Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-03-13
TELEGRAPHiC NEWS.
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. morning. He WAS ~ years old. He
took leading part In the recent
statehood fgnt.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-Senator
Bate, who died this morning. was I'm
the senate up to Inauguration day.
He was a veteran OF the Mexican war
and the only man VINO refused to
draw his pension He was major.
general In tne civil war on the Con.
tederate side. He was governor OF
tennessee before he was elected to
the senate. II had the od.fashloned
Ideas Of propriely when he was elect.
ed to the legislature of Tennessee in
the late '4Os.
I CHICAGO. March 9.-General Fred.
erick Funston is packing up prepara-
tory to leaving for the Golden Gate
\ where ne Is to take charge OF the
| Department OF the Pacific. Mr.. and
! Mrs. Funston, being very domestic,
have refused all society Invitations
and the polite folk are rather glad
officer Is coming here to take Funs-
I toms place. Mr.. Funston is not
West Pointer, and ne and his wife.
upon coming here, plainly told the
leaders of society that tney preferred
their little apartments on the North
side TO banquet halls and bathrooms.
INDEPENDENCE. Kan, March 10.
BY dispositions being taken here to-
day in the suit against the Santa Fe
railroad the State expects TO get evil
dence showing the railroads In Kan
sas entered into pool To discrimin.
ate against independent oil shippers.
The State also expects to snow that
this discrimination extended to other
kinds of freight besides oil and that
he rates were raised in the trans
porting of the latter when the STAND.
ard OIL company's pipe line TO Kan
sas City was completed and this com
petition should nave reduced the
rates.
John Aber. formerly an oil opera
tor at Moran, Kansas. was the hrst
witness today. He said. he was
shipping oil to Kansas City at 10
cents per hundred, when. on th,, COM
pletion OF the pipe line to Kansas
City the rate jumped to l7h cents,
the price of crude oil being reduced
simultaneously.
Aber said he knew the rates would
put him out of business.
w. j Young was then called. He
said; II owned all but four shares
of the Prairie Oil Il Gas company,
The stock OF this company. he
thought nad been exchanged for
shares In Standard Oil" He said he
was a director of the Standard OIL
company of New Jersey but had nov
er attended any of the meetings and
could not say whether or not Rookie
feller was president of the company.
He had no knowledge OF any traffic
arrangements with railroads and
knew nothing of the order to refuse
the oil of certain companies or
against the Webster Independent re-
Emery He said lie was ignorant OF
any discrimination in freight rates.
ALBUQUERQUE N. NJ, March 10.
Tine Blnewater and Cabero dam on
The San Jose river has broken. All
westbound Santa Fe trains are being
held here Indefinitely The steel
bridge at Rio Puerco is in great dan
ger
MADISON, Wis. March 10.-Wm.
j. Bryan said today that he believed
The fight Kansas is making against
the Standard Oil company would
break up the monopoly.
WASHINGTON. Marcn 1O.-The
secretary of the treasury has issued
warrant for three quarters OF a
million dollars In favor OF Mansfield
McMurray and Cornish. lawyers, as
fees for services rendered the Choc-
taw Indians. Secretary Hitchcock
declined to approve the claim on the
ground that 1t was excessive, but con
gress ordered its payment.
TOPEKA. Kan. March 10.-The
legislature for 1905 adjourned sine die
a; l0:3O today although the hands OF
he clock were moved up to saow
II m, this hour having been fixed
on for The time of adjournment.
There were only four senator's and
five representatives present when
The gayel fell for the last time.
Five hundred and fifty bills,
many of them Of national interest,
were passed. but two being vetoed.
In amount of work, economy and
the number of party pledges redeem
ed. the legislature made a record.
CLEVELAND, o.. March 10
Judge Taylor today from the bench
acquitted Mrs. Cassie Chadwick on
two counts of the Indictment based
on a check made payable at a future
date. Sixteen counts are involved,