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to dance the tango, turkey trot or dances of similar character. Bishop Byrne said that he based his decree on information furnished him by the Knights of Columbus in Ten nessee, who declared they would ex pel members attending entertain ments where the dances were introduced. PAROLED TO ATTEND FUNERAL OF DAD WHO SENT HIM TO JAIL Denver, Col., Aug. 5. "My boy is in the state penitentiary. Will you let him come to his father's death?" In these words Mrs. J. K. Kreeger, wife of the man who had been sheriff of Las Animas County for thirty years, appealed to Gov. Ammons in a telegram, hoping that the chasm be tween father and son which had wrecked her life might be bridged in the hour of the old mans death. The father died before the request could be carried out, but governor today ordered the boy taken to the funeral. Kreeger had been sheriff for twenty-six years. He was known also for his ability to catch desperadoes and the pioneer history of the state is full of his dar ing captures. But there was a band of highway robbers that had outwit ted him. Finally one night he took them unawares and caught the lead er. It was his own son. The old man was deaf to the boy's appeals. He brought him back to Trinidad and locked him up in jail. He kept him there during the trial and, when he was convicted, personally hand-cuffed him- and took him to the peniten tiary. The writing of the boy's name by the mother, in her telegram to the governor, was the first time it .had been written or uttered in the boy's home since the night of his arrest. , The boots worn by a professional diver weigh 20 pounds each. The helmet weighs 40 pounds, and the diver also carries 80 pounds addi tional weight. THORNTON DIDN'T GET AWAY- f WITH "POWER OF THE PRESS ' William Thornton, a delivery wagon driver for the Chicago Exam iner, has a peculiar idea of the "power . of the press," whatever that is. Like , many drivers of newspapers wagons, he thought he was immune to arrest. He has changed his opinion. Thornton was standing at the cor- j ner of Sangamon and Madison street about 2 o'clock this morning when . Policeman James Malloy of the Des- 1 plaines street station happened along. Malloy didn't like Thornton's looks and asked him what he was doing. Thornton became peeved at a mere copper prying into his affairs and ' used language. He was arrested and locked up in Desplaines street bcation. Then the "power of the press" stuff ' began to work in Thornton's head. He told Malloy, in embroidered language, that if he was fined some j person named Bennett on the Exam-' iner would have Malloy discharged. Judge Dolan saved Malloy from the I awful vengeance of Thornton and1 the mysterious Bennett by fining Thornton one dollar this morning. o o ONE COLORED WOMAN KILLSj ANOTHER AFTER QUARREL I In a duel over a man Mrs. Fannie ' Sandusky, colored, 1832 Armour ave-i nue, Was shot and instantly killed by ' Mattie Herbert, also colored, 2127 S. Clark street, in front of the latter's home. Over a hundred people witnesses the shooting. According to bystand-I er&the two women started to quarrel on the street Suddenly the Herbert woman drew a revolver and fired five7 shots. One of the bullets pierced the Sandusky woman's heart. The negro they are supposed to I have quarreled over is known as I "Whitey." The police were told the Sandusky woman's husband had de serted her a few weeks ago. 3 After being locked up the Herbert woman is s&id to have confessed.