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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-28

GETS MAD
AT DENVER

Denver, Jan. 26.-The dry farming
congress met this morning with de
pleted ranks and many expressions of
regret at last evenings sensational in.
cident when offended by their defeat
In the fight for next years trans Mis-
souri, dry farming congress, the Wy
omlng delegation, headed by Governor
b. b. Brooks of that state. left the
city In body for their homes. The
members of the delegation did not
even wait for the election of officers
but walked out OF the convention lust
before they were elected. after having
put up hard fight for the next con
vention which went to Salt Lake City.
The row broke out yate yesterday aft
ernoon when the committee on organi-
zation was making It's report. In one
section of the constitution was a
clause requiring the city gaining the
next convention to pay for the publi-
cation OF the proceedings OF the pre-
vious convention. Wyoming delegates
saw In this a deal between Denver
and Salt Lake to switch the next con
vention to the latter city. as they be
lieved the clause was inserted for the
reason that none OF the small Wyom-
ing towns would feel like raising the
money. The Wyoming delegation was
headed by Governor Brooks who came
to Denver especially yesterday morn
Ing TO help win the convention. A
hard fight was made and the Wyoming
delegation succeeded In defeating the
clause. but lost the convention. A
resolution endorsing President ROose-
yelt's pet plan for the leasing OF pub
lie lands known as the Burkett bill,
was also defeated by the efforts Of the
Wyoming delegation. The opposition
of Governor Brooks personally to this
messure. vas sar;stis tlrsly respau-
sible for Its defeat as he said the MI
would stop the thrush OF homesteaders
to the west and at the same Its fvture
development. Salt Lake carried all be-
fore It. Fisher Harris, president OF
the Commercial club of that city. was
elected president of the congress-. Col.
f. ]. Bell Of Laramie, accused Dsa-
verites Of political jugglery. chicanSsy
and double dealing in an effort to give
Salt Lake the convention.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-28

Chicago, Jan. 24.-The Tribune this
morning carries a dispatch from Win
nipeg saying family Of five who had
wandered from a train stalled near
here and were in search of food were
lost on the prairie and all of them
frozen to death. The thermometer
suddenly dropped to forty below zero.
Denver, Jan. 24.-The stockmen
having concluded their labors last
evening and endorsing the leasing OF
public lands as suggested by Presi
congress began this morning will
a large attendance. Governor Buch
tel welcomed them.
Fresno, Cal, Jan. 24.-Tn a fit o.
insane jealousy late last night Johr
Jackson, an undertaken, shot and kill
ed his sweetheart, Susie Pearson, IL
the presence OF her father and ther
killed himself. He tried to kill Luthe
Packard, his rival. who had Jus
brought Miss Pearson from the the
ater, but the girl jumped in front o
her escort with the exclamation mo
shoot mel" and Jackson did. Afte
the tragedy the murderer's bull dol
guarded the dead body and would lie
no one 60 near 1t and had to be las
soed by the coroner this morning he
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-28
DURANGO. COLORADO. mosoAf, JANUARY as 1907

the commission voted the widow
$1,000 and il thought to have paid the
eiopement expenses out of 1t.
The medal, however, has just reach
ed the Offices of the commission here
and would have been mailed her this
week.
Just what will be done with the
medal is the question.
The commission may decide to give
1t to the child of the hero, now three
years old.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-28

Steward Edward White, the author,
has left his bungalow. in California,
where he has lived for the last two
years, and has Joined the authors col
ony in New York.
William r.. Curtis writes that Brit
ish merchants at the various treaty
ports will demand an indemnity for
losses under the new law for the sup
preston Of the opium traffic in China.
Mrs. Potter Palmer leaves New York
for Europe. and before sailing tells
OF the good she expects to come from
the meeting of the National Civic fed
Grafton recently held at her residence
in this city.
Recruits concerned in the riot al
Columbus. o., in which saloons In the
negro district were wrecked. will bs
court-martialed and punished severe
| ly. Six soldiers said to be leaders
are arrested.
Prof William Lyon Phelps OF Yale
In a lecture at Bridgeton. Conn.,. las
Friday evening. among other thing
said: Mark Twain il easily tn
greatest American novelist In the his
tory Of this oountry's literature"
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-28

