Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-05-10

| DENVER, May This mornin,
President Frank Trumbull OF tht
| Colorado & Southern railroad OIL
cially stated that the extensions o
| the c. * S. to the gulf of Mexico
would be completed in five months
and that by the last OF tne year the
company would be running through
trains from Colorado to Galveston,
President Trumbul said that tn,
work was being pushed as rapidly as
possible, no money being spared. 1t
will cost the Colorado & Southern
S5,O0O,000 to reach the gulf. When
that line is completed the construc
ton of the proposed line to Montana
Will be ordered.
NEW YORK, May 7.-Crazed with
the pangs of acute Indigestion, Ed
win Clark, a prominent cotton broker,
shot himself in mis- hotel this morn
ing while his wife was telephonlng
for the physician to relieve his suf-
fering.
3 HOLYOKE, Mass, May T. 8
3 DR., Lawson Long, aged rs .
3 years, is dead. In 1861 DR.. 6,
. Long telegraphed to the state {,
- department from Hot Springs, s,
3 Ark, information he had 6,
3 heard regarding plot to as 6,
3 sassinate President Lincoln at -
. Baltimore, on his way to the .
. Inauguration. Lincoln chang 8,
3 ed his schedule and escaped. g
3 The plotters assaulted and al =
= most murdered Long for Civ 8.
3 ing the information. g
WASHINGTON, May To-day is
Joe Cannons 7Otn birthday. Every
body in public life here is taking cog
nizance of the anniversary. Fifteen
hundred invitations were sent out to
reception in his honor at the Ar.
lington Motel tonight. President
Roosevelt, Vice President Fairbanks
and cabinet members and supreme
justices will be present.
Mr.. Cannon is native of Guilford,
N. C. If his friends could have their
way he would be the first Soutnerner
to occupy the White House since the
war. Uncle" Joe said:
mo man would decline to become
president. No man can afford to be
candidate for the place. The bee
is not bothering me. | want to do
good work as speaker-thats glory
enough. If l became a candidate /
would live in constant fear. not as to
whether / am doing duty, but whetn-
er by doing it, would not be giving
offense to somebody. Guess III just
go along and attend to my own busl-
ness. I'm not 10 years old In my
legs, but | guess I'm too old to be
considered for president"
WASHINGTON. May THE con
ference committee on the statehood
bill held another meeting this morn
ing and are likely to come to a def
mite conclusion tomorrow so as to re
port to the senate and house.
Speaker Cannon has become a lit
tie less obdurate. He will not abso-
utely insist upon the measure going
through as 1t passes the house, and
the probabilities are the appointment
will be made Wednesday, which will
admit Oklahoma and give New Mex
leo and Arizona a chance to vote on
the question as to whether they de
sire joint statehood.
WASHINGTON, May 7.-Tne war
department has accepted the sugges-
ton of General Humphrey and has
ordered that hereafter a common sol
der travelling across the continent,
shall have attached to each train
dining cars, so that the officer will
fare no better than the rank and file.
NEW YORK, May Agatha Wa.
ters, a member of the younger set,
of the 400" Oas shot dead while
asleep in bed early this morning by
his mother, Mrs. Mary Waters, a so
ciety matron, who then committed
suicide with the revolver.
1t is believed Mrs. Waters became
suddenly insane. The tragedy oc-
CURED in the magnificent Waters
mansion.
After returning from church last
night Mrs. Waters talked with mem
bers of the family till II o'clock
when all retired. About n. IN. she
secured a revolver from her hus
DdHu utSh anu tUltTtu lUt iObu
where Agatha and younger daugh
ter, Ruth, were asleep. The latter
awoke when the mother asked her II
she had heard the telephone ring
AS Ruth answered mo" the mother
shot Agatha. who was still asleep
| through the head. Mrs. Waters SUI
| fered with insomnia.
| PUEBLO, Colo, May S.-A non-un
ion smelter workman was attacked
this morning by about one hundred
union strikers, following the efforti
of the latter to persuade non-union
lists to quit work. Wives of thu
strikers participated in the affair
One striker was killed and two pc
licemen injured. The police stopped
the trouble.
| PUEBLO, May 3.--Tnis city wa
the scene today OF rather despeI
ate riot In which one man was kille'
and several injured. 1t was the re
suit of labor troubles at the Puebl
smelter. and resulted, at 6 o'clocl
this morning. in the liveliest sort O
rioting.