Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-06-25

luctiye with the most ordinary ef.
orr me production of that part or
"e Vaiiey north of Durango ought
fsfiy 10 be doubled within two years
md there should be no fear of over,
lrcd iction of anything.
FRANK HARTMAN.
Over 2o,000,ooO leeches were used
inhualiy 20 years ago, but now not
100000 year are used
Two blocks of Golconda Ill were
destroyed by fire yesterday. leaving
rs families homeless.
One hundred and twenty policemen
we're killed at Warsaw Yesterday
Must be coveted position.
Missouri lady who is suing for
divorce after a honeymoon which has
lasted for three months says she mar.
rcd the man because he owned a
ne,5 2 itomobile
An Englishman in New York ia
writing letters to the newspapers
there. saying that America has more
snobs tnan are to be found in Eng
land
The steamers City of Seattle and
Spokane have arrived at Seattle.
Wash, bringing nearly 100000 in
gold besides $4,000 worth of furs
from Alaska.
William E. Curtis. writing from
New York, says that Turkish reform
organizations nave given up hope OF
making progress for the present and
are awaiting the death of the sultan.
when they expect to establish a lib
eral government.
According to one of the witnesses
who testified for Charles C. La Barge
OF St Louis in the divorce suit
brought against him, Mrs. La Barge
wouldn't spoon" with him. Miss
Marie La Barge, sister of the defend
ant. said that when the husband at
tempted TO caress his wife Mrs. La
Barge told him to go somewhere else
for kisses.
Poisoned cocktails killed two per
sons in Brooklyn and prostrated an
other. The dead are Mrs. Jessie Bos-
quet, a teacher in public school,
and Joseph Hirsch. Miss Eva Eel
ford. cousin of Mrs Bosquet, is crit
ically i'll. 1t is believed that wood al
cohol or an extremely low grade OF
whisky, which was used in the com
position of the cocktails caused the
tragedy.
A general advance in the price OF
pens and pencils was recommended
and approved at Wasningtons ses-
sion of the National Association of
Stationers and Manufacturers CON
vention. The recommendation was
made by a committee, which reported
that competition in these goods had
caused cutting of prices to a point
sell them as leaders" at less than
cost
James G. Mcclure, foe of the kiss,
has been divorced, his wife having
been granted a decree on the grounds
of desertion. Some months ago,
when member of the Virginia SEN
atn fnrt
father and patron of the anti-kssing
bill, measure designed to prevent
filtration among school girls. Through
this he became known as the anti
kissing statesman" He is 40 years
old
Frank Tammen, brother of a Den
yer Journalist, and a nalf owner OF
the concessions of the Floto circus,
was fined 500 in police court at a
midnight session at Colorado Springs
for selling whisky. Tammen paid the
fine. In the buffet car of the circus
train is bar at which liquor is sold
to circus employees, and it was proven
that the barkeeper sold liquor to all
who wanted it while the car was
here, some of the purchasers being
minors
Cupid mas made great inroads upon
the teachers of the Cleveland public
schools. Within week more than
100 young women have resigned, to
become brides, and the board of ed.
ncation and Superintendent Eson
fear they will not be able to fill al
the vacancies before the next ttrn:
begins. Never before nave / heard
of the public schools becoming
matrimonial agency on such an ex.
tensive scale. This breaks all rec.
ords, said the superintendent.
Arrested only Wednesday. John
Joseph Kean, the kidnaper of 7-year-
old Freddie Muth of Philadelphia, is
now in the state penitentiary, senten-
ced to 20 years of hard labor in soli-