Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-06-01

: and to increase the number of guard
: Gatling and Hotchkiss guns are no.
, in place to be used to secure prote,
: ton OF the jail. 1t is generally r,
garded. however. that the trouble
J by no means over.
FORT WORTH, Tex. May 90
News has reached here that William
Chapman, Jodie Price and Mrs
Hands were killed in a family feut
IN shelby county yesterday. The par
Ties met by appointment TO adjust dif
ferences. All were armed, and insteat
OF settling their troubles, used theil
guns.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 90
Joe Cans of Baltimore. who wrested
the lightweight championship from
FRANK Erne year ago. will defend
mat title in twenty-round contest
with Willie Fitzgerald. of Brooklyn
who recently gave Jimmy Britt such
a hard fight in this city. Cans, dur.
ing the year he has been looked upon
as the best 133-pounder. has been an
ideal champion, inasmuch as he has
fought all comers. and until tonight's s
battle was arranged Cans chances in
these contests have always been look.
ed upon with favor by shrewd ring
followers. Following his defeat OF
Erne in round l, Cans took on the
| best men of his class and won sue.
| cession of victories In defense of his
new-gained laurels the colored fighter
put George McFadden away in three
rounds and disposed of Gardner in s
rounds. He also has indulged in
number of other fights with the same
result
Fitzgerald as compared with Cans,
is but little more than a novice in the
hghting game. Nevertheless, in his
short career he has displayed a PROV
ess that has attracted widespread at
tention in sporting circles. That Fitz-
gerald Is clever is admitted on all
sides. He is quick on his feet and
clever at blocking. but whether he
possesses blow sufficiently hard to
knock out the colored lad remains to
be seen. Cans in the past has done
all of his good work by countering and
exceptional footwork. He is as quick
as the proverbial tiger on his feet.
An opponent makes a dash at him.
Cans sidesteps and then crashes in
those punches which have brought
him fame and the premiership of his
class. He does not favor either hand.
His right is to him Just the same as
his left
The men have agreed to weigh in at
l33 pounds at ; o'clock in the after
noon. This weight seems to suit
both men and both claimed to be un-
der weight this morning. Fitzgerald
has not been doing any hard work for
the last two or three days. He did
not have to work as hard as the col.
ored boy TO do the weight The lat
ter is also at weight, but will have to
keep on working until he weighs in
to keep under the limit. Eddie Ora
ney has been agreed upon as the ref
cree.
SILVERTON, Colo, May ga par
ty of mining men from Maine who
have been examining their mining in
terests, embraced In the Stony
Pass Mining company. departed for
home this morning. A. W. Hall. pres
ident of the company, resides at Dex-
ter; Freeland Jones. vice president.
Charles NJ. Hamlin, at Arous; Edwin
Bunker at Dexter, and j. e. Crocker
at Cripple Creek. where he Is manager
| of the Gold Coin property. The gen
tlemen have several mining PROPOSE.
tions. and return east we'll satisfied
Their properties are located principal
ly up Cement creek The company is
driving tunnel known as the Red
Mountain tunnel, which will cut the
Henrietta group at depth Of over
500 feet.
The public schools closed yesterday
for the summer.
The Silver Lake baseball team
plays the local team Sunday.
NEW YORK. May 2i.-(Special to
Record Herald are now
scarcely 10000 individual owners of
property in Manhattan and the Bronx,
| against 27,000 eight years ago. The
! small holder is selling out and syndl-
| Gates. banks and insurance companies
are becoming the great landlords OF
| the city. This remarkable decrease
| of holdings is vouched for by Isidor
| Fried. He recently compiled lists of
| the owners of Manhattan and the
Bronx real estate and compared them
with lists compiled by the firm in
1895.
This number Is decreasing every
year" said Mr.. Freid, "and the reason
| is obvious. In Manhattan the large
office buildings and hotels and apart
ment houses absorb number of lots
formerly held by individual owners
and bring them under one landlord
Great improvements also wipe out the
individual land owners. Whenever 8
park Is laid out II sweeps out hun
dred at a time. The Pennsylvania
railroad purchase of land for its ter
mInal wiped out 12e individual own
ers. The New York Central and tn,
street railroads are great land alb
sorbers.
Where the land was formerly own
ed In lots of twenty-five feet front, 1
is now owned in lots of fifty and 100
1t does not pay to put up buildini
nowadays on less than fifty feet front
age. The small holder is selling out
and syndicates, banks and insurance