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Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

1,672.074, which is equivalent to ar
average OF 1886 employees per 100 miles
of line. As compared with the year
1906, these figures show an increase OF
150,719 in the number of employees, or
fifty-one per 100 miles of line. OF the
employees 65.29S were enginemen, 69,.
3S4 firemen, 4S,869 conductors and 1874, ;.
257 other trainmen. There were SO,
Ala switchtenders. crossingtenders and
watchmen.
The total amount of wages and sal
aries reported as paid to employees DUR
ing the year ending June 30, 1907, was
$1.072, ,3S6,427.
The average revenue per passenger
per mile for the year ending June 30,
1907. was 2.014 cents. For the pre-
ceding year the average was 2,O03
cents. The average revenue per ton
per mile was 0.75.9 cent; the like av-
erage for the year 1906 was 0.748
cent. The figures show an increase
In the average cost of running q train
one mile. The ratio OF operating ex-
penses to earnings for the year 1907
was 67.53 per cent. For 1906 this
ratio was 66.O8 per cent.
The amount of dividends declared
during the year was $308, 1877 1924. The
surplus for the preceding year was
= In 1907 one passenger was killed for
every 1,432.631 carried. and one in
jured for every 67,012 carried For
1906 the figures show that 2.222,691
were carried for one killed
and 74,131 passengers were carried for
one injured. The total number of
to persons on the railways
for the year ending June 80, 1907. was
l22.855. of which 1889 represented
the number of persons killed and ILL.,
DIG the number injured.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Twenty-Five years ago there were
1000 miles of railroad In Canada. To
day there are $4,000. with three trans
continental lines. The total trade Of
this part of the British empire has
grown from $34,000.000 in 1851. to
$3.50, 100000 at present, and the great
Impulse has come in very recent years.
Manitoba raised 100000 bushels of
wheat In 1903. but last year the crop
amounted to S7,500000 bushels.
While the population of Canada is
but one-seventh that OF the United
States. that country can rightly claim
TO be the fairest flower with the most
glowing prospects OF any of England's
dependencies.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
MASCOT
OFFERED
hippodrome Manager
Wanted Mr.. Taft
to Accept Elephant

HOT SPRINGS, Va. July 22-Mr.
Taft has declined the elephant offered
by w. w. Powers of Rhode Island.
which came as d telegram and was as
follows:
Riverside. r. l., July 2l.
Hon. w. H. Taft,
Hot Springs, Va.
Would you accept. free, one OF
Powers hippodrome elephants as the
Republican emblem and mascot in the
fall campaignf You may remember
seeing them at Cambridge, Nd. Please
wire reply at my expense to me at
Providence, R. T.. care Crescent park.
wv. w. POWERS"
Taft's answer to this was:
Very much obliged to you for your
generous Offer but / am afraid your
elephant. were ] to accept II, would
be an elephant sindeed. You are much
better able to take care of him than
J. and hope that wherever he is he
VIII CONSTITUTED mascot both for you
and me. w. II. TAFT"
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
Attempted Suicide
by Razor Route

DENVER, July 22.-At the door Of
the woman with whom he had quarrel
ed, Charles Baker attempted suicide at
the Dane hotel early this morning by
cutting his throat with razor A
few moments previously he had called
for Dora Goodwin, a distant relative.
She refused to admit him. Words
passed between them through the
closed door. Soon afterward she was
startled by the fall of a body, CUR
Cling sound and the flow Of blood
through the crack Of the door and into
her room. The woman's screams
awakened the dodgers. Policeman
Bates was called from the street he
removed Baker from the hallway and
took him to the hospital n dying
condition. Baker was still living at 10
o'clock.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
(" Yelled Murderess'
fu,itively--Id -Ideatified

NEW YORK, July 22.-Henrietta
Robinson, the "veiled murderess" OF
Troy. N. Y, who died in Mattewan In
sane hospital In 1905. was positively
identified here today as Lady Char
lotte Wood Elliott. wife Of Sir William
Francis Elliott OF Castel Stobs, Scot
land, who disappeared in 1851. She
was sentenced in 1856 to hang for
the murder of Timothy Larangan and
Carthering Lubee Of Troy, whom she
is alleged to have poisoned. Her SEN
tence was commuted to life imprison-
ment, and Lady Elliott spent nineteen
years Of her sentence at Sing Sing be-
fore being removed to Mattewan.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
JUDGE
Lands
Reversed in His FAM
& Gus Standard Oil
Company Decision

