Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-12-06

! Ile urfcehess OF the feeling. The
government is try ing to hold senti-
mcnt in check. but cannot oven con.
troll newspaper criticism. The situa
tlon is most grave.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 5.-Mob
violence against the Japs began to-
day sherifrs all along the coast from
| here TO Tacoma have asked for help
to protect the Japanese. Bloodshed
Is feared The situation Is critical.
The Japanese in factories and on the
streets are being run down
PHOENIX. Ariz., Dec. g. Sixty
lives are reported to have heen lost
yesterday In a great flood that swept
down Chase Creek canor, In which ls
located a part OF the town Of Clifton.
The flood destroyed the smelling
plant of the Arizona Copper company
and tore out miles of the track of the
Arizona & New Mexico Railroad
Clifton has about $500 inhabitants,
lays In a narrow valley near the east
ern line of Arizona The less pros
porous of the inhabitants lived in
Chase Creek canon. a peculiarly dan
gerous situation in times of high wa
ter. Two years ago twelve lives were
lost in the canon and Immense dam
age was done by the rise of the San
Francisco.
Dispatches from El Paso, Texas
say the dam In the Detroit Copper
company concentrator. located above
Clifton gave away yesterday after
noon. Much property was destroyed
by the wall of water which swept
through Clifton. Telegraph and tele-
phone wires are down. The greatest
loss of life is said to have been in a
hotel which was washed away. Fifty
persons are said to have been In the
hotel at the time. Continuous rain
for many days caused the flood.
DENVER. Dec. BRAT tine reopen.
ting of The hearing sof-sHc interissss-.
commerce commission this morning
J. f. Welborn. vice president of the
c. r. and /. was recalled to the stand
When asked II he knew the principal
stockholders in the company he re
piled in the negative Neither could
he give the payroll of the company
He was then excused. Attorney Vale
then introduced several instances
where special freight rates had been
granted by railroads. This was In
rebuttal of the testimony secured
from Vice President Charles II.
Schlacks, yesterday of the d. & II. G.
that rate of half a cent per ton per
mile from Colorado to Utah had been
given the Utah Fuel company.
CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-The Tribune
says today: The railroads of Chicago
contemplate making increases In the
wages of their employees In the I'M
| mediate future, which, in the aggre-
gate, win make all Increases made on
| the roads of the country In the recent
past seem small in comparison. Ad
vances are expected to he given be-
tween now and January 1, which will
| make the combined incomes of the
| $4,000 employees OF these lines from
25.0OO.0o0 to s3o.O0O,00O greater in
1907 than in 1906
| The only thing that may prevent
the proposed advances between now
and the end Of the year is inability
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reach an amicable agreement.
| PARIS. Dec. 5.-Fashionable circles
say that Count Boni de Castellane was
absent today from his usual hauniss
He has gone to England where, 1t Is
declared. he will marry Madame Let
elier, divorced wife OF Menier, the
millionaire chocolate manufacturer.
She is rich. fascinating widow who
has been married several times and
through her Bonl hopes to recoup his
fortunes since the Gould millions have
slipped away.
NEW YORK. Dec. 5.--The winter
Is a fearful one In Russia Reliable
news reached here today that In
twenty-five provinces nearly twenty
million people are on the verge of
starvation. It will take eighty mil.
lion dollars to keep the people from
perishing. The crops have been a
failure, the cold is now intense and
general penury and absolute misery
prevails. The government has con
tributed twenty millions to help the
prevailing distress. Hundreds oi
pretty peasant girls have been sold
into slavery In Caucasian harems in
order to get food for their people.
HERKIMER. N. Y. Dec 5.--Ches
ter Gillette. the boy murderer. was
oheered slightly today by Telegram
from his father and mother in Den
yer who express confidence In his
innocence Last night the jury fount
him guilty OF murder In the first de
gree and tomorrow he will be sen
fenced to death in the electric chail
at Sing Sing.
PRINCETON, Dec. 5.-with appro
pirate ceremonies Andrew Carnegie
this afternoon presented the univer
+ sity with beautiful lake which ht
had changed from unhealthy marzf
land NJ cosf In tho rhila n II br.taxaiat q,