Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-29
TELEoRAPHlc SNAPSHOTS.

| "uo,uuo. beTlln expects. however, tC
make these figures look small when
;ihe gets out her new directory
A mob Of transient laborers ran the
japanese employees of an electric com
pany at Kernville. Call. out of the
country, destroying their camp out
iit.
Cheyenne, Wyo. is reported to have
81 cases of smallpox. A ranchman had
camped In the abandoned pesthouse
and went to town to peddle the dis
| ease.
j. ID. Frazey. postmaster and pro-
prietor OF the Ledger at Antonlto.
has trouble, too petition has been
circulated TO remove him from the
| postofhce
Quail are said to be starving to
| death by the hundreds throughout
central Illinois, their feeding grounds
| being covered by heavy snowfall OF
the last few weeks.
Judge j. Otis Humphrey at Chi
cago grants the immunity pleas of
10 individual packers indicted for con
spiracy in restraint of trade. but holds
Iowa representatives passed bill
aimed at the Standard oil company.
preventing rate.cutting In one part of
the state to XIII of competition while
prices are being raised In another.
Thomas NJ. Huntington, banker of
Gordon. Neb.. Is arrested on a charge
OF subornation of perjury in connec.
tion with alleged land frauds. This
Is the thirteenth arrest in these cases
over 1900 miles of railway con.
structlon are now under way and
iVe projects provide for s,I32
more The northwest and West and
Texas are the great centers OF aotly.
ity.
Reports from many of the peach.
growing sections of Georgia Indicate
loss OF 90 per cent from the cold
OF the last two nights. This means
probable loss Of $1,000. 900 to Geor.
eia growers
Pat Grove who won fame for accu.
sation of the Cudahy abduction, has
oeen made defendant in divorce pro
ceeedings. his wife averring that ne
mas contributed nothing to her sup.
port for 10 years.
Reforms" in Russia are shown to
be fictitious, and workmen, realizing
mat the government IL attempting
to trick them, jeer at the emperor by
formally electlng dog as delegate
to the assembly.
Arkansas possesses enormous nat
nral resources In the soil. forests and
mineral deposits, much OF which are
undeveloped, although rapid progress
has been made In the last few years,
writes William E. Curtis.
The proposition to have Governor
Mcdonald appoint committee to In.
yestigate the various Offices of Cone
jos county Is being considered and II
may be inferred from the tone of the
newspapers in that county that this
will be done.
Hyram Tyree, president of the Con
tlnental Life Insurance and Invest.
mcnt company, arrested on the charge
of certifying to tie secretary OF state
of Utah false report of the concerns
business. was committed to the dis
trict court in $1,000 bonds for trial.
In the district court at Albuquerque
now holding the selling of whiskey
to Indians, appears to be one of the
chief demeanors under consideration,
aud at Santa Fe, in the United States,
court the Jamez Indians were reprI-
manded for Interfering with the ex-
pedition Of the United States mails
The house committee on Judiciary
decides that the federal government
has no power to control insurance
companies. the report drawn up b.
Chairman jenkins citing the opinions
of the United States supreme court
and holding that congress cannot i'm
pair the police powers OF the states
The battlesnip Oregon, which Is re
turning 10 Bremerton for repairs, has
arrived at Honolulu from the Orient
II Is reported that one of her keel
plates Is destroyed and u general over
hauling Is needed. For eight months
her big guns have not been fired, be-
cause OF possible woakneess In the
vessel
Because she joked with other men
while waiting upon them. Ignatz
Michs, proprietor OF small restaur-
ant, shot and killed Mrs. Helen Schla-
ger. his housekeeper in Philadelphia,
and then sent a bullet into his own
head, inhicting probably fatal
wound. The tragedy was Witnessed
by Mary Weber. the dead womans
sister.
Governor Cummins OF Iowa, reply.
| ing to the Gilllland resolution asking
him for specific information on which
he bases charges as to the work of
the railroad lobby against the pri-
mary election bill. denies that he ac-
cused members OF the legislature with
| having been corrupted by the lobby.
| The governor insists. however, on his
charge that the railroad lobby has
been working against the primary bill
| Frederick Clarence Howard OF Los
Angeles. a policy holder In the Pacific
Mutual Life Insurance company. has
filed suit to prevent the merger N
the company with the Conservative
| Life Insurance ramunny Hnwa "a