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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-04-05
REPORT OF THE DURANGO
SCHOOLS FOR MARCH, 1905

Total number enrolled compared
with the enrolment for the proceed
ing years;
March, l9oi-506 boys; $50 girls;
total 1,0S6.
March, l9o5-5O2 boys; $40 girls;
total, l,Oi2.
March, 1g0G-5i7 boys; 553 girls,
total. 1910.
Average belonging
Aarcn, 1904. 769.
March, 1905, $40.
March, 1906, S27.
Daily attendance
March, l9Oi-3iO boys; 36l girls;
total, T0l.
March. l9O5-3ii boys; 3Sl girls;
total. 725
March, 19o6-S6s boys: 4i4 girls;
total, III.
Highest per cent of attendance:
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-04-05

Durango is about to take on her
summer clothes; the slopes along the
Boulevard, overlooking the chasm
made by the grading forces year
ago, are becoming fuzzy with green
grass of delicate growth, and the lin.
gering birds OF winter are 10th to
leave.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-04-05

1t will be easy now to imagine what
Earl Snyder's mind has been devoted
to almost exclusively. Since being
delirious with brain fever he has talk
ed almost all the time about STOCK
arriving or due for the Graden Mer-
camille company, and asking II vari-
ous different parties got their orders
filled. The only exception from the
subject was when asking for the little
Billings grandcnild. Mr.. Snyder Is
thought to be improving today. hav-
Ing had q fair rest last night.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-04-05

Recent adventures up Junction
creek have indicated that It may be
well to leave the canon to snowslides
for a few weeks yet. Mammoth
masses of snow are hanging on the
steep slopes and waiting for the fall
of a dlslodged stone to start them
downward.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-04-05

George Smart is down from Tom
Chestnuts mine near Trimble
Springs and SAYS it will take good
deal longer to dig the hole than he
had figured on. Rock is gettin' hard
er all the time.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-04-05

Len Swift who is down from the La
Plata district, says that while the
season for prospecting will be neces-
sarily late, owing to deep SHOWS, he
believes the district will be more ac-
tive this summer than at any time
in Its history.
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ser seems to have turned his back upon
the class which John Burns once de-
scribed as the 1gilded popiniays', of
the landed and military aristocracy,
and to have decided to intrust Ger.
many's ambitious colonial future to
real men of affairs, trained in the hard
school Of finance and commerce..
Herr Bernhard Dernburg, TO whom
the emperor has now, assigned the task
of cleansing the Augean stables of the
colonial department, is known thruout
the German business world as man
of relentless energy, force and daring,
and the supposition is that MS imperial
master expects him to employ, on be-
half of the German colonies, the same
qualities which have made him at Al
leader Of Teuton industrial affairs.
Herr Dernberg has studied American
financial methods in New Y ork and is an
admirer and adopterof American meth
DDS, q fact which leads the kaiser 8
critics to describe the appointment as
due to his majesty $ 'impulsive craze
The public generally applauds the
|, It's significant. point is that the kai-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23
ST. HELENA WAKES UP
Deposit Of Manganese Ore Brings
Busy Days.
BY w. W, Iermane,

Washington, Sept. 22.-St. Helena,
the lonely rock in the south; Atlantic
where Naponeon was kept a prisoner
until his death, is at last to become
place Of; activity; indeed it has already
become SO. Asdeposit Of manganese
ore has been found there and is being
exploited by South Africa company,
and the result is that the imports into
the island are now far in excess of the
ordinary productions Of the island.
such as hides, skins and wool, amount
to only $4,000 or $4,000 year, but
now the imports of provisions, wearing
apparel, etc, cost more than quarter
of million per annum. Last year the
United States furnished $500 worth Of
stuff to the island, while Great Britain
sold 1921 900 worth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23
BATH DELIVERED AT DOOR
Tub and Hot Water Come by Wagon
in Rheims, France.
BY w. w. Jermane.

