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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
RIO GRANoE DEPOT SITE
SELECTED AT AZTEC

The last issue OF the Index says:
James Gwynn. head engineer of the
d. e. r. c., and Mr.. Mock, right Of
way agent for the road, were in
Aztec Tuesday and closed deal for
the land of Col. Williams above his
house and a strip through the ranch
OF l.. Current as a depot site. the one
to be selected that is the most favor
able to approach by the line now be
ing completed by Mr., Gwynn down
the valley. Both sites are 10 acres in
size and the gentlemen assured us
that dirt would fly before March LIST,
and that so days was all they wanted
to pay for the depot site decided upon.
The outlook is encouraging.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
DAM BURSTS.

Special Phone to The Herald.
TELLURIDE, Colo, Feb. Lake
Chatauqua, owned by Gus Cushman,
ten miles from town, bursted and went
on down the gulch and tore out part
of the Redwood fiume that supplies
water to the Illum station of the Tel
luride Power company. In consequence
nearly all the mills are shut down. as
they cannot get power. The damage Is
expected to be repaired by tomorrow
night, a large force Of men being EN-.
ployed fixing the fiume Mr.. Cushmar
lost several thousand dollars worth on
flsh.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
TWO MORE OF
HoCH'S WIVES APPEAR

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Feb. 1.-Two Ohio
women notified the police today that
John Hoch had married them and took
their savings and departed One is
Regina Miller, teacher at Cleveland {;
the other is Ada Dodd of Dayton.
Chemists reported to the coroner to
day that the Y had found In tne or
gans Of Mrs. Walker Hoch, enough
arsenic to kill two persons, Experts
advanced the opinion that death re-
suited BY degrees.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
BEAR ON STAGE AT.
TACkS THE PLAYERS

NEW YORK. Feb 4.-Much excite
ment occurred at the Colonial theatre
this morning. when a big bear. es-
capped from nearby room, rushed on
the stage during a rehearsal. attacked
several OF the performers and before
he was overpowered bit and clawed
several actors quite severely.
Libby Blondell and James McCree
were the most severely injured. As
the big animal rushed nthe stage, he
struck Miss Blondell with his paw
and knocked her down. when she fell
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
MOTHERS PLAN CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Feb. A.
Preliminary arrangements nave been
made for the triennial meeting of the
National Congress of Mothers. which
is to assemble in this city early next
month. President Roosevelt has CON
sented to address the congress and
another speaker of prominence will
be Senator Frederick T. Dubois One
day of the gathering will be desig-
mated International Day wnen ad-
dresses viii be made by several mem
bers of the diplomatic corps.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
CL0UDBURST
PLAYS HAVOC

SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Feb. A.
A cloudburst during the night develop
ed into tremendous storm and has
done great damage to the Southern
of track have been washed out and
away by the floods. Overland trains
on the Southern Pacific are unable to
proceed. The Santa Fe is in trouble
hut not so seriously. Washouts on the
Santa Fe prevails near Kingman
Ariz. All west bound trains today are
held at Ashfork and east bound nt the
Needles.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
CHILDREN INJURED IN
STREET CAR ACCIDENT

DETROIT, Mich. Feb. 4.-Seven
children injured, four probably fatally
in a street car accident this afternoon
They were riding in sled hitchesi
to a wagon. which the car struck.
Marion and Eleanor Donovan, John
and Jessie O'Connell are the worst in
Jured.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
GRANDSON OF GENERAL
kEARNEY IN TROUBLE

ST JOSEPH, Mo, Feb. i.-Robert
Kearney, grandson of General Phil
Kearney, it Is said, and a social light
was brought here from New Orleans
today by an officer. to answer to the
cha ge Of highway robbery. A crowd
was al the depot to see the prisoner
A Brother took Kearney to Jail in
rubber tired carriage
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
REVOLUTION
NOW ON IN
ARCEN TINE

BUENOS AYRES. Feb. A revo-
luton has broken out in Argentina
and this province is threatened with
a serious uprising. Tine government
has issued decree establishing a
state of siege for thirty days through
out the republic and has ordered the
mobilization of the National Guards.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
ANOTHER ELECTION FRAUD
GETS SIX MONTHS

DENVER. Colo. Feb. 4.-William
C. Lion was sentenced by Judge
johnson in the criminal court this
morning to six months in jail for cleo
tion frauds.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
BRIGHAM YoUNG's SIXTH
WIFE PASSES AWAY

SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Feb. A.
Lucy BIgelow Young. the sixth wife
of Brigham Young is dead from pneu-
monia. She was born in Illinois in
1880. She married Young in Omaha In
isIs.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
DEATH OF CHADWICK
DUPE HOURLY EXPECTED

OBERI.IN. o., Feb. 4-The condi-
Cassie Chadwick. took marked turn
for the worse today. Death is momen-
tarily expected.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
EGGS UP TO so
CENTS DOZEN IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO. ILL.,, Feb. Am egg fam
inc prevails here. Eggs went up to
fifty cents dozen today. The short
age is due to the cold weather.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06

WARSAW. Feb. t.-Reports today
from the principal cities of Russian
Poland. says thed are in a state Of
panic. The inhabitants are barricading
their doors and windows in conse-
cuence of the attitude of the strik-
ets
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
BLACK SPOT ON THE SUN.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Feb. A black
spot covering about one-twentieth of
the surface of the sun. was plainly
seen in Chicago today witn the naked
eye
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
WAR NEWS

LONDON, Feb 4.-General Stoes-
sci, interviewed tDjay at Colombo.
Ceylon. denied that he surrendered
before IL was necessary. His stan Of
ficers said the same StoesSel says
that correspondents making such as
sertions cannot prove II. During the
siege the garrison exhausted all but
fifteen of fifteen million rouble6 at Its
disposal.
TOXIC. Feb. 4.-General Ogu re
ports that Russians bombarded the
japanese right wing all day Thursday
and the enemy made repeated futile
attacks on Liutiaokou. Oku estimates
Russian dead In these encounters n
seven hundred He says three hundred
were left In the neld.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
LOSES life
TRYING TO
SAVE SON

CHICAGO. Ill. Feb. 4.--Jacob Star.
TX. aged forty, was killed by a train
today while trying to save his son
Carlo, who was on the track ON a sled
The boy was killed also
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06

j. NJ Kennedy. organizer OF the
Woodmen, is in from bayfield,. where
he has been working for some time in
the interest Of the order. He reports
the camp out there In a aourishing
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
NEW ASSOCIATE EDITOR
EOR The COMMONER

LINCOLN. Neb. Feb. 4.-Ricnard
Metcalf. a well known Omaha editor.
becomes associate editor of Bryan's
Commoner.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06
TRA|NMEN
ARE KILLED

ia Fe freight and switch engines
collided in the yards at midnight. Dan
Holman. fireman of the switch engine
was burned to death. Engineer Dea-
gan WAS bruised. The freight crew
were uniniured. The wreckage caught
fire
UTICA. n. Y, Feb. 4.-Tne boiler
OF train on the New York Central
railway exploded this morning. Two
train men lost their lives and twenty
passengers were more or less injured.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06

Prof Chadsey. formerly OF Durango.
has sent blank petitions here to be
signed by teachers urging the pas
sage of the bill in the legislature
which proposes that teachers be pen
stoned after teaching a certain pc
riod. The bill proposes that after a
teacher has taught go years. he or she
5 disabled. shall be retired with
pension II they have taught 25 years
they shall he entitled to pension
anyhow The pensions are from $500
to $3.50 per year. Durango has one
teacher, Mrs. Wales. who has taught
II years. It is understood teachers
generally are In favor OF the plan. II
entails no additional expense upon
the taxpayers as the pensions are to
be derived from fund created by fees
paid by the teachers themselves for
examination certificates, etc. Mrs.
Pulford Is sending the petitions to
rural teachers for their signatures.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-06

Mrs. Pulford has recently visited
the Moss school on Pine river and
the schools at Bayfield, and 1gnacio
and found the teachers and patrons
enthusiastic over her plan of estab-
fishing uniform grades in the rural
schools.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-12-07
Casting b. Moonlight For Bass.

| suppo,c the average bait caster
knows very little Of casting by moon
light, but to ny mind this is a most
pleasurable way of fishing. The
very weirdness and uncertainty con-
stitute its chief charm, for the more
uncertain a thing the greater the
satisfaction when it is accomplished.
Confirmed fly casters often rldl-
cule the bait caster with the stubby
rod, but | have used both, and it
takes fully as much skill and prac-
tice to manage the short rod as the
long, whippy one, and bait casting
offers a much larger field and larger
variety of fishing than fly casting. A
surface bait should always be used,
as a bass strikes at the commotion
made by the bait, not because he IS
hungry, but merely because he
wants to fght.-Recreation.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-12-07
THE WIFE HE WANTED.
Queer Matrimonial Advertisement That
Appeared In 1897.

