Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-04-24

valley causing general rejoicing in the
counties towards the Nebraska line.
Frost is predicted in western Missouri
tonight
WICHITA, Kans.. April GA
heavy rain fell throughout this section
last night. Temperature dropped
twenty degrees. There was a slight
rain at Abilene, while Concordia and
adjoining counties We're drenched.
Frost is predicted tonight
OKLAHOMA CITY. April ga
slight rain visited northern Oklahoma
last night
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 22.-
Grover Flint. of Cambridge. Mass.
told the senate committee on the
Philippines yesterday that he had
seen the action of the water cure" on
native Filipinos in at least twenty
cases. In some instances the victims
We're rendered unconscious and he
had heard of one case which resulted
in death.
On cross-examination Flint admitted
that he had been refused a commits
sion in the regular army because his
colonel reported him addicted to the
excessive use of intoxicants.
CAIRO, Ills, April 22.-Only three
more bodies have been found SO far
in the wreckage of the steamer City
of Pittsburg Belief is gaining ground
that most of those who perished
allowed themselves to be burned to
death rather than drown. In the sand
bones may be seen amid the tangled
masses of wreckage.
TOPEKA. Kans.. April 22.-United
States District Attorney Dean today
reiterated denial of the story that
he has received orders from the de-
partment of Justice to Investigate the
workings of the alleged packing house
| combine.
CHICAGO. H.. April Crop con
| ditions and prospects continue prob
| lematical, with much conjecture and
little or no definite knowledge, Grow
| ing weather has been absent over
nearly all the agricultural districts,
and, while there has been little of alb
normal cold, there has been long
succession of cool davs and frosty
nights, with the result of a very small
plant growth since frost went out of
the ground. This condition cannot be
regarded as favorable. but on the 9TH
| or hand ii does not necessarily follow
that plant vitality is being seriously
| impaired. The most that can be said
| is that lack of growing weather leaves
the crop situation almost as doubtful
as it was three weeks ago The gov
| Af A mil nd tot md
| private reports are largely based upon
the theories of the local observer as to
the effect that past weather and other
conditions should have on the grow
ing crop rather than mon any actual
plant development that could be
measured up to this time.
| OMAHA. Neb.. April 22-Some rain
fell in the state last night and the
government report SAYS little damage
was done wheat fields, Much cooler
weather today has gladdened -the
hearts of the farmers
TOPEKA. Kans., April 22.-Rains
of consequence We're reported in Kan
sas today along the Rock Island from
Harrington, towards Omaha. Good
rains fell at Manhattan, and Clay Cen
ter. and light rains at Florence,
Hutchinson, Newton, and Mcpherson
The east half the state is still dry
with skies cloudy.
ENID. okla. April 22-The Demo
cratic territorial convention was call
ed to order at eleven o'clock and vel
coming addresses were made by ]. NJ.
Dodson. J. C. Wore. Reply was made
by Judge Care of Lawton. w. l.. AL.
eander of Hobart was made temporary
chairman. The convention will nom
mate a candidate for delegate to con
gress, the position now held by Dennis
Flvnn. Republican.
| WASHINGTON. D. c., April 22.-
The president today appointed b. F
Barnes of New Jersey assistant secre
tary, vice Major Pruden, deceased.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April %
The Chinese government protests
the extension of the provisions of the
exclusion act to the Philippines, trans
mtted to the senate by the secretary
of state, reads as follows;
"On the ninth of the first moon OF
the XVIII. year Kuang Hsu Feb. IS
| l'UA,J ItttlNtu IL p'lltiOH lioHl N'i
tain Chinese merchants in the Philip
pines, saying that the United States
officials are obstructing the entrance
of Chinese; that they have established
exclusion officers at the ports, ant
that when Chinese arrive in the wa
ters, no matter whether they are la
borers or merchants all are driver
together and treated as criminals, anC
if there is any mistake made by then
in their verbal statements they ar,
not permitted to land, but are com
PEELED to return to China find OF
examination that the Philippines are
not far from China, and that from tn,
time of the Ming dynasty, which pre-
ceded the present, down to today, I
large number of immigrants hav'
gone there from Fuklen and the TIVE
Kuangs. amounting to hundred
thousand more or less, and that 1t Il
= very difficult to put a stop to the com
ing and going of their families. felloy
villagers and relatives. These eml
grants were formerly ill-treated an
harassed by the Spanish government
but they were never forbidden to Lam
80. d,i,rar haoL IN China