Pittsburg, Jan. 25.-At least ten
belonged to Evelyn Nesbit is now in
the hands of District Attorney Je-
rome, to be used against Harry X.
Thaw. Mrs. c. j. Holman, mother OF
Evelyn, turned the garments over to
Jerome. Each piece is torn or other
wise damaged and accompanying each
each was torn. Mrs. Holman asserts
most OF the garments are shirtwaists
which Thaw tore while Evelyn was
wearing them. She says he had a
habit OF tearing of Evelyn's waists
even in the presence of other persons.
Dates accompanying different pieces
cover a year, both before and after
Evelyn and Harry wtre married.
Many assaults took place in Paris and
others in New York, while on one oc-
casion Evelyn had her waist torn
off while in cab with Thaw. Mrs
Holman got possession of the gar.
ments and saved them with evident
purpose of using them against Thaw
at earliest opportunity.
Only one additional juryman was
secured in the Thaw trial this morn
ing when the court took recess. 1t is
not believed the trial will commence
before Tuesday or Wednesday. as to
morrow and Monday will be occupied
in securing the other six jurors. Their
when the box is filled wrangle IL
likely over competency of two oil
three.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-28

Denver. Jan. 25.-The governor
state officers and members of the
Colorado legislature are guests OF
honor at the stock show today, and
Colorado day. despite the change in
weather that has brought touch of
winter Is proving a drawing card with
thoses interested In high grade stock
on exhibition at Denver union stock
yards. Legislature adjourned for a
day to attend the stock show in a
body. The horse show. attended by
Dehvers smartest society set, brought
thousands of pretty women to the big
tent at the stock yards
Denver, Jan. 25.--The Bardwell leg.
islative investigating committee met
this morning but adjourned until To-
morrow morning at o'clock, when
Leonard lmboden will resume his ties.
tlmony and tell what he knows about
how the Denver Savings bank was
wrecked and by whom it was sent TO
the wall. Imboden submitted list
OF his chain of banks in Texas. Ok
lahoma and Indian territories to the
committee this morning, which he said
he had been requested to make last
night. Jas. A. Hill yesterday told
the Bardwell legislative committee
how Attorneys Potter and Banks,
counsel for the Denver Savings bank,
were employed especially and paid
$4,000 to defend the institution
against the receivership suit which
threw the bank, then solvent, into the
hands of Stevick and how Attorney
Banks, who had the matter In hand,
seemed TO have quit his clients and
acted with the attorneys pushing the
application for the receivership. I'VE
dismissed Attorney Banks because we
did not believe he attended to bust
ness before the receiver was appoint
ed. declared Hill.
New York. Jan. 25.-David Belasco
htiu II iohS btpniOh lOha1 WIN Nh'
grand jury showing that body that
the theatrical trust was in the busi-
ness TO throttle all opposition and to
kill the artistic efforts Of the indie
pendents by compelling all actors to
join the trust and to refuse to play
in companies other than theirs. It
is thought several indictments will
follow the Belasco expose.
Jackson, Miss, Jan. 25.-Henry
Ball, negro, was lynched at Green
wood, the home of Governor Varda-
man. He had attacked Mrs. Graves
OF that place. The coroner's jury to
day decided the negro had met his
death at the hands of unknown per
sons.
Washington, Jan. 25.-Chief Justice
Fitzpatrick and wife OF Canada are
here. guests of Justice Harlan to-
night. President Roosevelt will give
a dinner In honor OF the distinguish
ed Canadians.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-28

Silverton, Jan. 26.-About inches
OF new snow fell this morning, but
the weather is clear this afternoon.
Telluride. Jan. 26.-Snow began fall
ing early this morning and continues
with steady gait, attended with oc-
casional high winds.
Constantinople. Jan. 26.-Word just
reached here OF the laundering OF a
ship in the Black sea yesterday and
the drowning OF sixty passengers and
thirty OF the vessels crew.
Lincoln, Neb. Jan. 26.-The comfort
of Nebraska legislators and state Of
ficers has not been increased by the
probability that the state house Will
fall in upon them. The state architect
has sent an official communication TO
the house that the east wing OF the
capitol is likely to collapse at any mo-
ment. Settling OF the building and
structural defects are the reasons for
the danger.
New York, Jan. 26.-The Thaw case
having adjourned last night until Mon
day, nothing developed today but q
statement from Mrs. Thaw that she
will go on the stand and be quite COO
and will tell things that will greatly
help her husband. Three days OF the
trial OF Harry X. Thaw have passed
and the net result OF all this wori
has been the selection OF seven jurors
| To get these seven, 101 talesmen, hal
OF the panel drawn, have been exam
ined.
| While the examination OF the tales
men consumes less time than wa
taken in the early stages OF the trial
the talesmen themselves have becom
more weary, apparently. and the e,
cuses put forth for not serving ar
varied and ingenious. 1t Is possibl
that the other Ave jurors needed vii
be found In the 100 talesmen stil
awaiting examination, but not likel,
Dover, N. H., Jan. 26.-Fire swep
through the big nve-story mill OF tn
Cocheac company this morning an
imperiled the lives Of over ave hui
dred operatives. There was = PAM
and the men and women RUSHED fra
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-28
THE THAW
TRIAL HOLDS
new YORK

