Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-11-13
TELEGRAPHIC
AND GENERAL
NEWS ITEMS


Salt Lake dispatches claim Senator
Smoot is largely responsible for de-
feat of the Republican ticket Tuesday.
The total state revenue will aggre.
gate 81 1876, ,s5297. OF this sum La
Plata county's share will be sl7.34S.43.
The room of a guest at the Waldorf
Astoria. New York. is reported to have
been entered and $4,000 in jewelry.
cash and checks stolen
Russian Massacre International
Relief association was formed and
$5s.s00 eagerly contributed at re-
markable meeting of Jews In New
York.
1t is stated that the Silver State
Cigar company, 1i3O.32 Arapahoe
street, Denver. has gone out OF bust.
ness, the reason being given, the
trust"
Lucien Eckhardt of St Louis was
found dead few moments after bid
ding his fiancec good night. and -tne
police are unable to determine wheth.
er he committed suicide or was slain
by hold-ups.
The state auditors office has com
pleted the 4-mill tax levy for all coun-
ties in the state for the year 1906, ac-
cordlng to valuations on all property
as fixed by the county assessors and
board of equalization.
In order to protect track and road
bed from future destruction by food
waters along the Animas river, west
of Trinidad, the Denver a. Rio Granie
railroad has decided to independently
build a stone wall nearly mile long
and costing several hundred thousand
dollars.
An unknown young man appeared
at the county hospital In Denver
Thursday and volunteered to allow
the surgeon to take enough skin from
him to furnish Baby Rosen with
which the child received last week.
and which the father refused to be
allowed to be taken from his body.
The locomotive Of the passenger
train of the Denver G. Rio Grande
railroad from Santa Fe to Antonito
was derailed Wednesday fourteen
miles out of Santa Fe, and plowed up
the track for some distance. 1t pass
ed partly over a trestle, and that 1t
did not fall into the arroyo seems
miraculous No one was injured.
The Gunnigon tunnel, which Is 10 be
completed in 1898, will be 10000 feet
in length, the longest tunnel In the
United States 1t will be 101s by 111A
and will carry large volume of wat
er from the Gunnison river through
the mountain divide, 1000 feet in
height, into the uncompahgre valley
where 1t will be utilized In the irrlga
ton of about $4,000 acres of exceed
ingly fertile land.
| Western railroads have agreed &c
make a rate of annual reunion of the
Grand Army OF the Republic, which
will be held In st. Paul. Mimi. In Au
gust. 1906. except from stations with
In a radius of $50 miles. This is tn,
usual rate, but at the meeting of tbs
Western Passenger association, a
which the rate was fixed, several rep
resentatives of roads tried to have 1
raised, but majority of them wer'
opposed to any change.
, One of the heaviest rains of the yea
fell at Albuquerque constantly for 4
hours. and streets were flooded wit
water and sloppy mud. The rain l
something unusual for that dry cl
mate. as the fall rainy season wa
, supposed to be over the latter part G
I September. Stockmen are happy a
, the present rain will I'LL all the waite
holes and bring up the grass. givin
plenty Of feed during the winter.
is feared by some that the rains wi
be followed by heavy SHOWS and sles
:. and that range stock. especially shee
will suffer.
Il am going back TO face my accu
= ers and to take my medicine. | a
q tired OF being q fugitive from iustice