Washington, Sept. 22.-Consul J..
Martin Miller solmenly asserts to the
state department that when you want
to take bath at Rheims, France, where
he is stationed, you have it brought to
the house in a wagon like an order for
hay or groceries. The bathtubs are
wheeed v a al proPided with I'll la ave-
boiler of hot water. AS orders for
baths are received these boilers are
filled with hot water and then two men
pull the cart to the door of the fastid-
ious person wanting to wash himself.
while all the neighbors look on. The
bathtub, however, is, carried into the
residence, so that the sight for the
spectators is not so thrilling as it might
be. While the family bath is being
taken the wagon returns from whence
it came in order to fill any other orders
that may. come in and by and by it re-
turns and gets the tub and pay for the
service. The price of delivered at
your-door bath is 80 cents
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23
WHO INVENTED STEAMBOAT
Frenchmen Claim Honor; Say Fulton
Was Only Follower.


Was Only Follower.
Special Gable to The Journal.
Paris, Sept. 22.-Does the honor of
inventing the first steamboat belong
to an American or a Frenchman9
That is a question which is likely to
work up into great controversy for
the French Maritime league is going
to celebrate next year the hundredth
anniversary of the application of steam
propulsion to water craft. And the
league claims that the real inventor of
the steamboat was not Fulton, the
great American engineer, but a French
man named Jouffray d'Abbans,
Scotchmen also claim that Watt and
the Duke of Bridgewater were the in
ventors, and that the Charlotte
Dundas, which piled on the Forth and
Clyde canal in 1896, was the first
steamboat.
The league credits Fulton with in
Producing the first practical steam YES
sci on the Hudson river, New York.
in 1907, and so will erect statue to
him. But this statue will be one of
group Of which the central figure will
be d'Abbans. The statutes will be
erected on the banks of the Seine, as it
was on this river that Fulton exhibited
his first model in 1897.
The league proposes to celebrate the
hundredth anniversary of the appear
ance of the Hudson river boat by an
international exhibition to be held here
of steam engines and all appliances
connected with steam.
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charge Of this important branch of tn,
empire g affairs.
BRIGANDs NEAR ROME
Highwaymen Commit Depredations
Near Imperial City.

Rome, Sept. %. Outside the Porta
San Pancrazio a young merchant named
Deangelis while slowly driving trap
uphill to a farm few miles from Rome
was suddenly stopped by man in tat
b tered e. clothes Who appeared from the
a long gun at the merchant, the man
ordered him to hand over all his money
and valuables. Realizing that resist
ance was useless, he dropped his pocket
book, containing 81, requesting the
brigand to return the papers inside.
The man took the pocketbook and
made off. Deangelis reported the mat
ter to the police and force proceeded
to the scene of the occurrence. Under
an oak tree traces were found of two
men and also a bag containing pro-
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COST OF LIVING LESS;
VAST WAGE INCREASE
Despite High Prices of Some Com
modities Total Fell in Ten
'.' Years. "s..
BY w. w. Jermane.

Washington, Sept. 22:-You may
find it hard to believe, with butter IS
cents a pound, eggs on the highest
branch of the tree and bread rising.
but the bureau of labor, department Of
commerce, makes the positive state
ment based on investigation that the
price of living is going down slightly
and the rate of wages going up, a little.
The investigation is not exactly up to
and comes down to the end Of 1905, and
the trend is as. stated, slightly in favor
of the man who earns his living by the
sweat Of his brow. E..@
The figures collected show that since
1890 the number of persons employed IN
this country has been increasing
rapidly, the additional ones given en-
ployment in some years amounting to
as high as AZ per cent. The increase
in the number of employees was partic-
ularly noticeable in those years when
the country was most busily engaged
in the formation of combinations and
so-called trusts. For the last two or
three years the increase has not been
so high, the per cent coming down as
low as SO. On the other hand. it is
also noticeable that the number of
hours per week worked by all employ
ees in the country has been steadily de-
oe1Hi y0tti oAliSo Low oiio" III =
an additional curtailment of hours per
week until 1904, when the movement
ceased.
Another thing to give hope to him
who works for another is the constant
increase in the amount of wages earned
per week. This has been going Oh
steadily since 1890, the highest jump
being in 1894, when wages jumped
21.5 per cent, and they continued to
advance in varying scale, last year s
raise being 1.6 per cent; last year, also
the total number of employees increased
6.3 per cent, and from this the bureau
deduces that the total earnings Of all
employees per week increased exactly
per cent. Comparing this with the
slight advance of the cost of living
enables the bureau to say that the pur
chasing power of the average weekly
employee, measured by the retail price
of food, increased an even l per cent
These figures are not supposed to be
issued for the purpose of making the
people the more patient to lie still while
the road roller goes over them, but are
the result of scientific research for the
cold truth regardless of the result
The data were procured by persona
visits Of agents of the bureau to tn.
industries investigated, and the in
formation was taken directly from tn,
various payrolls and other records il
existence and available for reference.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23
PRIESTS LOVELETTERS
Five Hundred Found Hidden in a Vic
arage.

