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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
From Mondays Daily.
Auditor Billingslea spent the Sab
bath at the Strater.
Dan MacLean returned Saturday ev.
ening from his Denver trip.
Commissioners are in session today.
Regular monthly meeting.
w. Y. Kinney passed through to Sill
verton from Denver last evening.
c. E. Mcconnell departed for Den
yer Sunday morning as scheduled
Hank Sherman passed through to
Denver from Silver.on Sunday morn
iI.g.
Both coach and parlor cars were
well filed with passengers Sunday
morning.
Robert Honaker, one of the old time
settlers In Montezuma county, died
last week.
Tom Jordan of Del Norte is late
arrival and may decide to remain per.
manently.
Walter Hunter is taking in the
sights of Denver, going out Sunday
morning.
e. M. Hampton and wife are over
from Pagosa Springs, arriving Satur-
day evening.
t. M. Trippe came down from Sill
yerton this morning and is registered
at the Strater hotel.
DIR. Folsom is attending to busines
again after few days siege of the
grip.
Pagosa Springs is agitating the
question: Shall Pagosa have a ball
team?"
1t Is reported the Denver G. Rio
Grande will install electric motors
on their Denver-Pueblo line.
Charley Stilwell is spreading him.
self for the business mems banquet
and the feed will be a hummer.
Seems natural to see Billy Wick
line on the streets again. While con-
siderably better he is still feeble.
The six children of Mr.. and Mrs.
C. c. Crawford, residing in Archuleta
county are down with scarlet fever.
Hon. and Mrs. Adair Wilson were
among last evenings arrivals from
Denver and are domiciled at the Stra-
ter again,
The Rico News rightfully says no
law should permit a mother to CON
sent to the marriage of a 15-year-old
daughter.
ers at the smelter. held the lucky
number that drew the Hahn piano.
A splendid instrument for ST.
That old and tried veteran, David
Swickheimer, has secured control of
ID
be a solid institution.
The special library edition of The
Herald Is going to be the best number
issued from Durango newspaper
office since The Heralds special edi-
tion of fifteen years ago.
Mrs. John Smelcer goes to Denver
in the morning where she hopes to
improve faster from her long and Sc
rious illness. We trust this will be
the case.
March term of the county court
convened this morning and the docket
called. The Day cases were set for
trial, starting tomorrow morning.
Train arrived from Denver right on
tne dot last evening and just as the
postoffce force figured on going to
church came the announcement that
the Southern was several hours late.
%
The Herald was mistaken regarding
the trial of the Day cases, giving him
one day less of worry than is the
case, the cases against him not being
called until tomorrow morning.
Mrs, John Kellenberger left this
morning for Denver where she will
put In a couple or three weeks. await
ing the arrival Of Mr.. Kellenberger
who 10 np onn ~ bfc MI In
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

Butte is still without daily newspa-
pers owing to the printers strike.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

The Patterson contempt case is be-
Ing heard in Washington today.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

New South Wales paid 33,5O0 900 in
four years In bounties for rabbits.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

1t is said that valture can scent
It's food forty miles away.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

In Ireland there are on the average
20s rainy days per year.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

An ostrich yields about three pounds
OF feathers yearly.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

The average English woman is two
inches taller than the American.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

Thomas NJ. Patterson is now pri-
vate citizen.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

to the convention to select a candi.
date for mayor and other city Off
GERS. The election this spring is an
important one and the republicans
have the cards to win Ii properly
played.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

What are you going to do about
painting your house this spring? 1t
Ia now time to be considering this
matter and in doing so be careful to
select the proper colors SO that they
will harmonic with the other houses
in your block and the natural sur-
roundings o. the city.
Remember that there Is a harmony
In colors and when the harmony IS
broken by the use Of one color on a
house in a block that does not har-
monize with its surroundings and the
other colors, the appearance Of all the
houses in the block is destroyed.
that are not suitable might be worse
than no paint at all.
There are certain colors that blend
with the natural surroundings OF the
city and remember that the natural
color surroundings constantly change
with the seasons.
A suitable color will harmonize with
the natural colors at all seasons oi
the year.
Consult your painter ~ to these
colors and hs viii know what color
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

Rev. MARYLAND preached to full
benches both morning and evening
Sunday at the Baptist church. In the
morning he raped church societies
that give church suppers and dinners.
He does not believe in kitchen an
mex 70 a church.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

