Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-11-11

| 49, ~ "a iipN 'iiltii 10 nave STEEL
II. One farmer took shot at tn,
reptile, but whether the snake wa
moving too swiftly or the farmer wa!
TOO agitated to take good aim is no
known, but the reptile made off.
LONDON. Nov. However conf
IDENTIFY doctors have tried to impress.
upon the public that the danger from
smallpox is being lessened. by exten
SiVe vaccination the disease seem.
spreading more rapidly than ever
for this week it has produced al
alarming number of fresh patients
In the hospitals. instead of three OF
Tour daily, the average has beer
something like twenty fresh
cases. One satisfactory feature is
that the portion of deaths has moi
beeen so heavy but there is small CON
fort in that. if the daily record con
tinues increasing at the present.
| BASIN. Wyo., Nov. 7.-Joseph p
| walters, travelling salesman who
was found guilty of numbering Mrs
Hoover merchandise dealer OF
this place. the first of the month. has
| applied for new trial which will no
| doubt be granted him. Walters shot
Mrs. Hoover, who was a wealthy wild
| dow, because she refused to marry
| MIN, and then tried tos commit sui
| eide. but recovered from his injuries.
Walters was well known and was a
popular man throughout Wyoming.
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.-George ]
Gould was elected chairman of the
Rio Grande system today. e. t,
Jeffrey was chosen president The
other officers are the same as now in
control.
PORT HURON, Nov. 7.-Chares
Thompson, treasurer of the Knights
of the Maccabees. now confesses to
the embezzlement of $50 900 from the
funds of the order.
WASHINGTON. Nov. $50 WI is
10 go back. Why. no one knows, but
ne is going. This brilliant diplo-
mat from the celestial empire will
leave vacancy in Washington such
rs no other ambassador or minister
Gould create. This because his posi-
lion has been unique. his personality
absolutely original and his success so
great that it has never been compre-
hended fully. Educated in English
speaking schools. versed in American
ways, training the young Master
Chow Chu in the academies of Wash
ington, able to appreciate humor
which even our English cousins fail
TO do. knowing thoroughly foreign
sentiment and American weaknesses,
the soul of every dinner he attended,
1I1iGlk a oh
eument no diplomat has ever come
TO the United States with such diff
cult mission and succeeded in it quite
70 we'll
Adroit. debonair. masking his III
plomacy behind smile that was IN
every respect "childlike and bland"
he won where others that had far bet
ter advantages failed. Citizen Genet.
who came to get recognition of the
French revolutionists in the early
lays of the republic, the French dip
lomat who guided De Lesseps about
he country in the interests of the
Panama canal about twenty years ago,
Dupuy de Lone, who tried to turn
he trend of public sentiment here
only the other day-all these met
with failure but WI. who is oriental
and would be expected to know less of
us than any of the others. succeeded.
Everybody in Washington remem-
Ders those trying days in July and
August of 1900. when the Boxers and
imperial troops burst in on the lega-
lions at Pekin. The news finally ar
rived that the legations had been
co Tl-gI hu La Ia,
representatives of every power in
Christendom, with their families,
guards and friends, had been murder
ed. Day after day Wu Went to the
state department declaring the news
that had come by way OF Shanghai
was false. He refused to believe
1t The country raved and stormed.
The whole world stood aghast
Finally the minister declared that
he himself would get through from
Pekin absolute news that the lega-
lions were still alive, One memora-
BILE day he whizzed down to the state
department in his automobile and
produced the cable he had promised.
The legations were alive Astonish-
ment and incredulity were followed by
the conviction that he was right and
rhat he had actually kept his word
LEAVANWORTH, Kan, Nov. S.
Sixty prison guards armed to the
teeth are securing the country this
morning within radius of ten miles
searching for 26 convicts who mutt
MED in the prison late yes erday after
noon and after battle i'll which their
leader, Quinn Frost, was killed es-
capped in the quick-coming darkness
and disappeared. All night there was
poured into the prison stories Of
thefts of horses and robberies of va.
rious houses. The 26 convicts are
armed and desperate men, and it is
fully realized that few of them will
be re-captured without a life and
death struggle. Not single capture
has been reported up to 10 O'Clock to
day.
The authorities from Atchison. St
Joe and Levanworth and the farmers
of the surrounding country have join