Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-08-06

| years ago, has received check for
thirty dollars from a woman who says
she has not had sound nights sleep
since she contracted the bill, and re
fused to pay ii q years ago.
NEW YORK. Aug. 3.---A dispatch
this morning from Springfield, Massa-
chusetts. states that Miss Helen
| Gould has been requested to act as an
arbitrator in the strike of the Holyoke
paper nnlls. The strike affects one
| thousand employees. The request was
| advanced by the Cutters union. many
| of whom are girls.
NEW YORK. Aug. 3.-Albert j.
Fisk of Flint. Mich. wife and family
| and several friends narrowly escaped
| injury in an automobile accident. The
| carriage overturned throwing the oc-
| cupants out, and their escape was
miraculous.
DENVER, Colo. Aug 3.-Governor
Peabody this morning replied to the
| communication of Idaho Springs min
| ers asking him TO take cognizance OF
heir Punishment from that city
The governor replied that the min
ers have ample redress in the court
and that they have engaged counsel
and that in its present aspect the mat
Ter is not one requiring executive in
terference in a local difficulty which
can be adjusted in the courts.
DENVER, Colo Aug 3.-Governor
Odell of New York arrived here this
morning in his private car. He is ac-
companied by number of prominent
New Workers, including his two sons
and several public men.
He predicted the nomination of
President Roosevelt in 1904, and said
there was no opposition. He said also
that Mayor Low would be renominated
in New York. as the people We're sal
isfied with fusion. He made the state
ment that he COdelD was very friend
ly with Plat and also that every indi-
cation pointed to the nomination OF
Judge Parker of New York for the
Democratic nominee for president.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Aug. "a riot
broke out between one hundred non
union Italians employed by the Bufa-
10 Union Furnace company. and sew
eral hundred dock iaborers. a hun
dred shots were fired before the po-
lice gained control Nobody was
killed. Fifty Italians We're jailed.
GEoRGETOWN, Ky, Aug "A
host. Cf witnesses came in this morn
ery was due to an operation for can
ing Tor the third trial of Caleb Powers,
charged with completely in the assas-
sination OF Governor Goebel. The
commemorative attorney will insist
upon immediate trial, though the de
fense is expected to fight for delay
New York World: An event of
more than common Importance will
be the beginning of work upon the
Tonto storage reservoir in Arizona.
the first great enterprise under the
new irrigation law.
The Salt River valley has been
chosen by the government engineers
as most favorable for the inauguration
OF the new system. The land to be ir,
rigated is all in private ownership.
Liens are executed covering every
acre to be benefited. and the associa-
tion OF land owners which is formed
20 facilitate the work agrees to repay
the construction cost with interest
within ten years.
Not only does the storage reservoir
water all the lands below it, but the
fall ut the dam is to furnish power to
pump water TO higher lands. until now
practically valueless. AS the money
expended upon the lands of private
owners is to be refunded, and as .rri-
cation of public lands will enhance
their value, the process of restoring
NEW YORK. Aug 3.-One hundred
cherry pits We're found in the appen-
dix OF patient being operated on in
Brooklyn hospital this morning The
presence of the stones, however, had
not caused appendicitis. The discov-
Ger.
the fertility of arid America will go
forward with automatically increasing
CELEBRITY, and the dry Southwest VIII
thus in time he one great garden
teeming with a prosperous people.
HARTFORD CITY. Ind. Aug. g.
Nineteen persons were injured in a
head end collision by an eastbound
Panhandle passenger running into
west bound freight. which had broken
in two and been delayed Fog pre-
vented the engineer from seeing the
hagman. Engineer Howe of the
freight was the most seriously in
iurel.
COWES, Eng, Aug, 3, 3,-Emperor
Williams yacht Meteor won the five
| hundred dollar prize in the Royal
Yacht club regatta today. King Ed
| ward and Queen Alexandra saw the
race, having arrived from Ireland.
CARTHAGE. Mo. Aug. 3.-Subpoe-
mas were served upon William Phelps
today to apear before the Jefferson
City grand jury. Phelps is legislative
| agent of the Missouri Pacific rail
road company.
| COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug 3.-The
Catholic church in Manitou was de-
stroyed by fire this morning. Loss,
| $4,000 The fire was presumably
caused from incendiarism.
| Bishop Olmstead Of the Episcopal
church has rendered the use of the
Episcopal church building 10 the Cath
olics. and Father Casey will hold ser
vices in St. Andrews until the burnt
structure is replaced.