Webster's International dictionary
leads the world. 1t is up to date and
reliable, the last edition containing
25,000 new words and phrases. Its SUI
periority over all other dictionaries is
conceded by leading educators the
world over and accounts for its I'M
usually large sales every year. If you
are in need of such book write for
rec sample pages.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

March term of the county court
convened this morning and the docket
called. The Day cases were set for
trial, starting tomorrow morning.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

G. l.. Shumway, assistant editor of
the Irrigation Age, came up from
Farmington Saturday evening and con-
tinued to his Nebraska home Sunday
morning, being accompanied by his
wife. Mr.. Shumway has been gather
ing statistics and general information
or an extended article on the lower
country and irrigation problems which
will soon appear in the Irrigation
Age.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07
seAurlEY DURANGO. ".Sln1

Furnished by the Committee on
Streets and Parks. E. Buchanan,
Chairman of Durango Board of Trade.
Committee-W. A. Perry, Mrs. r.
Pulford. w. S. Pickerell. H. T. Hen
derson-
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07

Special attention Is called to the re-
publican call. Those interested in
the welfare of the party and the In
terests Of the city. should see to 1t
that the right men are selected for
aldermen and ersditahls delegates sent
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TO AVERT BLOODSHED
FOUR GOVERNMENTS ACTING IN
UNISON TO SETTLE CENTRAL
AMERICAN TROUBLE.

Washington, Feb. 9-Costa R1ca
and Salvador have joined their efforts
to those of the United States and
Mexico to prevent war in Central
America as the result of the present
friction between Honduras and Mic
aragua. Senior Calvo, the minister to
Washington from Costa RIGA, had a
conference with state department off,
Gals relative to the subject and was
able to assure them that his govern
ment, after communicating with that
of Salvador, had undertaken to inter-
vene to the extent Of making repre-
sensations to the opposing govern
ments calculated to induce them to re-
frain from hostilities.
It appears that the question of ma
tioaal pride is large factor In the
problem. Each side feels that in view
of the bloodshed that has taken place
on the borders only war can satisfy
the demands of honor. It is the pur-
pose Of the four governments that are
now acting in conjunction in the in
terest of peace to convince the would
be belligerents that their honor would
not be aspersed by submitting their
differences to peaceful adjudication.
Honduras has accepted this view and
it now remains only for Nicaragua to
yield to this influence.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-02-15
Monday, Feb. II.

Right Rev. A. X. Sagen. bishop of
the Norwegian Lutheran synod for
the district including the United
States east Of the Mississippi river, is
dead at La Crosse, Wis.
The striking boot and shoe workers
at Fcugeres, France, have agreed to
resume work. twenty-five of the fac
tories affected by the strike have
agreed to slight increase in wages.
The heart of New Yorks Chinatown
was officially wiped out at a meeting
of the board of estimate, when a new
park was authorized. It is on the
block bounded by the Bowery, Doyers,
Pell and Mott streets.
Lady Cook of England, formerly
Miss Tennessee Claflin, had an audi
ence with President Roosevelt, max
ing plea to the president for his sup
port of the movement to give suffrage
to women. She declined to say what
reply Mr.. Roosevelt had made to her
representations.
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Tuesday,, Feb. ~.

Frederick A. Busse, postmaster OF
Chicago, has declared himself can
didate for the Republican nomination
for mayor.
At the annual meeting Of the Chi.
cago Gas Light and Coke company
the corporation was consolidated with
the Ogden Gas company
A dispatch received at St. Peters,
burg from Teheran, Persia, says that
the revolutionary movement is spread
ing at Teheran, Shirazan, Tabriz and
Resht.
The Mississippi river at Natchez,
Miss, Is four and half feet above
the danger line. Refugees from the
lowlands are arriving there in large
numbers.
BY the collapse of second story
floor in a schoolhouse at Woonsocket,
r. l., 200 persons were thrown to the
flood below. twenty-five persons suf-
fered slight injuries.
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Saturday, Feb. 9.

