Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-17
RRENEIIES.

The court OF appeals at Paris grants
the plea of Count Boni de Castellane
for a new hearing of his wife's di-
vorce suit.
Stuyvesant Fish declares that gov
ernment plan to fix rates will check
railroad building and prove blow to
development of west and south
George f. Roberts. director of the
mint. in an interview with William Il.
Curtis, urges the need of a central
bank to solve the currency problem.
Henry Herman. who fled from Mil
waukee owing nearly 81 600, 900 is re-
ported to be negotiating for promise
of immunity on paying up debts so
he may return.
Secretary Wilson takes the stand
in the trial at Washington growing
out of the leak In the cotton crop
report The secretary says he never
gave out information in advance
Japanese from the United States
go to Toxic, where they charge that
the San Francisco trouble is the re-
suit of plot between Mayor Schmitz
and the emperor of Germany.
Contracts were placed Saturday by
the United States steel corporation for
5000 steel cars aggregating In cost
81, 500, 900, and to fill the order about
10000 tons OF steel plates will be re-
quired.
Mayor Busse of Chicago has taken a
stand for a sane" celebration of the
4th Of July. He started early, he
explains, so that the sale of toy pistols
and cannon crackers to children-the
chief cause OF lock;aw-might be re-
duced to minimum.
President Roosevelt in two speeches
at the jamestown exposition empha-
sized the need Of taxes to prevent
the handing down of swollen fortunes
from one generation to another, says
further steps should be taken TO con
serve the nations natural resources
and asserts that employers should be
held strictly liable for death or in
jury of employees
Western railroad presidents at a con
ference held In Chicago Tuesday de-
cided to contest the 2-cent passenger
law in at least five states, Illinois, Ne
braska, Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas.
Following this decision the passenger
representatives OF all railroads OF the
west agreed not TO grant any reduced
rates for any occasion until the 2
cent fight shall have been concluded.
Come to the front and be vacci-
! mated" is the message of DIR. Brugge-
mann, city health officer, has issued TO
| all patrons OF j. b. Miller's barber
shop of Fort Wayne, Ind. Some OF
| Miller's customers admitted that they
saw his face broken out Saturday, but
| did not know 1t was smallpox. Meth.
er did Miller until he called in q
| physician and learned the truth. AT
least score OF men were shaved by
| Miller Saturday, and health officers
are trying to find them and yaccinate
| them.
A new process for preserving meat
and putting the iceman out of business
has been discovered in Paris. The
state department has received re
port from Consul General Guenther on
the process discovered by Professor
Lapparent, in which he says: "Tht
meat is hung up in a tight box. and
then few sulphur threads are placed
In 1t and ignited. after which the
box is closed. The meat should moi
contain any sawed bones. as decom
position proceeds from them. The
boxes ought to be alright and be filled
for from twenty-four to forty-eight
hours with carbonic acid"
That people must eat to live ha,
been demonstrated again. A Washing
ton printer who imagined he could ig
more the law of nature paid the for
felt of his life. John II. Swerdfiger
a compositor at the government print
ing office, undertook with numbe
y OF other persons belonging to physl