Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-07-05

by mob OF 400 men near OmacI
The negro confessed his crime an,
: was lynched quarter of mile iron
Q the place where the offense was com
mitted. Miss Robertson's condition
] is very serious.
/ WASHING TON, July Mot al
the congressman have left town, man,
senators and representatives beini
! still here today. There were numer
, GUS Official calls at the White Hous,
and informal talks about the policy
!, o. the administration. 1t is prett,
: generally agreed that the government
proposes to go out after all inflated
concerns so that the steel combina
ton is to be treated as vigorously NJ
the Standard Oil company has been
Over capitalization is to be attacked
in fact, 1t is announced today that the
Garfield investigation into the Stand
ard Oil company and its methods will
be made the model of which an inves.
tigation of the steel trust and offer
trusts will be organized.
NORFOLK, Va, July 2.-Secretary
/ Ae'N A''S eeSNPs~u an "
speak at Greensboro, N. c., on July
9th on the eve of the Republican con
vention. His endorsement by the
convention for president would oc-
| casion no surprise. Friends tried to
prevent the invitation being sent
| DENVER. Colo, July 2.--The su-
preme court this morning handed
down four decisions in the franchise
| matters growing out of the election
May 11th. The decisions were alto
sether in favor of the corporations.
The Tramway company and the Elec
tric Light company won the writ of
prohibition directly against Judge
Johnson, restraining him from pro-
ceeding with an inquiry into election
violations, and was made permanent
He was also stopped from going into
the investigation of fraudulent tax re-
ceipts.
NEW YORK, July 2.-Barton Hep
burn, former comptroller of the treas
ury, now president OF the Chase Ma
tional bank. declares today that up to
Saturday 100000 Americans have
sailed to Europe to extravagantly
spend money. He says they will
spend over there more than $400,O 900.
200 this years. His source of infor,
nation include the banks of this
country and the officials of foreign
banks. This extravaganza is the
cause Of the present condition Of the
money market.
KANSAS CITY, July 2.-The court
Of appeals today unanimously re-.
versed the conviction of VIM. Kes-
sells, saloonist of st. Joseph, con
yicted of violating the state law or.
dering saloons to keep closed on Sun
day
BY Judge Ellison's opinion all
judges, all the judges concurring, the
legislature has given second-class
cities special and exclusive jurisdic.
don over the dram shops. Hence the
state laws cannot apply
St. Joseph has no Sunday closing
ordinance.
1t is believed the lid will not be
generally lifted everywhere in Mis-.
souri, on Sundays excepting st. Louis
and Kansas City, which are first class
cities. Many minor towns have local
Sunday closing ordinances, but they
nave never been enforced
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., July a.
Two sisters, Luck and Della Mold.
ages "a and 81 respectively. lived on
farm near here. The older woman
was losing her mind slowly. The
younger one, frantic over the fact
that she would be left alone, last
evening came up behind her sister
while sitting down and choked her to
death. then sat up with the body all
night. Today she made a confession
and put In jail.
WASHINGTON, July To-day
Secretary Show offers $30,000,000
worth of per cent Panama canal
bonds to the public, to run 10 years
TELLURIDE, July 2.-The baseball
fans of Telluride and San Miguel
county are still celebrating the glor-
ous double victory over the crack
ball players from across the range
"Slattery's Slobs." Mr.. Slattery and
his winning aggregation arrived In
Telluride Saturday morning fresh for
the fray Early in the afternoon the
people began vending their way to
the ball grounds and the grandstand
and bleechers were soon crowded.
The game was a pretty one from
start to finish, there being little wran-
Cling and many brilliant plays. Ba-
ker was In the box for Silverton with
Briefly catcher while Telluride put
Wigton In the box with Grant Hughes
catcher. At the conclusion of the
nine innings the score stood to A
in favor of Telluride.
| Yesterdays game was not So close,
the score being 16 to In favor of
Telluride. Bar was in the box for
Telluride with Hughes catcher. Beck
with was in the box to start with for
Silverton who was freely batted, then
Baker tried 1t with no better luck,
the last few innings being turned
over to Staley. The Silverton boys