Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-07-24

DENVER. Colo, July 23.--The re-
port that twenty-five armed men had
seized Boulder Canon through which
Utah g. Pacific railroad runs for the
Denver Northwestern & Pacific rail-
road. is emphatically denied. The
seizure was entirely peaceable. no op-
position being offered. C. T. Smith
says: The preliminary survey has
already been made. We are meeting
with no opposition and the work will
proceed as fast as possible"
RAVENNA. o.. July 23.-While
standing at the depot. Baltimore &
Ohio engine attached to freight
train blew up this morning. Engineer
Barnes. who had Just mounted the
cab, was killed. Fireman Cabin and
Brakeman Jones were badly scalded
The boiler projected itself sixty feet
forward Cabin and Jones were
blown fifty feet away.
CHICAGO. ILL.,. July 23.-American
financiers are planning to organize an
international bank to have headquar-
ters in New York. with branches In
Chicago. San Francisco. City OF MeM-
co. Havana. Rio Janeiro and Buenos
Ayres.
1t will be known as the First Inter
national Bank of America. and capital
lied for s5,OO0.00O. 1t is alleged the
promoters include over 200 million
aires, The nucleus for the bank is al
ready doing business in the City of
Mexico. and is known as the American
Trust Company bank Branch institu
tions will not be opened in the United
States till the banks in Rio Janeiro
and Havana are opened.
NEW YORK, July 23.-Sir Thomas
Upton today filed his answer to Da-
vid Barrie's suit for commission on
tea and arranging for yacht races.
Upton AYERS that he hired Barrie at
salary of 1925 a month to sell tea.
and that Barrie performed services
for him in arranging yacht races, but
was not promised an extra commission
although Upton made him present
of five hundred pounds as gratuity.
NEW YORK, July 23.-Everything
is not happy at Oyster Bay. 1t Is
not a perfect paradise. The mosqui-
bladder" but it is not unique on that
account Every other village OF Long
Island is suffering from the same pest
every summer home down that way Is
afflicted as it never was before, and
in several cases people have had to
leave and go elsewhere to escape the
nuisance "Skeeters" are worse In
all parts of Long Island this summer
than ever and the plague is equally
bad in New Jersey and along up the
Hudson river as far as the Catsills
1t is said, that in the Adirondacks, at
camps where they We're never felt be-
fore. they have become almost intol-
erable. This is said to be due to the
fact that two wet summers have fol
lowed in succession. The heavy rains
last year have flooded the lowlands
and the hollows in the woods and CIV
en- them places to breed.
1t has become serious matter In
New Jersey. particularly at Seabright.
Monmouth Beach and other fashion
able resorts near New York. which
were thought to be exempt. All
along the Jersey coast. even at At
summer cottagers and guests at ho-
tells to sit out-of-doors in the evenings.
except when the wind has been blow
| ing over the sea and then 1t is usu-
ally too cool to do so. Several hotels
which were never troubled before have
had to put in window screens and get
a full supply of mosquito netting. and
| In some places guests who had en-
gagged accommodations for the season
have gone elsewhere on that account,
In one case n house party of fifteen
people on Long Island was broken up
by the "skeeters."
| 1t Is an interesting fact that in GER
tain places where they have formerly
been very bad, there has been no COM
plant either this season or last, be-
cause In each of these places pains
have been taken to exterminate them
and keep them exterminated by the
use of crude petroleum. The petrol
cum cure has been so successful that
the New Jersey Legislature has recog-
nized it officially. and last winter ap-
propriated $4,000 to be expended un-
der the direction of the state board Of
| ll'dllH iOl tHdt DuIDoSt. leu
and dollars will buy a good deal OF
OIL but the amount is insignificant in
comparison to the quantity that is
needed this season, and at several of
the resorts along the Jersey coast and
in Long Island. private subscriptions
amounting to many thousands of dol
lars have been collected to pay for oil,
and the expense of flooding stagnant
pools of water with 1t. There Is no
doubt OF its efficacy. That has been
demonstrated, but cooperation among
adjacent towns is necessary TO make
1t complete. Unless town is isolat
ed 1t cannot expect to rid hself Of
mosquitoes as long as other towns in
the same neighborhood do nothing
Hence clubs. boards of health and
various organizations In Long Island
and New Jersey are now arranging
for united and energetic campaign.
so that the rest of the season may be
enjoyed In comfort.
Don't
Think because you'have taken many remedies
In vain that your case is incurable. Hoods