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PeulEy,
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29
REPUBLICANS
TO THE RESCUE
Passage Of Initiative and Referendum Bill is
ASSured.-.Measure in its Present form
Meets Demands OF most Radical

DENVER, Aug. FIT locks to me
as though it win go through with a
whoop,' said Senator b. Stephen, Re
publican. referring to the initiative and
referendum bill upon when his party
colleagues just held caucus. Senator
stephen, chairman of the Republican
caucus, said II was understood before
they went into session no binding vote
would be taken. 1t is not the inten
ton to tie up any members hard and
fast. the purpose of the caucus being
merely to get n formal expression and
opinion on the bill. The Republican
senators from whom the Ave votes
are expected to come are Stephen,
Lines, DeLong. Button. Burger. Fry
bill is found to get the twenty-four
votes, 1t is likely that other Republic.
ans will vote for It, The Democratic
caucus agreed last evening to have
reported out today the initiative and
referendum bill in the exact form in
which 1t came from the house This
is counterpart of the Oregon law
and meets the demands CT tha NEST
radical. 1t is expected the bill Will
go through several stages CT legisla,
ton and be passed finally by next
Tuesday when 1t will be signed prompt
y by Governor Sharroth.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29
|HEINZE
. | HIDING
Montana Copper King
| Eluding Summons
10 $4,000 Suit

NEW YORK, Aug. 27.--Despite the
fact that process servers maintained a
CLOSED watch on the usual haunts OF
Fritz Augustus Heinze, the Montana
copper king, they failed to locate him
;odayi to serve him with summons in
a suit bought by Mrs. Lillian Hobart
French for $4,000. who is angered at
the man about to marry an actress,
Goldid Henderson.
In her apartments in Harlem Mrs
French said she had some additional
ietters sent to her by Heinze to be
made public before the suit is tried
"Heinae referred to me as that wom-
an" ske said. yet he must have liked
that wpman to have written her $50
letterst couched in the most endear.
ing terms and referring to that WON.
an as. Ny Dear Little slobe, MY Dear
Little Girl and SO on. certainly in
tend tot see that this makes good his
promise TO me, to make me a regular
ALLOWANCE every week. Why | have
letters and papers that show i'll OF
Heinze's business relations and which
bring Id the names of many well
known people, but l don't want to in.
jure any innocent person unless nee
essary to win this fight.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29
Alaska Continues
to Reveal Riches

VANCOUVER, B. c.. Aug. 27.--Plac.
er gold in quantities rivaling finds In
early days of the Klondike is being
mined by two parties of men on creeks
running into the Koyukok river, $50
miles from its confluence with the
Yukon river In Alaska, according to
George Dupuy. special correspondent
of the Paris Figaro. who arrived in
Vancouver yesterday on his way to
France. Mr.. Dupuy says the men, OF
whom there are fifteen, have kept the
discovery secret for two years. Dur
ing that time they shipped out only
enough of the metal to pay for their
supplies, but he says they have clean.
ed up half million In the two seasons.
Nuggets weighing half pound are not
uncommon and the record was made
when five nuggets were found in one
day which had a value of $4,000 says
Dupuy.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29

