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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

C. H. Angel, aged 80. a wealthy
land owner of Clarksville, Ia, spent
Saturday night in the Waterloo city
jail, and prefers it to any home he
has ever had. Wandering away from
home Sunday he went to Waterloo,
where his friends were notified. They
ordered him taken to hotel, but he
objected, and slept in the pail. The
next morning the aged man was taken
forcibly to the train to be returned
home, but he declared he would come
back and break into jail. Physical
restraint is necessary to prevent his
carrying out his desire.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Admiral Evans is of the opinion
that when the navy is built up to it is
proper proportions we should have
sixteen battle ships on the Atlantic
and sixteen on the Pacific The
equal division is the main point, for
the number will be governed by the
advisability OF having enough as the
country grows.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06
WEATHER suMMERY FOR APRIL.

Highest temperature during the
month, 10. the 10th; lowest, % on the
21st; greatest daily range, 40.
Rainfall-2.42 inches OF rain and 80
inches of snow.
There were only four perfectly clear
days, II partly cloudy and cloudy
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Inheritance Tax Clerk Morrison has
adopted a set of rules governing the
business connected with his depart
ment, chief of which is that the valua-
tons on all estates must be endorsed
by him before the estate can be set
tied by the county authorities.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

With an electric line to Bayfield, and
up Pine river rich section of La
Plata county will be given facilities
that will increase the wealth OF the
county Every enterprise of this char.
acter means advancement.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Three hundred thousand Russian
Immigrants are expected in the United
States this year, The sweet Russian
accent will begin to dawn shortly on
political orators.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Secretary Taft says the monthly
statement OF excavation at Panama is
not measurement OF loose dirt. but
represents a removal OF solid earth
from the canal prism, and it is dump
ed where 1t is to remain permanently.
Operations at Panama stand investiga-
ton, and they are getting It,
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Within the next few weeks thirty
ships will bring 10000 immigrants to
this country. New York's immlgra-
ton commissioner says the thrush will
be the greatest ever seen in that
city. The largest arrivals will be from
Germany and Italy.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Former Senator Spooner declares
for justice rather than vengeance in
dealing with the railroad problem.
Mr.. Spooner will have to admit. how
ever, that the railroads must come
into court with clean hands.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Women who attend the actors fund
fair In New York are not to be per.
mltted to wear decollete gowns. The
management must have an idea that
win on Its merits.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

In the last three months of 1906
automobiles killed twenty.eight per
sons in New York, and vehicles drawn
by horses killed seyenty-six. The
moral is that the dangers OF the
streets are underrated generally.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

It's discouraging to spend hundreds
Of dollars improving your premises
to have stock driven ruthlessly over
your grounds. Let stockherders be
reminded they will be held responsible
for damage.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Gambling dens in Chicago are being
rooted out by the new administration.
Mayor Busse says the evil must be
eradicated and the Offenders are be-
ing haused up and given heavy fines
with assurance that the dose will be
reneatad
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

One branch of Floridas Legislature
has adopted a joint resolution de-
claring the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments TO the constitution void.
The other house should read up the
history of attempted notification be
fore acting on this remarkable propo
sitlon.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

There is in New York girl Is
years old who complains that she can
a year. II she will come to Durango
and marry one OF our young men we
will guarantee he will be willing to
live on half the sum.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

We are patiently awaiting the ac-
acknowledgement by Tom Patterson OF
the $400 to $500 In pennies collected
by Dave Day OF the Democrat. Mr..
Patterson should not accept cent
less than $500 as we have the iles Of
the Democrat to prove that At least
this amount was handed In BY various
individuals.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

A New York judge has decided that
dimple In girls cheek is worth
$1,000. When a girl with dimples says
that her face is her fortune she isn't
using a mere figure OF speech.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

1t Is Mr.. Carnegies idea that the po-
sition of ex-president Of the United
States is not big enough For Mr..
Roosevelt. and that the powers ought
to get together in 1909 and constitute
him the worlds peacemaker.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

