Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-07-28

for June is made public It will show
that the business OF the road In that
month was very large. approximating
lS6,500,000, an increase over June of a
year ago OF about 100000. Officers
OF the road expect that gross earn.
ings for July viii also show q graft
flying increase over July OF last year.
The London Engineer publishes
what 1t calls accurate details OF the
new BraAiian battle ship Rio de ia
metro. 1t says 1t will be of $4,000 tons,
6hi feet iong, 92 feet brold, 26 feet
draught and have twelve 14-inch guns,
fourteen 6inch, fourteen 4 inch and
six machine guns ard three torpedo
tubes = will have four screws and
is designed to attain speed OF TWEEN.
tytwo and one-half knots. 1t is to
be finished in two years from date,
and he cost will be $14 500, 600.
The West Virginia insurance depart
ment has issued bulletin urging the
passage of a law forbidding the sale
OF parlor matches. 1t says the losses
directly due to them in that state are
more than 5000 day, in addition to
the large number Of fires probably due
to matches. but in which the cause
cannot be definitely fixed.
J. Fierpont Morgan, because of his
love for music and his personal friend.
ship for Homer A. Norris, composer
and organist and choir master of st.
Georges Episcopal church. Stuyvesaut
square, is building for that musician
stone castle high up on a crag of
the Orange mountain, facing Green.
wood lake. The structure will cost
more than $4,000 and will be paid for
entirely by Mr.. Morgan. The flnan.
cier has made this present to Mr..
Norris to enable the composer to take
himself away from st. Georges with
his many duties there. and spend a
rev days at any and all times of tho
year composing new music.
Notices were sent out by the board
III review Saturday to beneficiaries of
wis probated In Cook county, Illinois
liz the last year, ordering them to an.
pear before the board and show cause
why substantial increases should not
be made in their assessments. In.
FOL nation on which the notices were
based was CLEANED from the newspz.
per clippings which have been placed
on file in the offices of the board dur.
ing the year. Comparison OF the sched-
ules filed by many persons with news.
PAPER stories in which they are men
TIC ned as beneficiaries OF large estates,
show that In the majority OF cases the
persons scheduling have forgotten all
about the requests they received.
Minnesotas taxes abrogated for the
year 1911. No state taxes paid, the
state running itself through collec.
tons coming in from various sources
and through the unusual collections
made during the year This is an un-
heard of thing, something that prob
ably has never occurred in the history
~ 'has VI auy OtHcT DuL IL ID
exactly what is going to happen In
Minnesota If recommendations which
Governor Aberhart and other state of.
ficers. following suggestions made by
Attorney General George T. Simpson,
are reported to be considering, are
followed. Al present the treasury OF
the state OF Minnesota Is groaning
under the burden OF surplus which
has never been duplicated. On Oct.
l there will be nearly 81 200, 900 in the
state treasury. Oct. !. 1909, there was
approximately 100000 In the treas
ury. The unusual amount of money
In the 81 ate's cash box has come about
through the successful settlement of
cases which have Noted the common.
wealth large sums of money. The
largest Of these items came from the
settlement OF the lumber cases, the
groas earnings tax cases. the Kenne-
dy Inheritance tax cases and others.