y New York, Jan. 24.-Tbere was
little confusion at the Thaw trial to-
day but there was intense interest
Thaw's mother has collapsed, due to
the strain at the opening of the trial
Yesterday. When the morning ses-
sion began today there were two jur-
ors In the box, Deming B. Smith, No.
l, and Chas. Fl. Beck. No. 2. Nearly
half hour before the session was
opened, Mrs Evelyn Nesbit-Thaw
made her way into the court room
through the main doorway. Her fea-
lures were again obscured by heavy
white veil. May Mackenzie followed
close behind the prisoners wife, and
then came Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Lauder
Carnegie. Thaw, the prisoner. was
cool, and paid little interest to the
examination of talesmen. At noon
not one Of the talesmen examined had
proved satisfactory.
Court adjourned or took recess
shortly before 2, without adding an
otner juror TO two chosen.
New York, Jan. 25-The mother of
Harry Thaw recovered from her break
Harry Thaw recovered from her
breakdown of yesterday and appeared
in court this morning sitting as near
as possible to her son and showing
in her aged face the deep sorrow that
is hers. Mrs. Thaw, the younger.
dressed today in deep black, smiled
in an encouraging way to her husband
whenever opportunity offered. Among
the others in the court room this
morning were three prominent alein-
lists who are to testify for the prose
cution and who. 1t is understood, will
maintain that Thaw was and is in his
right mind. Late yesterday afternoon
after the court recess three additional
jurors were chosen so that eleven to
day there were just a half dozen in
the box, one having been selected to-
day.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20
INVITATION TO
THE WHITE CITY
Is Extended by the Management TO
All EIks Attending the PhiIa-
delphia Convention.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 20-
The management Of the White City,
one Of the popular summer parks Of
Philadelphia. has designated We'd
nesday, July II, as Elks' Day, and
on that occasion all Of the amuse-
ments in the Park will be free to
the visitors. This is only one of til.
many entertaining features which
have been arranged for the Elks'
convention and reunion, which will
be held in this city during the week
beginning July 15.
The White City. formerly known
as Chestnut Hill Park, IS located in
one Of Philadelphia's pretty suburbs
and can be reached by trolley car
for a five-cent fare. The attractions
Of the park are numerous, and
many special features are being
planned for the pleasure of the par
Elephants.
The park is sufficiently large to
hold $4,000 people, and arrange
ments are being made to entertain
that number on Elks' Day. Visitors
to the convention, who register at
the official registration bureaus, will
BIO given tickets emitting them to
free admission to all the amusement
features.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20
Not Necessary.

Those gamblers from Pittsbnrg
who are trying to run a turf ex-
change at Virginia Station in Brooke
county are now reported to Ibe wor-
ried and uneasy over the proceedings
to put them out Of business. Let 1t
be hoped that their worry and enxr
iety win be cut short by the success
full efforts of the authorities to make
them suspend their operations.
Telegram.
Why not invite the same authori-
ties to help rid Clarksburg of her
gamblers? A little activity on the
part of the authorities here along the
same line would be very commend
able. Governor Dawson may yet
have to be appealed to for aid
Clarksburg News.
IT is not necessary to invoke the
aid of the State authorities to rid
Clarksburg of any gambling places
If there are any in the city. The
city has competent set of officials
and they are doing their best to
keep the city free from the gambling
evil as they have demonstrated by
raiding two places very soon after
they we're opened under the misap-
prehension that they could be
conducted without molestation. If
the News knows of the existence of
any gambling dens in the city 1t is
its moral duty to inform the city
authorities personally and it is doll
lars to dougtnuts that If any such
information has any basis of truth
in it there will be something do
ing.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.

