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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26
SOME SENSATIONAL
BASEBALL HAPPENINGS

The first regular game of baseball
ever played was June IA, 1886 at the
Elysian fields, Hoboken, N. j., Knick
erbockers VS.. New York City.
John Hatfield's throw of 1873 yards
foot 7lA inches. made at the Union
grounds, Brooklyn, in throwing
tournament, October Is, 1872, has nev.
er been officially equalled. The ball
was thrown across the wind and the
distance properly measured with
steel tape.
The Pittsburg National league club
has the record for most defeats in
one season, losing ia games in 1890.
The largest score on record was
made at Buffalo in the COS. Niagara
209; Columbus, 10.
The longest game on record was
played at Devils Lake, N. D., July Is,
1891, when Frank Forks and Fargo
played rs innings without run.
In 1875 Boston won every game
played on their home grounds.
In 1869 the Cincinnati Reds trav-
eled from Maine to Frisco, playing
all comers, without losing a single
game. Lightning rarely strikes twice
in the same place.
Jim Tying, a Harvard student, was
the first player to use a catcher's
mask in a game.
The longest run of defeat was sus-
tanned by Louisville in 1898, when
they lost rs straight games.
Paul Hines in 1873. Harry OHagan
in 1902, and Larry Schlaffey in 1905,
completed the only single-handed
triple plays ever made.
The bunt was first practiced about
1890.
The double steal, with third and
first bases occupied, came into promi-
nence in 1882
The short throw to second was dis.
covered the following year as a
means OF stopping the double steal.
Cy Young, in 1904, pitched a game
for the Boston Americans against
Philadelphia that made record which
cannot be beaten. In the game but
n batters faced him, not one of which
| reached first base.
The "squeezer' play was originated
last season.
The second longest game, without
a run ON record, was played by the
West Side Nationals and Mitchell
Specials in Columbus on Sunday, June
10, 1906, by two amateur teams, the
game being called at the end OF the
2ist inning on account of darkness,
neither side having scored.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

the Episcopal cathedral at Cape Town,
the arches for the first portion show.
ing that it will be stately edifice
An omnibus crack has appeared in
the wall of the south transept of the
great Peterborough cathedral in Eng
land but repairs will be started at
once. 'i'i 'A-
In the United States 1872 out of 100.
900 are in prison on any given day.
In Italy 217 and in the United King
dom forty-six to every 100000 inhabi.
tants are is prison.
India has 4,S35.947 acres OF irrigated
land in the Punjah, an increase of
453,561 acres in one year. The crops
are mainly wheat, sugar cane, grain
and winter oil-seeds.
The largest serpent ever measured
was an anaconda, which DIR. Gardner
found dead in Mexico. 1t was thirty
seven feet long and it took two horses
to drag it.
Great Britain and Canada will join
in subsidizing Transatlantic steam
ship line which will be serious rival
to the lines playing between the
United States and Europe.
Wesleyan Methodists in the West
minister section of London have ac.
quired property valued at about 81 :.
225,OOO and through good investments
have paid only about $500. 900 for it.
In Norway and Sweden thlrty-six
persons out of every 1000 live by sea.
faring. The next best average in this
particular is in England, where there
are seventeen in every 1000.
The union jack which hew from
Nelson's flagship, the Victory, at the
battle of Trafalgar and which covered
his body on the journey home to Eng
i, land was sold the other day by auc
ton in London for 5000
The Alaska Yukon exposition, to b,
held in Seattle in 1909, is to be 10
Gated on University heights: the build
| ings and their collection of Alaskan
| products are to become the permanen
property of the university after tn,
exposition closes.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.

chicago News.
Worst swindler of all is the man
who cheats himself.
One way to avoid the fire is to keep
out OF the frying pan.
No man is as dangerous as he thinks
some woman thinks he is.
Every village has its Oldest inhabi.
tant, but he is never a woman.
Unfortunately for the surveyor, he
Is not monarch of all he surveys.
Tomorrow is the stone over which
many a business man has stumbled.
Anyway, the man who has no
friends doesn't have to worry about
losing them.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26
WISDOM OF AN EMPlRicisT.

