Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-17
GENERAL NEWS.

, OniteQ olAteS marshal saturday.
John ]. Lambert was appointed re
ceiver and Samuel A. Abby registe
o. the Pueblo land office Saturday.
Representative Blatchford has in
troduced bill asking an appropria
ton for wagon road from Rico t,
Dolores
County Treasurer-elect Goetz o
Milwaukee failed to get the required
bond and therefore is unable ts
qualify.
President Roosevelt, who is said to
have obtained conclusive evidence
that the negro troops alone were
guilty in the Brownsville AFFAIR. is
preparing a new and hot message fol
transmission to the senate.
Saturday night the life of John Nc.
Garvey was brought to an ignomin.
ious end In the death chamber of the
penitentiary in Canon City, in expi-
alton Of the murder of Edwarl Ennis,
a young jssler at Grand Junction,
who John McGarvey characterized as
| his best friend.
According to Duncan c. Lee, editor
of the Ithaca Daily News, w. R.
Hearst personally offered the editors
| Of upstate weeklies cents per copy
for 300 extra copies of their papers
| containing comment favorable to
Hearst during the recent campaign.
The offer was made to editors
through Mr.. Lee. 1t was accepted
and the newspaper men carried out
their end. Now. in long letter to
his contemporaries, Mr.. Lee com
plains that he is unable to collect
the money.
Six Ute chiefs of the White River
branch are hobnobbing with Presi-
dent Roosevelt today by appointment
Wyoming legislature will be asked
to increase bounty on predatory an
imals which are doing much damage
in that state.
Ali Merzi, the new Shah of Persia
is described as a man of iron will
Also he has more stepmothers than
any other ruler now extant.
Mr.. Morrell of Pennsylvania de-
clares that the abolishment of the
canteen is responsible for the in
crease In drunkenness in the army
Hearst has come to time and has
mailed checks to pay Democratic
papers for circulating extra copies
of their papers during the campaign
In apportioning state school funds
La Plata county comes 10 for $1,S03.-
As, according to statement made up
by Supreir tendent Craig. There is
in the fund $117, 1882.
Through the bursting of hot
water bag, which she had but few
minutes before filed with boiling
water, Mrs. Sopria Menning of Den
yer was dangerously scalded Satur-
day morning.
Phil B. Stewart has declined the
commissionership of the general
land Office rendered him by the presi-
dent week or ten days ago. Sac
rifice of persoAal interests was too
great for him to accept the honor
Down in Pennsylvania there is a
lady who has presented her husband
with twins and triplets during the
past thirteen months The gentle
man is likely to believe by this time
that there is something in the thir-
teen superstition.
Gov. Deneen, In a special message
to the legislature, declares the Illi-
nois Railroad company juggled its ac-
counts to avoid payment Of a large
part of the taxes due the state.
Montrose has two vey excellent
weekly papers in the Press and En-
terprise. The Press is specially at
tractive and we always make 1t a
point to give 1t close inspection each
week.
Mrs. Guillette, mother of the young
man who murdered Mabel Brown at
Moose lake, N. Y, prepared a lecture
| and proposes touring the country to
raise money to secure a new trial for
her son. but she finds herself unable
to obtain halls or churches.
| Representative De Almond of Mis-
souri, has introduced a bill prvidine
that all goods manufactured in the
United States shall be stamped with
the amount of duty they would pay
II not of domestic origin in order tt
educate the public in tariff duties.
Senator Morgan wants the state t.
build an insane asylum at La Fayette
in Boulder county, to take care of thu
overflow at the Pueblo institution
He introduced bill in the senat,
asking an appropriation Of s150.OO
to make this extension to the Pueh
10 institution.
William E. Curtis. writing iron
Washington. tells of importan
events of 1906, and predicts that tn
authority given by the Empress Dow
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