Whereas, it has pleased the
Supreme Sovereign of the Universe
to remove from Camp No. 8, Wood
men of the World, Sovereign /. N.
Ramsay. whose tragic death came as
a painful shock to the members of
this earthly camp on the 14th day
OF June, and
Whereas, Recognizing in him a
sovereign whose daily life and walk
are worthy the emulation of his fell
low members in woodcraft, and
whose presence in the councils of
our fraternal order will be greatly
missed and deplored, and
Whereas, 1t seems fitting and
proper that this Camp draft suit
able resolutions of respect out of
sincere regret for his memory, there
fore be 1t
Resolved, That Camp No. o,
Woodmen of the World, has lost one
of their earnest and praiseworthy
members member whose interest
in Woodcraft was always an inspira-
ton to his fellow sovereigns, and
whose worth as a brother can not
be too highly appreciated, and be it
resolved further, that copy of
these resolutions be furnished his
sorrowing wife, to whom our deep
est consolation is extended, and that
they be spread upon the records of
our Camp, and also be furnished to
the city papers for publication.
F. G. SUTTON,
-. NJ. ERNST,
- VIM. L. McwHoRTER,
Committee.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20
FIRST WHITE WOMAN
Crossing Alleghenles is to Be Re
membered Suitably.

FAIRMoNT, June 2O-The nm
selling Of the monument to the
memory Of Mrs. Charity Pickett the
nrst white woman to cross the ALLIE
gheny mountains, win take place on
saturday. June %. at the Prickett
homestead on Prickett creek, this
county. A number of people from
here expect to attend the ceremonies
and among the number will be the
members of Meade Post No. 6,
Grand Army of the Republic.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20
hard o g ahead and adgertise the

hard 70 50 ahead and advertise the
state as he pleases
Commissioner Nugent wiz also
visit other points in Europe, visiting
the sections where coal abonnds and
after a tire months stay in the
old country he win return home and
make arrangements through the gov
eminent agencies in the metropolis
for the importation into this state
Of the best class of immigrants and
not the worst, as West Virginia has
been receiving because of the irs
responsible labor agencies in New
York, which gather men from the
slums Of the great city and send
them broadcast throughout the coun-
try at SO much per head.
The Importation Of practical min
ers into the West Virginia coal fields
1t is said win be very beneficial to
both the miners and operators of the
state. In the British Isles the men
are accustomed to all the dangerous
gases that Turk within the mines,
and understand the caution to be
used in protecting themselves and
their fellow workmen from death.
There is much antipathy to the class
of miners found in portions of the
state where English speaking miners
cannot be procured, and the intro
duction of skilled workmen will re-
store harmony and gradually the
foreign element must give way to
the English speaking miners.
If Mr.. Nugent succeeds in fulfill
ing even a small part Of his mission
he will be doing the State a great
service for the character of the
Immigrants that are daily pouring
into West Virginia is a matter Of
much concern to the welfare of the
people and their interests, gensgally.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20
Nngent,s Mission.

John Nugent, State commissioner
of immigration. has started for EG-
rope upon a mission that should be
Of practical value to the State CON
cerrtng its immigration question.
The commissioner is to visit the
British Isles for the purpose Of
making a thorough inspection of the
conditions found about the mines in
England, Scotland and Wales, and
advertising the great coal resources
Of West Virginia. The immigration
laws prohibit even a state officer
from procuring men in the foreign
countries. but Mr.. Nugent has free
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20
SENATOR FORAKER,
GENEROUSLY RECEIVED.

xENrA, O., June Ex-senator For
aker arrived here this morning on
tho way to Wherefore College to
deliver an address at the commence
ment at this institution. on his ar
rival here he was given a generous
reception by the people. He made
a brief speech from the court house
and was then driven to Wilberforce
three miles into the country.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20

Value of good real estate in tie
city of clarksburg continues to be
held in such high regard that good
lots are bought like .aot cakes the
moment they are. put on the market
which is another splendid testimon-
ial Of the growth and development
OF the sfty. There is considerable
activity in real estate at present but
1t is>merely the natural consequence
o. the city's steady march forward,
and not of the balloon kind. When
real estate commands the attention
that it does now in Clarksburg it is
indeed most gratifying and en-
couraging sign.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20
10 DINE CHILDREN
OF GrasseIIi Baptist Church on the
Fourth Of July.

