Semi-weekly herald., 1910-05-16
TELEGRAPH NEWS.


" Gilchrist, an Ohio man. paid Slj,,
600 for twenty-acre orchard near
Eleven hundred and twenty-five chill
dren live in one Chicago block. accord
ing to the school census completed
this week.
Chicago writer to the Grand June
ton News says fruit is going To com.
mand fancy prices this fall OWING to
the great damage in the middle west.
ern states.
been engaged to be sent this month
from Portland to Oriental ports. Since
the first of May seven steamers have
been chartered for loading this month
Receipts from the corporation tax
will exceed by nearly $l,O00,000 Sec
retary MacVeagh's estimate of $4,000.
900 made early in December. This is
the latest calculation made by the in.
ternal revenue office. When business
closed last week $25,319.7l5 had been
assessed.
DIR. John j. Miller of Chicago has
procured 1000 small drinking basins,
which he will place in different parts
OF that city where they can readily
be reached by dogs. This, he says,
will prevent the dogs becoming fren-
zied by thirst and save the city many
mad-dog scares.
1t is said Uncle Joe" Cannon real.
but in if,G
his work as speaker is about TO ter
inmate. 1t seems to be settled that
Cannon will have to retire no matter
which party controls the house. And
If a Democratic house is returned it
will be largely on account of Can
| nonism.
| The city of Milwaukee win be In n
position to save $500 900 n year If an
adequate cost unit for contracts and
other municipal expenditures can he
| substituted for the present haphazard
way of doing business. This is the
gist of opinion expressed by univer.
sity professors and other economists
| in conference with the Socialist al.
derman, Victor l.. Berger, at Madison.
VIII Mr.. Lorimer rise in his place
| in the senate and demand an investi.
| cation? Members of the Illinois con
gressional delegation are hoping
against hope that he will They do not
expect him to do so. They believe
| that when he returns to Washington
he will make no official reference to
the scandalous affairs in the legisla.
| ture which are shock and disgrace
| to their state.
Ex-Mayor Rose of Milwaukee ad-
dressed what is claimed 5000 people in
Denver Tuesday night on the liquor
question, taking the wet" side. Mr..
Rose concluded by asking for strict
violation along the Pennsylvania plan
| where licenses were revoked for vio-
| lation This is what The Herald has
advocated, but for some reason the
| dealers do not get together and ask
the officials to pass such law If
they would do so it would do away
with much of the agitation.
! That $50 persons live in one house
in Passaic is said to have been the
discovery made by census enumera-
tor, The enumerator, who speaks
eight languages. went through the
house in the daytime and got what he
supposed were the names of nearly
all in the house. He returned in the
evening and found he had obtained
| .I,
| daytime. II is said the house is oc-
! cupied by day shift and night shift
| of workmen. When the day men are
at work the night men use the beds
day men take their turn at sleeping.
Forty-five men are said to occupy three
rooms.
Three weeks ago grand jury in
vestigated conditions over at Glen
wood Springs and it was reported they
returned l04 indictments. As yet not
al arrest has been made and the pub
| lie Is inquiring why Some say the
delay is TO give the indicted parties
time to escape. Officials say arrests
Will not be made until fall before court
sits, thereby saving the expense OF
boarding the prisoners. Then again,
II Is intimated that only very few
bills were found and that the report
OF so many indictments is swung over
the heads OF an undesirable class to
Keep them quiet and perhaps induce
them to move away lest they be put In
Jail. The indictments are said TO be
for violation OF the Sunday and mid.
night closing law by saloons and gam
bling. In this connection the rumor
continues to grow that Durango is to
have grand jury In the near fu'
ture.
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