Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-12-10

matter OF Japanese attending the pub
lie schools of San Francisco. The
resolution was presented by Senate,
Flint of California.
Two hundred Spanish and 500 lar
badian laborers have arrived at Colon
to work on the Panama canal.
Illinois was admitted to the Union
eighty-eight years ago today, but the
event will be unobserved in Chicago.
Emma c. Burke has been nomin.
ated for postmistress at Sterling and
Fred Bunker for postmaster at Pa.
onia.
The Prohibition party spent ss1S.Ti
for campaign expenses, according TO
a statement filed with the secretary
of state.
New York jewelers. lose heavily by
buying glass limitations of Jewels
which are sold as reconstructed
stones.
Twelve thousand dollars. planted
in a Tangier bank by Paul o. Stems
land. soon will be paid to his cred
| itors.
| The Republicans elected eleven of
the Thirteen district judges at the ic.
cent election. Who says Colorado is
not Republican?
James Brown. coal miner at
Downer. in Boulder county. was shot
and seriously wounded in drunken
quarrel with C. B. Jones.
| Charles Reggs. a switchman at
Trinidad. slipped aud fell on the
track while intoxicated and had an
arm run over by an engine
| A bill will be introduced in the leg.
islature regulating charges OF express
and telegraph companies for delivery
OF packages and messages.
| All insurance policies on prop perty
| held by the tobacco trust in Kentucky
have been cancelled as result of the
| burning of the big stemmery by a
mob recently.
Prof. J. Lawrence Laugh,in of the
| University of Chicago declared be.
fore the Citizens Industrial associ,.
ton that Socialism was the philos.
| ophy of failure"
William e. Curtis, writing from
| Washington. reviews enormous in.
crease in Mexico's foreign commerce,
and says American congress should
| assist our sister republic.
The entire town OF Wilkinsonvllle.
| Mass, is to be sold at auction to sat
isfy holders of its bonds II is a lit
tie manufacturing town which has
| been stagnant ever since 1897.
The statement that Red Cross re-
lief funds were missing in San Fran.
| cisco is denied by J. D. theian, presi-
dent of the San Francisco and Red
Cross Relief Funds ass Jciation.
Marcus DAILY estate offers to settle
| the famous suit of tire government
for illegal devastation of forests in
Montana by paying $150,0O0. Victory
of the government opens the way for
obtaining recompense for vast frauds
4 perpetrated in the West.
Messages were exchanged by the
government wireless station at Point
Iona with the government station at
Puget Sound. / 200 miles away. This
| is the longest distance any wireless
| station on this coast has eve, been
able to transmit messages.
A shipment of 800 villa ducks
from Texas destined for Chicago was
seized in st. Louis by game wardans
and donated to charitable institu-
tons. The game law of Missouri for
bids shipping wild ducks into or ont
| of the state.
| In answer to Governor Vardaman'3
!. request for requisition for George
| Jenkins, colored who is charged with
murder in Mississippi, Governor Nc
Donald has asked Governor Varda-
man If he woIld guarantee the pris-
oner fair trial in case he is re-
turned. Vardaman answered that he
| would.
The mayor OF Cimarron, Kan. and
residents of North Yakima, WASH,
made desperate by the coal famine.
confiscated coal from trains. Tho
interstate commerce commission de-
cides to hasten its Inquiry inro the
car shortage. which is held rsspoas'
lble, ami will begin with an investi,;a-
ton in the Northwest.
| brlhe and groom whose coihpihFu
lges az lil years and whose mutual
plighi,ngs OF troth bring thirty four
children into the same happy family
are tire features OF a wedding at Ster.
ling H.. which united William Evers
and Hrs. Agnes Rivert. Mr.. Evers Is
seyt nty years and the bride did not
lush when she admitted to the Ii
en- clerk yesterday that she Is forr
imt II. with three years to srare
i;r. Evers and his bride are both resi-
dents of Manilus, Bureau county.
A verdict of murder in the first de
gree was returned by the coroner's
ury in the case Of Albert Jackson
! WHO shot and killed Thomas Brough
ton in Mills township. near Ho
Springs. Ark The killing. 1t is al
! legged. followed the trial of Brough'or
in the Masonic lodge the same la,
on charge of insulting the wife G
Jackson, his slayer. When Broughtor
, was acquitted he started to his home
but was overtaken and shot down b,
( Jackson, who made good his escape.