet that were so
restless in their activity, are still for
overinore.
Two children are left, the eldest
boy, a lad OF g. who is staying with his
aunt, Mrs. A. NJ. Anheier, while the
family is under quarantine, and baby
of months II seems doubly hard
for the parents in their trouble, that
from the nature of their disease, they
must bear their burden alone But
though they may not be with them in
person. there are many friends of Mr..
and Mrs. Colvin who will be with them
in thought, whose sympathy will go
out to them in their affliction. Many
too. who are little more than strangers
viii send them kindly thought For
"one touch of nature makes the whole
world kin" and there are few of us.
who have not known sorrow.
The little boy was buried this after
noon.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
John D. Tired
Of Waiting

NEW YORK, April 27.-John d.
Rockefeller, tired of waiting for con
gress to accept his half billica dollars
as gift to the human race" is ex
pected here today. He will take steps
Immediately to incorporate bis "foun.
dalton" under the laws of some state.
Starr Murphy, the oil kings attorney.
has let 1t be known that Rockefeller
Is displeased at the delay which his ap-
plication encountered Representatives
of the foundation have become con-
vinced it will be impossible to over
come the objections of Senators Lafol.
lette and Hepburn.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
Baked Beans Too
Much for Girls

SAN JOSE. Cal, April 27.-Eighteen
of class OF nineteen girls, freshmen
In the state normal school here. are
suffering from ptomaine poisoning,
caused by eating baked beans at
midnight barbecue Monday night The
nineteenth member did not partake OF
the beans and 50 escaped
The barbecue was held in connection
with picnic given by the school pro
fessors ut a pleasure park. The girls
scok along thirty porterhouse steaks
and sack of potatoes which they
roasted in the ovens. while the beans
were the professors contribution to
the banquet. Eight OF tho girls were
taken Ill early yesterday morning and
by noon eighteen had taken to their
beds. None of them. however. Is in
dangerous condition today.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28

name was Galen Clark, and he was
born in New Hampshire in 1914. Go
ing to California during the gold rush,
he soon found the scenery of that mag
nicent country more attractive than
its gold and so began wandering from
place to place One day, in the sum
mer of 1851 he happened by chance
upon the great grove of trees His
story of his discovery was laughed at
as an Incredible travellers tale, but
spot. and since then the Mariposa red
woods have been one of the recognized
natural wonders of the world
Clark was no mere wanderer. but
IA man of considerable education and
Intelligence Stricken by tuberculosis
In the early COS, he returned 10 his
beloved redwoods to live in the open,
and so efficient was the pure air of
those heiehts that he completely re-
covered and lived to be 90. lie Conte
and Muir. the scientist-eyplorer, held
him in great esteem He aided them
in their geological Investigations and
contributed much TO our knowledge
OF the fauna and flora of California.
For many years he was in charge of
the Yosemite park. and there he has
been buried. in tomb hewed out Of
the solid rack by his own hands and
with a pair of Young redwoods grow
ing before il.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
sUNFLoWER PHILOSOPHY.

AtchisoH Globe
The devil and all his imps do not
bother us half as much as the men
who have funny stories to tell
Although the average layman is will
ing that the preacher should take a
vacation, it is never because he thinks
the strain Of overwork demands it.
Some men would swell up and burst
If they didn't get married, and have
some OF the conceit taken out of them
The women have agreed that a
widower has a right to marry again,
provided he waits ten years, marries
a woman as good as his first wife and
near her age
An optimlst Is one who can think
of what fuzzy things peaches are, any
way when the frost nips the buds,
and of the trouble in canning them,
and how the seeds scratch his throat.
Why stand on the streets and ar
que? You must realize that you in
vent facts, knowing that the other
fellow does not know enough to con-
trovert them. The other fellow plays
the same game on you: he knows you
are ignorant, and takes advantage of
the fact. 1t is a waste of time to ar
que
When man lights a cigar, he
thows the match on the floor. This
means that some of his women folks
will have to stoop over and pick 1t
up. and every time they stoop over to
pick up match they see more clay
to their idol, until finally, in the course
of faw months, he is so much clay
that he is no longer an idol, but a
good location for a brickyard.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
NOVELS NOW AND THEN.

