Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-02-07

| Ii nve or seven years and making the
ordinary improvements. Honorably
discharged soldiers and sailors enjoy
an advantage over the general pub
lie. because they can make their To-
cations by proxy, through agents duly
| authorized. and the time of their SER
vice In the army will be deducted
from the time required to prove up
| their claims.
| The rush promises to be so great
that everybody who has the right to
homestead should look after his
own interests and secure his land by
| actual occupation. 1t is anticipated
that every acre will be taken by ac-
tual settlers, There will not be so
much confusion as occurred at the
opening of Oklahoma, because the
| government authorities can take ad-
vantage of their experience on that
occasion and will know better how
to handle the crowds. Furthermore.
all the counties will be laid out. the
| county seats selected and other tcwl
| sites located and plated.
At every county seat 800 acres will
he reserved for public purposes, and
the remainder of the land will be di-
vided into lots in advance, with the
necessary streets, parks and school
reservations. These lots will be sold
at auction to the highest bidder and
the money turned into the treasury
to be used for the erection of court
houses, school-houses and for the
construction of roads and bridges.
| Thus each of the new counties will
begin life with fair amount of work
ing capital. The county officers will
be appointed in advance by the sec
retary of the interior
| Secretary Hitchcock has issued a
| proclamation warning "sooners" to
keep out of the reservation, and Civ
mig notice that those who attempt to
locate lands before the reservation is
lawfully opened will gain no advant-
| age, but, on the contrary, will be de-
prived of the ordinary rights.
WINCHESTER, Tenn, Feb A.
Turney Camp, United Confederate
Veterans, has passed resolutions urg-
ing Gen. John B. Gordon, commander
in chief, to select some other place
| for the annual Confederate reunion
| If Memphis persists in its efforts to
induce President Mckinley to attend.
The resolution declares: I'VE de-
| cline to send delegates to Memphis
under the existing circumstances.
| LONDON, Feb. 4.-Kitchener re-
ports today that the British suffered
| loss of 81 killed and over 100 woun-
ded in the attack by the Beers 1.4O0
strong on the Mederfontain forces.
The British fought valiantiy all
through the stormy night and Kitch-
ener thinks the Boer loss at least
500. The reverse, however, of the
British forces is very depressing, and
while reinforcements will be sent with
new energy against the Boer COM
mands, the loss of Mederfontain and
its river tributaries is considered a
reverse more unfortunate than has
happened since the first of the year.
Pretoria dispatches today state
that new courage has been put into
the enemy. who insist that there will
be no surrender or capitulation until
the death of the last burgher.
| TOPEKA, Feb. Airs Nation was
a very much frightened woman this
morning, and her destroying murder
shops" is stopped for the present.
The city marshal discovered plot
to tar and feather Mrs. Nation and he
is not over-anyious to nip the scheme
| in the bud, although he will protect
her for the present
The scheme was tipped off to Po-
liceman Luster by negro tough
whom he had befriended.
PITTSBURG, Feb 4.-This morn
ing the great four-story iron building
on Wood street occupied by the Ste.
lapsed and then took fire. 1t was
completely destroyed Loss, $780,
900.
MT. CLEMENS. Mich, Feb. A.
kid" Lavigne does not have to pick
out Terry McGovern to get licking
for he recently bumped into young
man here who all but trimmed him
up for the coroner.
Lavigne had been here for some
weeks on the pretense of getting in
to shape, but he had not accomplished
very much. A few evenings ago he
was doing lot of loud talking in one
of the hotel bars. A little stranger
was in the room, and after Lavigne
had made some remrk he came back
with his opinion of Lavignes ability
This enraged the light weight, but
the stranger was waiting for him
and on the first encounter he split
Lavigne's cheek open and followed
this up by doing up the Saginaw boy
in bad shape. The stranger disap
peared and Lavigne has been repair
ing himself since then.
LONDON, Feb. 4.-Behind the an
nouncement that the Standard Oil com
pany is about to develop the Japan
ese petroleum industry, there is {
well defined plan to lay siege to the
entire oil trade of the Orient, ant
that the fight will resolve itself int
: crushing opposition offered to tn,
Russian producers in the Baku dis
trict and the Dutch concessionariei