Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-12-11
rELEeRAPnlc SNAPSHOTS.

Greeley is striving TO have a 31oO,.
900 hotel erected.
Senator Teller is rounding out his |
29th year in the United States senate. |
passed resolution fayorinK Joint |
state hood.
Another Denver bank failure-this
| time an Italian affair which held the
| money OF the poorer classes.
Gifts to the Republican campaign
| fund will be the target of the Demo
| cratic attack in Congress this winter
The lid is on again at Leadyille
| dance halls having been ordered to
| close and saloons to quit business at
IL O'Clock midnight
Every one OF the 1,122 passengers
on board the steamship Princess Irene
| which docked at New York, from Ge-
| noa and Naples left the ship bearing
a vaccination scar on arm or leg.
Smallpox developed during the trip,
but fortunately the case was discov-
cred on the day the ship left Genoa.
and the afflicted person, Eva Rodini,
second cabin passenger, was put off
the snip at Naples.
The ,quintennial census OF the Ger
man empire, taken Saturday, is ex.
pected to reveal that the population
exceeds 6i,00O,0O0. against 56,345, 900
In 1900. Since 1884 the population
will have exactly doubled. 1t is believ.
ed that this hitherto continuous in.
crease has reached its climax, as the
birth rate is surely and slowly reced-
Ing. DIR. Ebers. the eminent statisti.
clan. does not think that anyone living
| will see the population of Germany
100000.
The st. Louis October grand jury
in special report made to Judge
Reynolds severely arraigns the police
department, declaring it is demoraI.
lied through participation in politics;
that policemen have come TO look up.
on perjury as a part Of their duty,
and that witnesses who might give
Testimony upon which indictments for
brutality, perjury and the suborning
of witnesses could be returned are
plainly intimidated and in fear OF
physical violence
Directors Of the Chicago, Rock Isl.
and 4 Pacific railroad have authoriz.
| ed the purchase Of fifty locomotives
for that road, and the directors of the
| st Louis Il San Francisco have au.
| thorized the purchase OF As engines.
5000 freight cars and Ave postal cars. |
The directors OF the Chicago East,
ern Illinois have authorized the pur.
| chase OF thirty engines and 5000 coal
| cars. The contracts for these various
| new equipments have not been award. |
| ed but are likely to be so In the near
future.
Miss Emma Cushman, teacher in |
Brown county. Kansas, a week ago
closed her school for ten days and
told the forty boys and girls to 60
home and help their parents save the
! corn crop. Miss Cushman herself |
donned husking gloves and made a |
hand" In the corn field. Other young |
women also helnrd. Tomorrow four |
other schools in that section will ad. |
journ To the corn fields for week. |
The people arc in entire sympathy |
R,.t, l
OF the schools will be taught next |
spring. 1t is believed that scores OF |
rural schools all over Kansas will |
| close for week for the corn harvest |
| and festival.
The court OF appeals at Albany, N. |
Y, upholds the right of a theater man.
ager to refuse to honor tickets sold |
by sidewalk speculator
Walter Burnside Is under arrest at |
Fort Collin for attempting an assault \
upon young lady while the Two were
returning from dance.
Eighty-one thousand. six hundred |
ahu ninety -nVe cars were handled In
Pueblo during the month of November
This represented some traffic, sure
enough.
i'
Net earnings OF the Union Pacific
railroad for the year ending June 30
were $35.45l ,0o6, and the balance ap.
plicable for the common stock Ia 3ls.-
so2,6s7, or at the rate OF 11.4 per cent
A reduction OF 20 per cent In all
freight rates within the state is or.
dsred by the Illinois raiIrosd and
warehouse commission. to take effect
Jan. l. Railroads, to recoup their
losses. which 1t is estimated. would
be &3,oo0,o0o to $4,000, 900 annually.
will cut of commodity rates" men.
acins the industries OF the state.
John Derr. 6-year-oId 10y, was
killed by falling under the wheels OF
moving van at Longmont Tnursday.
He was stealing a ride. And boys
will continue 10 do this In spite Of I