New York Times.
These are busy times in the book
trade. More books are published and
more read than ever before. Fiction
still dominates In the lists, but there
is an eager demand for biography and
history and for books relating to the
arts and sciences. The ordinary novel
OF today is unquestionably superior to
the ordinary novel of quarter of a
century ago, even of ten years ago
AS for the claims upon posterity of
any OF the contemporary novellsts, pos
terity itself win settle that question
We may envy the cheerful optimism
or our own foremost novelist, Mr..
Howells, without accepting his opinion
of the comparative merit of contem.
porary fiction But 1t commands a
host of readers
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
NEW YORK THEATEHS
AND PALATIAL HOTELS

NEW YORK.-Manhat,an borough
has fifty-four theaters, and twenty of
them are assessed at more than a
quarter of a million dollars each.
1t is proposed to build n home OF
the theater in America" as u sort of
club with headquarters for the dra
matte and musical profession. Plans
have already been made for a 100000
structure near Central Park.
Broadway between Twenty-third and
Fifty-ninth streets is becoming mo
nopolized by hotels, tbeaters and res.
taurants, which are growing larger
and larger and more and more magni-
ficent. That section Is properly called
called the Great White Way" The
cld-fashioned brick and mortar four
story buildings are being rapidly re-
placed by splendid structures OF gran
ite and steel
There are now in progress OF erec
tion within those twenty-five blocks
nineteen buildings that will cost more
than $1.000.000 each, and several equal
ly expensive structures have been
erected during the last year. Two
OF them are theaters. several are ho
tells. A new restaurant for Stanley
Brothers on Times Square. between
Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets,
will be completed about the list of
June al cost of $2.50O.0O0. The main
dining room is said to be the largest
In the world. having floor area OF
1000 SQUARE feet The decoration Of
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this room will cost more than 500 900
and 1t Is expected TO outshine every.
thing gorgeous that has existed since
Belshazzar's feast at Babylon.
Daniel IL Burnham & Co. of Chicago
are building fourteen-story hotel for
Charles E. Rector, almost adjoining
Shanley's. at the corner of Broadway
and Forty-fourth street, at cost of
Si.i00.000, and the dining room on
the ground floor will be 102 by 1871 feet
In size. A fortune will be spent upon
its decorations. The aim is to make
1t the most palatial as well as the
most convenient restaurant in the
country. There will be room for 500
persons to dine at once. The hotel
will have 240 bed rooms. and the
second floor Will be given up to pri.
vate dining rooms and large banquet
hall
The Schubert Brothers have recent.
ly leased from William X. Vanderbilt
an entire block which has been oc.
cupied as n horse exchange for many
years. and are making plans for u
theater with a hotel and restaurant
adjoining. which will cost more than
million dollars, upon that site. Geo.
NJ. Cohan is building a theater and a
twelve-story office building. William
Brady is building theater at the
corner of Forty eighth street, and the
Forty-eighth Street Theater company
Is putting up a building that will cost
half million dollars opposite.
A German syndicate recently filed
plans for another new theater, to cost
100000 on West Forty-third street,
about one hundred feet from Broad
way. which win containing an audi.
torium seating 1000 people, n con.
cert hall seating 1000. u roof garden
and club rooms for musical and liter.
ary societies. The design is one of
the most ornate ever submitted to the
building department. and the material
viii be steel and terra Gotta The pro.
moters are rich Germans, who have
been inspired by the success of the
new National theater.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
Convict Brady
Reported Dying

CANON CITY. Colo. April 27.-John
Bradley, alias Brennan, the Denver
murderer. who took part in the at
tempted Jail break at the penitentiary
Monday night and who received load
Of buckshot in the abdomen from the
gun of Night Guard Morton. Is in
an extremely critical condition this
morning and IL not expected to live
Until night. Bradley continues TO re.
main sullen and defiant and up to
this time refused 10 make any con.
fession. An effort will be made to
induce him to tell what he know about
the conspiracy and also about the muir.
der of Patrolman w. T. Stephens, for
whose killing he was practically sent
here for life.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28

