Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-01-18

! furnishing the water for the city.
The Prior bond forgeries now
amount to over one million dollars.
. Harvard has voted to abolish foot.
ball. pending reform in the game.
Princess Louise has been granted a
divorce, And now European capitals
VIII have to dig up something new
Attorney General Miller Is making a
vigorous hght for the inheritance tax
due the state from the Stratton es.
tate.
, VIM. +. Granger. deputy warden at
the penitentiary, Canon City. died
suddenly from heart failure Sunday
at Pueblo.
The storm seems to be general
throughout the country, rain and sieet
ioing much damage in Indiana, while
IN other sections bitter cold results
in loss of life
| Friday last President Roosevelt was
made an honorary member of the
Red Men order. He Is the first person
to he tnus recognized.
| A Leadville giant, weighing 22O
pounds and 6 feet inches tall, was
finally taken In tow the other day.
after whipping eight men in succes-
| sion.
In granting the third divorce to a
Pueblo woman the Judge warned her
to desist--th that she should know when
to quit acquiring husbands to divorce
them
Judge Grosscup declares in a lee.
ture that graft and corruption are
Tar less prevalent now than 100 years
ago. and that the average man was
never so good.
Superintendent l.. II. Cheney OF the
Soldiers and Sailors home, has filed
his report with Governor Mcdonald.
1t shows that there are 21s inmates
in the home. against l73 In 1900.
Mayor Speer returned Saturday
from his eastern trip. Just waited
long enough for Mayor Dunno OF Chi.
cngo to decamp. Fine card playing.
but can the Denver mayor fool his
constituency?
William E. Curtis writes that a sin.
gle gem discovered In 1905 sets a new
record In the worlds diamond crop,
being the largest precious stone
known to history and having . value
of S45,O00,0OO
The Building Trades council Of Den.
yer announces through Its official or
gan. the Clarion-Advocate, that there
will be no strike in Denver this year,
and thus the effort OF the Patterson
papers to foment trouble ends.
William Il. Curtis says the Chinese
boycott OF American goods Ia becom-
Ing worse and threatens eventually
to wipe out this country's trade with
China. unless Secretary Metcalf. Who
holds the key to the situation, takes
prompt and energetic action to get
privileges for immigrants.
Employees OF Illinois state depart
ments and institutions under the con-
troll OF Governor Deneen must cease
accepting or using railroad passes.
While no order to this effect has been
issued from the executive office, tho
fact has been made clear to appoint
ees that they must pay as tney CO."
and be absolutely independent of cor
poration influences.
In the territorial supreme court at
Santa Fe Saturday the case of the
Colorado Arizona Railroad COM
pany vs. the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad company. was argued and
submitted, the case involving the
question Of right OF way Of both COM
panies in San Juan county, the plant.
IN claiming prior right. and the de-
fendant having already built Its line.
Details have been made known for
a chain of municipal hospitals which
Will give New York the greatest sys-
tom OF free treatment for the sick that
the world has seen. Mayor McClel-
Ian, former Comptroller Grout, Bird
$. Coler president of the borough Of
Brooklyn. and Commissioner of Char
tiles Robert w. Hebbard are the
leading advocates OF the project. An
estimate OF the total cost Is 175,0OO,-
0O0
John Wilson "A bachelor farmer.
aged SO. was buried Saturday at Bue.
ma Vista, Ind, in the cofhr which he
made for himself In the last two days
OF his life. Feeling that death was
approaching rapidly. he called a car.
Denter to ais aid and constructed the
coffin from wood which he had kept
in his house forty years for tho pur.
pose. He then called In his neighbors
and divided his money and farm
among them. producing = chart Of the
farm to show how he wished the land
TO be divided. Death came In = few
short hours after he had finished his
tasks.
At meeting OF the state board of
capitol managers Saturday morning
Herman Luders WAS continued ~ sec.
retary and those VINO are ciAmoring
for his place were again disappointed.
Luders is In the insane ward At the
asylum in Pueblo and DR.. Busey an
nouuces that the patient can live hut