Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-23

elk IN Rto Blanco county some zen
days ago.
Montrose dealers have advanced
the price of coal 25 cents ton.
The smelter trust is after hig cop
per properties and will take hand
in copper production.
Not death from yellow fever
Wednesday and Thursday. The dis
ease is about wiped out
President McCurdy of the Mutual
Life SAYS he has no intention OF re-
signing. Must want to be fred.
The annual report of the Moore
roads. comprising the Rock Island
system and it's tributary companies.
shows In general decline in rev
enues.
AS guests were arriving for a re-
ception, Mrs. Carrie Buehler, wife OF
A wealthy New York merchant, com
mitted suicide by shooting herself at
her home
A Fort Collins family had jewels
valued at $500 stolen the other
night. Bet a dollar the jewels did not
appear on the assessment roll to the
extent Of 800.
The Colorado Fuel & iron company
is advertising for bids for building
canal from a point on the Arkan-
sas to the steel plant VIII cost about
million of dollars.
James Edward Bryant, 17-year-
old school boy, was instantly killed In
practice game Of foot ball at Canon
Jolt in the stomach and then pounced
on by half a dozen comrades.
Three carloads of honey. total OF
90 900 pounds, with total value OF
slO.SOO have within the last few
weeks been shipped from the De
Beaue district to pittsburg. which
ought to cause you to think a bit.
Dexter T. Sapp, state senator from
Gunnison and Pitkin counties, in an
address before the stock growers at
| Gunnison last week. stated TO them
! that cattle stealing would stop when
| the members of the stock association
| stopped stealing from each other, and
then intimated that nearly all we're
! guilty. His remarks were taken good
naturedly.
| The Denver Republican says Joel
4 f. Vale has announced to several OF
his friends that he will be candidate
| for United States senator to succeed
Senator Patterson, and the Repub-
| llcan adds that he will have for COM
pany in the contest Irving Howbert,
Simon Guggenheim. Frank c. Goudy,
Tohn w Springer, A. NJ. Stevenson
and perhaps several more.
r. NJ. Johnson, former president of
The Fidelity Savings association of
Denver, will have no extra privileges
as a convict, according to Warden
Cleghorn of the state penitentiary.
Johnson will work breaking stone IN
one of the gangs which are building
public roads. And isn't tnis Jolly. II
will compensate to certain extent
the loss sustained by confiding depos-
itors.
The mysterious theft Of $4,000
from the American National bank Of
Lima, Ohio. seven years ago, in con
nection with which Vice President N.
IL. Michael was once indicted, mas
been solved by the confession Of Eli.
iah Bowsher. janitor Of the bank, who
was indicted last week Bowsher says
he hid In the hank saw the money put
away for the night. slipped into the
vault and allowed himself to be lock,
ed in. He used gaspipe wrench to
take of the thumbscrew on the rear
of the vault doors and gain an exit
after the bankers had departed. He
says he was induced to do this job by
q. c. Faurol, one-time millionaire
and builder of the bank building. who
gave him the combinations to the In.
ner safes and strong boxes.
| Caroline Smith of Chicago was de
at the physical culture show at the
Madison Square Garden. The ballot
ing followed close on the final act, in
which the women and men were taken
to private rooms and their points
passed upon by "a Judges. including
! sculptors, artists and athletes. venne
Trenary of Chicago was seventh. In
the mems contest the first prize fell
J 10 Charles Richards OF Dorchester
Mass He is only 20 years old, 1.-THE
and supple, feet 7 inches tall, and
a good swimmer and handball player
i A Texas dispatch says: Advices
from the gulf coast indicate that the
beach for a hundred miles is strevn
With dead fish which nave been cast
| up by the waves the last two days.
1t is believed that they were washed
in from far out at sea, and that their
death was due to some submarine
disturbance which may have caused
the huge wave which swept over the
tsteamer Campania last week, dealing
death to number OF passengers. The
beach at Matagorda is especially
strewn with the bodies They exist
In countless thousands and are prov
ing very offensive to the residents
within miles of the coast.
Denver saloons are up against the
real thfng-or at least those who per.
sist in keeping open after 12 at night
and on Sundays. Heretofore two
I thirds OF the liquid establishments
have winked at the law. but the fol.
Il lnt