May Yohe has been married again.
Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong hay
Ing been deserted by her. Strong has
not announced his intention of doing
something handsome for the other
man
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

What was left of Manchuria has
been restored to China. but it is safe
to say that the evacuating Japs and
Russians overlooked nothing but the
real estate.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

George Bernard Shaw has expressed
the opinion that rich people who do
not believe In distributing their
wealth ought TO be guillotined.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Des Moines bachelor has had to
appeal to the chief OF police for pro
lection from women who wish To be
married to him. Better come to Du-
raugo
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

One of the labor chiefs says that
at no time in the past ten years has
there been SO much peace In the in
dustrial world at this season as there
is today.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Cuba's treasury contains large
surplus, and the island generally In
its business AFFAIRS is enjoying Re
publican times.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Durango can easily put up one hun
dred thousand dollars towards a sugar
factory. 1t means big interest on the
investment and greatly increased val
uations.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Lawyer Darrow is using his elo
quence to create sympathy for Meyer
and Haywood. But the people are
tired of trouble-breeders.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Secretary Taft will deliver a series
of speeches in Ohio on the Panama
canal. The people of Ohio are might
lily worked up about the canal.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE.

i
The output of Cripple Creek for the
month of April was s1,177,5e5.
Attorney General Hadley of Mis-
souri, will spend the summer at Bould
er.
The postoffice department has dis
continued the carrier system at Flor.
ence.
Two hundred Los Angeles teamsters
walked out yesterday and others may
folloy
Greeley potatoes are now selling at
$1.25 per hundred, the highest price
| for years.
Eleven inches OF snow fell in vi.
cinity of Ft- Collins Monday. Durango
escaped lightly.
Mabel Gilman says she is to wed
Corey the 18th of this month. Picked
out a lucky day.
The gold output OF Cripple Creek
during Its fifteen years of existence
is estimated to be s165, 900 900.
Lawrence Squires of Scandia. Kas..
shot himself through the breast at
Fountain after quarrel with his
sweetheart
John Cudahy. the millionaire packer.
Is reported dying as the result of in
juries received some weeks ago.
Interstate Commissioners Knapp and
Neil will arrive in Denver Sunday to
Investigate the D. & r. G. labor situa-
ton.
Denver seems to be in for general
tie-up in building. Mill owners and
contractors refuse TO agree to a closed
shop.
w. w. Wolf. of Boulder. has just
completed the biggest cattle deal ever
made there. He purchased 400 head
OF fat steers at $27 600.
Peeping Thomas Black is serving a
ten day sentence in jail at Florence
for peeping in windows and frighten-
ing women and children.
The school census OF Colorado
Springs shows that there are $3.50
school children within the confines OF
that school district, an increase OF
200 during the year.
Jim Wilson, who brutally beat
companion on the train between Gu
ray and Montrose, was fined 800 and
costs, about s125 in all, at the latter
place.
Stuyvesant Fish, the railroad mag
nate who has allied himself with the
Gould interests, visited Denver Mon
day and Tuesday. Too bad Mr.. Fish
did not get down this way.
Burglars broke in the Bessemer
postoffice the other night and attempt
ed to blow the safe. They failed and
secured nothing for their pains. 1t is
thought they were amateurs.
The board of county commissioners
- n fraa
urer of the county, have taken tax
case against the Santa Fe railroad
to the supreme court on appeal. II
appears that the county made spe-
cial tax levy to build certain bridges.
which had been washed out. and the
railroad company refused to pay $l,402
of this, on the ground that 1t was
more than the appropriation called for.
The railroad won its case In the low
er court OF Bent county.
Refusal to pay poll tax by James
and Thomas McGlenn, bounders ot
Ault, has resulted in their being bound
over for trial on charges of assault
and battery. preferred by w. w. Hart
Marshal Hart says he endeavored to
collect poll taxes from the men and
alleges that they knocked him down
and kicked him severely. The Nc
Glenns say that not only have they
paid their poll taxes in labor for the
city, but have donated fifteen days
work with teams during the last year
for the benefit of their town.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars contributed by our citizens will
make Durango and this southwest sec
ton loom up in great shape.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

ouray people will raise $4,000 to
advertise and boost for Ouray Boost
for your own section and let others
take care of themselves.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Great Britains treasury surplus this
year is s270O0.00O. Uncle Sam pre-
sents congratulations and goes s4o.-
100000 better.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