by numerous other delegates to tho
congress from all over Europe.
AT Nelson. British Columbia. Sir VIII
frfd Laurier Will hold conference
with representatives OF the Portland
| and Spokane chambers OF commerce.
to discuss an international project for
| deepening the Columbia river, making
it navigable from the sea to West
Robson. b. C.
The special session of the Porto
hican legislature, which Gov. Cotton
has called to meet Tuesday, will con-
slider measures to lease the govern
ment telephone and telegraph lines
to private corporation. to safeguard
the interests of the island in the i'm
| portation of seeds and tree cuttings.
and to ccde lands for the erection of
milllon-dollar hotel in San Juan.
On Saturday notable celebration
of the 200th anniversary OF the Church
of England In Canada will begin in
Halifax. Eminent churchmen from all
parts OF Canada and from England
will take part.
The American group of delegates
to the conference of the Interparlia-
mentary Union. which is to begin It's
sessions In Brussels Monday, will pre-
sent several resolutions looking to-
ward the establishment of permanent
peace between the nations of the
world.
clash between the progressivea
and standpatters Is likely to occur
when the Republican party council Of
Kansas meets in Topeka Tuesday to
promulgate a platform for the state
and congressional campaigns. Other
political events Of the week will In
clude the congressional primaries in
I Maryland, '-the Republican state con.
vention In Delaware. the Democratic
state convention In Georgia. and the
Democratic state primaries in South
Carolina. In the latter a contest be-
tween six aspirants for the governor
ship will be decided
Included among other events and
meetings which will contribute to the
news OF the week will be the national
encampment OF the United Spanish
War Veterans at Denver. which will
have Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as
Its guest; the opening OF the Ohio Val
ley Exposition at Cincinnati. the an
nual meeting of the American Bar
association in Chattanooga. the con-
vention OF the Atlantic Deeper Water
ways association in Providence, the
Pacific saengerfest In San Francisco.
the fourth international conference OF
state and local taxation OF the Inter
national Union for Cooperation in So
lar Research at Mount Wilson. Cal.
and the opening Of a three days avia-
ton meet near Boston under the aus
pieces OF the Aeronautic society of Har-
ward university.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29
THE ROOSEVELT ITINERARY.

DENVER, Aug. 27.-The finishing
touches to the preparations for the
visit of Colonel Roosevelt and the con-
vention of the United Spanish War
Veterans, which the former president
VIII attend Monday. are being put on
today. Delegates and visitors to the
convention have begun to arrive In
considerable numbers and IL is pre-
dicted that between 150, 900 and 200.
900 people will be in the city by Mon
day noon. The downtown section of
the city is taking on a gala appear
ance. Building after building is one
great mass OF color from sidewalk to
roof and the national colors are every.
where in the shape of shields, bunting
and countless numbers of flags.
The Roosevelt special train is due
to reach Denver from Cheyenne short.
ly before IL o'clock Monday morning.
A reception committee of 100 will be
at the union station to greet the dis
tinguished visitor. Following a pa
rade the ex-president viii go to Over
land park where he will be entertain
ed at luncheon by the Denver Press
club. In the afternoon he will de-
liver two addresses, the first under
the auspices of the Colorado Live
Stock association and the second be-
fore the convention of the Spanish
War Veterans. In the evening he will
have an opportunity to meet many
of his old comrades of the ranch.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29
kIRGHiZ DYING OUT;
ONLY HALF OF ONCE
FAMOUS RACE LEFT
(By William E. Curtis. Correspondent
Chicago Record-Herald)

CHARJUI, Understandable Merv
oasis extends forty-iive miles east OF
the banks of the River Burghab. and
then comes a barren and dreary pla-
teau, which is so high that 1t must
always be as ii always has been.
There are no indications OF human life
except in the spring of the year, when
the flocks and herds of the Mervi pick
up little bunch of grass here and
there, SO little that it scarcely pays
them for nibbling. This desert can
never be irrigated, and therefore can
never be inhabited-a strip about so
miles wide, running north and south
for 300 miles or more, and bounded
on the east and west by an exuberance
of vegetation, which tries to make up
for the barren wastes. There are
| many great orchards on the gentle
slopes, and between them fields OF cot
ton and growing wheat, and one can
follow the ariks, or irrigation bitches,
with the eye because OF the tall plumed
grasses which grow on either side OF
them, FIVE and six feet high, like the
pampas grass that we have in our
| gardens.
This plateau presents the same phe.
nomenon that is found upon similar
waste near Areduipa, Peru-masses of
drifting sand, which move hither and
| thither, according to the direction OF
the wind, but always lie in crescent
shaped mounds, from five to fifteen
feet high and from twenty to fifty feet
across between the points. The sand
is very fine. You can blow up cloud
OF It with your breath and 1t obeys
the slightest motion of the air, but,
strangely enough, whenever II changes
its position, as 1t does with the shift
ing OF the wind, 1t always assumes the
| form OF a crescent in perfect proper.
lions, and the natives have notion
that the same grains Of sand stay
together like family. or the members
CT a clan, and never stray from one
mound to another. OF course. this Is
impossible to determine. but 1t is a
pretty fancy.
In 1404 all illustrious hidalgo crossed
these deserts with a camel caravan
a. an ambassador from the King OF
Spain to the court OF Tamerlane. then
at the zenith of his power and glory.
And he wrote a book entitled Mar.
rative Of the Embassy Of Ruy Con
zales de Clavijo to the Court OF Timour
at Samarcand.' which has been trans.
lated by Clements R. Markham for
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29
Crippen and Typist
Arrive in England