Here is curious matrimonial adj
vertisement, published i'll an Ameri-
can newspaper in 1881. Whether
the gentleman Of 'easy temper,
whose only mode of restraint was
"stinting' which every woman
knows is of all schemes the most dia-
bolical-found a lady possessed of
all the enumerated perfections who
was willing to hide them cannot at
this late date be aScertained:
"a middle aged gentleman barely
turned sixty and as yet unmarried Is
desirous of altering his condition.
He has a good estate, sound constl-
tuition and easy temper, and having
worn out the follies of youth will be
determined by reason in the choice
of the lady he intends to make hap
pv. She must be upward of fifteen
and under twenty-five. Her size
must be moderate, her shape nat
ural, her person clean and her coun-
tenance pleasing. She must be live
" in her humor, but not smart IN
her conversation; sensible, but ut
terlv unaffected with wit; her tenn
per without extremes, neither too
hastv and never sullen. Then she
must invariably observe all forms
of breeding in public places and
mixed company, but may lay them
all aside among her acquaintance.
She must have no affectation but that
of hiding her perfection, which her
own sex will forgive and the other
more quickly discover. She shall
be restrained in nothing, the gentle
man having observed that restraint
only makes good women bad and
bad women worse. In some things
perhaps she may be stinted, which
is the only method he will take to
signify his dislike to any part of her
conduct. Any lady whose friends
are of opinion cher own opinion will
not de5 that she is qualified as
above and has nfnd to dispose of
herself may hear of purchaser by
leaving with the printer hereof let
ter directed to c. D."
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Napoleon's Attempt at Suicide.

The most startling of all Con-
stant's revelations is that describing
Napoleon's attempt at suicide when
Marmont, Berthier and the rest left
him naked to his enemies. Con-
slant in one of his earlier volumes
described a talisman wrapped IN silk
and leather which ever since the
Egyptian campaign Napoleon wore
around his neck. 1t contained, ac-
cording to Constant, the poison
which the emperor took immediate.
lv after his signature of the deed OF
abdication. He then sent for Con-
slant and thus addressed him: "Con-
slant, l am dying. | could not bear
the torture any more and the hui
initiation of seeing myself surround
ed by foreign agents. They have
trailed my eagles through the mlre,
Marmont has given me my final
blow. That Berthier should have
forsaken me cuts me to the core!
Nv old friends! Ny old comrades in
arms" However, either the weak
ness of the poison or the skill OF
Yvan. the doctor, saved his life
II. P.'s Weekly. London.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-12-07
A VERY HANDSOME STORE.
That Of Louis Cohen & Go. Is Attract
Ind much Attention.

One of the handsomest stores OH
King street is that of Louis Cohen
& Co., which has been extensively
remodeled this fall, into an en-
porium for fine dry goods in way
that is attracting attention all over
the city. With roomy floor space,
with very large windows, and with
increased facilisieS for the carpet de-
partment, thu store looks new, and
shows the expenditure of several
thousand dollars in improvements
in u most impressive way.
By removing The wall that fol-
merly divided the main store into
two parts the firm has provided a
floor space of 260 feet by 60. Sky
lights afford an effective display of
fine goods about the coanters of this
progressive store in the day time,
while brilliant lighting at night
makes the place very beautiful.
The new carpe department, where
a new stock of carpets, rugs aud
portieres are to be seen, is completed,
and the large number of visitors
who have been to the store since its
renovation have been struck with
the completeness of every detail that
goes to make up the modern dry
goods store.
An expert dresser is in charge of
the big show windows of the store,
and from time 20 time will make
displays of the latest styles, with
the idea of making the windows an
authority in what is proper and
pleasing to the fair patrons who are
customers of the store or who will
be. The firm is we'll known all over
the State aad will be better able
now than ever to serve their large
patronage. charleston Post.
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ELECTRIC HEATING.

The art of electrical heating Is
we'll developed, though the use OF
these appliances for heating rooms
and cooking is not as great as could
be desired. The fault here lies not
IL the heaters themselves, but in the
fact that in generating electrica en-
crsy from coal great losses take
place. The method is roundabout,
and the only system available today
is unfortunately inefficient. First
We burn the coal and transfer as
much as possible of the heat devel-
oped by this process to water. The
steam thus generated is then passed
to some type Of engine. The engine
drive IN electric generator, which
in turn develops an electric c"::Tent.
This current must then be transmit
ted through conducting wires to the
point where it is TO be utilized,
where its energy is reconverted into
heat. AT every step, except the
last, losses take place, not so much
due TO our apparatus as to the sys-
tenn itself.-Electrical Review.
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EARLY ELECTRIC ROADS.
Line In Baltimore Perhaps Our First
Regularly Operated One.

