Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-01-29
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

in trust for over forty years. Tn,
charities mentioned are few. Thre,
million dollars is the sum given tt
his widow, sS,0O0.O00 TO the Chicago
Art museum. 25.000,O00 is distributed
in various gifts and the rest is to he
held in trust for his youthful grand
children. The sum Of $15O.0O0,OOO is
thus disposed of.
SALT LAKE, Utah. Jan 25.-Quite
gathering assembled this morning
To attend the conference called 10 de
wise plans for attracting tourists to
see their own country first"
Today's meeting was called to order
by Governor Wells and an address OF
welcome was delivered by Governor
Cutler Governor Chamberlain of Or.
egon will he made chairman this al
ternoon. The delegates will be given
an entertainment tonight at the Nor
mon Tabernacle.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. Ex-Governor
Hanley's suit to oust Secretary of
State Storms from office for alleged
misconduct was thrown out of court
today on a demurrer.
DENVER. Jan. 25.-Early this morn
Ing fire broke ont in the Palace res
taurant on Curtis street, near Sev-
enteenth, and half hundred guests
in the rooming house upstairs were in
imminent peril of their lives.
Although several of them were al
most suffocated the roomers finally
escaped without fatalities.
ST LOUIS. Andrew Gordon. a ne
gro. was brought before the grand
jury today and testified that while a
member of the police department he
was ordered by a high official TO kill
Oliver il Beck. judge OF election, and
Jonn W. Wheeler. a well known negro
editor.
HOUSTON, Texas. Jan. 25.-The
strike of workmen in the coal and oil
fields spread today from Humblefeld
TO the Batson, Spindletop and Sour
Lake districts.
LAWRENCE. Kas., Jan. 25.-The
incubator baby case ended this after
noon by Judge Smart awarding the
little girl to Mrs. Barclay of Moline.
ILL.,, who had adopted ii from the in
cubator concession at the Worlds
fair. The judge said the evidence
showed clearly that the child was not
Mrs. Bleakley's.
SILVERTON. Jan. 25-The funeral
of the five snowslide victims at the
Sunnyside mine few DAYS ago oc-
CURED this afternoon at o'clock, un-
der the auspices of the Miners union.
and was probably the most largely
attended of any funeral in the history
of Silverton. there being so many Of
the miners in town from the hills on
account of the storms. The funeral
occurred from the Catholic church and
the Miners Union hall.
The names of the dead are: Thomas
Sala. Antonio Ceugliana. Dominic Bur
la, Dominic Pazelio and John Paco
tino. Three of them leave families In
Italy, the other two being unmarried
SILVERTON, Jan 25.-An errone
GUS report has g)ne out OF Silverton
regarding the old King having no
coal. There is 'enty Of coal on the
side tracks here, but the Gladstone
Northern railway is blocRaded with
deep snow and slides and the mine
and mill crews of the Gold King com
pany are employed in shoveling the
road out for traffic.
SILVERTON, Jan. ga Swede
named Peter Isaacson. known as
Peter Jackson" died here yesterday
of pneumonia and will be buried to-
morrow. He leaves two cousins here,
but his other relatives are in Sweden.
FORT SMITH, Ark, Jan. 25.-Four-
teen out of sixteen miners entombed
by an explosion in a Witteville, I. T..
mine, No. G, suffocated last night
Thirty-two men from another mine
were rescued without injury. Rescue
parties were organized but thc mine
was so hot that 10 entrance could be-
effected
The bodies recovered are those oi
John Anderson, William Alexander,
James, Thomas, Joseph Burke, 5. IL.
Dunlap and FIVE Italians.
KANSAS CITY, Jan 25-The
Southwestern Lumbermen's associa-
tion adjourned today after endorsing
President Roosevelt and railroad rate
regulation, and declaring for the re
moval of the tarif on Canadian lum-
ber and approving the good roads
movement The new officers are: T.
II. Rogers of Oklahoma City. presl-
dent: w NJ. Johns Of Sedalia, Mo-,
vice president; Harry Gorsouch OF
Kansas City. secretary. Among the
directors are w. ID. Frant Of Enid
Okla, and G. w. Halloran of pitts
burg. Kas.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 25.-Attorney
General Hadley of Missouri appeared
today before Commissioner Schwed
ener to continue taking dispositions
in the custer suit against the Stand
ard and subsidiary concerns. Nine o
twelve subpoenas had been served.
Among the witnesses called wer'
c. b. Schofeld and Daniel Schurmer
members of an Independent firm al
sorbed by the Standard; Frank Rocke
feller and Captain James Corrigar
one of Rockefeller's bitterest enemies
w. f. Judd of the Republic Oil con
many was also among the Witnessed