LIVERPOOL, Aug. 27.-The steamer
Megantic, with DIR. II. H. Crippen, the
alleged murderer of his wife, Belle
Gilmore, and Miss Etnel Claire Leneve,
his typist, aboard, locked here short
ly after noon today, after an unevent.
full trip from Montreal. The prisoner
came ashore through line of police,
made necessary by the great crowd
which gathered at the pier and threats
OF violence against Crippen. The doe.
tor seemed Indifferent to the demon.
stration but Miss Leneve was greatly
agitated. The prisoners we're in
charge OF Inspector Dew and Detec
tive Sergeant Mitchell OF Scotland
Yard. while two wardresses also look
ed after Miss Leneve. Immediatel,
after landing the party took the trair
for London. Crippen and Miss Leneyt
will have their preliminary heariu,
before Judge Sir Albert De Putzen n
the Bow street police station at tn,
earliest possible date.
him at the polls which has been wide
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29

Fish and Game Commissioner Hol-
land has filed complaint In the Justice
court at Boulder against s. Pells, SUI
perintendent of the Ckrystal Brewing
company. Last Friday plug in an
ammonia carrying pipe in the brew
erys cold storage system blew out
and 200 pounds of ammonia ESCAPED
into Boulder creek. killing thousands
OF trout, most of them young fish
commissioner Holland was notified
and Immediately investigated the ac-
cident He traced Boulder creek for
fifteen miles and did not find n live
fish in the stream. The county com.
missioners of Boulder county, fearing
that such an enormous number of dead
fish floating on the water would pro.
duce an epidemic. ordered the dead
fish to be cleared from the creek and
burned in heaps. The ground for al.
Ing criminal complaint in this in.
stance is because the fish and game
commissioner claims that the blow
ing out of the plug in the ammonia
pipe was due to criminal negligence,
and also because he claims that the
ammonia could have been prevented
from reaching the creek by prompt
action. The fine in such cases is from
s25 to $500.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29
Another Aviator Has
Thrilling Experience

NEW YORK. Aug. 27.-Carried out
to sea by strong wind. against which
his motor was powerless, j. C. Mars. the
aviator. was being swept toward Sandy
Hook today when his Curtiss biplane
suddenly collapsed. 1t dropped like
a stone into the water about 300 yards
from the club house OF the Atlantic
Yacht club at Seagate. Mars got free
OF the machine In Its descent and
was soon picked up apparently unin-
jured by the tug boat Hustler which
began an effort to recver the aero
plane. A line was placed beneath 1t
and by means of its big crane. the
wrecking tug hauled the aeroplane
aboard. Mars was taken to the Allan
tic yacht club house at Seagate. He
is greatly disappointed at the outcome
OF his attempt, but promised to make
another over the sea flight as soon -
his machine ID repaired. which viii
be . few days.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29
TEDDY TO ADDRESS
NiSH-AMERlcAN VETS.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-Tormer
President Roosevelt. whose speaking
tour In the west has aroused the keen.
est sort of interest among politicians
throughout the country, will start the
week in Denver, where he will speak
Monday at the opening Of the national
convention OF Spanish War Veterans.
From Denver he will proceed to Osa-
watomie. Kas.. stopping there Wednes-
day to attend the dedication OF state
park on the site of the old Osawatomie
battlefield. Kansas City will entertain
him Thursday and during the remain
der Of the week he will he the guest
OF Omaha, delivering public speeches
in both cities. He will remain over
Sunday in Sioux Falls.
What promises to be one OF the
greatest commercial battles in the
history of the United States will be
opened in Chicago Monday, when the
interstate commerce commission be-
gins Its inquiry into the propriety OF
the general advances in freight rates
recently announced by the western
transportation lines.
On Wednesday statue Of the late
Thomas -. Reed. speaker Of the ma
tional house of representatives. will
be unveiled in his home city Of Port
land. Me-, with an Grafton by Con-
gresham Mccall of Massachusetts.
A magnificent public welcome is be-
ing prepared for Cardinal vanutelii.
the papal legate to the EucharIstic
congress in Montreal. who Is due to
reach that city Friday accompanies
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29
REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMIT
TEE MEETING.