SCHICAGO. July 22.-The famous de-
cision Of Judge Landis. by which the
Standard Oil company was fined twen-
ty-nine million dollars WAS reversed IN
a decision handed down by the United
States court of appeals this morning.
The case was returned for new trial
The Judgment came as a complete
surprise, as last night speculation as
to the outcome OF the suit was TO the
effect that the decision wouli almost
certainly uphold the fine imposed by
Judge Lands. The decision was reach.
cd by Judges Peter 8. Grosscup. Fran
chs e. Baker and William II. Seaman
and was unanimous. The case viii
POW 20 to the supreme court Of the
URited States.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
". L. Douglas
May Be Chairman

FAIRVIEW, LINCOLN. Neb.. July
22.-It now seams certain that the new
chairman OF the Democratic national
committee will be former Governor
William l.. Douglas OF Massachusetts
The fact he is being much sought after
to take the place became known here
today, following the departure OF
George Fred Williams, who conferred
last night with Bryan after coming di-
rect from Massachusetts. 1t was not
generally known that Williams had re-
turned east from the Denver conven-
tion. 1t is presumed he conferred
with Governor Douglas about matter
at the request Of Bryan while in the
east.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
money had endowed.

Authentic figures of the destruction
by the floods in South China are given
~ report OF the committee appointed
in Canton to investigate the losses.
Having thoroughly traversed the dis
tricts flooded. the members state that
the loss OF life is comparatively Incon.
siderable; that so per cent of the crops
were destroyed; 2S,400 are homeless
and 100000 are without food. The
loss In property is s10.o0O,000, Mexi-
can. The situation Is now desperate.
and II Will grow worse TIL next har-
vest. II Is estimated that more than
million dollars is necessary to afford
relief. and $4,000 taels will be re-
quired to repair dykes. The relief
fund at Hong Kong now totals half
million. The Cantonese will open
the first bazaar ON western lines In
the empire Of China within a week
in aid of the fund.
DIR. r. X. Jackson OF the Pasteur IN
stitute visited Montclair, N. j., and
made scientific examination Of Da-
vid Steinfeldt, the Montclair dog
catcher. who, according to the record
he has kept during his six years sery-
Ice. has been bitten 1900 times by
al nahhcr oi uOgs, at least one OF
which was afflicted with rabies. Stein
feldt's case is regarded us curious by
the Pasteur institute. and DIR. Jackson
wants the dog catcher to 60 to the
so that the surgeons can
make special study Of his condition.
Dr. jackson made n close examination
OF the much bitten man, and Steinfelt
In answer 10 his queries said that he
Is frequently affected by some OF the
symptoms which usually presage hy-
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

dry spells alternate with consistent
regularity. A wet spell, according
10 his computation, lasts about thirty
years. Then dry spell. which lasts
another thirty years, ensues.
Every wet spell. we are informed by
the investigator, Is a little less wet
than was the one preceding It, and the
latest dry spell is always little more
dry than was any dry spell before 1t.
We are glad to be able to say that the
diminution Of the rainfall is not such
as to cause immediate alarm. II is
not expected by the French scientist
that our children or our children's chill
dren will leave to see the world be.
come one vast Sahara. Not for sew
eral million years will the rivers be
dried up and the oceans become wide
stretches OF sand.
This should be reassuring, even II
we did not have before us an article
irmo a New York paper which says
mat $1,000 acres Of Island and 296, 900
acres of New Jersey are at this mo.
ment under water. Furthermore. there
Is on foot project having for its
purpose the draining of vast areas In
Florida whereby the amount OF avail.
able land in that state will be nearly
doubled. And Just at this time the
Kansas City Star triumphantly an
nounces that ''as the floods subside
and the waters recede 1t Is learned
that nothing has been drowned out
In Kansas but the cut worms and the
chinch bugs and the Hessian fly and
the weevil."
Taking into consideration all the
existing conditions, 1t appears that
people who worry about a possible |
dryfng-up of the waters from the sur
face of the earth should be listed |
among the borrowers of useless trou- |
Bile. There are good reasons for GO |
ing ahead with present irrigation and
exclamation projects. so that the wa.
-er which is here may be SO disposed
of as to do the most good. without
'egard to the figures by which foreign
Investigators are able to prove that 1t
VIII some time be impossible for milk
nen on this earth to water their prod
ct.-Record-H Herald.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
NINETEEN
KILLED
nSteamer Wreck
ed on Reef Near
Santa Barbara

