Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-06-23

| much afraid OF the matter. Their OPP
position is being made covertly. for
the reason that the platform has de-
clared for statehood. The bills
iqriends are determined the fight
shall be in the open and that is Mr..
Quay's purpose.
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. June 19.-
Delegate Rodney, Governor Murphy
| and Congressman Mondell, Shaffroth,
| Bell and others we're interested visi
| tors at the geological department to-
day, their purpose being to urge Chief
| photographer Newell to select proper
| sites early for irrigation systems in
Arizona New Mexico, Colorado and
Wyoming. Professor Newell leaves
for the west July first. and will visit
the arid sections of the states and ter
ritories He is regarded as the most
slillful expert on irrigation in the
country. Mondell today exultantly
displays the pen with which President
Roosevelt late yesterday afternoon
signed the irrigation bill.
TOLEDO. O.. June 19.-In the de-
struction OF the st. Clair hotel by fire.
Robert Smith. a sailor was cremated
and several others hurt by jumping
The property was damaged to the ex-
tent of sixty thousand dollars.
| WASHINGTON. d. c.. June 10
The first cablegram from Minister
Brown at Caracas since the rejuvena-
| ton of the Venezuelan revolution. has
reached the state department today.
1t said the city of Bolivar was in
the hands of the insurgents.
NEW YORK. June l9.-Favorable
consideration is being given by auto
mobile club men to the suggestion
that the proposed 10000 mile endur-
ance run from New York to Chicago
be made in the autumn Action has
already begun in the western city.
| This week the Chicago automobile
club will outline the project at a spe-
cial meeting and will invite the CO.
oeration of the Automobile club of
America. the clubs en- route at Roch-
ester Utica. Syracuse, Buffalo and
| Detroit. and the National Association
of Automobile manufacturers. 1t is
possible in the end that the American
Automobile association may be deem
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the trip.
| MILWAUKEE,. June 19.-George w.
Stillman of this city held today a Sc
| ries of receptions of friends who came
to condole with his supposed widow
over the fact that he was dead in Chi
| cago. The announcement that man
had been found dead in Jackson park,
of that city, whose coat bore the label
George w Stillman. Milwaukee, -
was the cause of these friends alarm.
1t transpired that Mrs Stillman sold
the coat to second hand clothing
dealer some time ago. The dealer
says it was sold about two weeks ago
to man who said he was employed
as a laborer at West Allis His name
is not known.
| WABASH, Ind. June 19.-It is an
nounced today that the Wabash rail
roads will equip new passenger coach
es with the new Edison storage bat
terry recently invented. and use mo-
tor cars to compete with the Fort
Wayne and Southwestern Traction
company. which parallels its tracks.
1t is said TO be the intention of the
company to run the cars every hour
from Wabash to Fort Wayne. and thus
give the same service as the traction
company. A charging plant will be
built either at Fort Wayne or Wa
bash, so that the cars may be charg-
ed at the end of each trip. The in
stallation may be made before the
close of the summer. The Big Four
has, II Is said, almost decided to adopt
the new battery for the same pur-
pose
PATTERSON. n. j., June 19-Mc-
Queen and Galliano. and an anarchist
editor of a socialists paper. leaders in
Yesterdays riots in which scores of
people We're injured, but who disap-
peared. are under arrest. They are
charged with melting the outbreak.
Without their leaders the strikers are
not expected to make another demon
stration. The military will not be
called out at present. The strikers
started to hold a meeting this morn
ing. but the police scattered the crowd.
using their clubs vigorously. All
mills are running with reduced forces
1t was learned today that an anar-
chist meeting last night denounced
the police. governor and mayor. There
were cries of Kill the mayor. burn
the mills" 1t is said that plot was
adopted to use dynamite against the
mills.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. June 19.-It
has just been learned that for the yast
four years. during the summer sea-
son, rural district Monte Carlo. op-
Grated and patronized by "hoho" berry
pickers, has been quartereG in the vii
lage of Bridgeman. fourteen miles
| south of this city. the center of the
largest berry district in the state.
A box car of the Pere Marquette
line was cast aside. and later furnish
| ed living quarters at different times
for hundreds of tramps who entered
the district early in June with little
or no money. After every weeks
work the tramps returned to Bridge
man, the nearest trading point, and
wandered into the tramp house, where
they engaged In playing poker until
their money was gone. A veteran
tramp. known as Dad" managed the
game. and at the close of the season
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