the gossip of the town and shall not
use tobacco while working over a
chair; shall not insist upon a customer
having his neck shaved or his hair
singed.' a violation of any of the
provisions shall subject the barber to
arrest and Il fine of not less than 81
for each and every offense.
Governor Chas. Hughes of New York
has accepted the appointment OF jus
tice OF the supreme court of the United
States TO succeed the late Justice Da.
yid J. Brewer. This was announced at
the White house Sunday. The presi
dent by letter of April 20 rendered the
appointment 10 the supreme bench to
succeed Justice Brewer TO Governor
Charles Evans Hughes of New York.
BY letter OF April "a Governor Hughes
accepted.
The forestry service states that pro
tests are being received against elimi-
mating from national forests non tim
bered lands chiefly valuable for graz
ing. The basis of the protests is the
injury which may result from un-
regulated grazing on the land elimi-
mated and the possible invasion of the
local range by outsiders, II grazing is
uncontrolled transient stock, IL is fear
ed, will depleie the range through over.
grazing to the loss OF local stock own
| ers
Lakes have been drained and towns
have been removed to now locations In
i order that ore deposits In The Lake
Superior iron region might be mined
Now an interesting event In the same
| category Is about to be recorded at
Negaunee. Marquette range. II Is the
removal of the Protestant and Roman
/ Catholic cemeteries TO a new site, to-
sether with the many hundreds OF hui
man bodies inferred therein. A large
body of ore lies beneath portion OF
the present burial grounds and the
deposit Is TO be mined.
Following an elopement from Terre
Haute to South Bend, Ind, Henry Ran
stead aud Mrs. Jane Frame, both octo-
genarians. were married In the court
house Saturday afternoon by JustIce
w B. Wright. The elopement follow
ed an arrangement made by the cou-
pie nearly two weeks ago. when after
a separation OF twenty-sevcn years by
divorce. they met and decided to re-
| marry The aged couple kept their Sc
eret well and not one OF their six.
teen descendants were aware OF their
plans. After being divorced, Ransfead
married, but his second wife lived only
two years. Mrs. Ranstead became the
wife OF Judge Frame. who died ten
years ago. A remarkable feature In
connection with the romance is that
the only children of whom they are
the parents were born during their
first marriage. The son and two daugh-
ters are all past so.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
THE KIND HE ADMIRED.

They were basltlng in the warm sun
shine in the gladsome countryside
Wouldn't yer like to be a bird. old
pal?' sighed Languid Larry, who had
been gazing lazily at the frolics of a
flock of swallows.
"Ah, wouldn't thought" murmured
Torpid Thomas, whose eyes were clos.
ed in blissful rest. JUST tink us
havin' nothin' ter do all de long days
but loaf around in a gilded cage,
completely surrounded by free lunchl"
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
What a Waste of
Foaming Beer

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. April 27.-Fire of
unknown origin caused a loss esti.
mated at one half million dollars in the
huge plant of the Anheuser Busch
Brewing company today. ami for a
time threatened the entire establish
tlt mt with destruction. Five hundred
thousand bot. .es OF beer wera de-
s'royed and millions OF burning corks
'ade such a dense smoke that fremel
f1dght the flames In black smudge
The streets about the plant flowed
with beer for more than an hour
and the smoking corks bobbing up and
Gown in the stream gave the streets a
uu.4ue appearance. The bottling and
storage housese were completely de-
si7oyed. entailing loss of nearly
tiifee-quarters OF a million dollars.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
BIG sWINDLE UNEARTHED
IN WYOMING BY GRAND JURY

CHEYENNE, April 27--A gigantic
swindle involving thirty million dollars
was just exposed here in the United
States court. whereby fifteen stock cor.
poration of Wyoming have robbed the
stockholders of ten million dollers. and
The intention of the United States is
asked
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
JUST A WORD.

