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

reached the record point last evening
is still rising and a flood warning ha:
been Issued. Much damage is certain
unless the water begins to recede by
night.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15.-Je
rome A. Hart. editor for fifteen years
of the Argonaut, today announces
that he quits journalism, because he
feels he cannot own and edit Re
publican paper when he is so antag
onistic to the president. whose ac-
uons affecting the Japanese and Cali
fornia schools he (Hart) regards as
revolutionary and unconstitutional.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. IA won.
derful projectile has been discover
ed, and to prove its power Foster OF
Vermont has introduced bill which
has for its purpose the making the
old battleship Texas the "hoodco''
vessel the target, and see If her great
armor plate can be penetrated by
the new explosive.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. l5.-There
are nearly thousand delegates in at
tendance today at the convention for
| the extension of foreign commerce.
| Every state in the Union is repre-
| sented. The speakers today are Sec
retary of State Root and Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Strauss.
FTNDLAY, O., Jan. 15.-The grand
jury of Hancock county has brought
in 939 indictments against the Stand
ard Oil company Of New Jersey and
of Ohio, the Solar Refining company.
the Manhattan OIL company, John ID.
Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, II.
II. Rogers, John ID. Archbold, Wesley
H. Tflford, Frank Q. Barstow and +.
T. Cuthbert
The indictments charge the above
with being members OF a combina-
ton of capital, skill and acts for the
following purposes, towit. Petrole-
um and its products to prevent com
petition In the manufacturing making
transportation, sale and purchase Of
said commodity.
NEW YORK. Jan. 15.--Mrs. Rus
sell Sage's attorney has prepared to
protest against the assessors esh-
mate OF the fortune OF the lady
which is put at fifty millions,
and upon which the levy Of q
tax OF over 100000 which would
make her the largest taxpayer on
personal property in the city OF
New York
PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. 15.-Harry
Collins, a heavy swell who married
Miss Bird Thaw and with her secur
ed several millions, has been expell-
ed from the exclusive Pittsburg club.
The offense occurred at the club
ball. Collins had been drinking, and
entering the hall, he began giving
love slaps" on the ivory shoulders
of the ladies' present. There was a
row and Collins was elected from the
club house and was suspended and
has now been expelled. The infuri-
ated women demanded this extreme
measure.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-William
Waldorf Astor is to marry the beauti'
full Countess OF Westmoreland, as
soon as she secures a divorce from
her husband, from whom she has
been estranged for several years.
This is the substance Of dispatches
received today from London. Al
| though 1t is understood the earl will
consent to his wife becoming the
kbride OF an expatriated American,
| still there Is no hint OF scandal, and
1t is asserted that the details Of the
separation have already been arrang-
ed. Should any obstacle arise In the
course of the negotiations, the un-
limited wealth of the descendant of
the Astors is relied on to remove the
obstruction. This will be union OF
July and December, the countess be-
ing 35 years old. while Astor is at
the 60 mark.
ST. PAUL, Mimi. Jan. 15.-James
]. Hill has written letter to Govern
or Johnson, In which he advances
the theory that the railroads Of this
country, are so inefficiently equipped
at this time to handle the traffic on
hand that 1t would take an expendi-
ture of a billion dollars a year for
five years to come to put them on an
effective sales. He declares thai
even at the end of five years the rail
roads might be still as helpless be
cause of enormously increased bust
ness before them. Mr.. Hill says:
1.-THE business OF the United States
is today SO congested that from ev
cry portion of the country arise'
clamor for relief. During recen
: years the volume of business has In
creased and is still increasing viii
extraordinary rapidity, while tn
necessary additional trackage AM
terminals have often been equal L
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