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

Senator Clark gives It out that he
viii quit politics in order to devote
his entire sime TO personal interests
Denver has a man who has beaten
his wife almost daily for rs years.
The woman must he poor stick to
| stand such treatment
Fake San Francisco solicitors are
starring SOME sections OF the country.
They claim To belong to a relief com.
mltoe. Turn down all strangers ask
! Ing money.
Damage done by the earthquake
and the nse OF dynamite as distin-
gulshed from that by fire alone proves
an important factor In the adjustment
OF the san Francisco insurance
claims
Equitable report for the quarter
shows a considerable shrinltage In
now business and also reduction
In expenses. Tie Ryan Morgan con
troll is made more secure by an ex-
tension OF the appointing power OF
President Morton.
John ID. Rockefeller may become
ball player soon. His physician, IL.
+. Biggar. Is playing catch these
days. Every morning he gets out on
his lawn and plays with his butler.
Dr. Blggnr has found the exercise
good. Early risers stare and smile,
but the physician doesn't care. "It's
good for anything that ails YOU" he
says Il recommend II to John D.
The largest business transaction
that has occurred In western Colo
RADIO in d long time was closed at
Gand Junction Wednesday night by
the organization Of the Colorado q
Southwestern railroad. which. IT is
| said, will be constructed Immediate
| ly by the citizens of Grand Junction
and outside capital from this city to
a point in the Shenandoah valley, 1t0
miles from here.
Finding a man under her bed was
not enough to frighten Mrs. Earl
Lindsay, wife Of a farmer near Ko-
komo, Ind. When she saw ner un-
announced VISITORS legs protruding
from beneath the four-poster she load
ed her husbands shotgun and order
ed the intruder to surrender. He
crawled out and ran. Mrs. Lindsay
fired both barrels at him, bringing
nim down neatly with a bucksnot
through the leg. The man was iden-
! tined as James Wilson. burglar who
4 IS wanted in several places.
Mrs. Grace Dewolf and her sister
in-aw, Miss Doris Dewolf, of st.
Louis, each IS years old, mutually
distressed at the thought of separa-
tion, attempted to carry out suicide
pact by swallowing chloride of mer-
curry. Their cries attracted the at
/ tentlon OF nelghbor, who burst In
The locked door and summoned ply
slcian. who saved the sufferers. The
| girls were chums In Dallas, Texas.
Whom Miss Dewolf's brother married
her companion she was inconsolable.
and when Dewolf wired ais wife TO
Join him in Jacksonville. Fla. the
girls decided to end their lives rath-
er than be parted.
The Amalgamated. North Butte
and Butte Coalition Copper compan-
les (the latter being the former
Helnze propertles) have voluntarily
Increased the wages OF more than s.
900 miners and smelter men In Butte.
Anaconda and Great Falls. Hereto
fore smelter men have been working
nine hours a day This will be re-
duoed to eight hours. Miners will be
given what amounts to half an hour
a day through being raised and low
cred from the mines on company
time, whereas before they We're han
died thus on their own time. This
makes their actual working time
about seven and one-half hours.
"Few die and none resign" state
ment often applied to clerks in the
government departments at Wash
ington. is broadly substantiated by
statistcs which have Just been pre-.
pared by the civil service commits
sion. The Oldest clerk Is shown TO
be 81 years OF age. There is anoth
or 80 and ehree who have reached The
mellow age OF SO. Four youngsters
admit they have celebrated S5 birtn
days, and five confess to "a, six are
SO. and IL are SO. There are 1857
clerks In the government service Gh
years OF age and over. OF whom ls9
are retained because of their war
service, OF these 3T4 are graded as
clerks whose work is excellent, ese
good. 229 average. 251 fair and only
30 as poor.
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