Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-07-13

! today. During the early hour recen
tions were beid at different state
headquarters. The delegates then
marched by states to Tent Endeavor
in City park. where the convention
was informally opened with a briei
business session. Addresses of VOL
come We're followed by the annual re.
ports OF officers and business agents
An enthusiastic greeting was accorded
the founder and president of the so.
ciety, DR.. Francis l.. Clark, and the
new general secretary, Won Ogden
Vogt. also received a large share of
the applause.
This evening the regular welcoming
address Will be heard President
Clark will deliver his annual address
and Secretary Nogt will report the
society's progress during the past two
years. The music Will be an import.
ant feature of the session. Promi.
nent soloists will assist the chorus OF
! 900 voices in this portion of the pro
gram. Besides DIR. Clark the sneak
ers will include Rev Il. 4. Torrey. the
celebrated evangelist and director of
the Moody Bible Institute. Rev. DIR.
Floyd Tompkins of Philadelphia. Bish.
op Fellows, Bishop Arnett. and dis.
tinguished church and mission work.
ers from England. Scotland. Japan.
China and all other parts OF the
world.
Tomorrow a school of methods will
be held from $50 to $3.50 a m, and
LAT nj in ha In
conferences are to be held. Mission
AIRY rallies will be an inspiring feature
OF the program. with missionaries
fresh from the firing line" to do the
speaking Saturday. as usual. will be
given over TO the Juniors. and Sunday
The visiting delegates will supply over
100 pulpits in this city and vicinity.
Elaborate programs have been pre-
pared for the different auditoriums
and churches for Monday and Tues
lay The list of speakers includes
many prominent ministers and lectur-
erS.
Not the least interesting feature OF
the great gathering will be the evan
Selistic meetings, which will show
how much work ought to be done by
doing it in workshops. public squares.
tents and churches. under the leader
ship of such men as Rev. r. A. Tor.
rey, DIR. John Balcom Shaw, Dir. Ste.
phen A. Northrop and others
Other special features of the four
days program will be stereopticon
ectures on worldwide Christian En-
ieavor and Floating Christian En-.
leavor. sunrise quiet hour services.
sunday evening consecration services.
md simultaneous meetings for men,
women, boys and girls
ANN ARBOR, Mich, July 9.-The
unusual experiment of grating frog
skin on the hand of patient has been
successfully performed at the hom-
eopathy hospital of the Michigan uni
versity by Surgeon Westfall Albert
Witte. a furniture workman of Adrian,
had his hand caught in a sander and
lost some twenty inches of skin on
the palm and back of his hand AT
first skin from the patients leg was
transplanted on the hand, but the op.
GRAFTON was slow and painful. DR..
Westfall then secured a large live frog
and, after destroying its brain, thor
ougly cleaned the skin, sliced the
white skin off its belly and placed the
particles on the area to be covered.
These gratis We're covered with very
thin rubber tissue and that surround
ed by dressing moistened by com
mon salt solution. After nnety-siX
hours the whole dressing was remov-
ed. The frog skin gratis had united,
the Sranuation on the surface of the
raw hand penetrated up through the
frog skin and projected beyond the
surface of the latter. so that the
whole surface appeared red. The
cells in the frog skin had begun to
grow and covered the whole surface
with new skin Mr. Witte expects to
leave the homeopathy hospital in ten
days with his hand completely healed.
MlNNEAPOLIS, MINI, July 9-Ex-
citement was created today when the
police were informed that w. j. Bryan
had been found dead in hotel In
vestigation proved him to be w J.
Bryan, OF Frankfort, KY. doubtless no
relation of the Nebraskan.
DENVER, Colo, July 9.-Chief of
Police Armstrong says his detectives
have obtained sufficient evidence to
secure the conviction of Henry Chal-
lis for the murder of Mabel Brown.
who was found strangled two or three
days ago. Challis was her sweet.
heart. Mabel belonged to the half
world. Challis, who is in jail, shows
signs today of breaking down Infor.
nation against him will be filed to-
morrow
WASHINGTON, D. c., July O.
The United States Fish commission is
about TO undertake an experiment, the
outcome of which is fraught with
commercial Importance. 1t is propos.
ed to introduce a large number of Pa
cific coast salmon into the waters of
the Atlantic in an effort to build up a
salmon industry on the eastern coast
to rival that of the western coast. Ex-
perts of the commission are now en-.
gagged in making an investigation of
the waters inhabited by the Atlantic
coast salmon to gather additional
facts regarding the habits. food,
growth and life. They will make a
study of the coastal waters of all the
New England states. Some eight or