Special Gable to The Journal.
Paris, Sept. pa curious discovery
has been made by the police in connec-
ton with the recent arrest Of Able
Cassan, the vicar Of Faugeres, near Be-
Ziers, who was arrested recently on sus-
picion of causing the death Of young
girl in the vicarage.
The magistrate who is investigating
the case opened huge parcel Of letters
which had been found hidden in the
vicarage. Among these, carefully
bound up with blue, red, pink and green
silk ribbons, were 500 love letters I'D
dressed to the priest by all sorts and
conditions of women, married and sin
gle.
These showed Enthusiastically that the
clergyman had had intrigues with over
sixty women in his parish. The letters
were written in very ardent terms. One
of them showed that the vicar was de-
sirous of marrying the writer to one Of
his friends, member of the congrega-
tion, and the girl wrote, "marry me If
you like, by all means, to an easy
going and indulgent husband, so that I
can be yours always after marriage as
I am before.'
The discovery Of these letters has
caused great stir, and the judge is re-
ceiving anonymous letters implorine
him not to divulge any names, lest he
should ruin the peace Of many families.
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choice, because the bureaucrats who
have heretofore attempted to run the
German colonies have achieved a bril-
liant succession Of unqualified failures
Prince Ernest of Hohenlohe. Langen-
burg, whom the kaiser has retired from
the colonial office, is nephew Of King
Edward thru his marriage with the
daughter Of the late duke Of Edinburgh.
The prince himself is relative Of the
kaiser thru the empress family. He
had been picked out for Germany IS
first colonial secretary if the reichstag
sanctioned the governments proposal
for the establishment Of separate. CO.
lonial office, and I have also heard him
mentioned as possible successor to
Count Metternich as ambassador in
London, the supposition being that his
connection with the British royal fam
lily would be political advantage.
The idea is suggested to me this eve
ming that the kaiser had in mind the
successful conduct of British colonial
affairs by Mr.. Chamberlain, and de-
cided that Germany could not do bet
ter than follow that brilliant example
of placing a shrewd business man in
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23

visions which they had left behind.
About 100 men are searching the bush
for the. brigands, who are suspected to
be two convicted murderers who broke
the train from Rome to- Florence and6
jumped out and escaped. -
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Very Low Rates to the West

Very Low Rates to the West.
will sell tickets to points in Arizona,
California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada,
Oregon, Utah and Wyoming at about
ne-half the usual fare. Tickets on sale
daily Aug. 9th to Oct. 31st. inclusive.
Get full information from R. H. Heard,
General Agent, corner Nicollet av and
9Th st, Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23
JEWISH BANKER runs
COLONIES FOR KAISER R
Bureaucrat Dismissed by Wilhelm
and Replaced by Bust
a ness Man. +: y;
Special Cable to The Journal.

Berlin, Sept. 22.-There is more than
passing interest in the bombshell
which the kaiser has dropped in the
ranks of German bureaucracy by dis
missing prince allied to the blood
royal from the leadership of the CO.
lonial department, and substituting
self-made banker of Jewish origin. The
step is nothing short of revolutionary.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23
A Wise Northsider.

He who saves his family nlotso Of
trouble, secures that lot in picturesque,
park-Hke. peaceful Crystal Lake Gene
terry on partial payments,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23