SAN FRANCISCO. July s2.-It il
reported that nineteen pAssensers
were killed aboard the wreck Of The
German steamship Anubis. vhieA y
pounding to pieces today ON the recf
off the California coast near Santa
Barbara. Four tug boats have been
dispatched from this city to rescue
the imperiled people. A rough sea ia
running. and there Ia great danger that
the wreck will 60 sntirely 70 piecea
before the tusn arrive.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
-Four Men Injured
in St Louis Fire

ST. LOUIS, July 22.-Fod- men and
boy were hurt. two of them fatally
in fire this morning in South See
ond street boarding house. The two
injured jumped from second story win
dows, being trapped in their rooms by
the flames. Adam Klein, 68 years old.
inhaled flames; Albert Trottwell, 40
years old, internally injured by jump
ing and Amiel Doll, IA years old, in
ternaliy injured. were the most Sc
riously hurt.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

The southern Illinois penitentiary Is
now preparing limestone dust for dis
tribution among the farmers for fer
tilizing purposes. This limestone dust
is put up In sacks at the prison and
sold to the farmers at so cents sack.
1t is said by the farmers to be one OF
the finest fertilizers known.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
Robbers Hold up
and Rob Stage

RENO, New. July 22.-News reach
ed the Journal fast night from Likely,
New, that the Likely and Alturas stage
was held up Monday night by two
masked men. who we're heavily armed.
They compelled the Wells-Fargo mes
senger to throw down the box. con-
tanning, It is believed, large sum
In gold for the pay roll at Alturas.
The passengers were not molested.
No description OF the bandits could
be obtained.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

The vessel movement on the Great
Lakes last season aggregated 1850
vessels OF 99.166 400 net tons register,
cleared from the various lake ports,
compared with 76,097 vessels of 94,-
O94,3l6 net tons register cleared dur.
ing the preceding season.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Consul Alfred A. Winslow of Val
paraiso, reports that the number of
small industries which is being sup
piled with engine and motor-pcwer is
very rapidly increasing In Chile.
Electric power is coming to the fore
in this line because Of expensive fuel.
This is especially true of Valparaiso.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Under the new compulsory mill
tary training defense scheme II Is es-
timated that In eight years Australia
VIII have 214,000 men trained and
equipped for war.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

II tine real estate OF Manhattan is
land were divided equally between Its
inhabitants, each individual would own
5000 worth, according to the assessed
value.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Vice Consul General Michael Alger,
OF Christiana, writes that, owing to the
physical character of the country, Nor
way Is destined to be but n very
limited market for automobiles.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

The Express mentions case OF
private who for falling to recognize
and salute his officer was condemned
to march past and salute a barrack
pump for two hours each day for a
week. The choice Of the substitute.
anyhow, showed modesty on the part
Of the officer.-LOndon Punch.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Rear Admiral Evans is an expert
with knitting and crochet needles, and
his embroidery is said to be as won
derful and varied as Is his vocabulary.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

The average cost of supplying 1.00O,-
900 gallons of water, based on the
report of % cities, is $92 This sum
includes operating expenses and in
terest on bonds.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

An old-fashioned plow on the side
walk in front OF store In Day street.
New York. attracted a crowd. One
man asked how It was used.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
END OF THE WORLDS WATER
SUPPLY.