The director of the mint has pur-
chased 100000 ounces of silver for de-
livery at Philadelphia at 1894 cents
per fine ounce.
Speaker Cannon, who is suffering
from severe cold, is much better,
but his physician has advised him to
remain at home for short time
longer.
Fire at Logan, w. Va, destroyed
the principal business block, in which
was located the postoffice, the Masonic
and Odd Fellows building and num-
Der of other buildings.
James Stillman, president of the
National City bank Of New York city,
who sailed about month ago for
Europe, is seriously i'll in Paris with
an affection of the intestines.
There is yet no prospect of an
agreement On the pending bill to
amend the immigration laws and the
indications are that the bill will fail
with the close of the Fifty-ninth con-
gress on March 4.
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KILLED BY INTERNAL MACHINE
Justice Of the Peace at Paterson, N.
j., the Victim.

Justice Of the Peace at Paterson, NJ
j., the Victim.
Paterson, N. j., Feb. 9.-Robert
Cortese, justice of the peace, was SC
shockingly wounded in his Office by q
bomb sent to him by express that he
died.
His son Robert, aged seventeen,
who was standing beside him when he
opened the deadly machine, was in.
jured seriously.
The explosion tore hole five feet
deep and ten feet in circumference
through the floor of Cortese's Office.
The room was shattered and build
ings for two blocks were shaken as
by an earthquake.
Not long ago a gang of his country
men robbed Cortese's father of $1,000.
He went after them with such relent-
lessness that one of the criminals is
now in the state prison under a five
wear sentence.
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OIL KINGS IMMENSE GIFT.
Donates 1000, 900 to General Eduea
ton Board,

Donates $4,000, 900 to General Educa
ton Board.
New York, Feb. S.-The immense
sum of $32, 600, 900 is the browning gift
of John D. Rockefeller for the purpose
of promoting the general cause of edu'
cation. This stupendous gift was made
to the general education board, the
body specially created by congress
four years ago to administer the
Rockefeller charities in the cause OF
education.
Added to the $11,000,000 which the
head of the Standard Oil trust already
had placed at the disposal of that body
1t makes a grand total of $4,000, 900.
Ultimately, it Is said, the fund of the
general education board is to be raised
to $5O,000,000 through donations by
other rich men. friends of the Rookie
fellers who are interested with him in
his charitable enterprises.
OF the $32,OO00O0 one-third is to 60
into the permanent endowment fund
of the general education board and
two-thirds is to be applied to certain
roecifc purposes by the direction OF
John D. Rockefeller or his son, John
D., Jr.
Just what these specific purposes
are was not made public, but in gen
eral way it was stated that the inter
est on the fund Is to be used In help
ing colleges and schools, not only In
the South but In all parts of the coun
frv
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-02-15
DEED OLA TERRORIST
KILLS GOVERNOR OF PENZA ANC
TWO POLICE OFFICERS AND
THEN SUICIDES.

Penza, Russia, Feb. SIS. A. Alex
androvslzy, governor Of Penza, was
shot and killed by a young man as he
was leaving the theater. In desper-
ate attempt to escape the assassin
also killed the assistant chief of police
and policeman and wounded the
manager Of the theater Before the
terrorist could be captured he shot
himself and died shortly afterwards In
a hospital. The assassin was not iden-
tilted. The bullets which he used in
his revolver were subsequently discov-
cred to be poisoned.
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Friday, Feb. 8.

Tie intensely cold weather which
has prevailed in Spain recently has
destroyed the winter crops in several
provinces.
Isabelle Urquhart, the actress, who
had been i'll at Rochester, N. Y, for
two weeks, died suddenly OF Internal
hemorrhages.
The mardi gras carnival week began
Thursday night at New Orleans with
the allegorical street parade OF Mo-
mus, God of Mirth.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave
reception Thursday night In honor OF
the army and navy. 1t was the final
formal evening levee of the season at
the White House.
Former Congressman Benjamin w.
Harris is dead at Bridgewater, Mass,
at the age of eighty-three years. Judge
Harris was a prominent Republican
and had served ten years in congress,
where he was known as the father of
the new navy"
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MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED AND
FIFTY PERSONS PERISH IN
coLlleloN OF VESSELS.
DISASTER OCCURS OFF RHODE
ISLAND COAST DURING A
HIGH NoRThWEsT GALE.
ONLY NINETEEN OF TWO HUN.
DRIED ON BOARD UNFORTU.
NATE VESSEL ESCAPE.