The Republican central committee
met at I o'clock this afternoon in the
office of DR.. w. w. McEwen, the coun-
ty chairman. 1t was decided to ap-
point one delegate-at-large from each
precinct. and one additional, for each
twenty votes cast for Mcdonald for
governor, making in all ninety-three
delegates to the convention.
The primaries will be held on Mon.
day. Sept. ~. between the hours OF Z
and s p. m. in town, the country pre-
clncts arranging their own time as
convenient
The county convention will be held
on Wednesday. Sept IA. commencing
at IL a. m.
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ly rumored, will fail Colonel Roose.
welt will absolutely refuse to run for
governor
When Roosevelt reached the city
shortly after a. IN. he was officially
met by a reception committee com.
posed of state, federal and city officials
with a liberal sprinkling OF cowboys
and unofficially by several hundred
plainsmen who uttered a series of
deafening yells to signalze their in
tense joy that the rough rider was in
their midst. After the parade Roose.
welt was the guest of honor at a
luncheon given by prominent Wyom
ing men. This afternoon he will be
taken to Frontier park where he de.
livered his set address from the stand
in front of the grand stand Follow.
ing his address the stand will be
drawn into the infield at the park and
the colonel will have an unobstructed
view of broncho busting. roping, shoot.
ing and other wild west stunts.
CHEYENNE. Wyo., Aug. 27.-In a
speech in which he lauded at once
the old west of pioneer days and the
new west of 1910, Theodore Roose-
welt this afternoon addressed thou
sands of COW punchers, Indians, sol.
diers and ordinary spectators who are
in the city for the Frontier celebra.
ton. The colonels references to his
experiences as rancher were receiv.
ed with tremendous enthusiasm. Mr..
Roosevelt said:
When, at the close OF my hunting
trip in Africa, | reached the borders
of civilization, the first Invitation &C.
cepted was this, to visit the capital OF
Wyoming, on a day when the people
OF the frontier come together to com
memorate their achievements. | was
glad 1t was SO because | have a pc
culiar feeling for men and women of
what used to be called the far west
and especially for those of the cattle
country. For number of years
lived on a ranch on the Little Mis-.
souri,, chasing work and play, good
fortune and bad fortune with my neigh.
bors working on the roundup, serving
as delegate from the Little Missouri
roundup district to the Montana Stock
Growers association, and even at
times acting as deputy sheriff at my
end of the county | count those years
as among the most valuable of my life
because nothing breeds such a com.
munity of feeling as to work with ones
fellowmen at their life tasks and to
learn to know their feelings by actual.
ly sharing them
Mr.. Roosevelt then described the
western as typical of the American
spirit and enterprise, declaring the
Rocky Mountain region has made mar
velous progress in the past few years.
The disappearance of the open range
Is a blessing to the nation Character
is worth more than genius to the re.
public. Crime should be punished, but
the criminal pitied by society. Fred
erick Remington deserves immortal
fame as an artist of the west and a
monument should be erected to his
memory.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29
LIEUT.. COL. BAILEY RETIREs.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 27.-After
more than thirty-seven years service,
Lieut.. Col. Harry l.. Bailey. Fifth In
fantry, at his own request. was today
placed on the retired list by the di-
rection of the president. Col. Bailey
the United States Military academy
in 1876. In 1890 he was brevetted
first lieutenant for gallant services In
action against Indians at Clearwater,
Idaho, in 1877" His last station was
at Plattsburg barracks. New York.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29
COUNT roLsrors BIRTHDAY.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. ETA dis
patch from Yasnaya Poliana says that
a veritable flood Of congratulatory
messages is being received there In
anticipation of the eighty-second birth
day anniversary of Count Leo Tolstoi.
who was born Aug. 2s. 1928. The
advices state that the health Of the
