Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-29

Railroad company to sell no ticket
! to drunken men.
Sauerkraut swamps and nearly mt
out of business Milwaukee's municipa
garbage plant every one seeming t,
be getting rid of the famous dish a
the expense of the city.
James H. Eckels indorses vigorous
ly the plan for credit currency ad
vocated by the joint banking commits
sion, in speech in Omaha before the
Nebraska Bankers association.
The Union Pacific has succeeded In
inducing party OF Iowa farmers to
take up eleven sections of lan1 in the
eastern part of the state and the farm
ers will settle upon the land
Northern Grain company was paid
$25O,O00 in rebates by railroads in six
years, chiefly to enable 1t to crush
independents, Secretary of State
Houser of Wisconsin says at Madi.
son.
| Edward II. Hartman says govern.
ment ownership Of railroads would be
incongruous, impracticable and utter.
| y impossible, and declares the idea
Is not a bogey man to the railway
| people.
Dunwoody Bros. have sold their
| soap factory in Denver to Proctor &
Gamble Of Cincinnati, the manufao.
turers of Ivory soap and Dunwoody
Bros. will build new factory, larger
than the old one.
The mica plant in Custer S. D.. is
| owned by the Westinghouse EIec.
trical company, is to soon be removed
to Denver The reason assigned for
the move is that skilled help cannot
be secured in Dakota.
The pope has sent his benediction
to Cardinal Vaszary, primate OF Hun
gary, who Is at the point OF death
Vaszary is the richest of the cardinals
and contributes 100000 yearly TO the
| maintenance of the holy see
That the union printers of the colu.
try have spent nearly $6,OOO,0OO in
their fight for an eight-hour iay be-
comes known, and at the same time
jubilee meeting was held on Sun
day to celebrate victories.
S. d. Crump has filed suit IL the
district court against the Cripple
Creek District Mine Owners and Op-
orators association, which has a mem
bership of about fifty mines, to re-
cover s5.475 for legal services rem
dered.
Official figures of the general ex-
penditures of the Democratic and Re
publican parties and the Hearst
League In The conduct of the recent
New York state campaign show that
the expense of the election was enor-
mous-more than s3,O00.00O
Mrs. Helen Rosenthal. niece OF
Alexander Winton, the millionaire au-
tomobile manufacturer. was drugged
and robbed of jewels, watch and hun
dreds of dollars and was found wan
dering about the basement of the FL
lengton apartment-house dazed and
helpless.
j. Ogden Armour says he does not
know whether he owns $4,000, 900 or
SO 900 0000 worth of st. Paul stock
and is able to give but a hazy ac-
count of his other holdings in cor
porations when testifying at the in
terstate commerce commissions grain
inquiry in Milwaukee.
Germany is stretching out the hand
OF friendship. says Ambassador Speck
Won Sternburg. in an address before
the New York chamber of commerce,
in which he urges that trade between
the countries by stimulated and a bet
ter understanding reached by means
of removal of present restrictions In
the tariff.
Grand Junction has sold her $780,
900 issue of water bonds to the
Ramey-Udlock company, a local firm
backed by eastern capital, and the
contract will be let November 2S. The
water will be brought from the Grand
mesa and will be pure. Grand juno
ton has population of nearly 10000
and should grow faster now than ever.
as the poor water has been its great
est drawback.
Chicago heated and lighted by
electricity; power for It's downtown
factories, offices and apartment
buildings furnished by the same
| agency. and the congestion of the
| downtown streets relieved through
| the operation OF an electrically
equipped subway. This is the dream
of Wall street capitalists, who have
proceeded far with negotiations for
the purchase of the property of the
Chicago Edison company and the II
linois Tunnel company.
| Rev. w. r. Rutledge of st. Louis
has flied suit in East st. Louis. Ill.
against Postmaster Henry F. Bader
claiming $4,000 damages for the losi
OF an edition of the Weekly Message
which contained an attack on Charles
| Cashel, candidate for sheriff. His at
torney says the edition was stoler
fIom the postoffice. and that Badei
knew 1t, but failed to say anything
about it to the publisher until 1t wal
too late for the edition to be replaced
in time for distribution before elec
ton.
The minimum wages for common
laborers at the two lead smeIters o