Daft began work on the lamp
den branch of the Baltimore Union
Passenger Railway company i'll Au-
gust, 1885, at first with two and a
year later with two more dummies,
which pulled regular street cars. A
central and the running rails were
used for the normal operation, but
at crossings all overhead conductor
was installed, and connection was
made with it by transversely hing
ed arm carried on the car and press
ed upward against it by a spring.
The driving was by pinion operat-
ing on an internal gear on one of
the axleS.
This was, think, the first regu-
larly operated electric road in this
country, and the conditions under
which the contract was taken, in
Guiding waiting year for payment
conditioned on satisfactory opera
tion-and finally, even on these on
crous terms, secured only in the face
of an opinion by well known sci
enlist that no one but "a knave or a
fool wo..,,d undertake it-were any
thin but ENCOURAGING. Fortunate
" for Eait. however, Il. c. Robbins,
the general manager of the railroad
company, was strong in the faith.
This equipment Was followed by
a more ambitious one-that of a
section of tie Ninth Avenue Elevat.
ed railroad for a distance of two
miles. where a series of experiments
was carried on during the latter part
of the wear 1885 with 4 locomotive
called the Benjamin Franklin. The
motor was mounted on a platform
pivoted at one end, and motion was
communicated from the armature to
the driving wheel through grooved
friction gears held in close contact
partly by the weight of the machine
and partly by an adjustable screw
device. This locomotive, pulling a
train of car. made several trips.
B;,t tie experiments were soon sus-
pended, and they were not re-
sumed until three years later, when
during several weeks a rebuilt and
improved Benjamin Franklin was
. frequently run between the steam
trains on the section between Four
teenth and Fiftieth streets, attaining
at times speed of twenty-five miles
an4rour, and on one occasion pulling
an eight car train up the maximum
grade of nearly ? per cent at a seven
Iaile rate.-Century.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-12-07
Cornishmen and Tails.

Natives of Devonshire, England,
in past centuries used to say that
Cornishmen all had tails, asserting
that it was sign of the divine dis
approval of their infamy in cutting
off the tail of Thomas a Becket's
horse. \ sixteenth century writer
says: $50 hath England in all other
lands a perpetual infamy of tayles
by theye wrytten legendes of lyes,
yet can they not well tell where to
bestowe them truly. An English
man now cannot travayle in another
land by way of marchandyse or any
other honest occupyinge, but it IS
most contumeliously thrown in his
tethe that all Englishmen have
tayles."
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-12-07
WANT SAM JONES SUPPRESSED.
AAd Sam Comes Back at Them With
Characteristic VigOr.

Cincinnati don't want to hear
Sam Jones. In letter received by
Chief of Police Mullican, signed by
FIVE prominent citizens, protest is
made against the Rev Sam Jones,
the Georgia evangelist, who is in the
third week of a revival meeting at
Music hall conducted under the
auspices of the Evangelical AL
lance.
The protest is against what Is
termed "improper language and
"the slurs of the community" said
to have been perpetrated by the Rev
Sam Jones.
"How're you going to do it,
asked Jones when seen regarding
the proposition to muzzle him. "You
can't do it, the militia couldn't; you
would have to call out the regul lar
army. and how would they do 1t?
There were only five prominent clti-
zens on the petition to suppress me.
If there are only five who want me
suppressed, I'm doing fine.
"The generous police says he can
not suppress me because he says l
amt violating the law. What You
want To do is 60 suppress the news
papers. They carry the report of
my speeches ont to the world or they
carry part of them: They don't
report my speeches at all. You
might as we'll taks picture of the
end of my nose and the tip of my
ear and my knee and say this Is a
picture of Sam Jones, us to say that
one of the newspaper reports is one
of my serm"ns. They amt.
81 could take the Bible and make
extracts from it the way newspapers
do with my sermons and prove that
every man here must 90 out and
hang himself before breakfast.
Then he lead from the bible in
front of him: "And Judas Iscariot
went out and hanged himself" $50
thou and do likewise" "And what
thou doest do qulckly."'
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-12-07
FOR SALE.

Brick in any quantity to suit i'u'chas
er. The Best Dry Press MachiEr-ma'le
q SBRTCK.
Special shape. made to"r'ier. 'orre-
ponlpnrn solicited before placing your
order. ". Il. FUNK.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-12-07
Registration Notice.

