Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-12
GENERAL NEWS,

cuted
Hartman predicts year of rail
road prosperity.
Miss Marguerite Magill has received
hattering offer to go on the stage.
Albany, N. Y, reports the trembling
of the earth for ten minutes. Maybe
it was David B. Hill waking up and
announcing 81 am Democrat"
Milwaukee business men will ask for
an Injunction to prevent the erection
of the proposed $1,000, 900 electric ight
plant favored by the Socialists.
Delegates from forty-one states haze
been named by governors to take part
in the national civic federation Oh
trusts and combinations to be held n
Chicago in october.
James l.. Williams, travelling even
geist in Mount Vernon, ILL.,. for
visit, was murdered in the street wnr1
searching for the home of his brother
in-law.
An increase in excess baggage rates
may be ordered by the Western Pas
senger association with view OF max
ing the revenue of the roads under a
2-cent fare adjustment as big, so far
IS excess baggage is concerned, az it
was when the fare was 3 cents a
mile.
A part of visitors touring New York
in a sight seeing automobile wore
mobbed by n crowd of several hundred
persons when the machine carrying
the sight seers accidentally ran over
and killed a boy on the east side
The crowd then tried to burn the ma
chine, but were prevented by the ar
riva; of police reinforcements.
1t has been intimated that II. e.
Huntington has entered into an ALI
ance with the Western Pacific by
which he will be able to invade Harri-
man territory with trolley lines, and
tho Gould line will also get into Los
Angeles from the north through Sauta
Monica, something Hartman is striv
ing to prevent.
According to advices received by the
Leader today from New York and from
Castalia, o., the wealth of John ID.
Rockefeller has made possible the cure
of meningitis. DR.. Simon Flexner,
New York advices say, has discovered
serum which will cure the heretofore
fatal disease. Experiments made at
Castalia have demonstrated the eff
cheney of the serum.
Capt S. c. Young was successful N
planting the British flag on Isle Royal
in Lake Superior. meeting with no OPP
position in any quarter. He claims
the island is north of the forty-ninth
parallel and consequently rightly be
longs to Canada. He asserts that 'he
action of the Ashburton commission
in making 1t neutral island was a
disgrace to British diplomacy.
Thomas F. Ryan and his associatce
have on foot plan to make the Sea
board Air line the greatest coal-carry-
ing road in the country by opening up
coal fields of 10000 acres in viz
ginia, and connecting the territory
with the Seaboard by the South and
Western. 200-mile road now being
built. When it is completed to Manon
N c., it will have cost s50,000,OOO
Gov Conner of Alabama gave pris-
oner ten days parole that he might
go home and see his dying child.
Curry was inaugurated governor of
New Mexico at Santa Fe yesterday
with a distinguished audience in at
tendance.
Red winter wheat from the south
Atlantic ports and durum wheat from
the head OF the lakes is now the cheap
est wheat offered from North America.
Mayor Ezra Thompson of Salt Lake
City has resigned. The recent resig-
nation OF the chief of police who was
mixed up in scandals, is supposed to
be the cause.
The London Statist figures short |
age of $4,000, ,000bushels in the world
wheat crop. and requirements of i'm
porting countries at 612.sOO.OOO bushel
or 33,600,000 bushels over last year.
Only once before have imports ex-
ceeded 560,O00,O 0,O00-viz: in 19O5.O6,, |
when the total reached about 56S ,0OO,-
900 bushels. Ten years ago 400, ,OOO,-
900 to 44O.0O0,OO0 bushels sufficed.