One fine thing about the present
spring is that 1t keeps us hoping
hoping that it will arrive before win
ter sets In.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

About the only thing that Mr..
Hearst can do with his new party will
be to convert It into some kind of
peace society.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

We have the rest of this year and
the best portion OF 1908 to push and
pail for greater Durango without
the interference of politics.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Let Durango spend one hundred
thousand dollars for sewage and inn
proving First street. VIII be money
well spent.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Meanwhile 1t should be remembered
that clean back yards constitute one
OF the brightest features of city
beautiful.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

The baseball season hasn't opened
with the feryor of former years. All
the umpires are stIll living and un-
SCARED.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

If 1t Is true that ashes will burn.
many cities can remove them and
make money by the operation.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

The people of Colorado have much
to be thankful for. We certainly have
the garden spot of America
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Wonder II it is not about time for
a little sunshine and growing weather?
Summer season will soon be over.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Through the efforts of it's boosting
club. Greeley has been promised bet
ter railroad service.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

John w. Gates will not be able to
play as much poker as heretofore un-
less he gets winning streak.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

1t is reported that Mayor Schmitz Of
San Francisco has confessed to crook
ed work and grafters are greatly dis
turbed.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Commander Colwell, U. s. ~, al
most lost his eyesight through an ac-
cident while watching a mimic battle
at a wild west show.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

II the written laws are enforced
nothing will remain to which the un-
written ones can be applied.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06
THE HON e.


|
Very good cake can be made from
buttermilk after this formula: Cream
one cup OF sugar with butter the size
of an egg, and then add one beaten
egg. one cup of butter milk, one scan
teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonfu
of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful each
of cloves and ginger with sufficient
flour to make fairly stiff Bake in a
loaf or in patty tins.
Denver Pudding: Soften one ounce,
which is the same as one-half box OF
granulated gelatin, in one-half cup OF
cold water for five minutes. Make a
custard OF one pint of milk, four eggs,
one cup of sugar and one teaspoonful
of vanilla When the custard is thick.
add the softened gelatin and let cool.
When this mixture begins to thicken,
beat or stir into 1t two cups of stiffly
beaten cream. A little cocoanut may
be added to this pudding. If desired
Men like pretty homes but they
want that beauty to be of an order
that appeals to comfort. OF what good
are cushions so deliberately embroider-
ed that no head can rest upon them?
What sense is there In easy chairs OF
such rich material that they are quite
the reverse OF the name given them?
Is there any satisfaction In room
the furnishings of which cost hun
dreds of dollars. when it is only open
at rare intervals and the owner must
always sit by the kitchen fire or in
some dingy sitting room?
Common table salt is a great aid in
housecleaning time. 1t is excellent
for cleaning carpets. If SCOT has fallen
on carpet scatter salt over II. The
soon adheres to the salt when 1t is
brushed up lightly and the carpet is
left perfectly clean. The salt should
be thoroughly brushed out of the car.
pet after being used. Salt may be
used to scour marble washstands and
mixed with vinegar II is good for
securing copper utensils. Salt mixed
with lemon juice will remove iron rust
Wet the spots with it and then hold
them over vessel of hot water or
expose TO the bright sunshine.
A jelly Favored with oranges. lem
ons and sweet catawba wine, known
as jelly Ia russo, is delicious for
luncheon or dinner dessert. Soak
half box of gelatine In half cup
of cold water for half an hour. Then
dissolve 1t over hot water Take
cup OF orange juice, half a cup OF
lemon juice and half cup of water
or sweet catawba wine and mix the
juices and wine with three-quarters of
pound of granulated sugar. Stir un-
til the sugar is entirely dissolved. Add
to this the gelatine and perhaps some
simple coloring paste. Put part OF
this in a mold to harden and beat up
the rest as soon as it begins to stiffen.
beating it up till 1t Is light and frothy.
Put the nodded jelly In the center oil
dish with the frothy mixture around
1t and further garnish with candied
fruits.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

