Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-04-30
TeIesraphic Brevities

The devastated area In Frisco is
placed at 10000 acres.
Ire last batch of Russian prisoners
returning from Japan arrived We'd
nesday. making total of $1,000.
Samuel Gompers files charges of
violations of the cight.nour law by
government departments with the
president.
Postmaster general submits to the
senate and house committees a bill
for the establishment of a postal note
system for small amounts.
The municipal league ticket in Den
yer Will have the support OF the Post,
Times and News. leaving the Demo
cratic ticket without an organ.
The mikado has contributed 5000 ,OO0.-
towards the relief of San Francisco
sufferers. Business men of Toxic
nave contributed like amount.
Net earnings of the United States
Steel corporation in the quarter end.
ed March 81 are s36.624, ,490, an in.
crease of $13.60S. .594 over last year.
1t is reported from Eshove, Zulu
land, that the insurgent chief, BAN
baata, with 300 followers, has fled to-
ward Natal and that troops are pur-
suing the fugitives.
Remains of John Paul Jones are
placed in temporary tomb at Annap-
oils with elaborate ceremonies, in
cluding addresses by Roosevelt and
| Ambassador Jusseraud.
The special committee appointed
| to ascertain the money due the state
by Conejos county made its report
Thursday, showing an Indebtedness
| of Sl,25. which will be paid.
When Harrison Higgs, of Utica,
| Ky, reprimanded mis- 17-year-old son
yesterday the youth seized shotgun
and instantly killed his parent. The
youngster is in Jail at Owensboro.
| Norfolk and Western railroad is
dubbed out OF Washington by the
| Pennsylvania, which threatened to in
wade the territory of the former road
unless it gave up its plan of attempt
ing to get portion of the coal trade
to the capital, witness tells the inter
state commerce committee.
Representative Hogg expects to
leave Washington Tuesday next for
| Colorado where he has been called by
| legal business. This serves to pre-
vent Mr.. Hogg from accepting the in
vitation of the National Manufacture
ers' association of New York to at
tend a banquet as its guest of honor
and principal speaker early in May.
Earl Spencer, aged eight, died We'd
nesday afternoon from blow on the
temple by a hammer thrown by
school mate while practicing on the
athletic field. The childs skull was
crushed like an egg shell. Surgeons
promptly performed an operation, but
the lad died a few hours later. The
boys parents are in poor circum-
stances, and every pupil in the city
schools this afternoon contributed 70
a cash fund for the funeral.
When Mayor Johnson returned to
Cleveland, Tuesday, ne condemned
Sunday performances for the benefit
of the San Francisco sufferers. He
said he couldn't believe permits had
been granted by the vice mayor, and
was told by his own daughter that she
had attended one of the perform
ances. The mayor expressed his
| opinion OF the vice mayor and refused
to grant several permits.
| Frank Frady of Montrose. the 15-
yearold boy who accidentally shot
himself with .22-calibre rifle, the bull
let entering the nose and passing
into his brain, died Wednesday after
noon, after the bullet had remained
there 36 days. Several days ago the
surgeons attempted to remove the bull
let, but the operation was too dan
| gerous.