Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-10-31
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

accident occurred today on the mill
tary grounds at Centoselle. when Lieu
tenant Sagliett's biplane fell while he
was planning to the ground and instant
ly killing the lieutenant.
Those who saw the accident could
give no cause for it, The machine
was gliding beautifully TO the earth
when suddenly it tipped violently
Sagliett made a desperate effort to
right the aeroplane but clutched at
the levers in vain.
Saglietts. death makes the fourth
aeroplane fatality in the present week.
the greatest number yet claimed in
this length of time. On Sunday Cap
tain Madiot a French military flyer,
was killed in a practice flight in the
aerodrome at Douai. On Tuesday,
Lieutenant Monte fell III Wright BIZ
plane while planning to the earth at
Masdeburg. Germany. Yesterday,
Fernand Blanchard fell $50 feet in
attempting to alight at Issy. after a
flight from Bourges and was instant
ly killed
Thus far there have been in all
thirty deaths in aeroplane accidents
since Lieutenant Thomas selfridee.
the first victim of this sport was
killed at Fort Myer. Va. in September
1908, in Wright machine.
WASHINGTON. d. {. Oct 2T.-Plans
for the immediate establishment of a
Mormon colony in Mexico has been
communicated TO this government by
Consul Luther Ellsworth of Ciudad.
Portiro DiaZ. The colony will be 10
Gated twenty-five miles west of Ciudad
Porto Diaz, on irrigated land.
Sixty families will come from Utah
and Nevada to take up their residence
there. The colony will occupy more
than fifteen hundred acres OF land
which win be supplied with water
from the San Carlos canal
BERNESwitzerland. Oct 27.-That
drunkards live longer than total alb
stainers is the startling statement
made by Dr. lsenbart, a Swiss physi
clan, who issued long LIFTS of Stats
ties to prove his assertion.
The average drunkard. the statement
shows. lives to the age of IS. an i'm
moderate drunkard to 81, and moder
ate drinker to 8. But the teetotalers
have q hard time reacbing the age o.
so, his average. according TO DR.. lsen
Dart. being 81 years.
VICTORIA, b. c. Oct 27.-Fire
which started last night burned witt
undated fury until long alter mid
night, swept through heart OF city's
business section, wiping out several OF
the finest buildings in this city. IN
flicting a loss roughly estimated Al
two millions OF dollars.
Huge fire brands tloated on the high
winds which swept the flames toward
the water front. and 1t Was with great
difficulty the fireman aided by tho
militia and by the garrison OF Work
Point barracks, kept the flames from
sweeping Il broad path 10 the water
edge. Many blazing embers were car
ried out over the water. endangerin'
shipping. and several unprotected
pleasure yachts caught fire and burn
ed like floating beacons in the bay.
DENVER. Oct. 27.-"The only DIFF
ference between hotels in the east
and those in the west is in tempera-
ture. In the west the hotel men are
glad to see you; in the eaest they
don't care a rap whether you come in
or not"
So said Edwin o. Child, manager of
the Hotel st. Francisc in San Fran
cisco, shortly before the tenth an
nual convention of the Rocky Noun
tain Hotel Mems association convened
this morning at the Albany.
One of the delegates to the conven-
ton is woman, Mrs. A. Shores of
Kansas City, Mo. Her husband is
proprietor of the Denton hotel in that
city Ii was in the Denton hotel the
first convention of the association was
held in 1900.
Enos Mills, the veteran guide OF
the Rockies, whose name is known to
every visitor to Estes park, is at
tending the meetings. Mr. Mills is
author of Life in the Rockies"
AUSTIN, Tex, Oct. ga magni-
ficent monument to General John b.
Hood. tribute to the memory of the
famous Confederate leader from the
people of Texas, was unveiled today
in the grounds of the state capitol.
Governor Thomas NJ. Campbell and
other prominent citizens of Texas, to-
gether with many of the veterans who
served under Gen. Hood, attended the
ceremonies of dedication.
The unwilling of the monument was
the principal feature Of the thirty
ninth annual reunion of Hoods Texas
Brigade. which has been holding its
sessions here the past two days.
Nearly all of the survivors of the bri'
gade were in attendance, some Of
them coming from distant parts of
the country to attend the ceremony.
narada tn tho caapa of tho doy'e