Block Island, r. l., Feb. 12.-Only
nineteen out of an estimated total Of
from $50 to 200 persons survived the
sinking Of the Joy line steamer Larch-
mont in Block Island sound during the
night. OF the saved eight were pas
sengers, six men and two women, and
the rest were members of the crew,
including Captain McVey. The Larch-
mont, which was bound from Provi-
dence, r. l., to New York, went down
after colliding with the schooner
Harry Knowlton. The survivors
reached this island in small boats. In
the boats which carried the survivors
were the bodies of several passengers
who had frozen to death during the
trip from the wreck to the land.
It is impossible to accurately fix the
number of those lost. Captain McVey
estimated the number of passengers
as $50 and the crew as fifty. On the
basis of these figures the number of
those who persisted was placed at 1S1.
The bodies of the victims of the
disaster we're being washed ashore
constantly. So far ffty-one have
been taken from the water.
The collision between the Larch-
mont and the schooner occurred about
three miles off Watch Hill, r. I. The
Harry knowlton, which was bound
from South Amboy for Boston with
coal, foundered few hours after the
accident, but Captain Frank T. Haley
and crew of six men escaped in the
ships boats and reached shore at
Watch Hill.
Boats swampsd by High Seas.
According to Captain McVey Of the
Larchmont the steamer remained
afloat barely ten minutes after the
collision. Boats and RATS were
launched hastily and in them passen-
gers and crew waged desperate bat
tie with high seas and strong gales.
The night was extremely cold and
many died from exposure. Five boats
and four RATS, carrying nineteen sur
vivors and the bodies Of eleven dead,
managed to reach Block Island. Sur
vivors expressed the opinion that all
on board the Larchmont had secured
places in boats or RATS, but that many
of the boats were swamped and many
persons were swept away by the seas
or had fallen overheard overcome by
the cold.
Captain McVey said he could not
estimate the exact loss of life at this
time. His steamer left Providence
late in the evening and at the time of
the collision Captain McVey had not
had an opportunity to examine the
passenger list, which had been hand
ed to him just before his steamer left
Providence. The captains estimate
of the number of those on board
agrees, however, with the estimate
made by the Joy line officials at
Providence, who said that the Larch-
mont carried about $50 passengers
and a crew of fifty.
The inhabitants of all parts of the
island turned out to assist In rescue
work, although many of them live
several miles from the point off which
the steamer sank. The northwest
gale continued, with zero tempera-
ture, throughout the forenoon.
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TWELVE YEARS IN THE HOUSE.
Congressman Rixey Of Virginia Deac
at Washington.

Congressman Rixey Of Virginia Dead
at Washington.
Washington, Feb. 9.-John Frank
lin Rixey of the Eighth Virginia dis
trict died shortly before a. m. at the
residence of his brother, Surgeon Gen
eral Rixey Of the navy, in this city.
his death being due to tuberculosis of
the throat and lungs. Representative
Rixey has not been In his seat this
session. his malady beginning to as
sert itself after the close of the last
session Of congress. He was second
in the list of minority members of the
naval affairs committee. Mr.. Rixey
entered the house with the Fifty-fifth
congress and has been continuously a
member of that body since that time.
He was born in 1854.
The house adjourned Immediately
upon receiving notice of the death of
Mr.. RiXey.
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NARRATEs STORY OF LIFE.
Mrs. Thaw Tells Of Her Relation
With Stanford White.

Mrs. Thaw Tells Of Her Relations
With Stanford White.
New York, Feb. 7.-Evelyn Nesblt
Thaw, the wife of the man charged
with the murder of Stanford White,
took the witness stand in defense OF
her husband and told the story of her
relations with Stanford White, the
famous architect, who was killed by
Harry Thaw.
The story was a simple narrative,
told in a girlish way, and in its midst
the young woman broke down and
cried and could proceed only with
difficulty.
1T was in September, 1901" said
Mrs. Thaw, who appeared but slip
of girl in the big witness chair, with
her hair caught low on her neck and
tied with a big black ribbon, when
Mr.. White invited me to another OF
the parties had attended with him.
I had been left in his care by my
mother, whom he had sent to Pitts
burg. l was just past sixteen years
old.
This night, when got to Mr..
Whites studio in Twenty-fourth street,
there was not anybody there. Mr..
White said: Well, well, they all
seem to have turned me down. He
said, Never mind, we would eat
alone Later said I must go home.
He said he wanted to show me an
other part of the house and We went
into a bedroom with mirrors all round.
'He gave me more champagne. Then
everything became whirly and black.
When I came to my clothes were all
off. l screamed and screamed, but he
kept telling me to stop, saying, Its
over it's all right"
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CONTINUES HER STORY.
Mrs. Thaw Brings Narrative Down to
Date Of Wedding.