From an American standpoint,
rough riding in time OF war means
easy shedding In a time OF peace.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

The way to resume Is to resume.
Let us get down to business.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Not a dollar should go out of Du-
range for pork, mutton. beef or paul-
try.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Nov is the time to put up. No
time for grumblefs and knockers.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Wider Industrial peace than has
been known at this season for many
years is reported in Chicago and a
majority OF other cities.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Every time you get mad and breal;
highest values himself the least.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

]. p. Lowell started early this morn
ing for his Pine river home And he
will rustic for the necessary money to
make the organization and survey OF
the proposed electric line.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Iceland is agitating a movement for
special Icelandic flag and complete
separation from Denmark's rule.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06
GENERAL NEWS.

Cubans declare standing army OF
1900 men an impossibility, and are
upheld by Governor Magoon.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

The output of Cripple Creek for the
month of April was s1,177,5s5.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

The unveiling Of statue OF General
McClelland is a feature OF the re-
union of the Society of the Army OF
the Potomac In Washington today.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Attorney General Hadley of Mis-.
souri, will spend the summer at Bould.
err
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

The postoffice department has dis
continued the carrier system at Flor
ence.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Soon will be fly time. Get your
screens up.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Two hundred Los Angeles teamsters
walked out yesterday and others may
folloy.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

The school census OF Colorado
Springs shows that there are $3.50
school children within the confines OF
that school district an increase OF
200 during the year.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

About 1000 delegates are attending
the convention of the International
Kindergarten union which began Tues
day, continuing four days. Incident
to the convention there will be an
exhibition OF the materials and meth
ods used in kindergartens from their
inception.
Over 300 members OF the Vienna
Maennergesang verein, accompanied
by their conductors, Kremsor and Heu-
berger, are due Saturday on the Ger
man steamer Oceanana from Genoa.
Concerts will be given in New York,
Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Buffalo and Milwaukee.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

This morning was certainly about
as changeable as one could desire.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Burglars broke in the Bessemer
postoffice the other night and attempt
ed to blow the safe. They failed and
secured nothing for their pains. 1t is
thought they were amateurs.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Peeping Thomas Black is serving a
ten day sentence in jail at Florence
for peeping in windows and frighten
ing women and children.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

]. L. Rachofsky returned last even
ing from Denver where he put in a
month with his family.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

w. H. Crawford, contractor for the
big irrigation reservoir in Montezuma
county, tarried over night at the Sta
ter. leaving this morning for Mancos.
A train load Of horses and grading
outfit will probably pass through Du-
range tonight en- route to Montezuma
county.
Superintendent Spears OF the Fort
Lewis Indian school, left this morning
for Milwaukee, being on his annual
leave OF thirty days. Mr.. Spears will
make it a point to see Commissioner
Leupp In Chicago in the course OF n
week or ten days. and will take up the
necessity Of additional buildings at
the school.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Mr.. and Mrs l.. j. Nathan and fan
lily arrived from Pueblo last evenin
and will put in the summer month
in this city and vicinity. Mr.. an
Mrs. Nathan have kindly feeling 70
Durango and having faith in the II
ture of the city Lou is here to hel
boost.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Jim Wilson, who brutally beat a
companion on the train between Gu
ray and Montrose, was fined 800 and
costs, about s125 in all. at the latter
place.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

