Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-01-25
copy. or, better yet, a request to your
representative In Congress will doubt
less bring the 1904 Year Book.
rELEoRApnlc SNAPSHOTS.


ruvinn consul at Chicago.
Work on the 1400-ton sugar factory
at Holly has been started.
Nanderbilts big 15O.horse power
racing auto is said to be failure.
Denver Is rustling to secure $780,
600 for Y. NJ. c. A. building and
home.
The next legislature viii be asked
to pass more stringent game laws for
protection of wild game.
According to Denver Post dispatch
the senate viii not pass the Philip
pine bill lowering the duty on sugar.
The Brewers Bond and Securities
company. with $4,000, 900. has been
incorporated 10 form combine of
New York City breweries.
] II Is said "A large number of Capitol
Hin. Denver, homes have been sold
Tor taxes unknown to the owners and
| a tangle Is liable to follow.
| Proprletors of soda fountains In New
York are notified that they must not
sell drinks containing alcohol without
iirst securing liquor license.
| Students in New York rabbInical
seminary went on strike, demanding
an opportunity to see life and that
they be allowed to study English and
the Bible.
The Denver Dry Goods company has
offered silver loving cup to the best
| exhibition of prize steers at the Stock
mems show, which opens In Denver
January 20.
!
| Congressman Lorimer has lntroduc-
ed bill appropriating $31, ,0O0, 900 for
the construction of a fourteen-foot
| channel between the great lakes and
the Mississippi.
Fire at Plttsburg, Pa, Saturday
night destroyed the old Market house,
which during the Civil war was a san
itarium for $4,000 soldiers, entailing
loss of 100000
Gov NJ A. Otero, who went out of
office yesterday. appointed DIR. J. N.
Sloan of Santa Fe insurance commits.
sioner of New Mexico, vice Pedro
Paren, deceased. Sloan Is a Demo
crat
The daughter-in'law OF the late Cap
tain $. S. Brown of Pittsburg is max
ing plans to begin suit to break the
VIII by which he disposed OF a 315,-
900, 900 estate.
An annual appropriation OF at least
s50,000.000 for the Improvement of
rivers, harbors, water ways and ca
nails Is asked of Congress in resolu-
tions passed by the national rivers
| and harbors convention.
Sweeping life insurance reforms by
lmenns Of uniform legislation BY -statss
Is planned at conference in New
York between the Armstrong investt-
eating committee and Representatives
of the insurance departments Of sew
eral states.
Sixteen railroads have brought suit
against the International Harvester
company's road for $4,000 alleged
TO be due for demurrage charges,
which. 1t is charged. the harvester
concern seeks to retain. and which
in effect constitutes rebating.
William II. Curtis writes that the
new Russian tarifY. to become effective
March /. will seriously affect import
ant interests In the United States, du-
ties on many Imports from this coun-
try being increased nearly 100 per
cent.
A dispatch to the Tribune from
New York says: Miss Helen Gould
| gave TO an investigator an analysis
of sample OF the weeks mail re-
ceived by her, showing the number Of
requests and what and how much they
were for. The total asked for was
| 81 500 900.
The total output OF gold for the
world for 1905 was about S375. .0O0. 900,
says VIM. Il. Curtis, an increase Of
| 100000 over the preceding year.
| gains being made in South Africa,
the United States and Alaska. while
the Australian product decreased.
The state superintendent OF public
instruction. Miss Craig. Is issuing her
Washington and Lincoln birthday pro-
| grams. They are the most elaborate
ever published from that department
and will be furnished to the schools
Of the state to use in patriotic exer-
| ciscs.
| A cable dispatch to the Tribuns
from London says: The will Of tbs
late Sir Henry Irving was probated
Saturday. His estate Is valued at
s73.165. The will provides for the
payment of an annuity to his valet.
COLLISION. The bulk OF the residue
goes In equal parts to two sons Of the
testator
The petition against the destruction
If the old frisate Constitution, signed
ly 10000 residents OF Massachusetts,.
was presented to the president Satur-
lay. The president, in an unmistakA-
Bile way. indicated that the vessel
ought to be preserved. He suggested
that 1t bo rehabilitated and sent to
Annapolis.
The 5S released Russian prisoners
nf war who recently arrived by the
Japanese liner Kanagawa at Victoria,
D. c.. to seek homes. having refused
to go to Vladivostock when released
oy the Japanese government. are re-
ported to be In distress and starving
at Vancouver and other points In