The office of the Supervisor OF Reg
istration will be opened Oh the first
Monday in every month for the pur-
pose of the registering of any person
who is qualified aS follows:
Who Shall have been resident Of
the State for two years. and of the
county one year, and of the polling pre-
cinct i'm which the electOr offers to
vote four months before the day of
election. and shall have paid, six
months before. any poll tax then due
and payable. and who can both read
and write any section of the cOnStitu-
ton of 1895 submitted to him by the
Supervisors of Registration. or who
can show that he OWNS. and has paid
all taxes collectable on during the
present year, property in this State
assessed at three hundred dollars or
more. j. j. EADDY,
Clerk Of Board.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-12-07

\ capltatiOn IiX OF on" dollar on dl
male persons between 81 and 60 years
of age-and 30 mills on all cattle. sheep
goats and hogs Anderson, SuttonS, and
part of Penn Town-hIp.-also 30 cts
per head on all dogs.
After Dec 3lSt per cent pedalty fer
Jan. | per cent for Feb. and per cent
penalty for March will he added. After
March 18th Tax Books will close and
execution issued Ommntation tax
81. 90 for year 1906 payable until lst
dav of March 1905
| Iwill be at the following places mem
toned b. low for collie .tiOn OF SAID taxes
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Tax Notice.

TIE tax levy for year 1905 is a. l"!-
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II You Want to Read Something Good.

A distinct Christmas flavor found
in LIPPINCoTT's MAGAZINE for
December adds to the general in
terest which is never lacking. This
,sa a season of happiness and LIPPlN-
COTS is happy too. Jolliness,
humor, and pathos are there, but
the deeper tragedies of life have no
piece in this issue.
The opening novelette,, "Of the
Lions Breed" is lay Grace Mae
Gowan Cooke in collaboration with
Vond Reed; and it is good enough
to indicate the quality of the seven
shorter stories which follow. 1t is
picturesque romance of the coal
fields, strongly dramatic, Yet treated
with the utmost aimplicity.
"Josiah Aliens Wife" call, her
amusing contribution 1.-The Last
Straw" This may prove allumina-
tive to husbands. Mrs | Zangwill,
who still writes under her maiden
name, E Ayrto, is the author of
"Don Cupid, Il sweet child sketch
with grown-up love interest. An
automobile racing story hy Ralph
Henry Barbour, called "Nictory
With Honor" abounds IN humorous
situations and lively dialogue. "a
Studio Mouse" is "a clever tale Of
artistic life among the "cliff dwell
ers." In it the Mouse Georgia
Knox describes Il courtsmp which
threatens to cut off its source of sup
plies. Scumas Mac acManus, tn,
Irish humorist, tells "How Condy
Dhu Raised the Devil" and makes
it supeilatlvcN funny. Ella Md
dleton Tyoout's story, "a Moment
of Confidence shows two pictures
of the frcsldc, = which cynicS try TO
make MS believe is obsolete, very real
human pictures complete IN con-
trast. "rhc Wildwood Limi'cd
is story Of " locomotive engineer,
by Cy Warman, whose name in the
line he has chosen has few equals.
This tale will be especially cmj"ycd
by railroad men,
Marion Ha-land once spent Christ
mas IN Bethlehem of Judea. She
describes the Christmas ceremonies
in the Church, which Is built on
the site of the Manger where Christ
was born, and gives much interest
ing news of the town, ill her paper
in the Christmas LIPPINCoTTs.
A paper Oh "The modern Ly'
eeum," by Paul NJ Pearson sup
niles up.tc date information on this
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-12-07
Juvenile Loqic.

\ little boy of four years of age
on noticing for the first time a lock
of gray hair on his fathers head ask
ed. "Papa. why are some of your
hairs gray"
Thinking to drive home a moral
lesson, the father answered, Papa
has a new gray hair every time his
Little boy is naughty"
The child seemed lost in thought,
but after pause said bravely,
''eThen grandpa must have had aw-
fully naughty boys"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-12-07

live subject; and Winner Bedford, Il
Veteran writes an anecdotic article
on "Some Generals of the Civil
Wcr." This will be followed by a
second paper Of further reminis-
cenceS.
Christmas poems by Charles Han
son Towne and Clinton ScolIsrd
mark the glad season.
"Walnuts and Wine" have caught
the prevailing happiness and reflect
its spirit in joke and verselet.