Semi-weekly herald., 1909-11-04

suitors seeking her hand in marriage
What an attraction ten million Is.
Secretary of the Interior BallInge,
treturning to Washington from an In
. spection trip to the west revives the
, controversy with Pinchot, declaring
public water power sites have not been
usurped: he also promises aid to ir
rigntionists.
II A 14-year-old Pueblo boy found q
can Of powder in vacant yard and
desiring to know what would happen
he touched match to 1t. The hoy
is now laid up for repairs Boys. take
warning and leave powder alone.
Now that Johnson and Jeffries, have
signed to fight As rounds it's up to
the club offering the largest purse to
pull off the mill. And when It takes
place there will be q badly pummelled
colored gentleman. The winner takes
rs per cent and the loser the little
end OF the gate receipts.
Mrs. A. d. Winship of Racine. Wis.
although near her seventy-ninth birth.
day anniversary. has entered the reg.
ular classes at the Ohio State univer-
sity for the year. She says that she
has planned course of study that
will keep her occupied until she reach.
es her ninetieth birthday.
Judge Clarke of Hartford, Conn,
| ~ D..
Daniel Wadsworth. a tavern keeper
convicted for selling liquor without n
license, is too fat to go to jail Wads-
worth. who has fallen off so that he
now weighs only 436 pounds without
his hat. heaved couple of tremen.
dous sighs and thanks the Judge.
Depositors of the Knickerbocker
Trust company Friday received an nd.
ditional 25 per cent of the surplus "A"
certificates issued under the plan by
which business was resumed in 1908
per cent disbursed ON these surplus
certificates. leaves only Is per cent OF
the deposits held by the company
when II closed Its doors during the
panic remaining due to the depositors.
With today's installment out of the
way there remain only $5,000,000 to
be paid out of the $35. 900 900, approx.
mately. owing depositors when the
company closed its doors
Collector Loeb kept the New York
custom house open Sunday, to permit
advantage of the last hour of life of
the existing tariff agreements with
France. Switzerland and Belgium. I'm.
der the new law, which went Into eff
feet Nov. /. duties are advanced $3.50
a case, or about 15 cents bottle. on
champagne and brandies French Gus
toms houses were similarly open until
the last moment for the reception of
American goods. Three French steam
ships, heavily laden with wines, were
racing for New York In the hope of
reciprocity trade arrangements with
France, Switzerland and Bulgaria. at
~ o'clock midnight Sunday.
Profits which James A Patten and
his friends have been plling up on
the bull side of the cotton market
we're swelled by a further sharp rise
in the price Friday. Mr.. Patten has
been right" on the cotton market for
weeks and according to brokers In
La Sale street, the steady advance
In prices during that time has added
a big round sum to the fortune which
the former mayor OF Evanston has
wrested from the grain pits on the
board His winnings so far are es-
timated at from 100000 to 33.000.-
900 and more than enough out OF
the market to pay the coming win.
ter's coal bills La Sale street brok-
Patton's deals. say his winnings of
all kinds In 1909 aggregate NO less
than s10.OOO.0OO.
One of the largest labor strikes
| Mhlcn AlaSkh mas known In all nef
history as a mining country is on at
the Big NJ mine near Skagway. Five
hundred men are out and have been
out for the past three months with no
prospect OF compromise between the
owners and the workers. According to
information received by G. G. Ban.
nard OF Victoria. b. c.. now stopping
In Denver. and who Is a large share
holder In the Big NJ. property. the
strike has already cost the company
thousands OF dollars. Many OF the
smaller mines in the camp have been
closed down by sympathetic strikes
md It is believed that by the end of
next month 1000 men will be out. The
strike was the result of letting out
a score of miners by the Big NJ man,
agement.
Reports of the earnings of the Pull.
man company for the fiscal year end
ed July 81. 1909. mailed to the stock.
holders In advance of the annual meet.
Ing next month, show $10,948, 900 ap-
t,If t. gx,tH q "A