Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-07-15
GENERAL NEWS.


Tate Springs. Tenn, who Is to wed
the girl he loved in his youth. aud
who waited for him eighty years, says
love is merely rlpened by age.
| A. L. Reilley and Lawrence La Fon.
tame. Leadville boys, were fined s25
each in the Pueblo police court in order
to held them for Investigation. The
two boys were arrested while trying
to dispose of valuable diamond pin,
which they claim they found on the
| street in Leadville
DESERVING his wife and little child
| in Fayetteville Mo-, John Parker, n
prominent business man, eloped with
Carrie Smith, a 17-year-old daughter
of Rev. c. D. Smith, two weeks ago.
The couple were arrested at Colorado
Springs. Louis Smith, brother of the
girl. who had traced the pair from
Fayetteville to Denver and to Colo
RADIO Springs took Miss Smith back to
| Missouri Parker is held by the DO
lice.
Rules of procedure. which were ac-
cepted by the public service commits
sion, require, among many other new
things, that every railroad must make
an immediate report to the commits
sion by telegraph or telephone of cv-
cry accident in which there is a loss
o. life. They provide also that when
complaint is lodged against a cor.
poration 1t must make answer to it
within ten days, and must specifically
deny or admit the allegation In the
complaint.
The sly wiles of Cupid threaten to
disrupt the public schools of Kansas.
according to State Superintendent
Fairehild, who says Kansas is threat.
ened with shortage of school teach
ers which will be as disastrous as the
shortage of men to save the wheat
crop He has heard from thirty-eight
OF the 1O5 counties and, basing future
returns on these, there will be a short
age of more than thousand teach
ers. Mr.. Fairchild says more women
teachers have married this year than
ever before. Twelve thousand teach
ers are required to conduct the Kan
sas schools.
Some interesting facts were brought
out on the Fourth at Mount Holly. N.
j., while five men, each more than 40
year old, were watching the explosion
of cannon crackers and pyrotechnics,
three of the veterans, Charles Fort
Willitt Shinn and James l.. Anderson.
confessed that they had never shot of
trecracker. c. Oakford Gaslill said
he had never had a pair of skates on
and never shot off gun. Abraham
Jones. the eldest in the group quail
fed for place among the conserva-
tive by the assertion that he had never
eaten an oyster or banana or tasted
ice cream.
Sensational Astronomy" is the term
applied by Professor Charles l.. Doc
little of the chair of astronomy at the
University of Pennsylvania and director
or the Flower observatory, to the eff
forts of various scientists to prove
that the planet Mars is inhabited. The
fact that Mars is at this time but
3S,000,000 miles away from us as com
pared with about 100000 miles
at the other end of its orbit does not
incline Professor Doolittle to believe
anything will be learned about con
ditions on that planet, and he has no
expectation of great results from the
expedition now working in South
America.
1t now looks as If the stupendous
amount of 60.O00.000 net tons of freight
would be transported through the St
Mary's ship canals this season. 1t
is record-brealIing year for this great
highway of commerce. Never in any
one month until this season had
traffic as great as 100000 tons been
carried through the waterway connect
ing Lakes Superior and Huron. In NAV
this year all former records were
broken with a movement of 1884, ,264
tons; yet this high mark has itself
been overtopped by the month just
to S,S65,442 tons, and indications are
that this will be surpassed during the
present month. The August move
ment will possibly reach the 10000, 900
mark. The gain in traffic this season
over the record-breaking figures of
year ago is 2,910539 net tons.
Thomas Brown, against whom YER
dict of voluntary manslaughter was
brought by a Cripple Greek jury. has
been sentenced to term of from five
to seven years in the penitentiary. He
was tried for killing Ike Lebo and
Chris Miller at Goldheld on election
day, 1904. James Warford. also con
victed of the crime, is serving n life
sentence. Browns attorney asked for
ninety days in which to present a bill
of exceptions. The case will be taken
to the supreme court on error.
]. A. Childs foreman of a brick yard
at Colorado City, struck William Len
hart, one Of his men, over the head
with a shovel, fracturing his skull. as
the result of quarrel over Lenhart's
wages. Lenhart is at a hospital and
will die. Childs escaped, although
the police of Colorado Springs. Colo
RADIO City and Manitou and a sheriff's
posse are securing the country. Child's
Ia 81 and has family. Lenhart is
% and not married