Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-09-19


September 2S. New York and Buffalo
primaries will be held next Tuesday
Representation in the convention fixed
fer each assembly district is one dele
gate and one alternate for each thou,
sand votes cast for William R. Hearst
the leagues candidate for governor
in the elections last November. 1t is
said the league intends to exercise
the functions of political party
In the coming campaign.
Chicago, Sept. 17.-Mrs. Maud Bal.
lington Booth will tell of her expert
ences in prison work before the Ma.
tional Prison congress this evening
| The subject of her address will be
THE Prisoner Is Man" Mrs
Booth is chairman of the committee
on discharged prisoners of the prison
congress. This mornings session was
devoted to discussion of jails and
yagrancy. DR.. Charles r. Henderson,
professor of sociology at the Uni
versity of Chicago. is chairman of the
committee on jails. and delivered the
| principal address.
Probably few people think of pen.
| ellis in connection for the subject of
| forestry. but there is very close
| connection between the two. Every
| year there are manufactured in this
country some 315,000,0O0 pencils, and
tnat means a consumption OF 1900, 900
| cubic feet of wood.
1t happens also that the pencil man.
utacturers have to be particular about
| the wood 1t must be, as one of the
circulars of the governments forest
service says: "A soft wood, even
| and straight grained. free from de
fccts and one which will not check
OF warp" Now there is just one that
seems to be entirely satisfactory and
| that is the heart wood of the red
cedar from which much the greater
percentage of the total output of pen
tion the fact that there is great waste
II, getting the right quality, that the
tree are confined to Dixie land. that
no systematic effort has been made
to husband the supply, and there is
a prospect of important changes in
the pencil industry in the not very
distant future. The circular says that
'it is certain that some of the mills
now in operation must shut down in
side of dozen years, and this re-
gardless of any measures which may
be taken in the meantime to protect
the young growth"
II is calculated that stand OF
seventy-fve to eighty trees for percil
| wood will show a profit of 5 per cent
at the end of sixty years. For a man
with small holding and n long start
toward the grave this is not an attrac
tive investment, but it is pointed out
that pencil manufacturing corporations
might wisely invest in large holdings
and care for them in a scientific man
ner. Suggestions for their proper care
are given, and 1t is a satisfaction to
know that in this case as in many
others the forest service is doing a
work that should prove of very great
value to the people. The pity is that
| the government was not aroused to
the necessity for the work before such
havoc had been wrought with the
country's magnificent growth of tim
Der.
New York, Sept. 17.-Several of the
| most bitter fights for Tammany dis
trict leaderships in recent political
history are being fought out in today s
| Bronx. The contest is important. as
| it will decide whether Charles F. Muir
ply is to remain leader of the Tam
| many hosts, or whether the McClel-
Ian forces have gathered sufficient
strength OF overthrow him. In twenty
districts contests are being waged and
in all but one instance the issue is
Mayor Mcclellan against Murphy.
Most picturesque of all the politi.
cal battles being fought in today
primaries is that being carried on in
! the Eleventh district. where gray-hair.
ed Honest Graft" Plunkitt is trying
to wrest the emoluments OF leadership
from "The" McManus, who took II
away from him three years ago after
a battle that has become historic
Plunkltt is nearly three score years
and ten and was district leader fol-
thirty years.
OF greatest importance. but lacking
in picturesque features. is the fight
| against Maurice Featherson in the
Twentieth district. Featherson is Nc
Clellan's political manager in the pri
mary fights. Murphy has been center
ing his fire against him, and this
morning issued orders to his hench
men that Featherson must be beaten
In over dozen of other districts the
warfare is being waged merrily, with
both sides to the controversy loud in