AT least the sepulchres that are
whited do not mar the general view
About the surest way to keep your
name before the public is to get it
Inscribed on tombstone.
A really good confidence man finds
that 1t pays better to be in legitimate
business.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

(From Saturdays Daily.)
DR.. Fox came down from Silverton
this morning.
w. |. Clifford is back from hasty
trip to Denver.
Don't think for n moment Durango
is not going to have its annual fair
S. II. Henderson went to the Monte
yuma valley this morning on ditch
business.
Mrs. lancet returned to Flora Vista
this morning accompanied by Mrs.
Bernard.
Mrs. T. II. Jones and babe came
down from Silverton this morning on
visit TO Mrs. Jones parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. C. Sullivan.
Mrs. f. w. Strater departed this
morning for Denver to visit her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Wayne Russell. She will
be absent several months.
]. NJ. Kinsley went down to the
Pennington country this morning.
Looking for fruit for his commission
house. VIII be back tomorrow.
Mrs. Watson, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Nary of lockwood, was
brought down on yesterdays train for
treatment DIR. Hurd has the case
Miss Griffith. deputy state superin.
tendent of schools, with the Melville
party, is spending the day in Durango,
leaving for Denver in the morning.
Mrs. Mayer. mother OF Mrs. George
Tirany. returned last evening from an
extended trip to the coast. where she
visited her daughter, Mrs. Alex Mich.
olsoa.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Five hundred men are needed at
once in the Silverton district. Nearly
every property of consequence is in
Iced of more men. Miners. machine
men, trammers and common laborers
are all in demand. The large mills
are also short of help. Good table
men and men acquainted with the
various kinds Of mill work can secure
immediate employment More men
are wanted at the smelter, at Red
Mountain 100 miners can find EN-.
ployment. The activity in the district
l5 great, but work in all parts will
be pushed ahead more rapidly IL the
men can be secured. No man ac:
quainted with mining work need be
afraid that he can not secure employ
ment here. The wages and hours are
good as are also the board and sleep
ing accommodations. Miners out of
work can find plenty to do in the
silverton distrlct.-Silverton Standard
The first carload of potatoes ever
shipped from Pennington was billed
out yesterday by the Hunter Mercan.
tile company to Silverton parties. This
is going to be one OF the important
industries OF this county, for
II is one OF the best crops
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

visited by very severe storms the fore
part of the week, the La Plata river
district coming in for the hardest
OF grain in the shock which was swept
away. another lost eight shoats
bridges damaged and roads washed
out.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Fillmore Hand is doing his assess
ments on the Atlantic Wave situated
on Brown Mountain opposite the Mo
gul. This vein is an extension of the
old Tribune vein from which ore run
ming as high as $4,000 to the ton,
was at one time taken. Mr.. Hand has
very encouraging showing in his
property. The vein is one of the larg-
est in that part of the country and he
now has a pay streak of good lead
ore three feet in width.-Silverton
Standard.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Gov. Curry has announced his in
tention of visiting the fair and fall
carnival at Pennington. Durango will
extend him welcome to this part
OF the state.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

In order TO get any kind Of an idea
OF the vast amount of activity that Is
going on in the hills one needs to
watch the exit each morning from the
hotels and rooming houses. The
trains bring n crowd every trip and
most OF those people are here TO look
over mining properties. Much prop
erty is changing hands and many new
properties are being worked and all
In all the hills never were as alive
with activity as now and never were
the prospects as good for this region
o. the state The old timer tells us
| that it is only few days after dog
days until winter, but with the present
| facilities, mining can be continued
in the hills around Silverton until late
in the fall and many properties now
work all winter that formerly shut
down at the holidays. This is rapidly
| becoming an all-year-around camp, and
when it Is 1t will be the best and
biggest producer in the state.-Silver
ton Miner.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26
ITEMS CLIPPED AND
REHASHED FROM
NElCHBORiNG EXCHANGES

