Semi-weekly herald., 1910-01-20

Christy. told how she married the ar.
tist twelve years ago. just after he
had returned from Cuba. The witness
said the first year of her married life
was happy. Now my life has become
so dreary. the days and night are SO
long without my baby was her ap-
peal. Several times Mrs. Christy broke
down and many women in the room
wept in sympathy.
Through Il request of Vice President
c. c. Adams OF the Postal Telegraph
Cable company for permission from
the supreme court of New York to
change the name to the Trans-Conti
mental Telegraph company It was dis
covered that every wire In the country
Is included in a big merger. Some
years ago the Postal company sold
out to the New England company
The latter Is controlled by the Amer.
lean Telegraph and Telephone, which
In turn has a majority interest In
the Western Union. Clarence Mackay,
president of the Postal Telegraph sys
tenn and his companies hold 100000
600 of the stock OF the American Tele
phone and Telegraph company.
News comes from the San Frances
canon near Rosa, N. NJ. of the mur.
der Of a Navajo Indian who has been
living in the Gobernado canon, about
twenty miles south Of here He was
well known parsonage to everyone
In the southwest country and was
known as n peaceable and inoffensive
individual and was the owner Of
good bunch of sheep and goats which
he looked after himself. He was found
dead with two bullet holes in his body
We arc Informed that two Mexicans
herding sheep for Vert Gomez a. Co
have been arrested for the murder
and that the sheep and goats. and one
horse and burro owner by the Nav.
ajo were found in their possession,
and that the ear marks had been
changed and part of the stuff sold
Weather Forecaster Harry Penny
witt OF Pittsburg has advised residents
of that city to wear cheesecloth over
their mouths and nostrils during cold
fogs In order to avoid "pogonlp," or
white death" We should Judge from
the general color OF the atmosphere
that something of the kind is needed
AS protection against coal dust.
The Bennett SABBATH white slave
bill, according to late dispatches from
Washington, has just passed the house
The measure is drastic in It's provi.
sions A fine of $4,000 is provided as
the penalty for the purchase of a ticket
whereby woman would he enabled
or assisted" to go from state to state
for immoral purposes and deportation
IS fixed as the penalty for INN oral
alien women.
The open-air school which has prov.
ed so successful in London, Berlin,
Boston and Chicago Is to be tried in
New York. These schools are for
anaemlc or pretubercular pupils, the
| instruction being given in the open all
or in cold rooms. The plans provide
| hat rooms must have an east ana Q
south exposure. Rooms are equipped
with movable and adjustable desks
| reclining chairs. and n scale for meas.
uring and weighing children. The
board will provide robes, caps and
foot warmers .or use In the cold room
| The first pXnarffpant IN Naty ,,,fI
be tried in public school No. "a on
Forty-first street, east OF Third avenue
| Manhattan. Supporters of the move
ment claim that the health of the pu.
greatly benefited by this plan and
they are better equipped to ward off
the attacks of the dread white
plague"
According to the present estimate
of the amount of beets yet to be work.
ed, the i909-1O campaign at the Rocky
Ford sugar factory will close on or
about Jan. II Until the last few days
it had been hoped that the beets which
were frozen into the ground at the
| beginning of the zero weather last
November might yet be saved, but
that rope has now been abandoned,
| aud The 1000 acres OF beets which
1t is estimated are still in tie ground
| In this vicinity will be a virtual loss
TO the growers. II rs said that the
farmers IL the Holbrook country are
| the heaviest losers in this neighbor-
hood.-ltocky Ford Enterprise.
We mentioned last week number
OF improvements that are being made
in the lower San Juan county as re.
ported by j. r. Wenborne OF Grayson
Utah. who is in Pennington on bust
| ness, but through an oversight we
neglected to mention that new tele-
phone line is being built Mr.. Wen
borne says that as he came In he
met two loads of wire going to Gray.
son for the line The line is a private
| one and will be built from Dolores to
Bluff by way of Monticello and Gray
son. That section OF the country is
surely coming to the front and Farm.