Semi-weekly herald., 1908-12-14
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Albuquerque is about to bond the
city to install 100000 sewer sys-
tenn.
Mr.. Kellogg in Standard Oil inquiry
brings out that profits of the Indiana
company were S55,000.000 in seven
years on a capital of S1,000.00O.
The secretary of the treasury rec
ommends the appropriation of s32, 400
for improvements of Mesa Verde ma
tional park-the Mancos cliff dweller
section.
Frank Phillbrook has been fined
S625 for shipping quail out of the state
of Illinois and sent to Jail for twenty
five days. One hundred and eighty
of the birds he shot were confiscated.
After lively debate the federal coun-
Gil of Churches of Christ in America
meeting in Philadelphia, rejects plan
to close the public schools halliday
u week and teach the children relig
ion.
Mrs. l.. C. Rawson. who is attend
ing the meeting of life insurance pres
idents in New York, is vice president
OF the Des Moiaes company. and is
tho only woman officer in a similar
organization.
Bank clearings in all the clearing
house cities in the United States in
November were $12,S75, ,S29,743.y as
compared with s9,613.735,49S in the
| corresponding month last year, an in.
crease of BAL per cent.
| While playing on the organ, Near
er, My God. to Thee" during an in
cineration being conducted in the New
York and New Jersey crematory. Hen.
ry o. kuehne. the superintendent of
| the establishment, fell dead.
The number of persons killed in
India in 1907 by wild beasts was 1866,
as compared with 2,0S6 in 1906. The
report says this is the lowest figure
on record since the government has
been gathering statistics on the sub.
ject.
| Pat" Grow. the notorious. is going
on the lecture platform under the
auspices of the Women's Christian
Temperance union. His first address
will be delivered tonight in st. Mary S
hall. Evanston. Groves subject has
been announced as 1.-The Crime of So
ciety in Dealing With the Criminal"
The October report of the Rock Is
land and Frisco systems shows a
gross income of $40. 1882, 500. decrease
of $622,240. The expenses of the
roads were $7,435,S25, a decrease of
$309.3S0. The net income was $685..
1856. a decrease of $Sl2.s75. From
July the accounts show that the
gross receipts have been $3S.343, ,47O,
decrease of s3.13S,S6O Expenses
were s27.635,970. decrease of $2..
722,670, and the net income was $780,
7O7,5o0. decrease of s416,20O.
The Calumet and Hecla Mining com
pany's quarterly dividend of IS per
share that is paying on the 18th inst
will bring the total sum of dividends
to $l07 7,S50,000. This company was or.
ganized in 1871 with capital stock
| of S2,500,0O0; shares had part value
of $25 and sl2 was paid for each
share. The company has invested in
real estate alone almost 100000, 900
The largest amount paid in one year
for dividends was $4,000 900. in 1889
Several times the company has paid
out s5,000.000 as dividends upon one
years business. At the ruling prices
for the metal, the earnings OF this
corporation are not less than s45 per
share.
For killing one Of King Edwards
swans on the River Thames, Ralph
Dickinson, an undiscriminating sports
man. was fined S110 by the Feltham
magistrates. 1t can be seen that tri.
fling with the kings cygnets is still
serious offense in England, though 1t
is not, as in the reign of Charles H..
a crime punishable by death. Ameri.
can visitors to England who have gone
into ecstacies over the thousands of
swans that are such feature of the
Thames may not know that every bird |
on the river belongs either to King |
or to the Winners company
one of those extraordinary institutions
In the city OF London which exist for
the purpose of banQueting. George l,
gave the Winners the privilege of
Keeping swans on the river. and they