Parties desiring monuments erected
before Decoration day may see enough
in our yard TO get an idea Of size and
quality and you may be able to select
design. In our office we have draw
ings and photographs OF over thou
sand designs and we can duplicate any
We handle copyrighted patterns.
HOOD 1 AMES.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
TELTGRAPHlC NEWS

Ten inches Of snow fell in the lower
Ohio valley between Saturday mid
night and Sunday p. m.
shoal of sea lions has been re-
ported seen nGalveston ship channel,
the first even seen in that locality.
Twenty-ninc states have petitloned
congress to have United States sena-
tors elected by the people. Only two
more are necessary.
II is estimated that fully 10.000,000
people In the United States listened
to sermons on tuberculosis last Sun.
day in seventy thousand different
churches.
The proposed American south polar
expedition, under the joint auspices OF
the Peary Arctic club and the National
Geographical society, has been aban-
doned for this year.
The fortune of Charles w. Morse,
once estimated al 22.0O0.000, has
dwindled TO 81 900 If the valuation set
on his effects by the court In appoint
ing a receiver is borne out.
Running over an embanlment In try.
ing to catch foul. fly in baseball
game in Jersey City Sunday. Louise
Rose, ten years old, fell into a stag
nant pool and was drowned
Gov. Joseph w. Folk of Missouri
left New York city Sunday after open
ly announcing what has long been tao
lilly understood that he was can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for the presidency in 1912.
Because the engineer stuck to his
cab and put on the brakes after his
engine struck defective switch six
miles north of North Yakima, Wash,
Burlington passenger train No. ~ over
the Northern Pacific railroad was say.
ed from what would have been a great
disaster.
Twelve negroes were badly beaten
and one white man seriously injured
in race war fought at Coleman. Tex
Sunday afternoon. The entire negro
population was driven from the city
and took refuge in the hills. The EN-
ployment of negroes on the Santa Fe
railroad is attributed AS the cause OF
The uprising.
Beginning a successful career as q
speculator in his sixteenth year, Ho
boken youth committed suicide few
days ago on the anniversary OF his
seventeenth birthday He was deter.
mined to become millionaire before
he reached the age of 25, and melan-
choly Is attributed as the cause OF his
act, following a too close study of
the complex condition of the stock
market
An ordinance has been passed by
the city council of Waterloo, Neb, and
signed by the mayor and Is effective
at once which. among other things.
regulates matters relative TO the clean
illness OF barber shops and then pro
yides: 'It shall be unlawful for any
barber In this town to eat onions be-
tween O'Clock a m. and . D. m. No
barber, whllc shaving a customer. shall
insert his thumb or finger in the said
customers mouth; shall not discuss
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28

Next to France. the United States
is the largest exporter of automobiles
IN the world, the value of exports
in that line from that country in the
calendar year 1908 having been So
667.397, according to the bureau Of
statistics. France exported, in 1903.
the latest year for which figures were
available, automobiles to the value Of
nore than $24.0o0.OO0 Importations
rank In the following order: United
Kingdom. Italy and Germany.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
DEATH OF A WONDER FINDER.

BHTtIfnOft sun.
The grove of the giant redwoods al
Mariposa, Cal. has been one of the
marvels of the geography books so
long that 1t is somewhat astonishing
to learn that the first white man to
set eyes upon II has Just died. His
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SMILE.

Smile. brother. smile!
While you smile
Another smiles
And soon there's miles
And miles
OF smiles
And life's worth while
II you but smile.
Smile. brother. smilsi"
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
COLORADO BRIEFS

