Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-13
GENERAL NEWS.

in half and a long freight train wreck
ed at Kalamazoo. Mich, when horse
struck by an engine, fell against a
switch post and derails the train.
| George Franklin OF Pueblo created
considerable excitement the other
morning by kidnapping his 4-yearold
daughter The police have been un-
able to locate him.
The mayor of Pueblo issued a proc
lamation making yesterday holiday
between the hours of 2 and 5 p. M,
the occasion being the opening OF the
baseball season OF league teams. They
do things in Pueblo.
Interstate commerce commission, In
its first decision involving express
rates, holds 100 per cent increase on
cut flowers unjust and scores con
tracts under which railroads are paid
on percentage basis.
1t has been estimated that Colo
radios purchases Of bacon, lard and
other hog products from the country
east of the state line amount in value
to $12,000.000 a year, whereas the
day is coming and that in the near
future, when this state will be produe-
ing all these things beyond its own
consumption-when, in other words,
it will be a seller instead of buyer,
says the Denver Republican.
The government is looking for Andy
Powell, a Wyoming pioneer who has
been awarded $4,000 damages for In
dian depredations.
!, DR.. Chalmers Prentice arrived in
, New York from London to claim the
, body of his wife to ascertain she had
been buried at sea.
/ The state geological survey plans to
reclaim $1O0,OO0,000 in swamp lands
In Illinois, If an adequate appropria'
) tion is obtained from the Legislature.
{ Women teachers in the public
{ schools of New York city maybe ask
1 ed to go on sympathetic strike
l. should their aid be needed at any
& time by the labor unions OF the city.
Pittsburg's noted orchestra is threat
ener with disruption because of Di-
i rector Paur's clash with the Musician S
4 union, which may have serious conse-
= quences in Chicago and other cities.
t Henry C. Keating of California who
a Is heir to million and half of dol
= lars which will be turned over In
about two years, has signed away the
fortune for an advance of $4,000.
S Must be spendthrift.
e William Z. Curtis, writing from
Baltimore, names that city the one
: perfect in politics and says bossism is
S a thing unknown there, and that all
G election contests are gentlemanly,
l. without personal bitterness, and ruled
by business principles.
Wall street awaits the government 5
+ crop report, which is to he issued
t tomorrow, with exceptional interest
+, because OF the effect it may have
) upon a continuance of the country s
. present commercial and industrial ac
G tivity.
8 Henry ManIgauh held up pas
/. senger train soon after it left the
9 station at Savannah, ILL.,, Sunday to
kill James Lewis, who, Manigault says
robbed him of $50 in card game. He
> had accused Lewis of cheating and the
y latter fed. Manigault learned Lewis
had boarded the train, and as 1t was
going slowly through the yards seni
. bullet from his rifle through the cal
: of the locomotive, compelling the en-
v engineer to stop. Lewis leaped to the
ground and attempted to run, but was
shot down. Manigault rushed to the
dying man, and holding off the train
d men with his rifle, took the money
from the pockets of his victim, and
escaped.
II Benjamin C. Wright, charged witt
the murder of his wife and 5-year-old
daughter in Denver, was discharged
% the state not being able to make a
>. case. The bodies of Mrs Wright and
II her daughter were found in theiI
Y home on February % last. Wright
@ himself, apparently unconscious. was
n taken from the house by the authori
>. ties and after being placed in custody
confessed to the chief of police thai
he had committed the crime. How
8 ever, he could give no reason for the
$ double murder and persisted in the
@ statement that he had no recollection
q of how it was accomplished. This
IT confession he afterward repudiatcd
q and 1t was not referred to at his
q trial.
q THE ORIGIN OF GOTHAM.