Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-12-21

come OF 10000 year, but his mod
oil life remains unchanged. He wen
to buckingham Palace to be sworn II
as a member of the kings priyy coup
ell and to kiss the royal hand on ac
ceptance of the cabinet OF president o
the local government board. dresse,
IN his invariable dark blue REFER suit
black derby hat and gloyeless hands
I carrying neither cane nor umbrella.
The other ministers wore copy.n
tional morning dress. The king wei
coined him with especial coraiiaiit,
and told him he hoped his objection
10 wearing court costume would new
er prevent him from obeyiux roya1
command to court entertainments
Ihat night the premier. Sir Henry
mpbell'Bannerman. gave "a cabinet
dinner, and John Burns. who never
possessed or had any ambition to pos.
sess an evening suit, sat down In his
usual REFER.
ne arrived at his office in White
Hail on foot or on a bicycle at o
O'Clock In the morning, to the great
CONSERVATION OF officials who are nc
customed TO beginning work at 10 40
ms energy is causing a panic in his
department. for he Is going systemat.
icaliy through each branch. ascertain.
ing Its duties and methods OF work.
WARRINGTON. Dec. 20.-Josepb
bishop, to whose position al press
agent of the Panama commission
some OF the senators objected, was to-
day appointed member Of the canal
commission.
BERLIN. Dec. 20.-Bertha Krupp
mas received new title. Queen
krupp.' by which she is known all
around Essen. Her income goes on
increasing, as does her state and pow.
er. The reserve of the Essen works,
according to balance sheet Just pub.
lished amounts now to nearly $780,
100000. ana the young woman's net
income for the year ending Nov. 30
from the Essen works alone was S3..
10000.
Add to that from mines. shipbuild-
ing and other concerns, the total
amount will be close to $4,000, 900.
Bertha krupp Is absolute owner of
her Kingdom. In Essen alone she
has 10000 workmen toIling for her,
who, with their families, make more
than 100000 persons dependent upon
her now. II other concerns be added
we have a total Of S00,0 dependents.
Thousands Of engines. tens of thous.
ands Of men are daily coining gold
for her. She owns gas workD, rail.
ways. s.'telegraphs, telephones, ht,r own
bakeries, slaughter houses and gem
eral stores. Her subjects are under
her scepter as no other rulers
throughout the empie
She has even her own army, regular
ly drilled. with stern rules Of disci-
pline; II is called fire brigade. but
is ms much body OF picked troops
as any In Germany. Her army num-
bers more than 900 men, well armed.
Sentinels march up and down the ter
race OF her castle. and there are pick
cts throughout the grounds.
To get at the queen you must frst
pass her incorrupuble guards. She
aiHo Doiite anu soEIct StINI-t.
Finally she has her ambassadors in
every court in Europe. They may
not be known In the regular diplomat
Ic world as such, but they are there
all the same, and are a power to be
reckoned with
NEW YORK Dec. 2O.---Ail records
for Christmas mall destined for Eu-
rope we're broken Saturday when the
foreign mall service dispatched over
1900 sacks, all filled with Christmas
gifts. and about 1000. 900 letters. The
flood of mail matter was so great
that Postmaster Wilcox had to re-
quest the Red Star line TO postpon
the sailing of its steamer Vaderland
from 10:30 a. III. till 4 O'Clock Satur-
day afternoon.
Registered mail matter for foreign
countries always indicates whether
the times are prosperous. Up to 8
o'clock the foreign mall service had
sent out 3.sI1 sacks. and 1t was ex-
pected that the Vaderland would take
away 1000 bags more. Since Dec. 2,
in fourteen days, there has been sent
In money orders to Europe $4,142.-
G9s, The steamship Philadelphia car
ried away $785.5O4. For the fourteen
days the grand total Of orders is 269.-
s79.
The largest amount went to Great
Britain. 27,24s money orders. repre-
scnting 92.9ss.71. The greater part
OF this sum went to Ireland. where for
more than half century the land
lords have been paid their rents out
of the money earned In the United
States. To Italy on the Philadelphia
went s91. .263.20. and TO Germany 373.
1906 Russia was remembered with
SCI, 1906 and the Swedes sent noms
for Christmas 374,93s.29. The Christ
mas presents from the exiles of Hun
gary amount to SG6.116.s4. while Sc.
053.66 was taken by the Philadelphia
for little Switzerland. Austria wal
sent s63.227.46. Greece sl.655O6 ant
Belgium 32.3s1.91. The Danes sen
home $i3,026.27, and the children o
the Netherlands mailed Sl,S55.26. To,
smallest sum, 3s43.71, going to LuIem
burg.
Last year the total sum for the cor