Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-12-20
GENERAL NEWS.

building boom
BY economical administration.
something Tom Patterson viii not
acknowledge, the Speer people will
be able to turn over about si5O0OO
tc the auditorium fund. which insures
fine building.
Heavy snow fell in portions of Mis-
souri, and Kansas Sunday and Sunday
night.
l. b. Melville is In Washington as
sisting Attorney General Miller in the
celebrated water case.
George S. Curtis has been named
as register of the Leadville land
office by the president.
Students OF Depauws university
have been ordered to appear in red
and row has been kicked up.
While making heroic effort to
save the life of companion that had
fallen through the ice In Lake Mime
qua at Pueblo Monday afternoon,
William Haas. 27 years old, broke
through the ice himself and was
drowned. Boyd L. Roark was the
man whom Haas attempted to save
and he. as well as p. A. O'Leary and
Christopher II. Haas, who also went
down while assisting in the rescue.
were saved.
sneak thief looted two Capitol
hill residence of $4,000 worth of prop.
erty the other night.
The regular examination for mem
bership to the bar was held In Denver
Saturday, with nineteen applicants
for the honor.
Montrose has some great potato
raisers. An instance is given of 5000
bushels being raised on 20 acres of
ground. an average of l2S bushels an
acre.
Grand Junction claims an increase
In her population during the past
year of over 1,50O; the population now
being $500 according to the new city
directory.
The affairs of the Western bank
will be closed up this week and
final dividend declared, amounting in
all TO about 40 per cent of the de-
posits.
The Courier, an evening paper pub
lished in Leadville. suspended publ
cation last week. Unable to meet
the weekly payroll and the printers
refused to go to work.
The commissioners to the Portland
exposition should be given chromo
as they were able to return $4S.24
out of the $4,000 appropriated by the
general assembly. Generally there is
deficit.
The Ridgway Reporter suspended
publication last week.
Representative Underwood Of Ala
bama has introduced a bill for a tax
of one-fiftieth of one per cent year
on deposits in national banks for the
creation OF fund to protect the cred
itors of such banks.
Mrs. Corinne Rider-Kelsey, a New
York singer, and her husband, finding
married life tiresome, part for yea.
a. the expiration of which they will
ask for a divorce II they find life apart
pleasanter, or IL otherwise, win be
united again.
Operating officials of railroads are
bitterly opposing the demands of the
Brotherhood of Railway Engineers,
which insists that If mans eyesight
10 such that a defect can be cured by
wearing glasses he shall be regarded
as first-class
The Mexican government mas made
known the details OF its plan to take
over all the important railroads in the
republic and operate them through
a $225,000,000 state-controlled com
| company. in which American bankers
are to be largely interested.
w. X. Vanderbilt, while speeding
l hib Dis idCluB dutolhODiit dlOHB lHt
shore of Lake Success, Long Island
was hurled into the ice-coated lax,
by the swapping of the front axle o
the machine. but escaped without ser
ious injury.
The two sections OF the tunnel III
der the East river. which were star:
ed simultaneously in New York an
Brooklyn. were Joined beneath tn
bed OF the river Saturday. The en-
gineers who have charge OF the worl
declare that the two tunnels joine
perfectly. The two shields came tc
gether almost directly under the cer
ter OF the river.
Day and night in Alamosa tn
switch engines are wheeling, tn
switch crews are working overtime
sheep are bleating. cattle are bawlln
J and hogs are squealing. All OF thes
} fanny noises are down around th