Over 100 chickens have been stolen
in the past Two weeks at Greeley
new coon in town.
1t is practically assured that the
state home to be built by the Odd
Fellows will be located at Delta.
On Sunday afternoon the Baptists
or Greeley laid the corner stone of
their new church, which will cost $685..
900 when completed.
Pueblo boosters to the number of
siXty-five representing different. lines
OF business are taking trip this week
through the Arkansas valley and also
the San Luis valley.
The drywet campaign in Denver is
proving lucrative to the newspapers
as the vets are running three and four
columns every day in all the dailies
and the drys are utilizing some space
also
The first contribution toward a per
manent symphony orchestra for Den
yer has been received by the com
mittee. the donor being Arthur T..
Church, who presented his check for
81 900
Should Denver go dry IT. viii be nee
essary TO double track that electric
railroad, running up to Golden, in or
der to accommodate the passenger
business, remarks the Telluride Jour
nal
Pagosa Springs Sun comes to us
this week with ready insides." But
there Is a vast amount of good read
ing just the same and really an i'm
provement where the home paper can
not pay to place necessary matter In
type to publish all the interesting news
Of the day.
The defective hind wheel of an auto
mobile driven by Carl Schuler. and oc-
cupied by three of his friends, Miss
Mae Patrick. Miss Mabel Patrick and
James Hanson. all of Holyoke, Colo,
caused the machine to turn completely
over Saturday afternoon, instantly Kill
Ing Hanson and seriously injuring the
other passengers.
Thinking he might be called on to
referee a baseball game between two
negro mines of Denver between whom
there is much rivalry, Lola Wood arm
ed himself with revolver before go
ing to the game Sunday. He is now
| lying in bed with bullet hole in his
groin. Instead OF refereeine Wood
played as fielder. In attempting to
catch a ball some part of his clothing
caught the trigger OF the revolver.
The liquor interests are sending paid
men through the city of Denver. who
pose as tramps and beg for something
to eat, or for work. They state that
they have lived In a dry" town and
were thrown out Of work. They TO
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MOSTLY
WOMEN
Five Hundred Albians
Reported Killed in
Turkish Attack

sALoNIKE, Turkey April 27-Five
hundred Albanians. mostly women and
children. were killed lin the Turkj III
bombardment of Godanta, according to
dispatches from Godanta today. The
town was practically destroyed.
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ceive SO per day to impose on the
people of Denver They are making
more money than the people from
whom they are begging. say the "drys"
in an advertisement in the Denver
papers. Surely getting hot.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28

Hundreds OF acres of Delta county
orchards in full bloom viii be shown to
the people OF the east during the com
the Business Mems association. Stan
ley McGinnis of Denver will spend sew
eral days in Delta this week by taking
pictures of the orchards by means of
the new process OF colored photog-
raphy and will later exhibit these views
In connection with lectures to be given
in the east and on the Pacific coast.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28

The Morrison city council has pass
ed stringent saloon ordinance The
most peculiar feature provides that no
saloonkeeper shall throw an intoxi-
Gated person from the saloon into the
street II any saloonkeeper expels an
intoxicated person from his saloon, it
shall be considered a violation of the
ordinance and sufficient to revoke the
license. The ordinance provides that
it shall be the duty of the saloon.
keeper or his bartender to take good
care of the intoxicated person until
he is perfectly sober. and that a place
shall be provided for him to sleep.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
BASEBALL SCORE,

BASEBALL SCORES
National
Boston A; Philadelphia g.
Brooklyn 8; New Ydrk 8.
American
New York Z; Washington 9.
Western
Omaha l; Denver
Des Moines Z; Topeka s.
Sioux City 8; st. Joseph 3.
Lincoln 4; Wichitai10.
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1t is practically assured that the
state home to be built by the Ode
Fellows will be located at Delta
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On Sunday afternoon the Baptlsts
or Greeley laid the corner stone of
their new church, which will cost $685..
900 when completed
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28

Over 100 chickens have been stolen
in the past Two weeks at Greeley
new coon in town
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28

The liquor interests are sending paid
men through the city of Denver, who
pose as tramps and beg for something
to eat, or for work. They state that
they have lived in dry" town and
were thrown out of work. They TO
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28

Pueblo boosters to the number OF
sixty-five representing different. lines
through the Arkansas valley and also
the San Luis valley.
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Should Denver go dry IT. Will be nee
essary to double track that electric
railroad, running up to Golden, in or
der to accommodate the passenger
business, remarks the Telluride Jour
nal
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28

Twelve negroes were badly beaten
and one white man seriously injured
In a race war fought at Coleman. Tex,
Sunday afternoon. The entire negro
population was driven from the city
and took refuge in the hills. The em.
ployment Of negroes on the Santa Fe
railroad is attributed AS the cause OF
the uprising.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28

The first contribution toward per
nanent symphony orchestra for Den
yer has been received by the com
mittee. the donor being Arthur T
Church, who presented his check fol
81 900.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28

Pagosa Springs Sun comes to us
there Is a vast amount of good read
ing just the same and really an i'm
provement where the home paper can
type to publish all the interesting news
Of the day.