Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-11-25

| According to the official weather
reports all the central and northern
portions OF Bombay Presidency. the
Bhil country, GuZerat. a large slice of
the Punjab and all of Baluchistan are
in bad way. The general deficiency
of rain over this vast region has now
lasted for dozen years. 1t is not
only lamentable but it is also a dis
quieting and dangerous situation to
which Lord Curzon must turn his at
| tention.
GREEN RIVER, Wyo.. Nov. 21.-
Charles w. Draper. formerly a well
known young man OF Cheyenne, has
been sentenced to 10 months in pris-
on for forgery.
Several years ago Drapers father
was postmaster at Cheyenne. He
was convicted of embezzlement OF
government funds and served term
of imprisonment. 1t is now stated
that the father shouldered the crime
of his son at that time to save him
from disgrace. The elder Draper is
now in the southwest building up a
| fortune in mining.
PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo, Nov %.
The people of Pagosa Springs and
surrounding country are greatly excit-
ed over gusher struck yesterday in
| the well being sunk by the Pagosa
| Land Oil & Coal Co, at a depth of
1000 feet. AT first it gushed out
| above the top of the oil derrick, then
settled down to a paying flow, but
not big gusher.
This is sufficient to prove that oil
is to be found in paying quantity and
those owning oil lands are in great
giee.
morning Robert Coburn. thinking he
heard some one robbing his hen roost
adjoining his residence in the out
skirts of the city. fired his gun and
riddled the bodies with shot of two
brothers, John and James Miller, two
young men who came here from Cana
da, and who We're getting into the
barn to sleep. One of the young men
is dead and the other one will die.
Coburn has been arrested.
LOS ANGELES, Nov 221. In the
disastrous wreck on the Santa Fe
yesterday near the Needles there were
seven persons killed and fourteen Sc
riously injured. The wreck also re
suited in the destruction of 10000
letters. seventeen mail pouches be
ing destroyed There We're thirteen
victims of the wreck sent to the hos
pital and il is thought that all of the
number with the exception of one will
recover. r. r. Higgind. conductor
of train No. g. was badly burned and
scalded and will probably die.
NEW YORK. Nov 22.-The New
Haven railroad is very badly crippled
| today on account OF the switchmen's
strike. and although the management
processes not to want the men back,
hundreds of cars are tied up and the
freight traffic of Boston is completely
tied up.
1t is not improbable that a compro-
| mise will be effected during the day,
as the road cannot well continue in
| its present short-handed policy.
Many new men have been employed
to take the place of the strikers. but
they quickly retired
WASHINGTON. Nov. 22-The pres
ident today appointed William Croz-
ier chief of ordinances and brigadief
general; James Miller colonel of in
fantry; F. w. Mansfield lieutenant
colonel.
WICHITA, Kan, Nov. 22.-One OF
the eight negroes who wrecked a sa-
loon with rocks, this morning says
that Carrie Nation. while here yes
| terday, told him to do it. Mrs. Ma
| ton herself had tried to wreck the
place herself. but she failed in her at
| tempt.
BOSTON. Nov. 22.-The Shaumul
| National bank was this morning alb
| sorbed by the Third National there
by adding ten millions to its deposits
This is the thirteenth bank the Shau
nut bank has absorbed in the las
| three years. 1t is now the largest
| financial institution in New England
These frequent bank consultations
have reduced the number of banks H.
Boston from sixty to forty.
| AMSTERDAM, Nov. 22.-It is now
learned that the condition of Queen
| Wilhelmina is far more seri
Gus than was at first supposed. Con
siderable anxiety is expressed, and the
populace is inclined to wreak ven
geance upon the prince consort whose
recent quarrel with the queen is said
| to have provoked her Illness. The
| local papers claim that the couple
have now become completely es-
tranged. If the queen dies the throne
will revert to the Duke of LuXem-
berg. who is very distasteful to the
| Hollanders.
LONDON, Nov 22.-The St James
Gazette this afternoon protests in the
mater of British players going to the
United States, saying they are very
materially injured from an artistic
standpoint by their visists across the
water. being "coarsened." The Ga
| zette says the visits to America are
especially detrimental to the quail
ties of the English actresses, who in
their efforts to gain effects in the
United States lose their subtitle, del.