Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-05-11
Special Telephone to rhe Herald..

ton and San Juan county are greatly
excited over what is bound to be moi
only the biggest strike In the San Juan
county but In the state OF Colorado
The property is known as the Big Col
orado. located up Cement creek on
the opposite side of the mountain to
the Occidental group. A tunnel has
been under headway the past winter
to cut the vein. The vein was reached
few days ago and cross-cut 81 feet,
the ore body extending over 20 feet,
from which an average test was made
giving three and one-half ounces in
gold. The samples were not picked.
but an average mill run. Mining men
have visited the mine and say there Is
nothing to compare with 1t In the
state. 1t is causing such vast
amount of talk that experts have been
figuring on the probable value of ore
for 100 feet along the vein and extend
ing to the surface, and the vast sum
of $13,OOO.O00 is given. The strike is
so wonderful that all one hears is
about the Big Colorado.
CHICAGO, Ill. May S.-Seventeen
laundries have signed the union scale
This break from the ranks OF the Own
ers' association is taken as an indica-
lion of prospective victory by striking
employees.
LONDON. May S.-This is the date
set for the great fancy dress ball
which Mrs. Adair. formerly OF New
York, Is to inaugurate the London sea-
son. and smart" society is on the qui
vive in anticipation of the function.
The affair promises to be one of the
most notable of its kind seen in recent
wears and can be compared only to the
famous fancy dress balls of the Ouch
ess OF Devonshire. The feature of the
ball will De the fancy quadrilles. each
20 represent different nation. OF
hese one of the most interesting will
be the Irish quadrille, in which the
women dancers are to wear costumes
'oDied from gowns worn by the irish
Queens of Tara and the Princesses OF
ryrconnel. Lady Barrymore has ar
ranged this quadrille. and will, with
her debutante daughter, be among
hose who will take part in it.
LEXINGTON. Ky. May S.-A refu-
gee from Jackson. the storm center of
The Breathtt county feud. says Judge
Harris Is not the leader of one feud
faction, but that Sheriff Callahan is
Jackson, this informant says. is like
city of the dead. Men are on the
streets only when necessary and then
are accompanied by women or child
rem. 1t is believed that 1t Is only
lima whom No al OF ipY
Of Marcum will he avenged.
CHICAGO. ILL.,. May S.-A commit
tee from the court stenographers
union has been appointed to wait upon
candidates for the judiciary to obtain
from them pledge not to issue in
functions against labor If elected.
ROME, May S.-President Loubet OF
France will shortly visit Rome The
pope. after consulting with cardinals.
has decided not to receive the French
president, This will be communicated
to France in the hope that President
Loubet will not ask for an interview
with his holiness.
CLEVELAND. o., May S.--The sec
retary of the Brotherhood of hallway
Trainmen today announces that the
membership list shows an increase in
the past year of over nine thousand,
there being over sixty Thousand mem.
bers today The sixtieth biennial con-
vention will be held in Denver May
18th.
ST, LOUIS, Mo. May S.-The Com
mercial Tolegrapher's union today ap-
piled to Federal District Judge Adams
for an Injunction restraining the Wes-
tern Union company from discharging
men who belong to the union. Oper-
ators say that President Clowry has
issued a general order for the dis
charge of all employees who have Join
ed the order. The petition alleges that
the company Is trust and violates the
constitutional rights OF It's employees.
MELBOURNE, Victoria, May Sit
is expected that all railroads owned
by the state will be tied up tonight
on account of the government forbid
ding it's eleven thousand employees to
affiliate with the Victoria trades hall.
The government has informed the
men that should they strike they will
lose their pensions. and has guaran-
lteu uouDle WdptS 10 StTlkt-DTtdktFs
to work, in case of walk-out by the
men.
BUFFALO, N. Y. May S,-Five hun
dred guests have been invited to at
tend the Erie Canal banquet at the Ell.
licott hotel tonight. The affair is to
be held in celebration OF the hundred
million handout.
NEW YORK. May s.-More than
1000 letters are at the Waldorf Astoria
hotel for John Farson of Chicago as
the result Of an article In q Sunday
paper. saying he would bequeath
81 900 900 for a model servant The
hotel people are holding the letters
until the flood ceases. when they will
be shipped to Mr.. Farson by express.
NEW YORK, May S.-Gamblers and
liquor drinking In lodges are two i'm.
portant questions to be legislated upon
at the session of the grand lodge of
Masons New York state. The lodges
that have taken gamblers In will main
tain that there is nothing in the local
charters to prohibit such membership.
There is large and powerful ele-
ment in the fraternity that openly IA
vors total abstinence as cardinal