New York, Feb. 8.-Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw continued on the witness
stand during the day at the trial Of
Harry X. Thaw, her husband, carry
ing forward the narrative Of her life
from the point where she had left 1t
off the previous afternoon.
The story began with the period i'm
mediately following her return from
Europe in October, 1903, and was
brought down to the return Of the girl
and her husband to New York after
their honeymoon trip in 1905, when,
she said, Stanford White had called to
her on the street and attempted to
speak to her.
After her marriage with Thaw, the
witness said, they took trip through
the West. While in Pittsburg, she
said, she had lived at the home of her
husbands mother. She related how
she had persistently refused to marry
Thaw before she finally did so. Her
refusal, she said, was because OF her
reputation.
At the opening of the afternoon SEES
ZION Mrs. Thaw testified that one day
h Whites studio Jack Barrymore,
the actor, asked her if she would
marry him. She replied she did not
know. Mr.. Delmas then asked Mrs.
Thaw if Thaw had told her the fate
of other girls eat the hands Of this
man White"
District Attorney Jerome Immediate
ly objected to any further "defa-
nation being thrown upon the
dead, who have no chance to answer"
Justice Fitzgerald ruled that further
competent evidence as to Thaw' In
sanity should be introduced.
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Tuesday, Feb. IL.

senate-Day devoted to discussion
of the bill granting the government
the right to take an appeal on points
of law in criminal cases. The oppo-
~ition came mainly from Senators Ray
not and White of Maryland and Hey
burn of Idaho.
House, laval appropriation bill un.
der consideration. Number of meas
ures passed by unanimous consent.
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NEWS CONVERSATIONS
Ihureday. Feb. Z.

Speaker Cannon is confined to his
home with a severe cold which has
oeen troubling him for several days. n
Mrs. Drusilla Morrell, whose hus.
band fought in the War q, 1872, ~
dead in Brooklyn at the ase OF w..
She was born in Marlborough, Mass,
in 1904. '& Pied
The Kentucky court ofrappeals has
sustained the validity 81 the act OF
the general assembly prohibiting the
formation of trusts. combines and
pools of interests. t#
The death of Rear Admiral Albert
Kautz, U. 8. NJ. retired, at Florence
Italy, is announced in telegram re-
ceived by Professor Eugene VAN
baugh of Harvard university.
James Bryce, the ambassador OF
Great Britain to the United States
and Mrs! Bryce have def 'tely ar
ranged TO sail for New York from
Liverpool on the steamer Oceanic
Feb. 13.
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Monday, Feb. II.

Senate-Army bill passed. An
amendment permitting officers and
men to accept reduced rates from rail-
roads was defeated; as was also an
other increasing by 20 per cent the
pay of officers and enlisted men.
House-Day devoted almost ex'
clusively to District of Columbia bust
ness
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st. Paul Union Stock Yards.

st. Paul, Feb. 11.-Cattle- to
choice steers, $5.50@6.25; common to
good, $4.OO@5.00; good to choice COWS
and heifers, $3.50@4.75; veals, $4.50@
800. Hogs-$6.S0@6.90. Sheep-Weth-
ers, $475@5.25; good to prime spring
lambs, $6.5O@7.25.
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Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Feb. 11.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. / hard, $3.50; No.
1 Northern, $500; No. 2 Northern,
$3.50; May, 82Ac; July, SIC; Sept,
1910. Flax-To arrive, $1.23; May,
1924; July, $1.23; Oct, $1.18h.
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Loss on Building and Contents About
$1,5oO,000.

PISSOV1VOVs
Philadelphia. Feb. "a fire, entail
ing loss of $1,500,0O0, destroyed
Lyndhurst, the handsome country
home of former Postmaster General
John Wanamaker at Shelton Hills,
near Jenkinstown.
The estate consists of thirty acres
Of ground. The house, which in the
main was of English style of architec-
ture, stood on hill about $50 yards
back from the famous old York road.
The Wanamaker art gallery contained
some of the rarest prints and most
valuable paintings in existence. Mr..
Wanamaker and his family have been
at their winter home in this city and
the country place was in charge of
caretaker.