Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-19
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chief wrecker of the bank
This means that Johnson has play
ed his last card and must go to tn,
penitentiary. He was sentenced Sep
tember last by Judge Carrigues Il
TWO to three years in the penitentiary
He will be taken to Canon City to
night and within "a hours win have
donned his striped suit have his heat
shaved and be a fun fedged convict
ST. LOUIS, Oct 1G.-Arguments
were heard today by Federal Judge
Vandeventer of Wyoming on a demur
rer filed by Senator Burton of Kan.
sas to the indictment charging nim
with accepting pay for using influence
Of get rich quick concerns before the
government departments.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct ia
telegram from Secretary Loeb insist.
ing that the Roosevelt reception com
mittee take into consideration the ne
sroes in arranging the presidential
visit. resulted in the committee reced-
ing from its determination not to
ranging for the president to speak at
lUt rlOTlld bdDllSl HcdutIlN.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 16.-Secretary
Shaw in mis- forthcoming annual re-
port will recommend the issuance of
sixty million dollars worth of thirty.
year bonds to cover the outlay already
made on the Panama canal. Congress
will be asked to pass the necessary
legislation.
PUEBLO. Oct. l6.-Spreading rails
caused a serious wreck on the west
bound Missouri Pacific passenger Den
yer flyer at $40 this morning. Four,
teen persons were badly injured, one
probably fatally. The accident oc-
CURED at Sugar City. sixty miles east
of here.
The train was travelling at a high
rate of speed and one Pullman and
two day coaches We're derailed The
injured passengers were brought here
in the remaining day coaches. A
wrecker has been sent to the scene.
FRESNO. Cal. Oct 16.-Train
wreclters threw the switch Just as the
Southern Pacific owl train from Eos
Angeles was entering the yards at
2 O'Clock this morning. Engineer Cole,
Fireman Butts and tramp were kill
ed.
ST. PETERSBURG. Oct 16.-The
treaty of peace with Japan went into
effect today. No changes were made
in the text of the treaty as concluded
at Portsmouth.
COLUMBIA, S. c., oct. 16.-Rev.
Thomas Dixon. playwright, author of
the new drama, THE Clansman," mar
rowly escaped death last night at the
hands of an angry mob of Southerners
who had taken offense at his play.
The first performance of THE Clans
man" was given last night and the
plot deals with the reconstruction per
iod in South Carolina. The tneater
was packed with the best people OF
the city. Even these were offened by
the language and plot, and backed by
"A mob of angry people, ragged up and
down the street after the author. who
was forced to lock himself in his room
at the hotel and barricade the door.
FORT WORTH. Texas, oct. lex
Governor James s. Hogg is dying at
hotel here of dropsy, being forced
to his bed in this city while en- route
to a health resort The ex-governor
weighs over 300 pounds and physi-
clans say that unless he is tapped at
once his death will soon ensue. He
declines to submit to an operation.
FORT WORTH, Texas. Oct 16.--
The condition of Ex-Governor HogB
was reported unchanged this morning
by the physicians. 1t had been ex-
pected to take Mr.. Hogg to Mineral
Wells, Texas. today. Dropsy and in
juries sustained in a railway acct
Mr. Hogg's ailmen;-.
WASHINGTON, Oct. l6.-The fed
eral supreme court today set the case
of Kansas VS.. Colorado regarding the
use of water of tine Arkansas river for
irrigation purposes for January 2.
The cases against the tobacco and
paper trust officials who refused to an
swer questions or produce papers for
court are set for the same date.
STOCKHOLM, Oct 16.-The Riks.
dag today passed bill repeating tho
act of union with Norway and alter
ing the flag Of Sweden.
NEW YORK-The remarkable story
of young bigamist who mad foui
wives and kept three of them undel
one roof, concealing from each the
fact that he was married to the 9th
ers, was revealed in the Jefferson Mar
ket police court when Robert Benick
er was arraigned on complaint OF tw'
young women, Norma and Emily Ben
ECKER. who were married to him by th
same minister.
We had only been married a shor
time Norma said, when Rober
brought home a woman named Emil,
who, he said was his sisters frient
and she remained with us for som
time before | found out that she ha
been married to him in 1904 and ths
they had never been legally separate'
Emily and learned soon that Ro
ert had still another wife down O
Elizabeth street and her name wt
Maude.
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