GOVERNOR IDE LEAVES MANII.A4,
Manila, Sept. 22.--Henry G.. Ide, the
retiring governor general of the Philip
pines, departed from Manila today. on
ing Japan he will sail on the Pacific
Mail liner Korea for San Francisco.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23

changes III "llluOW lldHSluSS LLdI WILL dt
once appeal to lovers Of the artistic, Spe-
cial prices for this week, SIS, 1878, Sc,
$3.50, $40, $12.5O, SIS and $40
each. -;
Chamber Curtains
We have never offered such a large and
varied assortment Of Chamber Curtains as
this sale comprises and at such low
prices. ''' =
Ruffied Swiss Curtains with full, deep
ruffle, worth 65c; big bargain at 45c
pair.
Ruffed Swiss Curtains with five rows
Of tucks, worth 75c; big bargain at SOC
pair. 49, -
Ruffled Swiss Curtains with five rows Of
tucks, 1nlaidr edges, worth 81; big bar
gain at Csc pair. g..
Renaissance Curtains, trimmed with
real lace edge and insertion, mounted on
white imported Swiss, worth $3.50; big
bargain at $l.OO pair. 4 -.
Rufhed jacquard Swiss Curtains, hem
stitched, with cluster of tucks extra
qualities, worth $3.50, $1.75 and 81; big
bargains at 81, $1.1O and $l.25 pair.
Renaissance Curtains, trimmed with
real lace edge and insertion, mounted on
good quality bobbinet, worth 1925 pair.
Special bargain, at 8 1856. = -
: In addition to our, regular fall line we
secured from one OF the most prominent
importers a lot Of Lace Curtains, in uuan-
titles Of 2. 3, and pairs Ca good many
hand made) at q mere fraction of their
actual values. We will place these goods
on sale tomorrow at prices absolutely
unequaled for this character of merchan-
disc >.- ~ =. ...~= ~ y
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At SO. so and $2.75 pair-Savoy Bob
binet Curtains that sell in a regular way
81 and $4.25. s51t.s@- 49,.
At $3.50 and 1895, $3.50 and
$3.50 pair-Imported Point Calais Cur
tains, fully worth one-third more.
At SIS, $3.50, $3.50, $3.50 and
$40 pair-1n this collection, > which are
mostly. handmade curtains, are real
Cluny, real Brussels, real Marie Antoin-
ette,S real Arabians, real Antique Lace
Curtains, fully worth one-haf more; a
grand array Of this seasons new styles.
At $3.50 each Real Lace Bonnie
Femme Curtains. regular prices $3.50 and
$3.50.
Marie Louise and Marguerite Lace Cur
tains, novelties not to be had elsewhere,
q magnificent showing at 80, $40,
$3.50, $3.50 and $3.50 pair.
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DraDerieS

To get you acquainted with our fall
stock of Draperies we make these prices.
It's an opportunity to embellish your
homes for about one-fourth to one half
the usual cost. 81
$2.5O-Persian Damask Draperies in
all new and desirable colors, regular price
$3.50. - .
SO. so pair-Bagdad, Oriental effects,
new weaves, absolutely fast colors, regu-
lar price $4.25. ~ ~-F :. - :
$3.50 pair-Bordeure Band Draperies,
very handsome and up to date, regular
price $3.50. ' -:
$500 pair-Armure soft color two
toned Draperies, cord edges, very de-
sirable parlor drapery, regular $3.50. -
.-.... ..'. LEATHER DRAPERIES.
All the new designs and colors, in
leather draperies, particularly desirable
for dining room, library, hall and den
openings. Special prices this week
$3.50, $1,000, $3.50, $3.50,
$3.50 and $4,000 pair -.
DRAPERY SILKS.
We cordially invite inspection Of the
splendid showing Of fall Drapery Silks;
we earnestly urge comparison. -
Il! Plain Drapery Silks, all new
shades -. .......... SOC yard U
Figured Drapery Silks -. Csc yard -
Recamier Drapery Silks. ..75c yard
86-in. Shiki and Rajah Drapery s
silks ,:.....$ no yard
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Smith, Writing from Marsee Tells Of the Probable Market fol
Crop--A Trade Accident and It's Results.

the principal sources Of supply is north :.
ern Africa, Tunis. and Algeria, and the
quality is highly regarded. Italy and
Spain raise some macaroni wheat for
their own use, while France raises none.
The only markets in the world OF
any Importance for this kind of wheat,
are these Mediterranean countries,
which also consume the greater part of
the products. Yet they export some OF
them to all parts of the world. fMaca-
roni and the Mediterranean stand in
the same relation as Cuba, or Havana,
and tobacco.
Macaroni and the pastes, which are
used in soups and other food prepare,
tions, are as staple articles sof diet as
bread and potatoes in America, or rice
in China Even the Arabs use semolina
the wheat-meaI from which macaroni is
made, making coarse loaves.
The market for this kind Of wheat
then, is distinctly these Mediterranean
countries, and the outside sources OF
supply are Russia, northern Africa an6
India, with America trailing along il
an uncertain place.
Now to return to the cause of the
demand for American wheat in the fal
of 1905. The chief reason was tota
! failure of the crop in Africa. Fo,
example, Marseilles alone usually in,
ports from Tunis ana Algeria abon
4 100000 bushels. Last fall and white
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-13

