Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-02-07

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lost their lives In a snowslide which
ran here about 10 o'clock last night.
The dead are:
JOHN REYNOLDS.
CHAs. BRUNNEIL.
MRS. CHAS. BRUNNELL.
AN AGED PRosPBCToR, name I'm,
known.
None OF the bodies have thus far
been recovered. The Brunnells were
caught in their cabin. the ruins OF
which together with their bodies are
buried fifty feet under the snow.
Salida. Colo, Feb. 6.-The body OF
Fred Mason, owner OF the boarding
house at Monarch, which together with
the Skinner saloon and the residence
of Fred Schrader. was swept away by
a gigantic snowslide Monday night,
was recovered last evening. making
six bodies so far dug from beneath the
mountain Of snow, rocks and timbers
from the wrecked building Fears are
expressed that there are still one or
two more bodies under the slide and
the work of rescue Is still in progress,
although not as actively as Monday
night and yesterday.
New York. Feb 6.--The Times this
morning says Hartman, anticipating
an adverse report by the Interstate
commission is arranging to separate
the Union Pacific and the Southern
Pacific. The Southern Pacific stock
will be sold.
Rome. Feb. 6.-Wm. f. Cook. an
American artist of Iowa, has been
! given commission to point portrait
of the pope.
Denver Feb. 6.-'The state senate
today by almost unanimous vote. only
one voting nay, expelled Senator Nor
gan for accepting a railroad bribe.
| Morgan was not present. He has not
been in his seat all this week.
New York. Feb. 4.-While the supply
Of bituminous coal is practically mex
haustible that of anthracite, the
| smokeless product which Is obtained
from American mines is SO limited
| that the next forty or fifty years will
see the exhaustion of the supply. Rear
| Admiral Davis, now commanding the
Atlantic fleet. would have the national
government pre- empt all the anthra
cite that is left. He asserts that no
| other maritime nation possesses a
weapon OF such tremendous power as
does America in the anthracite fields
OF Pennsylvania and the fields "be In
stantly appropriated by the national
| government and reserved for It's own
uses" Urging that every ton OF an
thracite be kept for the use OF the
| United States navy. Admiral Davis
I says. pile 1t upon our naval stations
at home, make great stores OF 1t at
the coaling stations we now have
abroad and acquire more OF these sta
tions from friendly nations at con
yenient points in foreign lands.
| Washington, Feb. 4.--The lessons OF
the war between Russia and Japan
have Influenced naval construction all
over the world. The tendency is 20
ward bigger battleships, and the great
nations are beginning to build them.
England set the pace with the Dread
naught, which at present is the most
talked-of ship In the world. No Ell
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tleship for a year, waiting to see how
| the Dreadnaught turned out. She In
the first battleship to be built with
turbine engines, as well as the most
powerful ever constructed, and has
been a great success. We have hesi-
] tatel about adopting turbines until
Japan has got ahead OF us. She is
having two turbine engines built for
a battleship and a cruiser at the Fore
River Shipbuilding company's yard at
| Quincy. Mass, and they promise to
be very successful
In the naval appropriation last year
congress provided for a 20.000-ton bat
| NlsSulp, Dut uiu nut hppiopin'e t"N
money to pay for 1t. The navy depart
ment was directed to submit plans for
the approval OF congress. Those plans
have been submitted for 20,000-ton
ship with $4,000 horse power engines.
a speed of twenty-one knots. to carry
ten twleve-lnch guns. 1t will cost
about l0.O00.00O. Our most expensive
battle ship up to date has cost about
$1,000, 900. The proposed ship will re.
Qulre thirty officers and $50 men.
the Dreadnaught is little smaller.
having a displacement OF $4,000 tons,
and little faster. having speed OF
twenty-one and one-half knots, and has
the same armament as the leviathan
proposed for our navy. Three dupli-
Gates OF the Dreadnaught are now
, nearing completion In the English
shipyards. and the admiralty has de
/ cided to ask parliament for the money
I to build three more.
England also has under constructor