Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-09-22
sovereign grand lodge.

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lodge membership was 26s. COS. At lnt
beginning of the present year 1t was
1,151.4 .42l. besides 2S4 .6S1 women. wht
belong to the orders auxiliary. the
Degree of Rebekah. making a tota
OF l,436, 1902 members. The total rev
enue of theorder in the year 1868 was
$2,34S.O13.S6. Last year 1t reached the
sum of $265. .597 ,061.14. In 1868 the
amount expended for relief pur
poses was s460.429,54. while in 1903
it was $4.326,5 500 l9.
Membership Of the primary branch
of the order January | amounted to
l.l5l.42l. OF these. 167. .S49 also be.
long TO the Encampment branch OF
the order, l63,013 were members OF
the Rebekah lodges and 1882 wore
uniforms of the Patriarchs Militant,
| With the combined membership in
the two branches, that for the men
and that for the women, the Inde-
| pendent Order of Odd Fellows takes
It's place at the head of the fraternal
| orders of the world
The report of Grand Secretary. J
Frank Grant, of Baltimore. was very
volnminous one. II was a review of
his duties as adjutant-general of the
uniformed rank of the order. The
| membership statement for the lodges
showed these figures; Number OF
members, Jan. 1, 1903. LOGS 1872; err
rors in previous reports. 79l; iniated
l32.229; admitted by card, 1914: re
nstated, 1l.129; less by errors in
previous reports. 1875: Withdrawn
by card. lS,Sl3; suspended. 1898;
expelled. 1867; deceased, II, ,955: to-
al losses, S1.S09; leaving 1,l50,246
members on January /, 1904.
Reporting the condition of the en-
campment branch of the order, the
grand secretary reported the total
membership on January l, 1904, to
be l67 $40. The Rebekah lodges on
the same date numbered 6,430 and
had total membership of 445,517.
The showing made by the Patriar-
,hs Militant, the uniformed branch of
he order, was given in the following
igures; number of cantons, 55S,
membership. 1882; worth of cantons
1925 6.360.44 New York leads with
Ohio. with 2.O63 enrolled
CAIRO. Ill, Sept 19.-Report by
messenger from Bryan's Landing
says six men were killed there in
ace row. A white man. it appears
lost heavily shooting craps with
negro. He left the party and returned
With rifle and armed friends. open
ng fire to which the negroes replied,
hey having anticipated the attack.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 10
Vice Presidential candidate Fairbanks
left today for Dover, Del. where he is
10 be star orator at a rally this alter
loon. He speaks tonight at Whining
ION, at Baltimore tomorrow. then at
Reading. Pa. He leaves Chicago on the
23rd, on trip to the Pacific
DALLAS. Tex. Sept. 19.-Two
young girls aged 13 and Is are in
jail here today, charged with the aw-
full crime of numbering their father.
by splitting his head open with an
TX and severing it from his body. The
girls are the daughters of C. c.
stewart. wealthy farmer of Falls
county. The murder was committed
Saturday night and yesterday morning
he girls called upon neighbor and
informed her of the crime.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 19.-Thomas
Faggart, chairman of the Democratic
National Committee. here today to
confer with local politicians regard
ing the establishment of a western
bureau, to handle the campaign in
tndinana, Illinois, and Wisconsin The
headquarters to be in charge of Ma
tional committeeman Rodger Sullivan,
assisted by committeeman Rray, OF
Wisconsin. Taggart denied the story
that he relinquished the management
Of the eastern campaign to German.
He leaves this afternoon for New
York.
KANSAS CITY, Sept 10 The
Union Pacific flyer eastbound was
wrecked near Junction City, Kan,
this afternoon. The number of dead
is said to be fifteen. Direct news has
not yet been obtained. The flyer when
last reported was running an hour
late in four sections.
DENVER, Colo, Sept ia spec
ial policeman today landed in jail,
Thomas Morgan and Jack O'Brien.
two men for whom the United States
Government has been searching for
some time. The men had on them sew
eral hundred dollars of dangerous
counterfeits. When the men were
caught early this morning they resist
ed. The policeman was knocked down
whereupon he shot his assailants but
not dangerously. These men have
flooded Pueblo and other parts OF
the state with excellent counterfeit
money.
HALIFAX, N. S., Sept. ia for
tunate change in the wind prevented
another great confiagration on the
water front here early today. The
flames started in Black Brothers ma
val stores, spreading to several ad-
joining structures threatening i'm
mense loss, when wind veered. Fire
was extinguished with a loss of over
a hundred thousand dollars.
FRIEDRICHSRUH. Sept 19-The
Prince Herbert Bismarck. elder son OF
the Iron Chancellor, who died yester-