NJ. H. Copeland has disposed of his
effects at Cortez, says the Journal.
and gone to Telluride TO live with
his daughter, being in very poor
health.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Among the farmers in the city to-
day were James and Thos. Cash of
the Florida, Mr.. Reece of the Florida
mesa. Henry Ambold and Julius John
son OF the Animas valley.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Nearly every mill in this section Of
the San Juan is now running to near.
ly full capacity and barring accidents
will continue to do so the balance of
the season, and the production this
year promises to be very large one
in spite of the scarcity of labor.
Among others, the Iowa mill is now
steadily working and they are sending
out a carload of high grade concen-
irates nearly every day. The Sun
nyside have lately completed their
electrical machinery and are now ship
ping regularly. The Green mountain
mill is again running The Little Dora
is again running all the time. The
Silver Lake, Gold King, Old Hundred
and Hamlet are always working. The
Gold Prince will be in full operation
upon the arrival of some electrical
machinery and the Mogul is expecting
the arrival of a rooster every day
now and will be started as soon as
this is in place.-Silverton Miner.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

John Kroeger. who arrived from Cas-
tie Rock Wednesday evening to at
tend the funeral OF his father. the
late F w, Kroeger left for home this
morning.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Mrs. Ida Mccormack, who has been
visiting her sister. Mrs M. X Con
way at Anlmas City, the past two
weeks, left for her home at Man
haitian. Kas. this morning.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

What little opposition there is to a
fair is headed by the Democrat. The
pearance in the garden OF Eden has
been busy stirring up dissension and
at times he gets In pretty good work.
but the Democrat, who represents his
royal nibs in Durango. will find out
that it cannot run Durango or any
part of it.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Some time next week the tunnel on
the Ground Hog reservoir will be fin
ished. and work on the construction of
the dam will begin. This tunnel is
over three hundred feet in length, and
has been run at rate of about ten
feet per days. from both ends. All
the other work on our irrigating sys-
TEN is progressing most satisfactorily
and there will be a vast volume of
water poured over this valley next
season. In the meantime now is the
time to get in and purchase a farm.
This land produces the largest and
best of everything, premium vege-
tables, grasses, grain and fruit. This
il the valley you have been looking
for.-Cortez Journal.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Mrs. lancet returned to Flora Vista
this morning accompanied by Mrs.
Bernard.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26
LOCAL NEWS.

(From Saturdays Daily)
DR.. Fox came down from Silverton
this morning
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

S. II. Henderson went to the Monte
yuma valley this morning on ditch
business.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Don't think for moment Durango
is not going to have its annual fair
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

to plant among young trees, When
We came, here some seven years ago
all the potatoes being used were ship
ped in and 1t was thought that only
the low ground would raise potatoes.
1t has now been proven that the up
land. If properly fertilized, will grow
potatoes superior to those Of Gree
ley or even the mountain district
Farmington Times-Hustler
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Hub Patterson came down from Sill.
verton this morning. He will go to
Pagosa Springs tomorrow with the
crowd andl size up the two teams He
says SiIyerton is going to skin Du
range ut the Labor day games. Sill
yerton has said they We're going tc
win so often that it begins to SOUND
somewhat like chestnut They are
talking to keep up their courage.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

w. l. Clifford is back from a hasty
trip to Denver.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Mrs. 7. II. Jones and babe came
down from Silverton this morning on
visit TO Mrs. Jones parents. Mr. and
Mrs. J.. c. Sullivan.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Bozman 4 Blatchford purchased the
Office building and three lots of NJ.
II. Copeland this week for $1,000 This
gives Mr.. Copeland nice profit on
his original Northumberland Jour
nal.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-26

Fred G. Helmboldt, formerly in busi-
ness at Eureka and SilvertoDi has
located at Spokane, Wash, where he
Is again engaged in business. I'M
possible to keep an active man down.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-07
SOLDIERS MAY
HAVE BUSY TIME
CAVALRY AND INFANTRY co TO
SCENE OF UTE INDIAN
TROUBLE.
SERIOUS DISTURBANCES
Make Break Out Any Moment
Civilians Not Permitted to Cross
Border TO Visit Cheyenne
Reservation.

