Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-04-02
Increasing the pay of officers under
the rank of major.


dents riots have been resumed. The
have continued in force since Sunda
night and last evening and up Il
dawn today. crowds filled the streets
full of riotous disorder. the resul
is several deaths and 500 persons in
jured The mobs showed their AMI
mostly TO the French by destroying
all the French shops in the town.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-Nava
experts do not agree with Admira
Dewey for a battleship larger thar
the English battleship Dreadnaught
Admiral Capps, chief naval construct
or. urges vessels of 10000 tons. He
says that the completion of such a
giant would take five years.
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo-, March 20.
By decision of the supreme court
today. Frank Rockefeller and other
/ shareholders of tine Segel-Anders
| Commission company are not liable
individually for the debts of the firm.
The Deadwood First National bank
sued them for $4,000.
WASHINGTON. March 29.-The
interstate commerce commission to-
day heard arguments in the case OF
Hearst VS.. the Pennsylvania railroad
regarding the road dealing in coal.
Counsel said the supreme court holds
IT TO be against public policy for any
common carrier to be a dealer in a
commodity it transports
COLORADO SPRINGS. March 90
The most emminent authority In
the West on consumption and clima-
tology. Or. s. Edwin Solly, is report
ed to be dying at noon as a result of
heart failure.
LENS, France, March 30-Four-
teen OF tne miners who were entomb-
ed in the Courriers mine on March
10 were taken alive from the mine TO-
day by an exploring party. The men
lived twenty days shut off from light
and almost deprived of air. With one
exception all were well when res.
cued. although they could not have
lived much longer The searcners
heard noises and then answers to
their calls, and they were finally dug
out by the explorers
escape by the explosion and fire they
took refuge in a mule stable in the
mine. They subsisted first on the
lunches of their dead comrades and
then ate the mules, wheat and oats.
A boy IA years old was among the
rescued, VINO endured the hardships
with courage.
NJ. Dunn. who has been acting as a
sort OF dummy for Alfred h. Cos
ling, rich broker. for many years.
today confessed to the district attor-
ney that Gosling's business was real
ly teaching men to steal. The CON
iession was startling and may send
a dozen professional swindlers to the
states prison. 1t implicates many
wen known Wall street brokers'.
Gosling would employ bright young
men and get them place with some
first class banking house, then get
them to ingratiate themselves with
their employer and watch their op-
portunity to steal valuable stocks and
bonds. The pupil was TO take these
papers, put them in Gosling en-
velope and drop them in the nearest
letter box. If the pupil could steal
without detection. ne was to say
nothing; but if the property he stole
had been placed in his custody for
delivery, his orders from Gosling
were to pretend that he mad been
robbed and make a great outcry.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 3O-The
Miners convention reassembled this
morning.
The operators sent comrnunica-
tion saying an appeal had been made
to President Roosevelt by them for
an investigation of all matters bear
ing on the dispute. This was receiv-
ed and filed.
Mr.. Mitchell has taken cognizance
of 1t to the extent of wiring the pres
ident that so per cent of the opera
tors were willing to sign the scale
demanded by the miners. This is in
tended as suggestion that there is
no need for interference.
INDIANAPOLIS. March Cooper
ator Robbins and the United Mine
Workers president have issued the
following statement: "The operators
of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and western
Pennsylvania who are opposed to ad-
yancing mining wages do not repre-
sent more than half the tonnage of
such states. The remaining half of
the tonnage is produced by the oper-
ators who are willing TO restore the
scale of 1908 for a period of two
years, which is n compromise The
percentage of tonnage represented by
The operators who are willing to agree
10 this compromise is sufficient to
avert national calamity.
WASHINGTON. March 30.-Tne
president today is engaged in prepar-
ing reply to the operators request
for an investigation of coal condi-
tions The answer will not be sent
until the president has canvassed the
matter with his cabinet. which held
a regular meeting.
Operator Robbins also signed the
telegram which Mitchell sent TO
Roosevelt. 1t says: Responding 20
your sipppstion we have fulfilled rho