Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-12-17
DURANGO, COLORADO, MONDAY oscemsgs " 1906.

Ihe Mexican government has grant
ed concession TO E. II. Hartman t,
! build smelter in that country
, Julius Persky died at Hammond
Ind, from excessive smoking OF cisa-
cites. He claims to have smoked
100000 in his life.
} The secretary of the interior in hi.
report has sharp rebuke for the
land office officials who, he says. have
been lax in prosecuting persons
charged with thefts of public lands.
The medical and other tests in .Ja
pan for recruits are so strict this
year that out of 5000 men wishing to
join the northern army, recruiting
which began Dec. ., only 400 were ac.
cepted
Miss Jane Adams and Miss Mary
Mcdowell of Chicago visited the
president and urged thorough investi-
CATION of the immigration question
and the conditions of women wage
earners.
Inc krupp company has decided to
increase its capital stock by $4,000
900 and to erect new buildings to
cost about s15,OOO,OOO. All the new
issue of stock is to remain in the
Krupp family.
Postmaster General Cortelyou says
in his report that he knows of no one
thing that will do more for the postal
service than a policy of substituting
business methods for politics in the
department.
A new counterfeit bill has found its
way into the hands of the United
States treasurer. 1t is said to be the
only one of the kind the government
has ever discovered, being so clever
ly copied.
The shah of Persia is triae bet
ter after undergoing an operation
which removed considerable accum-
ulated poison in his system, but in
the opinion of the doctors who saw
him the rally is only temporary
fhihtuto phooi, du lltilldH ltIpl W NO
arrived in New York Dec 2, to be-
come a member of the Manhattan
opera company. lost $4,000 in cur
rency and $1,000 diamond ring at
baccarat on the voyage from Colon on
a Panama liner.
Two hundred and twenty-five butch
az in p,-n, 4;
lyn have closed their shops and will
keep them closed for an indefinite
time. because, they assert. the prices
charged by the so-called beef trust are
SO exhorbitant 1t is impossible for
them to carry on their business.
A wreck on the Southern Pacific
Sunset Limited yesterday resulted in
one man instantly killed, a retired
capitalist of Rudgeway, N. Y, who
was on his way to California. He was
passing from one car to another when
the coupling broke and he fell be
tween the cars and was ground to
pieces.
~ al u'Nioibh vi tut ouPituit -oh'i
the Mississippi railroad commission
Is prohibited from compelling the Iii
nois Central railroad to stop certain
through trains at Magnolia, town ri
] 200 inhabitants. The railroad show
ed that to make this stop would pre-
vent the expeditions carrying of
u tf.I, lilo tI.nt
trains a day the town had adequate
service.
Great success has attended the first
years work of the government under
the new forest reserve law. In area
the reserves were increased during
the fiscal year 1866, from S5 693 .422
to 1O6.999.13S acres. In revenue they
brought in s7G7 1886, as against
$G0,142.62 for the previous year
There is now standing on the re.
serves not less than 100000 900 feet
OF merchantable timber ready for i'm
mediate demands. Were no more cut
than last year. it would suffice for 400
years.
A railroad commission bill. giving
the people some authority over The
railroads in the state, pure food
law, local option measure. bank
ing law. dealing with the numerous
private institutions that are spring
ing up under different names, as well
az with savings banks and state
banks proper. insurance legisla'ioa
and a local option measure are tae
matters that the Republican leaders
of Colorado should be governed by a
! party caucus. The state platform
mentions them specifically and they
cannot be got away from.