Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-03-16

river continues TO rise and bottom
lands are flooded. Settlers in Red
River valley are greatly alarmed by
weather prospects and the prospects
for an additional rise next week.
CRIPPLE CREEK. Coo. March i2.
1t is believed here at Hoon that
general strike of the miners is now
inevitable. Arbitration on n fair ba-
sis. seems impossible, and labor lead
ers say that the men must strike or
suffer the complete annihilation of the
Western Federation OF Miners in this
state The mill owners are not likely.
| It is thought. To acceede to any plan
having for its end, arbitration by dis
Interested parties.
POTTSVILLE, Pa, March 12.-Jo-
seph Seaman. a nonunion miner during
the coal strike. became violently In
sane today. The cause was the fire.
quent application to him of offensive
| epifhets Seaman's ostracism among
The union men was so complete that
II preyed upon his mind and he be-
came complete wreck and was today
| removed to the insane asylum. He
cannot recover.
WASHINGTON, d. C., March r.
The president today sent to the SEN
ate the name of John F. Squire TO be
register of the land office in Glenwood
| Springs. Colorado, and William Mas
terson of Kentucky. to be consul at
| Aden Arabia.
| BERLIN, March 12.-Prince Eitel
Fritz, the kaisers youngest son, who
is making tour of the east. is pros
trated with measles at Cairo.
BOSTON, Mass, March 12.-The
city police arrested five young men
who are charged with robbing the
mails in the past six months to the
| tune of fifty thousand dollars. They
were employed as mail wagon drivers
and admit today that they ripped open
bags in broad daylight and took watch
ese, revolvers. books and money.
| LONDON. March IA writ of at
tachment issued today against Lady
Granville Gordon, and also an order
for her committal for contempt, Her
ladyship fed to Paris when her first
husband secured an order from the
court for custody of their child, which
was with her.
WASHINGTON, d. c.. March 12.-
Senator Hanna, in letter tor c. Hill
lis, of Frankfort, KY, says: Il can
not permit my name to be used as a
candidate for president in 1904"
| MEMPHIS. Tenn, March 12.-The
river gauge this morning showed 1856
| feet, a rise of four-tenths of a foot in
| i,.tv ira hac
above the danger line. Authorities ex-
pect a stage of 81 feet by tomorrow
IS the waters are rising slowly and
steadily Refugees are coming in
great numbers. Reports from the
south Indicate great anxiety owing to
unconfirmed rumors of levee breaks.
Charitable organizations are doing
their best no relieve distress.
NEW ORLEANS, March 12.-Rainy
and cloudy weather today adds to the
terror of the situation. The river is
rising daily, and embankments are
broken in various places. A large
| force of men was put to work along
the river front today, and sacking is
now being carried on all along the
line.
Dispatches from up the river this
morning says that ten thousand men
are working desperately in Tennessee
Arkansas Mississippi and Louisiana in
the fight to hold the flood.
| WASHINGTON, d. c.. March 13-
Information was made public today
that seven million dollars have beer
laid aside for western irrigation enter
prses, and Secretary Hitchcock of the
interior department has granted au
thorl,y for the requsition of necessary
property. rights of way, etc, prior tc
the construction OF irrigation works in
the following five localities: Wyo
ming, Sweetwater dam; Montana
Milk river: Colorado, Gunnison tun
mel; Nevada. Truckee; Arizona, Salt
river reservoir
These projects will cost several mil
lion dollars. and will provide irriga
tion for six hundred thousand acres of
arid land.
| WASHINGTON. ID. c., March 13-
| The Republicans today settled upon
| Thursday of next week as the day for
final vote on the Cuban reciprocity
| treaty, the vote to be followed by an
immediate adjournment of the extra
session of the senate.
The Republican steering committee
today also decided to present united
front against any amendment to the
| Panama Canal treaty. for fear it would
cause it to fail in the Colombian con
| gress.
The amendment requiring the con-
cnrrence of the house in the Cuban
| treaty was accepted by the Republi-
can steering committee.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 13-
! Vice Consul Wildt wires the state de-
| partment from Ceciba. Honduras, that
| the town has been captured by revolu-
tionists, and the presence of an Amer
lean war ship is desirable.
WASHINGTON, I. c., March "a
The postotilce department today an.
| nounced that the office at Brighton.
Colorado. would be advanced to the
presidential class on the first of next
month.
WASHINGTON. d. c.. March ID
II IS learned today upon the highest
authority that the president told sew
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