Huron. S. d., Nov. G.-Two train
loads Of United States cavalry passed
through here today en- route from
Omaha to the Cheyenne Indian resar
vation
James McConnor reached here tG.
day from the scene Of the Indian
troubles. He says the Utes are very
restless and some open threats were
made. A few dissatisfied Sioux have
Joined the Utes, aud while there is no
cause fer immediate alarm it is fact
that matters may become serious at
any moment
The trouble originated frcm fear
that the government would withhold
ratious and with the approach of win
ter the Indians apprehended desti,u.
lien.
Several parties who desired to go
10 the reservation were informed that
40 permits will be issued to civilians
. cross the river and a close watch
+ being kept on all visitors.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-07
FISH WILL ASK
FOR / c. PROXIES.
SAYS HACKSTAFF HAS NO AU-
THoRlTY TO ASK FOR THEM
AS SECRETARY OF THE CON-
PANY.

New York. Nov. 6.--When asked to-
night whether he would send TO the
stockholders of the Illinois Central a
request for proxies for the meeting
tc be held in Chicago December IS.
Stuyvensant Fish, who is contesting
the election OF new directors with 4.
RI. Hartman and the latter's asso-
ciates, said: 81 certainly shall. un-
derstand that Haekstaff has just sent
out a request for proxies running to
President Harahan and himself. and
has done officially as secretary of
the company. although the board of
directors has in no way directly or in
authorized 1t. The result Of
Hackstaff's action has been to put
many stockholders upon the inquiry
and they have asked me what | am
going to do. have told all of them
they should not comply with Hack
staff's request, which is clearly an
other move for Union Pacific domi-
nance, and am asking the stockhold-
ers TO await proxies which shall
send out forthwith"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-07
RECEIVER FOR
TEXTILE PLANT.
MONEY STRiNGENcY AFFECTS
LARGEST PRINT WORKS IN
COUNTRY.
SAID 70 Be SOLVENT
And VIII Continue operations---Trust
Company in Oregon Also Goes
Into the Hands Of
Receiver.

North Ida, Mass, Nov. C.--lienry Il.
Warner of Boston. was appointed re-
ctiverf for the Arnold Print Works III
this city, one of the largest textile
concerns in the couptry. BY the tIai-
ted States Circuit court at Boston to-
day, The corporation has d laeg,
printing factory here with offices I'll
New York and Boston, ana own the
Beaver and Eclipse Cotton Mifls a.
North Adams the tWilliamstown Man.
ufacturing company's mills OF WIZ
Jamestown and the North Pownall
Manufacturing companys mills Of
North Pownall. VT.
The corporation has liabilities of
$9,500,000 and assets OF $4,000, ,0O0
Of the liabilities $6,5O0,000 Is repre-.
sented by promissory notes and obi.
cations to banks. The corporation Is
declared to be solvent, but owing to
the stringency Of the money market
was Obliged to have a receiver APP
pointed In order to conserve its inter
tsts. The mills and print works have
been doing an immense business ami
according to the receiver will continue
In operation. The print works mil
allied mills employ G.0oo hands,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-07
TROOPS IN LONG MARCH.

Omaha. Nov. G.--Colonel Frank
West and eight troops Of the Second
cavalry from Fort Des Moines We're
today ferriad across the Missouri
river all Forest City, opposite the
Cheyenne agency in South Dakota.
after reaching Gettysburg last night
and marching eighteen miles across
the country The command will con
tinue the march tomorrow for Thun-
der Butte eighty miles further west.
1t now appears to the army that the
campaign against the lite Indians
may keep the soldiers busy all winter
T1ie cofDpanies Of the Sixteenth In
fanfry from Fort Crook will reach
Gettysburg tonight These companies
will relieve a small detachment OF the
Second cavalry. having charge of the
Iase of supplies at Gettysburg. The
detachment of infantry companies
will then be assigned to duty from the
River agency, White Horse
and other points between Thunder
Eutte creek and the Missouri river.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-07
NATIONAL BANK FOR
GOVERNMENT MONEY.

