Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-19
DURANGO coLo- MONDAY, NOVEMBER 49, 1906

the club.
New York woman, who pension
her old servants says she alway
treated them like human beings an,
never had any trouble with the hel,
problem
| District Attorney Jerome at New
York announces that he will personal
ly take charge OF the prosecution o
indicted former vice presidents of tn,
Mutual Life.
Al Greeley, James Hennessy was
sentenced to the penitentiary b5
Judge Garrigues for from three tc
five years for robbing the store OF
Stoner a Mead at Ault.
Miss Merle Moritz, milliner o,
Aspen he's been fined s105 and costs
Tor siandering Mrs. F.. T. McElvaina
wife CT a druggist. Miss Moritz said
Mrs. McElyfine was thief.
The Ladies' Social Circle of the
Baptist church will be entertained by
Mrs. Ireland and Mrs. Dobbins Fri.
dar afternoon at 2:30 at the home of
Mrs. Dobbins al North Durango.
Mandamus proceedings to compel
the state board of equalization to as.
sess the capital stock OF railroad cor.
porations at higher rate probably
will be begun by counsel for the City
OF Chicago.
An English scientist will arrive In
Rome soon TO perfect his plans for
af hs
cient city OF Herculaneum, the Italian
goveroment having approved the
scheme.
Gen. William j. Palmer. when told
by his doctors that he must die. said: I:
i hope you are wrong in your con.
clusions. but II you are right IT can.
not be helped. am not afraid to go
when the time comes
Governor Hoch of Kansas believes
the Standard OIL company was behind
the fight which resulted in his re-elec.
ton by only 1000 plurality. as against
the pltsality of $4,000 by which he
was elected two years ago.
1t is believed Charles A. Caldwell,
who was run over and killed by n
train at Albuquerque. was an impos-
ter. as kilograms sent to all the ad.
dresses found on his letters have been
answered and say that Caldwell is
alive In California.
II is reported that d. l.. Brudicls Of
Chicago will next summer finance a
project TO establish captive balloon
at the summit of Pixies Peak. Sew
eral ascents will be made each day,
thus .affording tourists ~ view. from
above the peak.
John Ashenfelter OF Montrose has
sold his 320-acre fruit ranch, livestock.
machinery. etc. near that place. TO
j. c. Sidwell of Chicago for $3.50, 900.
The ranch is one Of the biggest pro.
ducers of fruit on the Western slope
and pays immense profits.
General Sherman Bell named his
youngest Theodore Roosevelt Bell,
and when he got home he found It
was girl. The general had received
the news OF the birth while at Grip
Pile Creek, but was mlsinformed. He
wired to the president that he had
named the boy after him.
Patsey Butler. the nineteen-year-old
son OF Adam Butler, pioneer OF the
Cripple Creek district, has just
cleaned up 10000 at Goldfield, New,
in mining stock which cost him only
few hundred dollars. Young Butler
went to Goldfield nine months ago to
make his fortune.
Many people are convinced that a
tariff war with Germany is improb-
able because she has more to lose
than the United States: because she
must have our raw cotton or her mills
must stop running; she must have
our copper or her electrical plants
will have to suspend operations; and
she must have many of our food pro-
ducts or her people will starve; while,
on the other hand, we can get along
very comfortably without any of her
merchandise, because every item in
the list of imports to the United
States from Germany is a luxury that
can be obtained equally well in Eng
iohu VI finhNtf oa'h W M -. thi 'iS
in the Record-Herald.
A dog which made balloon ascent
at Mount Vernon, caused an accident
which resulted in the injury OF six
persons. After John Wasson, the
aeronaut. who had taken his pet with
him in his flight, cut loose the para
chute TO which the animal was at
tached. the dog In falling became en-
tangled among fthe ropes which were
supporting a heavy pole used to hold
up the balloon while 1t was being in
flsted. The pole toppled over. and
Hershel Bell, son of Rev. J. A. Bell
and Ben Palsey were caught under 1t
Each has a broken leg. Four Other
persons were hurt slightly.
Vaudeville turns, as an adjunct tc
religious service, have been intro
duced by Rev. DR.. Frank NJ. Good
child, pastor OF the Central Baptis
church OF New York city and Sunda,
night the congregation listened with
feelings of mingled interest and sur
prise while woman whistler warblet
three tunes In the intervals between
the reading OF the word and the ser
mon nr CoodchiId belfpyes In tn,