Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1905-06-19
Gould was given sixty days in whica

Gould was given sixty days in whici
to appeal.
CINCINNATI, June l5.-Former AT
torney General Harmon, who was en-
gagged by the government l. investi
gate the charges of the Santa Fe rail
road granting rebates to the Colorad,
Fuel IRON company. with the ap
proval OF the then vice president. nov
Secretary Of the Navy Morton. an
nounces today that he has retire.
from the case. He says he made ar
investigation, but the attorney gen
eral disapproved OF his recommends
tons. whereupon both Mr.. Harmon
and his associate, F. NJ. hudson OF st
Louis, retired from further connection
with the matter.
TOPEKA, Kans., June Estate
Labor Commissioner johnson today
made public mis- report covering the
cost OF living and wages in Kansas
for the past five years. Wages have
increased labs per cent: living 1913
per cent. The estimates for wages
we're made from figures given by &c
trades from the prices OF 10 principal
| articles OF consumption in six towns
| Of the state.
WASHINGTON. June i5.-After
nearly half century OF active serv.
ice, Major General George L. Giles
pie, assistant chief OF stan OF the
United States army, was placed on
the retired list today on his own ap-
plication. Gen. Gillespie is succeed
ed as assistant chief of stan by Major
General John T. Bates, recently re-
lieved from the command OF the
Northern Military Division, and the
understanding in military circles is
that Gen. Bates will be made lleuten.
ant general and chief OF stan on the
statutory retirement of Lieut.. Gen.
Chaffee next April.
DENVER, June l5.-At a meeting
OF the Colorado 4 Southern stockhold.
ers today a 100000 900 mortgage for
bond issue to carry out the extern
sion and improvement plans and
building 10 the gulf, was ratified.
LEAVENWORTH Ind, June Is
Halle, Hattie and Fannie Booth,
daughters Of DR.. Gait Booth, were
drowned in the Ohio river at the foot
of their fathers farm. The four sis.
'ers. ranging in age from fourteen to
twenty-one, went in bathing One got
into deep water and quickly sank, the
others trying to save her. The young
est was rescued BY Elum Vernon, who
was passing in launch
NEW YORK, June l5.-Suit has
Just began here by a woman for 800
100000. The plaintiff seeks to estab-
lishe her claim to an estate that runs
through the heart of toe city of Que
bee. Mrs. Caroline Lambert Camp.
bell, wife of Brooklyn's superintend-
ent of schools is the plaintiff in the
case, and ner cause is being pushed
in the Dominion courts The proper.
ty was escheated for three genera
tons by the British government In
1850. The estate is entailed, accord.
ing to Mrs. Campbell, and after she
gets it. IL she does. it passes al her
death to Henry Lambert, president of
the Grand Avenue National bank of
Kansas City.
FORT WORTH Toy r,n. ,E
The entire wool clin Of last month n,
San Angelo. consisting n, 11os ooo
pounds. was sold to a noston Arm for
S275. 900 TODAY. This IN The. Iaryas,
wool elm in tho b,storv ~ En-. sta,o
NEW YORK mn. ,5-Taar. wo,.
shed in an assmblavu n, sav.roI
thousand people when survivors n,
the General SIooum s,samho,., d,sas.
ter, relatives of victim. and their
friends gathered today in Lutheran
cemetery Middle VILLAGE II To oh.
serve the first Anniversary n, ,no
great disaster and 10 witness the nm
yelling of a monument in memorv of
the unidentified dead There w.ra
many present whose sole comfor, 10
the belief that tbir loved ones arc
among the sixty-oue unidentified dead
hat rest in the plot where toe NOM.
ment mas been reared The monu.
ment is of granite with "A Iarye hrony.
plate, on which is a picture in has