A French scientist who has been
making q study Of the subject an
nounces that the world ID drying up.
He ands that esr VET spells and our
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Golden is in danger Of water fam
inc and limitations have been placed
on use OF water.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Bee Nathan's windows for the great
~ kaxgaiAs ever offered IN Durango.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

airships will In the near future be as
luxurious and comfortable as modern
hotels.
Bryan is camping on the trail for
campaign contributions and wants
newspapers to start subscription lists
from their subscribers. Why not turn
over some of the Commoner profits
instead of soliciting the hard earned
money Of toilers.
Poisoned by spoiled Strawberries.
which she ate three weeks ago. IL
year-old Gladys Nichols OF Cokeville.
Wyo., is dead from ptomaine poison
Ing. She was considered one Of the
handsomest and most popular young
women of the towa. ,.--..
Drinking, even out Of ones flask In
passenger trains In Louisiana, con-
stitutes misdemeanor. punishable by
a fine or imprisonment, or both, ac-
cording TO new state law which went
into effect Monday. This act makes
It unlawful to drink Intoxicating H.
quors OF any kind In or upon any rail-
way passenger train, or coach, or
closet. or vestibule, or platform, ex-
cept In case Of actual sickness.
Queen Victoria Of Spain. who frank.
ly dislikes bullfighting, Is believed 10
be responsible for King Alfonso's de
cree prohibiting women toreadors from
participating in performances. This
IS the first effective sign OF the queen q
feelings on the slbject. The king re-
tains his Spanish tastes and had con.
| tributed to the relief of the toreador
whose injuries at segovia much un.
nerved the queen.
The italian poet. senor Marlnetti
who has just issued book
about the novelist Senior dan
nunzio, according to the book
believes in the eccentricities as
the best way to make himself known
He takes his bath on horseback. Ir
one instance Senior d'Annunzio. will
few clothes on, rode among the break
ers alarming other bathers and ther
dismounted, was envcloped In a gor
geous purple mantle and walked
away.
Death has ended Charles ]. L. Mey
er's years Of penury and privation
The old man. who twenty-five year
ago was rated at $1,5OO,0G0 and hard.
more than q month ago was denied I'D
mission to the poorhouse at Milwar
kee. Wis, which he had helped +
found. passed away = pauper Sunda
In Trinity hospital. Milwaukee. G
heart disease He was So years of ag'
Pioneer railroad builder Of Wisconsin
for many years the lumber king Of tn
state and prominent in politics. Mi
Meyers reverses came suddenly an
plunged him from the pinnacle Of SUI
cess into direst want. The china
: came when on June last he sougk
|. a1niesiea te ~ al1shoass uhjeA h
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Warren A. Haggott has Just return
ed from Washington and will soon be-
gin an active canvass for reelection
as congressman In the Second district.
He expects to visit Durango about the
18th of August
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Boulder with more than double the
population Of Durango and several
banks, only shows a small increase in
deposits in national banks over this
city.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

The American car has crossed the
line between Siberia and Russia and ia
some distance In the lead In the great
around-the-world automobile race.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
COLORADO NEWS

Trinidad is figuring on a new water
supply.
Denver won its first Sunday ball
game Mayed this season.
aevrse }. Kindell is on the war path
again over overcharges made by rail-
roads.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Taft will not tour the country seek.
Ing votes.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

A German professor predicts that
airships will In the near future be as
luxurious and comfortable as modern
hotels.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Bryan speeches are now hurled upon
'Hp. .Rpsnspectins people that visit the
throughout the country Atnsi'apas
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Bryan is camping on the trail for
campaign contributions and wants
newspapers to start subscription lists
from their subscribers. Why not turn
over some Of the Commoner profits
instead of soliciting the hard earned
money Of toilers.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

Poisoned by spoiled Strawberries,
which she ate three weeks ago. IL
year-old Gladys Nichols Of Cokeville.
Wyo.. is dead from ptomaine poison
ing. She was considered one Of the
handsomest and most popular young
women of the town. --..
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-06-22
MRS. HETTY GREEN, whose socia

MRS. HETTY GREEN, whose social
Iva Thermometer las jumped almost
to fever heat within a mcnth and
shows indications of going higher yet
clear to the ton of the tube, where
the 400" mark isis having her face
made over at a beauty foundry and
planning an invasion of Newport
from the vantage point of a summer
cottage.
These are the two latest bulletins
in regard to Mrs. Green, who, having
blossomed into splendor in the So
ciety dollhouse of the Plaza hotel,
gave dinner there a few nights ago
that was declared quite the thing and
very. recherche. Mrs. Green's ad-
vance on the beauty parlors where
the treatments she has been taking
recently have transformed her rath-
er classic features into blooming
resemblance to a pink,cheeked, white
haired marquis of one of the old por
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-06-22

