Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-03-24
COMBINATIONS.

ious injury.
A $4,000 cyanide plant is to be
built at Colorado City in connection
4 with the United States Reduction &
Refining plant
w. j. Allen Of Kentucky is dead
from injuries received a few days ago
by falling down a shallow hole on the
Monte Queen mine at Lake City.
Adiutant Sherman Bell MD If Pres
ldent Meyer and Secretary Haywood
wants to visit Telluride to make an
Investigation ne will accompany
them.
There is talk OF reunion of Colo
rado governors. There are eight llv-
ng but one viii hardly attend-Mc-
lntyre He would not be any special
ornament.
There is red-hot fight in progress
in Ohio between the Dick and Foraker
forces and several contcsuug dele
gates have been named for The Chi
cago convention.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is at
tempting to wrest some OF the mail
carrying business from the New York
Central-Lake Shore and speed tests
are being made.
1t is believed the Pueblo steel works
| will be able to furnish rails for the
Moifat road after the first few miles
are laid. AT least an effort TO this erd
Is being made
The Boulder city council has passed
resolution accepting Andrew Carne-
gies offer to furnish $4,000 for a IL
| brary and bound Itself to appropriate
at least Sl5GO yearly to it's mainten-
ance. The city will levy a 1-miIl tax
to meet the needs Of the library.
The change in weather is no doubt
due to the fact that the first Ray
mend and Whitcomb excursion reach
/ ed the state line today enroute to
Denver from visit to California One
of these eastern. excursions can al.
ways be relied on to bring stormy
weather
James l.. Hodges, former assayer of
| the Denver mint and well known as
Republican leader in the state during
the strenuous days. was stricken with
| paralysis Friday last While not en-
| tirely helpless it is felt he has small
chance OF recovery, being II years OF
| age
A Boston financial paper says the
| loan of s5000,000 TO the Burlington
road by the single Chicago bank is
one OF the remarkable developments
OF the times. and comments on the
fact that Boston institutions are now
selling paper in western towns where
! formerly 10 per cent was paid to Bos-
ton on municipal loans.
Suits under the antitrust law have
been entered at Austin. Texas, against
the United States Fidelity and Guar
! antee company and the American
Bonding company of Baltimore and
I the Fidelity and Deposit company OF
| Maryland, it being alleged that they
! have entered into trust to fix prices
| OF surety and guaranty bonds pen
atty of s22i,000 is asked from each,
Te desire to see his sweetheart as
prettily dressed as other girls who at
/ tended the railway trainmen's ball at
: the Leland hotel Springfield, H., is
said to have caused Earl NJ. Seaman,
Is years old. to turn thief. He is
I charged with stealing a watch and
J chain and pawning the vauables, to-
gether with his own watch and over
! coat.
, J. b. Stevens has been arrested at
London, Ky, charged with fraudulent
use of the mails. During the last II
; years he is said to have secured Ship
! ments OF thousands of dollars worth
of goods under the alias OF w. G. Sin
| clair and Stevens & Co, which he
hauled into the country and disposed
! of. and when bills were due he could
not be located
Colorado Springs. or rather El Paso
. county does not ask for much at the
| hands of the coming state convention
I She has brought out Irving Howbert
and William Lennox as delegates to
1 the Chicago convention, claiming
thar county is entitled 10 Two out OF
the 10. Better decide on one and
make sure as its dollars to doughnuts
/ not more than one will come from
Colorado Springs,
/ J. r. Meier was found guilty Friday
, of wholesale violation of the state
y 't'it'' A"N 'l' ipti Nlul tNt7- Tllslt nav
ing too many deer in his possession.
, second, having six deer heads belong
+ ing 10 other people: third. hunting
without license; fourth having in
, his possession the head Of a Rocky
mountain sheep He was fined $3.50
and costs the latter amounting to
S36. lie paid the fine and was dis
charged.
News Of an important military en-
gagcment has just been received from
Catabalo. capital OF province of Min
danao, March Z, detachments of the
18th and 23d Infantry troop b, of the
lith cavalry aqd Gatleys battery in
all $50 strong under command of Cen
eral Leonard Wood attacked and cap
, tured the Gotta (forD which was held
! by the Dltto An, who resists the anti
slavery law. His defensive works
were destroyed and their abandon
ment forced by the accurate fire OF
the battery. Two thousand Muros
made their retreat with loss 100.
The Americans sustained no losses,
Twenty-four cannon, i6 lanJacas ina