Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-09-12
TELEGRAPH NEWS


mander OF the grand army in tn,
, person OF Gen. John T. Wilder of Ten
nessee.
William ]. Bryan will make a speeci
making tour OF New York under the
auspices of the Progressive Democratic
league.
Postal clerks in convention at fe
oria will petition congress for an eight
hour day with a yearly vacation OF
thirty days.
The famous Cliff house at the ocean
beach at San Francisco caught fire
and burned Saturday afternoon. Loss
over 100000.
Mrs. Phillips. widow of the coal man
and banker murdered in Cleveland by
a burglar. according to first report,
has been held by the police.
| dozen or more people were burn
ed to death in the Webb hotel at Shell
ton. about 20 miles from Tacoma,
| Wash. Many others are missing.
l u ltpolt thdl r
Ryan and other capitalists are form.
ing big company to secure a mo-
nopoly of the manufacture of type
writer's.
Railroad officials fear repetition
! of the coal famine in the northwe 1t
| and will aid Commissioner Lane in
an inquiry which he has started n
st. Paul.
Chicago American league teams is
how in the fourth place with Phila.
delphia leading. It's surely pretty
race for the pennant-the most ex
citing in many years.
The wit of the Record Herald thinks
1t will not be necessary to write Michi-
gan after Detroit in case the TIGERS
win the American league pennant
rhis is satI fof you.
Over IT'S iron molders went on
strike at Evansville. Ind, because of
an order issued at the five stove foun-
dries preventing the drinking of beer
on the premises during the noon hour
The Hindu in the northwest is hav-
ing a hard time of it as the whites
are determined they shall be deport-
ed. And their deportation will cause
many industries to close down owing
to lack OF help.
A special to the San Antonio Ex-
press from Monterey, Mexico, says:
News reached this city from Musquiz.
Coahuila, that another terrible mine
| fire occurred at Esparanzas mines. In
which twenty-seven men were killeo.
The International Harvester com
pany of Wisconsin Saturday pleaded
guilty to a violation of the Texas
antitrust laws. and paid fine of
| $35. 900 assessed by the court. The
Taft are back Of Congressman Burton
in his contest against Tom Johnson
| company also agreed that perpetual
injunction be entered forbidding it to
operate in Texas.
Sumner says that Roosevelt and
| for the mayoralty Of Cleveland and
that the national administration hopes
by winning the fight to settle the is
sues in Ohio over the presidential
nomination.
In an address before the postal
clerks convention in Peoria Congress
man Overstreet said that II the bust
ness of the postoffce department
could be as well conducted as is the
business of the Standard Oil company,
l per cent postage would be in force
and employees OF the department would
be better paid.
Figures given out by the general
land office show that the total re-
ceipts from sales Of public lands in
Colorado during the fiscal year end
ed June 30, 1907. amounted to $674,-
1862. as against $5S5.96S in the pre-
vious year. Receipts in Wyoming were
S434, 63l, as against $685. a year
ago. Out OF the total receipts of sS,
4s4,983 approximately ss,0O0,000 will
go into the reclamation fund, swelling
its total to more than 100000 be
tween now and March 4.
The Winters Metallic Paint com
pany OF Iron Ridge. Wis, filed com
plant with the interstate commerce
commit sion against the Santa Fe. I'm
ion Pacific and Southern Pacific rail
roads. charging unjust rates on grour'
iron paint from Wisconsin TO the Pa
cific coast towns. 1t claims that th'
present rates from its plant at Iroi
Ridge to the Pacific coast is 80 cent
per hundred pounds. while the rat
from New York and other Atlanti
ports to the Pacific on the same CON
modify is only 60 cents per 100 pound
: Directors OF the Chicago, Burline
: ton and Quincy railroad Saturday dt
ciared quarterly dividend OF 2 pc
cent on the company's stock and a
|, extra dividend Of 6 per cent. Th
: quarterly dividend Of 2 per cent is a
advance of one quarter of l per cen