Semi-weekly herald., 1914-12-14

ment nearly Tl,2O0,OO0, largely in
payment of slaughtered infected cat
tie, and the maintenance of 700 in
spoctors in the field.
Passenger travel west from Chicago
is about 25 per cent less than it was
at this time last year and continues
to decrease. Looks like the railroads
are up against about the same condi-
tons on passenger business they
were in the winter of 1895.
Proposed increases in charges for
re-icing Of shipments of butter, eggs
and other perishable freight moving
under refrigeration from points in the
east and middle west to destinations
in the north Pacific states were sus-
pended the other day by the interstate
commerce commission until June 30
pending investigation.
Mrs. Ida i. Mercer. convicted of
murder of her son-in-law, Carl f.
Gregerson, was denied new trial
in the Denver west side court. She
was sentenced to life Imprisonment
at hard labor in the penitentiary, in
accordance with the verdict of the
jury which tried her.
Major General Witherspoon, retir-
ed as chief of the staff of the u. s.
army last month, has been notified by
Governor-elect Whitman of New York
that he would be appointed state su.
lperintendent of public works at a sal
ary of $4,000 year.
One thousand three hundred horse:
have been shipped from Colorado fol
European war service.
Laden with cargo Of 5000 SAM
pies of American merchandise-dry
goods. boots and shoes, toys and sup
plies for missionaires-the American
from New York last SATURDAY. for
ports on the west coast of Africa. Ac-
cording to officials of the American
Tropical Trading company, this is the
first of regular service of ships that
Is to be established to bring to the
United States trade that has hereto
fore been going to Germany. 1t is
expected that it will reuire thirty
days for the schooner to make the
voyage, the first port of call being
Monrovia. A return cargo of ivory,
furs, etc, will be marketed in Amer
lea.
II is claimed that $4,000 has been
appropriated by the United Audubon
societies for the purpose of encourage
ing farmers TO make their places at
tractive to song birds. This amount
was given by rich men in the east.
The postoffice inspector has recciv-
ed information that James T. Nor
timore and Albert G.. Pagel. arrested
in connection with the robbery Of the
postoffice at Walsenburg on December
!, in which $4,000 disappeared, have
made complete confession, impli-
eating Sergeant Francis V. Budd,
Corporal Max Dorski and Private Ted
dy Frank in a conspiracy to conceal
the money. All are under arrest. In
addition, John Kent is held pending
investigation. The first man arrest
cd in the case was Oliver Howard,
who confessed and implicated Morti-
more and Pagel
Several days ago in Montrose, Dis
trict Judge Black decided an impor-
tant question Of law, the point involv-
ed the right Of an American woman
marrying foreigner to vote. At the
last election for trustees for the Port
land school district Mrs. Gianoli at
tempted TO vote, but the school board
refused to receive her ballot on the
ground that she had married for
eigner, and consequently had lost Am
erican citizenship and the right to
vote. Mrs. Gianoli then entered suit
for 81 1000 against the board, indi-
vidually and collectively, because Of
the fact that she was unlawfuIly de-
prived Of her vote, and when the
question of law, argued upon n de-
murrer filed by T.. f.. Wheeler, coun-
sci for defendants, Judge Black rem
dered 4 decision that she had no vote
and that the board was within the
performance of its duty as election
judges in declining to permit Mrs.
Gianoli TO vote at said school election.
--Ouray Herald.
The discovery of revolutionary
method of treating steel by which II
is made several times the strength
of the present product was announc-
ed before the National Academy Of
Science by Pref. A. A. Nicholson,
winner two years ago Of the Nobel
prize for physical research work.
Professor Nicholson declared the new
steel would revolutionize warfare by
making Notifications al well as am
mutton many times stronger than 1t
present. The new steel, he said, would
also permit the erection Of skyscrap-
ers to heights never yet undertaken,
and the construction Of greater sus-
pension bridges than have hsretcfors
been possible.