Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-02-14

ing reports of the Thaw trial.
Fifteen wood cutters were over
whelmed by an avalanche in the Mus
Gel district of the Transylvania noun
tains, In Roumanla.
| The committee on public lands has
reported favorably Congressman
Brooks bill opening up the land for.
merly in the Southern Ute Indian
reservation to entry under the Carey
act.
Senator Hale has presented to the
senate plans for the big battleshlp to
be the equal OF any fighting vessel
now afloat or planned. It will be 5tS%
feet long. with beam of SO feet 5-s
inches.
| An imperial Russian decree pro
fvides for the issue of s35,00O.o00 In
per cent state rentes to meet the
famine relief expenses and the ur-
gent extraordinary expenditures as
shown In the budget statement.
| AS result OF what are declared to
be the shocking revelations Of the
Thaw trial." one OF tn pious members
OF the Wisconsin house has introduced
a bill In the legislature to bar the
wearing OF tights by actresses.
| The house committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia made favorable
report Saturday on the Murphy bill,
which makes II unlawful to either
give or receive tips In any hotel or
| eating house in the District of Co
lumbia.
Prayer as cure for the inmates OF
| the state insane asylums is urged
upon the house at Springfield by q
resident OF New Boston, ILL.,, who sug-
gests that Salvation Army workers be
hired to ask divine aid for the luna
tics.
| Baseball and other sports for which
| no admission is charged will be rec.
commended by the committee of the
| Massachusetts legislature named to
codify the Sunday laws. and 1t is
probable the famous old blue laws
will be abolished.
Brooding over the death of his
| sweetheart. TO whom he was engaged
eight years ago, and jealous over Ger
| trude LAWN, pretty lS-year-old wait
ress. to whom he had recently been
attentive, S. c. Snyder, a prominent
young man of Ebert, Colo, Wednes.
day night committed suicide by shoot
Ing himself through the head.
Lady Cook Of England, formerly
Miss Tennessee Clafiin, had an audi
ence Saturday with President Roose-
welt, making plea to the president
for his support OF the movement to
give suffrage to women. She declined
to say what reply Mr.. Roosevelt
made.
II Representative W. Charles Adam
son OF Georgia succeeds In a scheme
that he has undertaken, 1t is not un-
likely that the boarding house mis-
tresses of Washington will appeal to
the president to invoke the aid OF the
bureau of corporations in breaking a
| gigantic combination composed OF sen.
| ators and representatives.
| The Interior Elevator company Of
Minneapolis Saturday sold 100000
bushels OF durum wheat to an i'm
porting firm In Russia, which is buy.
ing In this country on account os the
famine conditions at home. The ship
ment goes 10 Riga and thence will be
distributed where there has been crop
failure In Russia.
State Superintendent of Insurance
Otto Kelsey of New York is involved
into an investigation ordered by the
attorney general into the question o
what became OF $4,000 of the as
sets of the Republic Savings and Loar
association, of which Mr.. Kelsey wal
receiver.
Because he lost an eye in a small
mine explosion several months az,
and therefore was Tilted by the cir
he loved, Steven Rosac, who also wen
by the name OF Szakas, an Austrian
committed suicide at his home In Pri
nero. Las Animas county. He place.
the muzzle Of shotgun against hi
abdomen, discharging load Of No.
shot into his body by pushing the trie
, ger with the ramrod.
; Red onions have jumped from
cents to 81 hundred pounds at Gree
ley, and those who held their Gro
will be well paid
George b. Irving. the trapeze pei
former convicted Of criminal assau
on 9-year-old Louis Monahan. has bee
sentenced by Judge Riddle Of Denve
to fifteen to seventeen years In tn
a state penitentiary.
d The Grand River Stock 0rowers' Z
d ISOLATION has called . meeting 70