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

A New York man has invented a
boat that Is expected to cross the At
lantic ocean in thirty-six hours.
Private car owners plan a move
ment to get so cents day from the
railroads for the use of their proper
ty.
Leading Chicago bankers deDounce
as ill-advised and premature petition
for Paul o. Stansand's release from
prison.
away with annoyances of customs in
spection, thereby winning the hearts
of all women travellers.
Twenty prominent La Crosse. Wis.,,
people were attacked with ptomaine
poisoning as result Of eating home
cooked veal and prepared salad at a
picnic dinner on French island.
An acronaut, blistered by flames
which consumes his clothing, clung
to the bar of a parachute while drop
ping 1000 feet through the air, re-
leasing his hold when only n few
feet from earth.
It is estimated that the expense in
volved in the revision and issuance OF
Western passenger tariffs will not he
less than $4,000 for the majority OF
the roads and that on some of the
larger systems 1t will aggregate four
times that amount.
Eugene V. Debs, who Is home at
Tere Haute for an intermission in his
Chautauqua dates and who has been
in the west several weeks ATTENDING
the Western Federation of Miners
convention, among other engagements
says he believes the Haywood jury
will disagree.
Libraries are sinks of corruption,
declared Bishop N C. Matt at the
early morning mass at the Roman
Catholic cathedral in Denver. Look
at Carnegie" said Bishop Matz. How
the world praises him because he
| sends money all over the country tC
found libraries which shall perpetuate
| his name. Libraries, | say, are sinks
| of corruption. They place within
reach of the masses the iniidel teach
ings of Voltaire and the sensati6na
dime novel, getting in their work o.
| destruction only too easily"
| The Texas railroad commission
claims that it has authority under the
anti-pass laws to assume jurisdiction
over the rates of telegraph and tele
| phone companies. The question has
been referred to the attorney genera
for an opinion. Commissioner Coluuit
holds that the law was violated by the
telegraph companies when they gave {
lower rate, to newspapers for new
matter than to other patrons.
William Hall alias Popcorn Bill,
who is SO years old, was arrested il
Montrose on charge of taking liber
ties with 4-year-old girl The chilt
is the daughter of Mrs. Mamie Wake
and Hall is alleged to have enticed he
to his popcorn factory where Mrs
Walker found him removing the child
clothing. Hall is alleged to have con
fessed his guilt to the officer. 1t il
said that he offered Mrs. Walker mon
ey to hush the matter up He wa.
bound over to the district court, hi.
bond fixed at $1,000.
After another futile attempt to dis
cover some way of utilizing the Chi
cago clearing yards, commonly calle,
the Suckney tract, the Chicago rail
roads have abandoned the project
This leaves the $5,000,000 railway i'm
provement which was conceived ant
carried to completion by H. II. Porte
and his friends practically. useless
Mr.. Porter nearly ten years ago con
ceived the idea of taking what wa,
known as the Stickney tract and max
ing a mammoth freight clearing yard.
out of it, so that the congestion o
Chicago terminals could be relieved
and the transfer of freight betweer
the roads and the shippers could b,
greatly facilitated.