Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-02-17

plete success for thirty minutes and
returned to his starting place amid
the plaudits OF the great crowd as
sembled.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Feb. 14.-Dr
Ernest f. Robinson, General Frederick
Funston's physician. forwarded to the
war department today a certificate IN
support of an application for there
months leave of absence for General
Funston. The generals leave expires
March 10 under the present order.
Funston is recovering rapidly.
ST PETERSBURG. Feb. 14.-The
government has decided to develop
baloloning on large scale as an ad.
junct to naval warfare. and has tenn
porarily detached mqny naval officers
from duty afioat to take a special
course of training at military balloon
stations.
MANILA. Feb. 14.-Edmond A. Du-
bose and Lewis Russell. deserters
CONSTANT1NOPLE. Feb. 14.-The
ransom of sixty-two thousand dollars
in gold sent from the United States
for the release of Miss Stone has been
paid to the brigands. This is officially
ascertained. Whether the captives
have been released by the outlaws is
another question. 1t is hoped they
will show up within few days, bu.
today there are doubts expressed
Miss Stone and Madame Tsilka were
made captives by the brigands Sep.
tember nth last, and were carried
into the mountains. The bandits de-
manded one hundred thousand dollars
in American money for the release of
the missionaries. and made all man.
ner of threats against her life.
| MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi. Feb A.
Rea II. Smith. aged thlrty-six. a prom.
inent business man, died here of lock
jaw today. He was vaccinated nearly
four weeks ago. and the wound be-
came infected and caused his death.
MILWAUKEE,. Wis, Feb. 14.-The
Society of Milwaukee Artists is in
state of turmoil. Miss Jessie Schley
a relative of Rear Admiral Schley. Is
the cause. The trouble began over
the selection of pictures for the art
exhibit in Chicago. Miss SciI1ey as
serts that while some of the members
of the society were permitted to send
six or eight canvases she was cut out
altogether.
At special meeting last week she
made formal complaint against this
injustice and couched her objections
in such forcibie language that Artist
Raab. she asserts. cried out that II
she were man he would knock her
down. Miss Schley answered that II
she were man they would treat ner
| IiHnrontly,
| that she be expelled from the society,
which motion was seconded by Mr..
Mueller.
| The matter was laid over until
special meeting. which will be held
next Tuesday. It Is said that unless
Miss Schley Is expelled many of the
members will retire and the society
will be threatened with disruption.
TUCSON, Ariz.. Feb. 14.Mining men
who returned today from the 0aluria
mountains confirm the reports that
have come from that region of the
great gold strike They say that the
outcropping OF the ledge Is $50 feet
high, showing plainly the ledge of
gold. It is $50 feet wide and carries
gold free In the rocks. which yields in
the prospectors pan values fro m 50
up to 5000 to the ton. The discovery
was made some months ago by Jack
Garden, young prospector. but the
real value of the strike has not been
realized by mining men until recently.
when Garden secured some capital and
work was begun. The ledge has been
exploited and 1t is now generally con-
ceded by mining men that one OF the
greatest gold discoveries in the history
OF Arizona has been made.
CHICAGO Ill, Feb. 14-Seventeen-
yearold-Frank Benedict, 5O2s Ada
street. swallowed vial of carboIic
acid and lay down in the snow OF
vacant lot at Sixty-flrst and Loomis
streets to die. The body was found
this morning and taken to Kenneys
morgue. The bottle from which the
drug was taken has not been found
Opinion is divided as to whether q
love affair or business disappointment
prompted the suicide. The lad was at
tentive to Miss May Lautenschlaeger
of 595S Lowe avenue. but the girl tes-
tilted at the inquest that nothing had
occurred between them which might
have driven Benedict to self-destruc-
ton. The jury in its verdict assigned
no motive.
PARIS, Feb, l4.-The condition of
the Hindu twins. Radica and Dordica,
who were united after the manner OF
the Slamese twins and who were sep
arated yesterday afternoon by DR..
Doyen, was no worse today. They
have been sleeping quietly side by
side, watched by the Sisters of Mercy.
The children are terribly emaciated.
due to tuberculosis. They have been
nourished since the operation by cham
payne, rum and tea. DIR. Doyen, who
is one OF the first surgeons in Paris.
cannot answer for the life OF either OF
the twins. He took great pains to
have all the details of the operation
clearly recorded by living picture
machine.