Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-12-13


y have proved fatal to so many il
'sast. and have deprived the coun
try of some of its valuable servants
Inauguration day is the great quad
tai which brings scores of thousands
of onlookers from every city in the
country. 1t is an outdoor affair
mostly, and occurring in the early
part of March. is largely pneumo-
MIA AFFAIR as well. Once in a while a
balmy fourth of March marks the in
duction of an administration into
4 power, but more often the day is one
of bluster. sleet, snow. miserable
rain or vicious and penetrating north
winds. 1t brings a harvest of death
and jeopardizes the lives of the pres
ident and vice president and other
| high officials, as well as ordinary cit
Izens, because custom demands that
they view the inaugural parade for
hours, standing under a covering that
offers poor excuse for shelter from
the elements.
In the latter part of April. however
Washington is in its physical glory.
The chances would be all in favor oi
fair weather In March the city ap
pears to poor advantage to the strang
er, for there is no foliage, simply the
barren aspect of the breaking up oil
winter. which doesn't set off the arti'
fetal beauties of the city to theii
best. AT the end of April the season
Il likely to present a day of the
kind that inspires poets.
About year ago movement to en-
list the governors of the severa
states in the inauguration reform
cause was organized under the auspi
ces of President McFarlane of the
board of commissioners of the District
OF Columbia. II is a matter in which
wide interest has been manifested
and it is proposed to keep the ques
ton alive until action of some kind is
obtained.
WASHINGTON, Dec II. - The
amazing vitality shown by former
Senator Brown Of Utah. who was shot
by Mrs. Anna X. Bradley last Saturda!
night, lead the physicians at the
Emergency hospital today TO believe
that his chances for recovery are
good should no complications set in
His condition continues to improve
Favorable reports from the bedside
of the wounded man have had the ef
feet of raising the spirits of Mrs.
Bradley. She was much more cheer
full today.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-Informa
tion comes from ,Sew York of move
ments on foot to involve President
Roosevelt in the campaign for elec
tion of officers of the big insurance
companies. There is big fight on
as everybody knows. in connection
with the administration of some oi
the companies. There are competing
tickets in the field, one called the pol
icy holders ticket and the other the
ticket put m by the management.
President Roosevelt holds policies
in the New York companies, and there
seems to be an effort to make capital
out of his attitude toward one ticket
or the other. One report in New York
is that It is known the President
Roosevelt is going to vote the policy
holders ticket of one of the compan
les, but that the information is being
held up, the ntimation being that the
president doesn't want II made public
for fear of its influence.
1t seems probable that the president
has been made acquainted with the
fact that his intentions as to voting
would be made use of to influence the
election one way or the other and he
does not propose to be drawn into the
matter in any way. At least, it Is an
nounced from an authoritive source
that tickets of both sides have been
received by him, but That he doesn
intend to vote at all.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. IL San
Francisco proposes to have a worh's
fair in 1903. The project was proposed
shortly after the fire, and is no Longer
an uncertainty. Fifteen citizens have
formed a corporation. to be known a
the Pacific Ocean Exposition company
which plans to give a mammoth fail
in 1913 to commemorate the four.
hundredth anniversary of the discov-
cry OF the Pacific ocean by Balboa,
| and the completion of the Panama ca
nal. The joining of the two ideas by
the promoters seemed especially ap
| propriate, since It was after crossing
the Isthmus that the navigator first
looked upon the Pacific. The organ
ization is capitalized at s5.000,000.
DENVER, Dec. II. - Dragging
through the courts for the past five
years, the important mining case oi