famous novelist and social reformer
is somewhat improved, though the
advance Of age has made 1t necessary
for him to curtail his work to con
siderable extent.
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the Hakiuyt society In London, and
| contains a great deal of interesting de
scription OF Central Asia and its PEG
Pile 500 years ago Referring 10 this
send. he says:
"On the banks there were great
plains of sand, and the sand was NOV
ed from one spot to the other by wind.
and was thrown up in curious semi,
circular mounds, and the wind blew
the sand from one mound to another.
for it was very light. and on the
ground where the wind had blown
away the sand the marks OF the
mounds were left"
And In description OF the country
by Quintus Curtius, the Roman histo-
rian and essayist, translated into Eng.
fish in 1858. the same phenomenon
is described. The writer adds that
people travel across these plains at
night: TO observe the starres as
thei do that sayle the seas, and by
the course of them directe their jour
ney, wherefor in the daye time the
countrey is wild and impossible, when
they can finde no track nor waye to
20 In, nor marke or signe whereby to
passe."
In the construction of the railway
the engineers had great difficulty with
this sand, and even now, in the winter
months, gangs of men are kept moving
up and down the line with shovels to
dig out the track where crescent
mounds have formed upon the right OF
way. The same trouble is found on
the o. r. & n. tracks along the Co,
lumbla river in Oregon.
The Oxus river. or the Anu Daria
as 1t is called in modern times, Is
the boundary between the Russian
province of Trans-Caspia and the semi.
Independent state of Bokhara, of which
shall have much to say hereafter
West of 1t the inhabitants are called
Mervi, for they belonged TO the former
khanate OF Merry. The people of Box.
hara are called usbegs and Bokharots
'hN Ptppit vi are called
Sarts. Their language and that OF
their next-door neighbors, the Usbegs
are distinct dialects. although similar
In many respects, like Portuguese and
Spanish. They can understand each
other but not accurately.
The territory north of Chariui, to.
ward the Aral sea, is occupied by the
kirkhiz, also known as KAYAKS, a no
made tribe of nearly two million PEG
pie, with about 100000 warriors. The
Kirghiz speak language which is con
sidered the purest of all the Tartar
dialects. although as a race they con.
tain many foreign admixtures. The
tribe was formerly divided into vthe
GreatHorde.' who occupied the east
ern part of the desert; the Middle
Horde" in the central part. and the
Lesser Horde" to the west and north
all of them under their independent
chiefs, but subject OF central khan,
who reigned in Khiva until they be
came subject to the Russians In 1924
The establishment of Russian forts
and garrisons In Turkestan in 1866
bought the Kirghiz Immediately un
der Russian rule, although the khan
Continued on Page 81
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KINGS GIFT TO AN OLD CLOWN.

LONDON, Aug 27.-James Doughty,
the famous old clown, received con-
gratulatory message and a gift of
money from the king today on the oc-
casion OF his ninety-second birthday.
Doughty is believed to be the Oldest
entertainer still before the public. He
was clown at Covent Garden over
sixty years ago. With his troupe of
performing dogs he has been a famil-
lar figure at Brighton the past thirty
years.
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Lightning Kills One
and Injuries Several

LINCOLNTON. N. c.. Aug, 81
Standing around neighborhood well,
where his5mother and five other WON
en- had gathered to draw water. Theo-
dore Gilbert. years old, was instantly
killed and the women more or less Sc
riously hurt by bolt of lightning
The injured are expected to recover
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Ten Million Dollars
Involved in Deal

CHICAGO, Aug 27.-Ten million dol.
lars. probably the largest amount ever
involved in a similar deai. consum-
mated when the Congress hotel and
annex passed from Col Richard H.
Southgate, the best known hotel man
in the United States, to j. Edward
Kennedy, manager of the hotel. and
Thomas H. Joyce. secretary and treas.
urer of the corporation.