st. Paul, Nov. 6.-President Stick
ney of the Great Western Railway, in
an interview advocates a national
bank in which the government shall
deposit its treasury funds. He said:
"Official reports of the United States
treasury shows that on last Thurs
day, October 81. there was locked up
in the sub-treasury, idle and useless,
the enormous sum of s127,170.057. ae-
tual cash, while all the banks in all
reserve cities of the United States
had suspended cash payments, and
the moyement Of crops had stopped,
and laborers compelled to accept
checks for wages instead of cash, all
for the want of currency. which want
of currency the banks are trying to
relieve by. the importation of about
$50. 900, 600 gold. or about one quar-
ter fthe amount held in the treasury
idle and useless. Can any system of
government banking be conceived OF.
which would produce more absurd re-
suits? Let us have a national bank
which is not only good enough for
the people 10 deposit their money in,
but also coed enough for the gov
ernment to deposit its money in
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-07
TREASURE SHIP
IS DUE TONIGHT
LUSITAhiA MAKING AVERAGE OF
2A.5o NAUTICAL MILES pen
HOUR.
HAS $4,000, GOLD
In Rer Strong Box Which is Awaitcd d
Anxicus!y TO Relieve Money
Famine That is Sweeping
This Country.


New Yd rks Nov .-+BriHging $10..
GG0,G00 gold to the relief Of the ba TX.
Ing and financial institutions of this
country the Islsitania IL hurrying fer
New York ut her swiftast pace. "a
report from the captain OF the I.nsl
tania. received by wireless says that
at 10 a. IN. today the ship was 9i9
miles east of Sandy Hook The Lusi
tania left Queenstown al 1880 d. nj.
Sunday, and according to this report
has averaged 24.50 nautical miles per
hour. Continuing at this rate the
Lusitania should reach Sandy Hook
bar at midnight tonight. u she az
complishes this, it will reduce her
record time for the passage from 1
days, 19 hours and So minutes 10 4
days, II hours and 80 minutes. A
wireless message late today from
Captain Watt, Of the Lusitania, stated
the "a hours run, ending noon today,
was Gl5 knots, one knot more than
the ships record run on her last
voyage.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-07
EFFICIENT MN
G HARD TO KEEP
IN POSTAL SERVICE IN WEST
ASSISTANT POSTMASTER
GENERAL TO ASK LEGisLA-
TON TO OVERCOME THlsr

Washington. Nov. 6,--First Assist
ant General Hitchcock has returned
from an extended trip through the
west, which he took with a view to
ascertain at first hand the conditions
that prevailed in the postal service
in that part of the country. Difficulty
has been experienced by the depart,
r1ent for considerable time in rS~
tanning the Services Of efficient and
experienced employees. especially
clerks and carriers, in many western
offices. 1t is Hitchcock's purpose to
advocate the adoption by congress of
an amendment to the graded salaries
law, providing that in exceptional In
stances, postmasters. on proper show
ing to the department, may be allow,
ed to payFsalaries to clerks and car
riers as OF higher grade than they
hold, in order that their services may
be retained.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-07
COWBOYS STOP
BIG STAMPEDE
LOUISVILLE STOCK YARDS BURN
-AoJoiNlNc NEGRO HOUSES
DESTROYED LEAVING 800
FAMILIES HOMELESS.

Louisville. KY. Nov. 6.-The Bour
bon stock yards. covering eleven
acres. located at Johnson, Market and
New Main streets. were fire swept
last evening. entailing loss OF si35.
600. 80 per cent of which is covered
by insurance,
The fire department sustained a
loss OF $4,000 in the destruction OF
hose. John Staab and Captain Behl.
firemen. were injured. Staabs hand
was crushed nearly of and BehIs
hands were terribly burned.
The flames originated in a hay shed
at G:l0 O'Clock and II was $40 before
the fire was under control "Buttcn
Row" consisting Of 25 houses. all oc.
supied by negroes. was leveled and
300 families were rendered homeless.
Twenty cars OF stock on the tracks OF
the l.. and n. Railroad ignited and a
locomotive dashed through wall of
fire. hitched onto the cars and pulled
Them to safely.
Miller Bros. Ranch No. 10l,'
which had been exhibiting at the
Armory, was quartered at the yards.
A score of cowboys used lassoes 20
corrali the cattle after a stampede hal
occurred.
c. F. vissman a Co.. packers. sus
tanned a loss OF about $1,000.
The Bourbon Stock Yards were es,
tablished IN 1859. Three years ago
the plant was destroyed by nre. The
:. IS was then ssO0.o00. -