Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-07-22

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| Kansas City. Mo, July 20,-Both the
| Missouri and Kaw rivers at Kansas
| CITY continue to rise and reports of
further damage came In this morning.
| The Missouri has risen half foot
since yesterday reaching the 90 foot
| mark this morning. In the wholesale
| district and west bottoms the waters
had encroached further inland this
| morning and the Easements on Union
avenue are filled with water. In the
east bottoms the water reached the
| floor of the new boat line warehouses
at the foot OF Main street, making 1t
| necessary to move the goods stored
there, Heavy drlftwood foated down
the stream and the ferry was forced
"a stop running because of the strong
current The backwater reached the
homes of 100 truck farmers living in
the lowlands at Quindaro. kas.. two
miles northwest of Kansas City and
drove them to higher ground On
other lowlying places within thirty
miles east and west of Kansas City
the people have been forced to leave
their home and farms are Inundated
Boise, July 20.-The last stag. OF
the Haywood trial Is reached today
james II. Hawley for the state Is ad
dressing the Jury. declaring Haywood
guilty OF being a member of. to use
his own words THE worst band of
conspirators that ever infested any
section OF this country" Mr.. Hawley
has characterized Orchards evidence
as plain story told without effort at
concealment, without boastfulness and
without fear. He points out that cross
examination, without parallel In a trial
OF criminal cases, failed to change the
story In any one particular. He main
talned that the confession of Orchard
was due to the saving power Of d.
vine grace" Quoting the law on con
spiracy, that every man connected by
evidence with conspiracy or combina.
ton must be responsible for every
act done and every word spoken by
members OF the combination, Mr. Haw.
Icy said 1t was n Just law, because
otherwise any man might preach
abomniable crime and then fall hack
claiming his hands were clean of the
foulest crime resulting from his ad-
wise. On this he said is based the
charged against Haywood that he mur.
dered Ex-Governor Steunenberg, and
on this was based the affidavit made
by the county attorney to secure ex.
tradition OF Meyer, Haywood and Petit.
bone.
New York, July 20.-The intense
heat continues. Sixteen victims of ex-
cessive heat and humidity have been
added to the death list In the last
Two days. during which the hot wave
caused more than a score OF deaths I'm
New York City. slight relief came
10 suffering New Workers. last night
and a further let up OF the extreme
hot weather Is promised late today.
but this morning Is ovenlike. Thou.
sands of persons from the east and
west side tenement districts whose
homes were untenable, are found I'm
the parks close to them. In addition
to sixteen deaths. twenty serious pros.
trations resulting from heat are re-
corded. Many OF the sufferers are
children A man with more than
eleven thousand dollars In securities
IN his pockets dropped dead In Park
place. He was Joseph Jackson. Gb
years old and for many years n mes
senger for the brokerage firm of Fred.
crick II. Hatch. Several deaths yes
terday were caused by persons Jump
ing into the river for swim To cool
on and escape the heat.
Chicago, July 2O.-Startling statis-
Tics show a wave OF suicide sweeping
over Chicago at once with the wave of
| oppressive heat which partially nara.
| lyzed the city for hours at a time since
last Wednesday. Many cases superip.
dueed by heat brought dependency.
meiancholia and depression In its
wake. During the past three days
there were eight suicides. and five at
tempted suicides. The suicide both of
young girl and man who plunged
IRON great heights to the tiled floors
OF down town office building IL ascrIb-
ed by physicians to suicidal insanity
induced by oppressive weather con
ditions Chicago, as well as the larger
eastern cities is affected by intense
humidity and one dead and several
prostrations are reported today. MANY
are reported in other cities because
OF heat.
BLEW AN EYE OUT.