Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-02-11


An active campaign against bull
fights has been started in the City of
Mexico.
II. II. Rogers will have to give back
sl,500000 which he made by manipu-
lating Bay State Gas,
A bill will probably be introduced
in congress providing for leasing gov
ernment mineral lands In public do.
main.
Grover Cleveland is to receive a
salary of s25.000 year for acting AZ
chairman of the Life Insurance Presi-
dents association
Joe Cans and Harry Lewis will fight
to finish for $4,000 purse. Lewis
is daisy fighter and Cans will have
to go some to win.
Prices of kindling wood are raised
almost to prohibitive figure in New
York, and retail dealers may demand
an investigation Of the combination
they allege exists among wholesalers.
The action OF the house sounded the
death knell of horse racing in Tennes-
see. that body passing the anti-gam-
bling bill. The measure had already
passed the senate. The governor will
sign the bill which takes immediate
effect.
President Murdo Mckenzie OF the
National Live Stock association. was
in conference with the president Mon.
day and will remain In Washington
to attend a meeting called by the pres
ident to be held Monday to discuss
the grazing situation.
John Kosiscuhky, Ga years old, and
Mrs. Augusta J. Wusterbath, 5s years
old, were married Saturday last at
Merlden. Conn. Mrs. kosiscuhki is
the mother of thirteen children, and
Kosiscuhh has eight The first meet
ing of Mr.. and Mrs. Koslscuhh was
romantic. The wedding OF Mrs. Kosis-
cuhhds eldest son to Mr.. Kosiscuhki' s
eldest daughter brought them together.
A protracted and bitter judicial war
between the Gould and Hartman rail-
road interests has just been won by
the Goulds. The case involved the
right Of the Western Pacific to cross
the tracks of the Southern Pacific and
build its mole along the tide line on
the Oakland side OF the bay The de-
c.slon OF the supreme court grants TO
Mr.. Gould the right to acquire such
terminals as may be necessary.
Alex Hanson. an 11-year-old boy, at
tempted to commit suicide at Wau-
paca, wis, and the reason is said to
have been objections which were made
to his marrying 13-year-old girl. The
boy lives with his mother. who was
made widow three years ago when
| her husband ended his own life. Mrs
| Hanson heard a shot in an upstairs
room of her home and hustening to
! the room from which the sound came
she found her son on the floor bleed
ing from a wound through his lef'
lung.
| Monday morning at 9 o'clock rail
road section hands employed in ever,
state In the union and on every sys
tenn OF railroad In the country ceased
work, and with their faces turned TO
ward Fort Scott, devoted five min
utes to silent thought for the goot
of their union and the success OF III
efforts to better their condition. INT
annual convention of the Nationa
Union of Railway Trackmen met IL
that city at that hour, and this uniqu'
requisition upon occultism had beel
deliberately planned with firm faitl
in the efficiency Of mental telepathy
A snowslide on Marshall pass Tues
day blockaded railroad traffic nearl
forty-eight hours.
The mercury dropped 25 degrees 1
five minutes at Pueblo Monday. Thi
is believed to be the record.
A Denver peanut vender is said I
have $4,000 in the bank, the profit
OF the past ten years from his fru
, stand.