Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-12-07

shadows the retirement of Perry
Heath as secretary of the committee.
SAGINAW, Mich, Dec. i.-Fire de-
stroyed the wood working department
of the Pere Marquette shops today.
The loss is $4,000. One hundred and
fifty men are thrown out of work
FORT .tIAVENWORTH. Kans.
Dec. 4.-Merritt Simons, a former pri-
vate of the Fifteenth infantry. escap-
ed from the guard while serving
sentence Of 20 years for looting in
China.
PARIS, Dec. 4.-Captain Dreyfus
says that II his case is revised as he
hopes. he will demand reinstatement
In the army and then Immediately re-
sign.
BALTIMORE. Dec. 4--Tonight wit
nesses the resumption of the fighting
game in Baltimore after long period
of idleness for the local lighters and
their followers. The opening show is
TO be given by the Eureka Athletic
club. which has arranged an attract
program OF events. The star feature
of the show is to be a fifteen round
contest between the two Baltimore
featherweights. Billy Whistler and
Joe Tipman
QUEEN Dec. 4.-Th Gun
ard liner Lucania beat the American
| liner St Paul across the ocean with
the mails The Lucania arrived at
noon today and the st. Paul has not
yet been sighted.
TOPEKA, Dec. AIRS. Noble l..
| Prentiss, widow of the well-known
newspaper man, has been appointed
hostess OF the Kansas building during
the st. Louis fair
TRINIDAD. Dec. 4-President Nit
| chell left at s o'clock this morning for
| Denver to meet Governor Peabody.
He Will stop at Walsenburg to look
| over the situation there. Mr.. Mitchell
Is inclined to do everything possible
to end the strike and expects to pass
the whole matter up to the governor
OMAHA. Dec. Federal detec-
tives have discovered $1,000 shortage
in the stamp department at the post
office. and after confronting Clerk Al
fred Olson with the evidences OF his
| guilt received a confession by him
that the money was lost in the attempt
| 10 break a faro bank.
| Olson is a young man of good fam
| lily. He said he thought he had
| scheme that would net easy money in
the gambling rooms, so he borrowed
working capital from the stamp draw
ers.
He Will be given the chance to make
the shortage good and escape arrest.
WA IINGTON, Dec. 4-The sub
-arin - t Mocassin is on the beach
near Norfolk. Va, but no lives have
been lost The gunboat Peoria saved
the Adder. which was the companion
boat of the Mocassin. The gunboat
Yankton has gone to the rescue OF the
Mocassin.
WASHINGTON, Dec 4.-The atten-
ton being given TO the Panama canal
project lends special interest to the
consideration of the nine ship canals
now in operation. These canals are:
/. The Suez canal. begun in 1859
and completed in 1869.
2. The Cronstadt and St Peters
burg Canal, begun in 1877 and com
pleted in 1890,
B. The Corinth Canal began in
1884 and completed in 1898.
4. The Manchester Ship Canal.
completed~in 1894
3. The Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, con
Meeting the Baltic and North seas.
completed in 1895.
6. The Elbe and Trave Canal, con
Meeting the North Sea and Baltic,
opened in 1900.
4 The Welland Canal. connecting
Lake Erie with Lake Ontario.
s and g. The two canals. United
States and Canadian, respectively.
connecting Lake Superior with Lake
Huron.
The Suez canal is usually consider
ed the most important example of ship
canals, though the number of vessels
passing through it annually does not
equal that passing throug the canals
connecting Lake Superior with the
chain of great lakes at the south In
length, however, it exceeds any of the
other great ship canals. its total length
being ninety miles, of which about
two-thirds is through shallow lakes.
In 1895 the canal was so enlarged as
to give depth of 81 feet, a width at
the bottom of 10S feet and at the sur
face of 420 feet. The original cost
was ss5.o00.000 and for the canal in
its present form slightly in excess of
800, 1000 900
The canal connecting the bay OF
Cronstadt with St Petersburg is a
work of great strategic and CONNER
cial importance to Russia. The can
al and sailing courses in the bay of
Cronstadt are about sixteens miles
long. The width ranges from 220 feet
to $50 feet The total cost is estimat-
cd at about s10,000,O00.
The Corlnth canal connects the Gulf
of Corinth with the Gulf of Aegina.
The canal reduces the distance from
| Atlantic ports about 175 miles and
from Mediterranean ports about 100
miles. Its length is about four miles
and it's cost s5.00o0O0.
The Manchester Ship caral. which
connects Manchester, England. with
the Mersey river at Liverpool and the
| Atlantic ocean, was opened for traffic