NJ and Mrs Howard DAWSON. 81
afasselh, are anxions TO have the
children Of the Baptiss church there
enjoy a good time on The Fourth Of
gniy and 70 help them in doing 50
MIS- Davisson is making prepare
tions 70 give them a fine dinner that
DAY, There will be no charge and
ooth MT. and Mrs. DAWSON viii ar
range everything possible for the
pleasure of the children. They also
cordially invite their friends TO at
tend.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20
Hobbies.

Hobbies are good things for men
to have, declares the Cincinnati
Post. providing they are good hob
bies. Ambassador Bryce, when he
was delivering the commencement
address before the students of the
Chicago University. that paper goes
on to say, expressed the opinion that
everybody ought to have good hob
by. He did not say it in these
words. What he said was: Every
one of us ought to have second or
inner life, over and above that life
which he leads among others for the
purpose of his vocation, be it to gain
money, or power or fame, or be it to
serve his country or his neighbor.
He ought to have some pursuit or
tastes to which he car turn from
the daily routine. Whatever the
taste or pursuit may be, whether of
a higher or commoner type, it is
good for him: but. of course, the
more wholesome and elevating the
taste or pursuit, SO much the bet
ter for him." So what he means is,
having hobby.
We know physician whose hob
by is flowers. His yard is not much
bigger than you could put in your
hat. but he uses every inch OF It.
He takes his trowel and his shade
and his flower seeds and his rose
bushes, and every morning, early,
you can find him among his little
beds. 81 am certain" he said,
that it makes me better doctor
and better man" We know a
young clerk whose hobby is good
books. When the other fellows are
down town in the evenings, he is at
home filing his mind with wonder
fnl thoughts and emptying the
splendid literature of the world into
his head. We know business man
whose hobby is giving happiness to
poor children. He has a way of
picking up forlorn street-boys and
tiny girls who scarcely ever heard Of
happiness. A hundred children love
him. Hobbies are only habits.
Foolish hobbies are foolish habits.
Wasteful hobbies are wasteful habits.
Bed hobbies are bad habits. But
the good hobby is nothing but a good
habit. Mr.. Bryce is a pretty keen
sighted man. He knows that there
is nothing that takes the life out of
US like routine, always doing the
same thing without any let up or
contract.
We need a good hobby or two,
like flowers, or good books, or maxi
ing children happy, and the more
wholesome and healthy the hobby
the more good we Will get ont al It.
The queery What sort 81 hobby
have you?" is one that Ought 10 set
man to thinking about himself.
If he has bad hob the useless,
wasteful. foolish hobby he ought to
get rid Of it7aRi if he has good
te9b1she should congratulate him
self aud go ahead and cultivate it.
53 ces~esss
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20

Possibly the reason the examina-
tion of Harry Orchard Is continued
so long is to give the authorities
time to look up the catagories of
offcnses and crimes to see If he has
missed any.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20
DEAD WOMAN m LAKE.

CLEVELAND. O.. June 1s-The
body of an unidentified woman of
about fifty years of age. weighted
down by pieces of lead and iron
tied about her waist was found in
the lake today. 1t is supposed she
committed suicide.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20
Y. p. $. c. E. MEETING.

Prof, Elkanah Hulley will lead the
Christian Endeavor prayer meeting
at the Baptist church on Friday
night at 8 o'clock. Topic. Lessons
From the Life of Moses" Heb. III,
1929. 1t IS requested that all study
very carefully this fruitful topic and
go and have part in the meeting.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20

the Department of Agriculture
has now discovered that the Ameri-
can pie is afflicted with faint of
benzoate of soda. That about com
pletes the list but we have the sat
isfsction of knowing that the tooth
pick yet remains unadulterated.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20

A man by the name of Gallagher
has been appointed acting mayor of
San Francisco in the place of Eugene
schmitz. It's up to him now to "let
her 60" but in view Of his. predeces-
sor's record he should see that it
goes all right.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-20

There's nothing so good for a sore
throat as DR.. Thomas Electric Oil.
Cures 1t in a few hours. Relieves
any pain in any part.