Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-20
GEN ERAL NEWS.


New York. May ls.-Informatlon
was laid before Police Commissioner
| bingham today revealing how Howard
Gould was using his society friends
10 give Captain Mclaughlin. then In
charge OF the central office detectives.
q chance to meet Mrs. Gould and draw
| her into trap. This is one OF the
most sensational developments grow.
ing out of the Gould divorce case.
which 1t Is rumored at the st. Regis,
might be started by Mrs. Gould on
Monday. Gould is making every effort
10 get his wife In compromising
situation.
London, May 1s.-E. II. Hartman is
going to try the experiment of EN-
ploying Russian and Chinese labor in
building his new railroad In Mexico.
| he first installment of / 400 laborers
| Of whom 200 are Russians Is now on
The way from vladivostock to that
country. The Chinese he has hired
are of the boxer type. They are big,
sturdy men. used to hardship.
Chicago, May 1s.-The biggest
board of trade sensation In years was
disclosed today In the arrest OF vii.
liam 7. Root, a former member OF
he board and his wife. charged with
Torgeries, aggregating 100000. Root
has confessed. He says he committed
he crime to recoup the fortune lost
on the board. Mrs. Glenn Root was
arrested charged with having assisted
her husband in seeking to dispose OF
he goods stolen by the quartet OF
which Root is the head. The forgeries
are said to have covered a period OF
several months.
San Francisco, May 1S.-Monday
next, when the trial of Mayor Schmitz
on one of the Ave indictments charg-
| Ing him with extortion in the French
restaurant cases is called the prose
cution proposes have him ordered into
the custody of an elsor. II IL de-
| termined to treat the mayor just as
Ruef was treated in the hope OF get
ting like result. for even the friends
St. Petersburg. May 16.-The city
his morning is much excited over a
terrorist conspiracy which was re
| yealed, having for its object the as
| sassination of the emperor. promi-
| nent solder of the palace guard was
| arrested today and confessed to re-
ceiying large bribe TO assist in the
murder. The real instigators of the
crime are men high up and who fur,
nlshed the blood money have not yet
| been caught.
Washington, May 1s.-Unlted States
Senator Phllander c. Knox Is to be
indorsed by the Republican state con
Yention which meets June 6, as the
choice OF the Keystone state for pres,
| ideDt This news Is known to the
president. A resolution naming Mr..
Knox will present him to the country
as the man who most completely
meets the demands for the successor
to Mr.. Roosevelt. who will take no
backward step in the enforcement of
policies for which the present admin.
istration is noted. II can be said au-
tboritatively that President Roosevelt
| Will express qualification over the ac-
tion OF the convention because he will
regard II as an endorsement OF his
policies.
New York, May 1s.-In the June
number of one of the magazines, Pres.
dent Roosevelt mercilessly lashes
modern writer's of nature stories who
claim the truth for their tales and
who then proceed to give the reading
public wildly impossible and gro
tesquely absurd stories OF wilderness
life. Mr. .Roosevelt's attack Is un
sparing. Jack London, william J
Long and Charles g. d. Roberts, who
recently offended woodcraft In hli
wolf and lynx story, are scored Il
the full strength of the president
power OF words. Ernest Thompson
Seton Is told he should make clea
between his facts and fiction.
Chicago. May 1s.-Wllliam McClin
tock. 60 years old. millionaire rea
estate owner. was killed last evening
+ when an express wagon crashed int
an automobile he was driving. Mrs
b Mcclinton. her son. William. Jr..
years old. and William Krieg. arch
!. tect, who were Ia the machine, eI