c. M. Kilgore of Grand Junction
came in on the Southern Tuesday
night and in company with C. s
Smith, who has been here a couple oi
weeks, and G. E Tiffany. Sr., went
out to the Allison country this morn
ing.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Let Durango spend money in doing
things. This will be the best kind
of an advertisement.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Mrs. Art Bagby departed this morn
ing for Creede, where her mother,
Mrs. Shields, who went out about q
month ago, is very i'll. Mrs. Bagby will
bring her mother here just as soon as
she Is able to travel.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Stuyvesant Fish, the railroad mag
nate who has allied himself with the
Gould interests. visited Denver Mon
day and Tuesday. Too bad Mr.. Fish
did not get down this way.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

new 1OTk.
A recent issue of the Dry Goods
Reporter, a Chicago publication, con
tanned a splendid write up of Durango
and the southwest; their resources
and possibilities, in consequence OF
which Secretary Armstrong pf the
board of trade has received fifteen
letters of enquiry from eastern people.
By typographical error the amount
stated last evening required to secure
a sugar factory was $4,000. The orig
inal copy read 100000, the error be
ing an oversight in proof reading. One
hundred thousand dollars for sugar
factory and $4,000 for other in
dustries enumerated.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Mr.. and Mrs. f. w. Koehler and
son came in last night from Ojo Cali
enta, N. NJ, where they went on q
recuperating trip. They stopped over
night and will go to their home ii
Silverton today.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

Greeley potatoes are now selling at
$1.25 per hundred, the highest price
for years.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06

II. T. Henderson, who engineered
and financed the Animas Valley Light
and Water company's plant above
lockwood, left this morning for a
three weeks trip to Alabama, where
he is interested in similar project.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-29
MANY VILLAGES PILLAGED
LawIess Activity of Kurdish Tribes
Becomes Alarming.

Constantinople, Nov. 2...-The law
less activity of the Kurdish tribes in
the Armeno- Kurdish districts of Ere
rum, Bitlis, Van, Kharput and Diar.
bekir is causing lively concern at the
porte, particularly as the foreign en-
bassies are interesting themselves
and are urging that prompt measures
be taken by the government to pre-
vent possible massacre.
Under the protection of the notori.
GUS Abraham Pasha, who is known as
the "despot of Kurdestan," Kurdish
horsemen are making raids without
discrimination, Turkish villages suf-
fering equally with Armenian home
steads on the plains around Diarbe-
kir and Jezireh-1bn-O Omar. Sixteen
villages have been pillaged and burned
within the past month in these dis
tricts and eight villages in the Sert
district have met with the same fate.
Several of these villages were com.
posed entirely of Moslems and in most
cases the lives of the inhabitants were
spared, though they were deprived Of
all their possessions.
The pinch of hunger is already be-
ing felt, as everywhere there is a
scarcity of food, fodder and fuel. The
missionaries are doing their best to
mitigate the misery, but outside help
is urgently needed if the danger Of a
severe famine is to be averted.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-29
ONE HUNDRED TAKE PART
italian Workmen Involved in Riot at
New York,


New York.
New York, Nov. 2 One hundred
Italian coal shovelers who were en-
gagged in loading the new Cunard liner
Mauretania at her dock in the Hudson
river became involved in a riot in
which pistol shots were fired and sew
eral of the rioters jumped into the
river to escape the bullets. The quar-
rel is believed to have been between
faction from Sicily and those from
other parts of Italy. At the firing of
the first shot almost every Italian at
work dropped his shovel. drew some
kind of a weapon and joined in the
fight. The unarmed ones and the
other workers on the pier fed out of
range Of the bullets and called for the
police. Several unarmed Italians,
when pursued by armed compatriots,
jumped into the river and in one case
the pursuer followed but was outdis-
tanced. BY the time the police arrived
one faction had been put to fight, but
although many shots were fired no one
was found to have been wounded.
Two arrests were made.