Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-25


wnom indictments were returned is
Robert Forester. geologist for the
otah Fuel company, who figured
prominently in the Salt Lake hearinps
The indictments charge conspiracy to
deiraud the government, subofIl In
Oh perjury and perjury in connectloS.
with filing on the government coal
bearing lands In San Juan county In
New Mexico. The indictments were
returned upon information furnished
by F. c. Dezendorf, chief of the gen.
eral land office field division in New
Mexico and Arizona. An additional
Indictment charging fraudulent entry
upon coal lands in San Juan county
was returned last week by the United
States grand jury on information fur.
nished by the chief of this land di-
vision. The names in this case have
not been made public.
There is story in circulation that
w. X. Vanderbilt at the Monte Carlo
Casino. starting with 60 francs, won
$4,000.
Grover Cleveland is in favor OK bav-
ing a national holiday on which the
celebration of homely virtues may
be observed.
Senator Clark is to the front with
a denial of the sale of his railroad
as reported in the telegraph dis.
patches few days ago.
Columbia university is left $500 900
by the will of Francis P. Furnald of
New York for the erection of a dor
mitory In memory of his son.
Motion is made in the United States
supreme court to advance a case In.
volving the effect of the interstate
commerce law on contracts made prior
to law.
More than $4,000 immigrants ar
rived in New York between Saturday
night and Monday morning, the num-
ber being a record-breaker for the
time.
Civil service employees of Chicago
have been told it would be well for
them to contribute to Mayor Dunne's
campaign fund as well as voting for
MIN. This is Democratic principle.
The train service in and out of San
Francisco is badly crippled owing to
rains and swollen streams. At Red
ding owing to the storm north-bound
passenger trains cannot get beyond
that city and trains coming from Port
land are compelled to stop at Oakland,
Ore. The blockade will last week.
1t Is raining hard at Redding and
showing at Sisson.
Daniel Lewis of Goshen, Ind, at
tempted to fiirt with the wrong girl in
| South Bend, and as a result of the
young woman's detective ability he
was arrested. The daughter ofN po-
licemsn was the object of Lewis ador-
| alton and when his advances were re-
pulsed he began to follow her. BY
strategy the girl cornered him in
| local grocery store and kept him an
unconscious prisoner until a patrol.
man appeared. He was fined and or.
dered out of town.
| Aged 100 years 8 months days,
Mrs. Featherstone Osler died Monday
at Toronto, Canada. Few mothers
had such family of distinguished
sons. One is Professor William Osler,
regius professor of medicine, Oxford,
England; one E. B. Osler, wealthy
financier and member of par15a n ent
for Toronto; another is Justice OsIer
of the Ontario supreme court and the
fourth was the late B. B. Osler, one
of the most famous criminal lawyers
Canada ever had.
| The Standard Oil company in its
trial before. Judge Ian on a charge OF
accepting rebates from the Chicago &
Alton railroad. met defeat yesterday
on nearly every hand. Every ruling
| of the court baked the efforts of the
company attorneys to bar technical
evidence on which the governments
case principally is based. Evidence
tending to prove rebates were accept
ed by the oil company from the rail-
road company was presented yester-
day by c. H. Howard. one of the Alton
company's clerks.
The California supreme court yes
terday on request Of attorneys for
Abraham Ruef dismissed Ruef's appli-
cation for a writ of habeas corpus to
transfer him from the custody of Eli
sor Biggs to that Of Sheriff O'Neill.
This is done, 1t Is said, to forestall
any adverse decisions. Detective
Rurns has appointed six of his best
men to assist Elisor Biggs in guard
Ing Ruef and they had orders to shoot
Ruef If any attempt at escape or~es-
cue Is made. Arrangements are being
made to hire an apartment or dwell
Ing in which tn p1iard him