Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-06-13
TELEGRAPhlc NEWS

TELEGRAPHIc NEWS.
| DENVER, Colo, June g.-At nine
O'Clock this morning the first passen-
ger train of the new Mofrat railroad to
salt Lake started for Rollnsyllle. TAX.
ing with II a party of $50 men and
women. Four new coaches We're ocou-
| pied. Eighty miles of the new road
VIII he travelled and the party Will re-
Lnrn late this afternoon, the road con.
Iinulng to run passenger trains after
| today.
The group consisted of real estate
men and other invited guests.
CHICAGO. June 9.-Nora Galloway,
aged 90. working girl set her alarm
clock for the exact moment when she
thought Allen johnson, whom she lov.
ed was to marry Then sho took tho
| clock with her, walked out to the pier
On Lake Michigan and when the alarm
sounded leaped into the water. But,
Try as she would. she could not sink,
her liaring skirts holding her up. She
endeavored to stick her head under
| the water, but In vain. Two men
heard the splash and rescued her. the
girl striving to beat them on, and even
continuing the fight after she had been
| iaken from the water. She has learn
| ed that her alarm clock was two weeks
behind time, for her sweetheart was
married fortnight ago. Today she
says she will be good and live.
st, Louis, June 9-General Piet
| Cronje, the Boer feader who surren-
dered with 1000 men to Lord Rob.
| pttg "a
eel. a widow of the Boer general OF
that name, in July. She is 40 and has
six children. Her future husband Is
i5 and has eight children.
| WASHINGTON, July 9.-The Sui
tan OF Morocco has acceded to all de-
mands of Raisuli. the brigand chief
who holds the American, Perdlcaris.
and his English stepson prisoners The
news was cabled to the navy depart
ment by Admiral Chadwick who says
The Moroccan minister of foreign af-
| MRS instructed him to this effect This
| loreshadows the relief of the captives.
rhe ransom demanded Is believed to
be $685. 900
| II develops that the landing of ma
| rines by Admiral Chadwick yesterday
! WI tllt DIpLttllDu VI lht BtlGluu IT,
cation consisted in the sending of two
dnarmed men from the warship TO the
| house which Is Isolated. The wife of
the Belgian minister Is an American.
BAR HARBOR, Me, June 9.-Levl
Letter. the capitalist and Chicago mer-
chant prince died here today of heart
! disease. His Oldest daughter, Mary, Is
| Indy Curzon. vicerine OF India. His
| only son. Joe Letter. caused an inter
national stir by attempting TO corner
| The wheat market in 1899. Letter be-
| came Immensely wealthy by invest
| ing the profits Of an immense dry
goods business in Chicago real estate.
| His fortune is estimated at 10000
900.
Mr.. Letter was born in Maryland
| seventy years ago He was reasona-
bly, well up to the hour OF his death.
| Yesterday he took IA twelye-mile drive
and seemed In fine spirits. In the
| evening he took a walk about the hand
some estate he had leased from the
| Vanderbilts and went to bed. Early
| his morning he was stricken and
died within an hour. The fatal attack
seemed like others he had had preyi-
1usly, but restoratiyes had no effect.
aud The millionaire passed away before
The doctors arrived.
TOPEKA, Kan. June 9-The re-
port OF Secretary Coburn OF the state
board of agriculture today shows that
The Kansas wheat acreage is now H.
10000 acres and the condition is 81
per cent. The entire acreage will be
| more than last years, when the condi-
lion at this time was rs per cent. The
oats acreage remains unchanged. con
dtion SO per cent.
RIFLE. Colo. June 9--ft was re-
ported here today that posse con
| sistlng of fourteen ranchmen headed
by Marshal Nuckles engaged In a
pitched battle near Man Creek with
the bandit gang that held up the Rio
Grande passenger train last Tuesday.
A later report at noon, Just received,
states that one OF the holdups has been
killed and the other two are surround
ed and will be taken dead or alive
very shortly. The men have been
putting up desperate fight.
LEADVIIsLE, Colo, June "a Sc
we're snow storm set in this morning.
and by ten o'clock II was four inches
deep. The wind is blowing and it is
quite cold.
DENVER, Colo. June 9.--Knowing
that her son has been the victim of
outragea perpetrated by Chinese sol.
diers. Mrs. Mary Etzel, mother OF
Louis Etzel, the war correspondent
who was killed in China, will file u
claim against the Chinese government
for 100000 damages.
WASHINGTON. June 9.--Chas Nc
Kenna, prominent lawyer OF Pitts
burg. was today appointed United
: States district Judge for Porto Rico.
. His endorsement was one Of the last
official acts OF tho late Senator Quay.