Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-01-21

tDat the czar wants to try personally
TO effect settlement.
The Japanese government has plac-
ed with British builders orders for TWO
lt.ouD-ton battieships 10 be finished
within eighteen months
ST. PAUL, MINI, Jan, lS.-There
viii be- rattilng OF moist as well as
dry bones in Washington II Capt. JOS
eph McCardy. the new auditor for
the postoffice ueparraeni. pursues the
same course there that he did lin St
Paul. For many years he was city
comptroller, and when II comes to the
dog-of-the-treasury act, the late
Congressman Holman of Indiana was
reckless profllgate as compared with
the Minnesota man
McCardy. Republican. was perhaps
I the stronges; man at the polls that
ever ran for office In st Paul. with
1000 TO 5000 normal Democratic ma
jarity, More than once was he elect
ed when every other Republican on the
ticker with MIN was defeated. When
at last. in 1902, he was beaten. It was
by less than 200 votes
Capt McCardy was mandamused
| more times than any other official in
the history OF st. Paul. He was given
to carefully scrutInizing all bills and
accounts, AMI whenever the slightest
deviation from legal or moral exacti-
tude appeared, the comptroller's sigma
ture WAS withheld until the difficulty
was remeiied TO his entire satisfaction
or the courts whipped him into line.
One Of his ieats was to go east few
years ago and, without a shadow Of
legal authority, sell large amount OF
| St Paul city bonds at high premium.
This act caused tempest among his
political enemies, but the city coun'
| ell afierwarl legallized the brilliant
| financial coup by comforting upon him
the necessary authority, making It re-
rroactive.
KANSAS CITY. Jan. 1s.-By the
will Of w w Bendall, filed today. all
his estate excepting four bequests oi
$50 900 TO relatives. is left in trust to
the Methodist Episcopal church. Tine
income from the estate is to be used to
''upbuild the Christ Kingdom on
earth" and the trust fund 10 remain
intact. I'm the end of the world. or
until Christ returns to earth"
The value of the bequest is not
known but 1t Is large.
| KANSAS CITY, Jan. 1s,-Three
hundred feet OF the street car bridge
across the Kansas river vas carried
away today by Ice The Belt Line rail
way bridge is also In great danger.
| Traiiic with Armourdale, I>ans., is
practically stopped.
| COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 1S.-
A wreck on the Santa Fe near Palmer
Lake this morning caused the track to
be torn up for hundreds of feet. but
fortunately no one was hurt, Trains
were detoured from Denver over the
ID. & r. G.
| WASHINGTON. Jan. 1S.-Polite So
ciety here is deeply Interested in the
advent of the Walshs into the most
arlstocratic and exclusive circles.
High society was disinclined at first To
receive the miner and his wife from
Colorado, but tact and social diplo-
macy has succeeded, and the Walshs
are now actual leaders in society. be
ing in with the Hayes. the Lodges. the
Whilneys and the inner circles.
NEW YORK, Jan. IS.-For kissing
and hugging Mrs Marguerite Hubert
Chas. Lighte. a mineral water manu-
facturer was today ordered by jury
in Justice Traux's part of the supreme
court to pay to Peter hubert, the wo
mans husband. $4,000 damages.
hubert was formerly Mr.. Lighte's
coachman, while Mrs. Hubert was
janltress OF one OF Lighte's houses.
Some time ago Lighte told me
had better 30 TO Europe 10 see my
folks" testified Hubert, and he said
he would pay the expenses He gave
me box which he said contained
5000 in gold. but told me not to open
1t until the ship had passed Sandy
Hook. | found 1t contained only thir
ty-seven quarters. When 1 got back
found Lighte hugging and kissing
my wife, and when l told her that
wasn't right she said: Why. he's the
boss"
DENVER. Jan. 1S.-Today deaI
was completed whereby George TIE
beau secures the Denver Baseball clut
| iHu llS mo wan phu
the baseball war and presumably
strengthen the Western League.
BOSTON. Jan. lS.-Reports to the
American board OF missions announce
that over 100000 Macedonians are
starving to death, and although the
Turkish government has offered some
relief, help is greatly wanted from
| England and America
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. lS.-An in
valid four years because of being but
ted by a goat in an initiation into the
Woodmen of the World, Nj. F. Jumper
is pushing a suit for $4,000 damages
against the order. The case is now
In the United States court of appeals
Jumper having lost two previous
trials, He mad been put through the
most of the ceremonies and was blind
folded and placed on the floor. Then
the goat was brought in. 1t gave him
such lusty butting, according to the
plaintiff, that one of his pelvic bones
was fractured.
WASHINGTON, Jan. lS.-ln the
case OF Rogers VS.. the State of Ala
bama in the supreme court today. the