Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-15

man. in panic over the public indil
nation, PINNED to sell their standar
Oil holdings. but were deferred by +
Il, Rogers.
Special dispatches from San Sehas
tian. Spain, where King Alfonso an
Queen Victoria are soiournlng, sa
that her majesty, who gave birth d
n son May 10. is again in delcat
state Of health,
A cooperative advertising plan. II
which more than 10000 travelling
salesmen will participate to boom Chi
cago's varied Industries is the worl
mapped out for the Chicago Associa
ton Of Commerce
Former Senator Marion Butler o
North Carolina, who was chairman
of the Populist national committee
now says he ana his followers are for
Roosevelt or Roosevelts candidate
believing that the president Is in line
with the ideas of the peoples party.
Several men were prostrated, the
lives Of scores OF others endangered,
and damage amounting to over 5000
done late Saturday night by the sud.
den bursting Of an ammonia pipe in
the new ice plant of the Grand juno.
lion company on South avenue.
In order to make certain that its
employees shall maintain sobriety and
their temptation be minimlzed, the
Baltimore & Ohio, 1t is said, will ask
for Legislation prohibiting hotel keep
crs and barkeepers from selling or
furnishing railroad men with drinks
while they are on duty.
Rev. Dr. A. b. Simpson OF New York
at the Old Orchard camp ground Sun
day raised s62.SGa for the Christian
Alliance of Foreign Missions. There
were ass individual pledges and gifts
the smallest 81, the largest $1,000; the
prisons pledged $4,000, and ten OF. the
pledges aggregated $4,000.
Two battleships. larger than any
now a1oat, have been ordered con.
Aructed at Yokohama and Kure yards
by the Japanese admiralty. They will
be Of 20.SO0 and 10000 horse power,
steam 20 knots and carry ten Pinch
guns, twenty-five 15-centlmeter and
smaller guns as secondary armament.
They viii cost Sj,OO0O0O.
While attempting TO wade out into
the Grande river Just below the Rio
Grande roundhouse at Grand Junction
where he was fishing with compan-
ion Sunday afternoon. George Walk
eushaw, aged 27, bollermaker en-
ployed in the local Denver & Rio
Grande shops, was caught by a swift
current and drowned. ''-s-'-.'
Thirty thousand harvest hands will
be needed this season along the lines
oe the Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern roads. Reports transmitted
Il the passenger departments of each
road indicate that few more than
5000 hands are required along the
Northern Pacific system and some
thing less than 5000 at the Great
Northern stations.
Prof Frederick Starr. an anthropolo-
gist of the University of Chicago, be.
llcvcs Japan could whip the United
States in war. He says 1t is a great
mistake to send the great American
neet into the Pacific, as the ships are
quite likely to show how inefficient
the navy Is. His views were pre-
sented in an address on Japan" In
All Souls church.
A table has been prepared by the
Associated Prohibition Press showing
that sixty-hye beneficiary societies
with a total enrolment of about $780,
900 exclude saloon keepers. bartend
crs and liquor dealers from member
ship. The table, is OF interest in
view Of the action taken by the Cath
olic Order OF Foresters at st. Paul
Wednesday, declaring liquor men dn-
desirable as members.
On the Indignant assertion that
the station agent at Salisbury, Mo-,
called him "a damn fool in the pres
ence OF large number OF people,
many OF them ladies'" J. l.. Roberts
has filed a bill in the Macon (Mo.)
circuit court demanding $1,000 dam
ages from the Wabash Railroad com
pany. Mr.. Roberts Is official stenog-
rapher for Judge Samuel Davis of the
fifteen circuit In its answer the rail.
road will deny responsibility for the
acts Of fractions agents.
King Alfonso, who delights in being
incognito, in strolllng with his wife
through a village near San Sebastian
while his chauffeur repaired his auto
mobile. entered a tobacconlsts to buy
cigarettes and asked another customer
Tor light. The latter recognizing
the monach. turned pale. The king
in turn, identified the man as al
anarchist arrested mistakenly in con
eotion with the Madrid outrage. Stop