Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-30

Mofrat road will abandon the Gore
canon route
The Grand Junction Fruit Growers
association is shipping a train load
Of apples daily. Top prices prevail
and growers are happy. ~
Herman Schultz of Williamsburg, a
suburb of New York. after kissing
the forehead OF his dead son, commit
ted suicide beside the coffin.
Edwin ]. Noble. secretary of the
National Recopricity league, tells Chi
cago credit men that municipal own
ership of street railways is impracti-
cable.
Independent oil refiners testify a
Cleveland that the railroads refuse to
give them a joint through rate to New
England points, thereby giving the
Standard OIL company monopoly
in that field,
The annual detective dragnet In
Denver's big stores caught dozen
or so clerks napping-in other words.
stealing. It's queer that clerks and
others engaged in knocking down
| do not realize that sooner or later
| they are going to get taken in.
The state engineers office In Den
yer has received word that there is
| two feet of snow at the inead of the
| Grand. North Thompson and Poudre
| rivers. This is the larges! amount
Of snow ever known to have fallen
at the heads of these rivers early In
the year.
| I.orodosis is one of the penalties OF
riches. 1t is a physical defect, con
sisting of protrusion OF the hips back
ward and exaggeration of the forward
thrust of chest and shoulders-whal
| was once fashionable as the Greciar
bend. II Is peculiar to the children
of the wealthy, said DR.. II. S. Win
CERT, in an address delivered before
the American Physical Education as
ISOLATION at St. Louis. Speaking o
the effects of heredity ON the humai
race, he said: When you see chile
with fiat chest and rounded shoulders
you can very frequently trace the
trouble to parents with tuberculosis
Or phthisis. AS your parents are. sc
you are. The offspring of the very
osis."
| warrant was sworn out at Poplal
Blum, Mo-. for the manager of cir
Gus and Tip. one OF his elephants, fol
the theft of an $500 diamond-set gol,
watch and the destruction of Par
islam confection in millinery, th'
property of Mrs. Ella Gotz, of Ports
mouth, Ohio, who is visiting friend
in Poplar Bluffs Mrs Goltz was feed
ing Tip with succulent peanuts whei
the pachyderm took her watch In hi
trunk. placed it carefully in his mouth
and then followed the theft by stow
ing away her bonnet. Tip was pack
ins mp preparatory to moving to th'
next town, but the arrest stopped him
A suit for $4,000 damages was brough
against the manager of the unman
ageable Tip, his offer 10 pay for tn
watch and bonnet being spurned.
Concessions of great benefit to tn
In Colorado regarding fees charge,
for grazing stock in forest reserve
have been obtained from Secretary o
| Agriculture Wilson and Clifford Pin
chot, chief of the bureau of forestr,
at Washington. In the various re
serves it has been customary t,
charge small fees per head of all cat
tie grazed, the amount depending up
on the locality. Under the rules re
garding the reserves created In Cole
rado, effective January /, owners o
cattle grazing In these reserves ar
required to pay fees of % cents pc
head. Under a recent ruling 100 hea,
to Craze free on the Colorado reserv,
and only ten cents a head will b.
charged for any number of over 100
The statement of railroad accident
recently issued by the interstate com
merce commission covered only tn
last quarter of the fiscal year. TIL
figures for the entire fiscal year ar
now given as follows; Total numbe
of passengers killed in train accident
was 350 passengers injured In trail
accidents, 6.49s. The total number o
employees killed in train accidents wa
1888; injured, 1862 There were IS
passengers killed in other than trail
accidents and 3S.374 injured; a gran,
total of all classes of 537 passenger
killed and l0.O4O injured and 3,261 EN-
ployes killed and 45.426 injured Thi
shows an increase of III passenger
killed and 1853 injured and n de
crease of log employees killed and al
Increase of 2,160 employees injured
There were 1924 collisions during tn,
year. with money loss of $4.S49. .054
and 5,37l derailments, with a none,
loss of A.S62,602; a total of II. .59l
collisions and derailments and tota
money loss of $9,711 ,656. being damag.
TO cars, engine and roadways.