Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1903-09-03

prices and the wages Of twenty-one
thousand miners in Missouri, Kansas.
Arkansas and both territories and
parts OF Texas went upstoday stimuli
taneously.
Under the Pittsburg and Kansas
agreement between the United Mine
Workers In districts IA, 81 and %.
the miners will receive about eleven
cents more on each ton OF coal mined.
The total wage increase throughout
the southwest is estimated to aggre-
gate ten thousand dollars daily In
Kansas City an extra nifty cents 10
added to the retail price per ton. last
seasons top notch having hitherto
prevailed In the country districts
another 25 cents is added. 20 cents
having been added some time ago.
A further rise In prices is predicted
by operators.
TIFFIN, o.. Sept 1.-Between one
thousand and fifteen hundred visitors
are here for the annual meeting of the
state council Junior Order OF United
American Mechanics, which began to-
day and will last until Friday. A
quantity OF business relating to the
affairs of the order is to be transact
ed and between sessions the delegates
will partake OF elaborate entertain
ment provided by the local branch of
the order and the citizens generally
NEW YORK, Sept Jos. Lauer,
young man OF twenty years. walked
into the police station last night and
surprised the officers by requesting
that he be locked up. He said: |
am bigamist, and have two wives
both of whom are looking for me and
feel that the safest place can find
is behind good big iron bars"
WASHINGTON, Sept. lit is one
Of the greatest victories President
Roosevelt has yet won" said a mem
Der of the cabinet today. discussing
the action OF the American Bar Asso-
citation on the trust question. THE
lawyers, as well as the courts. have
now INDICATED the stand taken by the
| President. We believe the people will
add their Endorsement as soon as
| they get chance to go TO the polls,
Oh late there has been a disposition
| Presidents antitrust campaign. In
New York a deliberate and persistent
| ,ffort is being made to make the Pres
ident appear in the light Of an impul-
| sive and rather impractical leader on
| the trust question, and to spread the
impression that he is wild. but
think less and less of that sort of talk
will be heard after this. Now that a
body so learned and dignifed and 10
representative of the best citizenship
Of the United States as the American
Bar Association has come out in a
formal report asserting the danger
from trusts and suggesting means OF
regulating them by the power of the
state, criticism OF the President must
be turned to praise"
| The friends of the President here
| are all elated over the news of the
Bar Associations action. They point
| out that the recommendations made
in the associations report are far
more radical than anything President
Roosevelt has ever proposed. and add
that instead of being criticised as
ultra and revolutionary, the President
| will haya tn he piyan cradit fnr bis
moderation ACCOUNTING In tho viau
axnro.sed Inv tho prosiaont,s fr,and.
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