Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-11-17

nificenoe. The outlay for ground an,
building will reach about $3,125. 900.
The carrying out of this plan will
mark the passing OF the Leland hote
building, formerly one of the best o
its kind in the city.
After the management of the lie
land was relinquished by the well
known hotel men of that name. tn,
hostelry was allowed to run down t,
the second or third class, but has re
Gently been raised to high stand
ard under the name of the Stratford
Now the block Is to be demolished
to make room for a hotel that, accord
ing to the promoters. is to be the most
magnificent in Chicago. There are to
be 500 rooms, and the European plan
will be adopted.
SCRANTON. Nov. 1.-THE arbitra.
cite coal commission met for its first
judicial session here today. The tes-
timony on the complaints of the min
ers will be taken first. the operators
being on the defensive having the last
word.
The commissioners gave evidences
of alarm this morning when they saw
the army of lawyers and witnesses
file into the court room, and looked
upon small wagon load of due bills.
pay-rolls. powder sheets and other
records. The sessions will be inter
minable unless the commission limits
cross-examinations and arguments.
SCRANTON, Pa. Nov. 14.-Presi-
dent Mitchell today presented the
cause of the Mine Workers before the
arbitration commission. He gave elab.
crate and cogent reasons why the
wages should be raised and eight
hours be fixed as days labor. He
presented plan for the prevention of
strikes and spoke vigorously on child
labor. He began by saying that he
hoped that the commission will sue
ceed In establishing a relationship be-
tween the operators and the miners
that will insure peace and stability of
industrial conditions for an indefinite
period"
He pictured the lives of the miners
and said the number of years they
can work Is very limiteed "If he es-
capes death or injury escape miners
asthma" he said. After showing the
injustice displayed towards the men
he made plea for children, saying
our little boys should not be forced
into the mines so early In life. Our
little girls should not be compelled to
work in mills when they should be at
school Tho phiIIran ha fnt
citizens of our nation. Their parents
should be enabled to earn wages suf-
ficiently high to give the children a
common school education"
President Mitchell closed with a
peroration. saying: THE wealth and
future of the nation may not be meas
ured by palaces and millionaires, but
by the enlightened contentment of its
millions of citizens who constitute the
sinews of the land"
BOULDER Colo, Nov. 14.-Five
hundred students of the University of
Colorado are out on strike. The re-
volt was caused by the holding OF
classes during the quarto-centennial
celebration. Only dozen reported for
school duties yesterday and none to-
day.
The students held a class meeting
and unanimously voted not to attend
during the celebration. Girls were
threatened with ostracism by the boys
for wanting to attend. and told they
would be ducked in the lake. The
success OF the strike exceeded the
most sanguine anticipations of the
leaders.
The strike is due. II is declared, to
unfair treatment on the part Of the
faculty in not living up to an unwrit
ten law of the institution that wher
the football eleven OF the School oil
Mines or Colorado college won, the
students could have a holiday. Thi.
year the eleven won from both. bu
| President Baker refused the holiday
| because of the quarto-centennial cele
bration and Thanksgiving. Today.
revolt is unique because II Is the frs
Time in history that the students o
the State university have refused t.
attend classes and declare themselve
a holiday. Drastic measures are talk
ed of on the part OF the faculty.
| ElYRlA. o., Nov. l4.-An unknown
burglars head was blown of an,
Town Marshal Karhon serlousl,
wounded in the foot. In battle be
tween citizens and robbers today a
this place. Two masked men begai
openly TO loot the residence distric
this morning. smashing doors an
robbing rooms. AS they proceeded u
Main street ST. James Baird and tn
marshal opened fire. The burglar
continued the work and smashed tn
door of William Killers house. Hi
lier shot one of the burglars In tn
head with a shotgun and wounded tn
second man, who Is being pursued b.
a posse.
| COLUMBIA, Mo. No. 14.-Ed But
Ter. the millionaire political boss O
st, Louis. was found guilty by jur
Df attempted bribery today. Sentenc
was hxed at three years in the pen
tentiary. Butler was convicted of Of
fering Or. Chapman, member o
the board OF health, 81, 500 to infuenc
his vote favorably towards awardin
the company In which Butler was
heavy stockholder, the contract 70
gathering and destroying the garbag
of the city. DR.. Merrill. another men
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