] Mind you, am not poking fun at the
Willoughb Ys.s In the opinion of every
real American a man of the WillOughby
fashioned apple-pie couple from the tall
type t,; Is worth a ten-acre lot full Of
loughbys ware good people--the kind Of
people one fJikes to meet in Michigan.
But when the ladies Of the foreign
colony came. TO call on e ma land said
"Dyuh me! and looked at her thru
their IorgnefG she was like staid old
plymouth Rock hen who suddenly finds
herself. among the birds Of paradise.
She tod Mt Y WsiIllllonghby that It was the
ever seen, and altho she didn't like to
talk about people until she knew her
ground, some Of them did not seem any
more respectable that the law allowed
Poor Mrs. Willoughby She did not
know that ut was good form for a
woman to smoke and drink, but bad
form for herftto be interested in her
husband. Z. She tried to apply a. Mich
igan training to Gallivancia conditions,
and the tWos DIN It seem to jibe.
4 i. M
IfMrs. Willoughby amused the wom-
en- Mr.. w illough bys more than amused
the men. Henpset them and left them
gasping. > ~
The acting consul had used small
office adjoining his own place Of bust
ness on the water front. Mr.. Willough-
found him tokbe a .dignifed Britisher Of
the gloomy and reticent sort, with a
nlustache shaped like a horseshoe. The
.dethroned official was courteous, but
not cordial. He, was saying goodby to
some easy money; and the situation was
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it did not get sack from Africa. In
fact, Africa was an importer from
America.
Then, too, Spain had a short crop,
not raising enough for it's own use.
Russia. also, did not raise the usual
amount of this hard wheat. India
had fair crop, but could not make up
the deficiency in other countries.
The result Of these shortages was that
all the Mediterranean countries turned
to America, tho up to this time many
Of these markets had never even seen
a sample Of American macaroni wheat.
One miller told me that he bought
several thousand bushels Of it without
having the slightest idea of. what the
shipment would be. He bought it by
sample. 81
Quality Of American Wheat.
American macaroni WI heat, manufac-
turers and Importers say, is inferior to
Russian, African or Indian. These are
all winter wheat, while American is
Esown in the spring.. The latter is not
sufficiently hard and is lacking in glu-
ton. as compared with the best qualities
from other countries.
For the manufacture Of semolina, an
4 exceedingly hard, finty wheat is de.
sired. The Taganrog is nearly trans
parent and will break almost like finty
i pebbles. Is American No. 2 macaroni
wheat is now altogether unstable il
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drove about in rickety little victorias
with terrified natives in livery perched
upon the box. The lines Of social
precedence were closely drawn. At a
dinner party the wife of the governor
preceded the wife of}the military COM
mandant who, in turn, queened It over we
down upon the wife Of the magistrate,
and SO on. The women smoked cigar
cts and gambled at bridge, while every
man who had won medal at shooting
match pinned it on his coat when he
went to a ball. IT was a third-rate
copy of court life, but these small dig
nitaries went thru the motions and got
lot of fun out of it, in one way and
position that is real ivory the next best
thing is to get one that is eelluloid. It
had all the intricate vices of a true
nobility without the bona fde titles to
back them up and give them: glamour.
!, Into this nest, of. pretentious, cere-
monious, strutting little mortals came
m0ld Man, Willoughby and INA"
ward form and artihcialities Of a Eu-
ropeanized aristocratic society they
were most profoundly ignorant. Mr..
Willcughby did not even own a dress
suit. " When he got a clean shave
and put on a string tie and backed into
"Prince Albert' coat he felt that
he had made very large concession to
the mere fripperies of life. And
''ma' had her own ideas about low
necked gowns!
Can you see Mr.. and Mrs. Willoughby
in Gallivancia7 Can you understand
what must have been the attitude Of
these gold braid pewees toward an old