GEORGES Everard. the Plaza's re-
" Gently imported maitre dhotel,
who once owned Maxim's in Paris,
and says he originated that famous
restaurant, declares that it is only
question OF time before he will
startle New York with an original and
festive restaurant in Times square.
But apparently there will be limita-
tons in the American version which
do not exist in the Partisan cafe.
ITO be sure, it would be necessary
to avoid unbridled license" said M.
Everard. Il expect to maintain the
fine line between good cheer and hilar-
lty. At Maxim's women are allowed
without escorts. This would be i'm
possible in New York. At Maxim's
there is a space for dancing, which
would be a rather doubtful success
here. However, If the guests were
given to understand that lax dancing
would not be permitted 1t would be
possible to tone down this part of the
entertainment
There are three essentials of a
successful restaurant. They are good
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-06-22

Musings Of the Metropolis
News of New York Town
Outlined in Brief Form.
Society Leader Tells How to Belong"

Here are few of his epigrams on
the social situation:
The people who belong to society
call it that for want of better name
must have something more than
money; they must have personal mag
netism, tact, common sense. They
must have been successful in some
way.
IL will hold 1t against everybody
that money to-day counts for less in
New York than in any other great city
in the world.
There are plenty of people who are
not rich among those who make up
what is called society. They never
lack for invitations. But they have
tact. self-control, personal magnetism.
They do things. They are not afraid.
They have opinions of their own.
Monkey dinners or moonlight bathing
parties do not Interest them.
New York is too colossal to-day to
be ruled by mere money.
Society has been set-ridden long
enough.
twenty years ago tne late' w dru
McAllister ruled New York society.
The ballroom was his life. The books
and articles he wrote indicate that
he never thought of anything outside
Of dinner, dance, or cotillon. The life
of the outside world did not concern
him In the least.
"The day of bizarre entertainments
has passed.
why should we object to an actor
in society? We are glad to meet q
novelist or a gallant soldier, a mar
who has invented something that will
benefit the human race. They are fai
more interesting people than those
whose only claim to distinction Is {
vast inherited wealth."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-06-22
Hetty Green Being Made Young Again

trait painters, was made diffidently,
as became one venturing into an I'M
discovered country. 1t was predicted
by some far-seeing persons when plain
Hetty Green moved out of her mex
pensive but homelike" Hoboken fiat
and. casting economy to the winds,
took title to suite at the Plaza, that
she had got society,"" instead of re-
ligion. You'll see;s they said, know
ingly. Pretty soon she will be CIV
ing teas and dinners and bridge par
ties, owning an auto, and finally buy
ing a Fifth avenue mansion and a
Newport villa, Nothing short of a
miracle can now save her from the
ravages of the bacillus of social am.
bition." 1t begins to look as If these
prophets knew whereof they spoke.
The transportation and transfer
nation of Hetty Green of the financial
columns to Mrs. H. Robinson Green
of the society news is a big lump.
The Hetty Green of month ago was
national character. People used to
point her out to their country rela-
tives and say: That's Hetty Green,
the richest woman in the world"
1t looks as If old Hetty of the financial
district is lost to that part of the town
forever a a.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-06-22

nj EW YORK.-Frederick Townsend
~ Martin, the new leader of New
York society. has the following to say
about social conditions in this city.
Looking to the future, he says:
1T will not be long before entertain
ments in New York society are totally
different from those which have been
the rule. We shall find the society
Of the future composed of the woman
who has written the newest success
full novel; the man who has found a
new gold mine in Alaska, and taken
S10,00O,000 out Of the earth; the actor
who has created new character;
the brainy reporter who has tracked
down the murderer whom the police
had failed to find; the actress who
sings the funniest new song; the SCI
enlist who has just discovered the
new process for making aluminium at
half the cost it had ever been made
before; the physician who has reduced
The death rate in typhoid fever; the
clergyman who has brought about the
correction of a political evil; the poll
tician who has won out in a great
fight; the young woman whose beauty
Is the marvel of the day; the priest,
the rabbi. and even the man of free
thought.
These are everyday gatherings in
what is now the best London society.
Tomorrow they will be as common in
| New York"