Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-25

the afl0tlnentS. They estimate tina
the amount will aggregate about $500.
900.
Pursuant to an act of congress. sui
was filed in 1902 in the court o.
claims 20 determine the liability Of
the federal government for the value
of the land allotted these freedmen
In 1908 that court gave Judgment In
favor of the Indians and decreed thai
the government should reimburse
them for value OF freedmen allotments
as soon as the amounts could be as
certained. The United States supreme
court affirmed that decision.
Bonesteel, S. D., Mar. ga terrible
prairie fire driven by a furious wind
Is raging over the reservation, west
of here. Mrs. c. B. Yoakum and her
daughter have been burned to death
Denver, Mar. 22.-Mrs. Eliza Routt,
wife of former Governor John l..
Routt, died at o'clock this morning.
Mrs. Routt was 62 years of age and
was sufferer from dropsy. For the
past five months she gradually grew
worse until death came.
Denver, Mar. 22.-The poultry inter
ests of the state are becoming alarm
ed over the failure to get DR.. Dolph's
bill before the house. Like 200 or
more other bills. it stands a poor
chance of consideration unless Mr..
Dolph can bring it up ON special order.
The bill makes the theft of fowls in
the night time, grand larceny and
punishable as any other similar crime.
Mr.. Dolph will ask for special order
on the bill to accommodate poultry
men who are back of the idea.
Chicago, Mar. 22.-The Pennsylvan-
la railroad officials are alarmed over
the pending bill in the state legis
lature which limits the average speed
of passenger train to forty miles
an hour. including stops. 1t is stated
that the feeling against the Pennsyl-
vania, which all roads seems to suffer
alike, is such that the bill Is likely
to become a law. In such event the
Pennsylvania special, which is the
name of the eighteen hour train be-
tween Chicago and New York, would
have to be taken off.
Unless some state through which
the Twentieth Century limited of the
New York Central runs should pass a
similar law, there would be no neces-
sity of taking that train off, and the
Pennsylvania would be face to face
with competition in service which 1t
would be impossible to meet The
Pennsylvania mileage in the state OF
Pennsylvania, straight through the
state, is 491 miles, which leaves 421
to complete the ChicagoNew York dis
tance.
At forty miles an hour 1t would take
a fast train little over twelve hours
to pass through the state, and would
necessitate an eighteen-hour train
making about seventy miles an hour,
including stops, during the remainder
Of the journey.
Philadelphia Mar 22.-Mayor John
Weaver has come out strongly for
municipal ownership in his message
to the councils in which he advocates
the establishment of municipal bank
from which all politics are to be elm
mated
Telluride, Mar 22.-Fire about G
o'clock last evening destroyed build
tunnel in Marshal basin with a loss
of $4,000. BY hard work some near
by buildings and the boarding house
a short distance away were saved.
Owing to smoke and gases entering
the tunnel and circulating through the
mine work Is suspended today but
will resume tomorrow, or at least, this
is the calculation.
Helena, Mont, Mar. 22.-Four men
were blown to atoms last night in
Northern Pacific tunnel as a result OF
carelessness of one workman tamp-
ing the hole with steel instrument
Details of the accident are meager and
names of dead were unobtainable this
morning.
Goldfeld, Navada, Mar. 22.-The In
dustrial Workers have been routed.
The referendum vote was a decisive
answer to the faction that contended
bulk of miners were most ardent sup
porters of the Industrial Workers of
the World. The vote was ,120 for and
67S against. This virtually settles the
lockout.
The vote leaves the miners standing
as an Independent organization with
their action subject to ratification OF
Western Federation at annual meet
ing next May in Denver.
San Francisco, Mar. 22.-Complete
crlppling of railroad service in the
state and loss of many lives is the
record of the storms that have swept
the entire Pacific slope with remark
able severity. From all sections of
California comes stories of misery.
suffering and death Loss to railroads
alone caused by washouts and destroy
ed bridges is estimated at millions of
dollars. Hundreds of passengers are
stalled in trains throughout the state
and business interests have suffered
heavily.
Little Rock, Ark, Mar. Ex-senator
Mcknight introduced bill In the SEN
ate making 1t unlawful for negroes to
walt upon or serve white persons as
porters on trains as BARRIERS, or as
walters in restaurants or hotels, and
equally unlawful for white servants to
| wait upon negroes.