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Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06
TRAINED TO THE HOUR.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July g.
Trained to the hour and ready for
their battle, which will be for the
| lightweight championship Of the world
Ad Wolgast of Milwaukee and Owen
Moran, the English lightweight, await
the call to the ring tomorrow after
noon. Large crowds visited the camps
of the rival fighters today and came
away with the opinion that both are
in good physical trim for the bout.
| Judging from the betting flavor
around San Francisco, Wolgast will
be the favorite by a very narrow mar
gin when he enters the ring. Nearly
all the sporting writer's concede the
Milwaukee fighter the victory, but
| they are also ready to admit that
the little Britisher has chance.
Moran is bubbling over with conf
dcnce, and his friends are backing
him literally at the prevailing odds.
He has been training faithfully ever
since the articles were signed, first
at Lake Tahoe and later at San Ra-
fael, and if he loses the fight tomor-
row he will not be able to make the
old excuse of poor condition.
Like his sturdy little opponent, Mo
ran is slashing infghter, carrying
stiff wallop in either hand. As to
hitting there is little to choose be
tween them, for boys who have met
both of them say Moran is the harder
hitter of the two, although they ad-
nit Wolgast has the most dangerous
swing. Moran depends more upon
straight punches and he has a short
uppercut that is likely to prove dan
gerous to his opponent. Like the Mil
waukeean, the Britisher is in his ele-
ment when at close range, hammerine
both fists against some unprotected
portion of his opponents anatomy.
The twenty-round route is believed
to suit both fighters equally well. As
to weight and size they are very even
ly match, both being about the same
height and able to weigh in about l30
pounds each. In the matter of ring
experience it is customary to assign
the advantage to Wolgast, but this
is only because of the fact that Mo-
ran is comparatively newcomer on
this side of the water. Wolgast has
been fighting only about five years,
while Moran's record dates back con-
siderably earlier. Before coming to
America the Britisher had been fight
ing for some years on the other side,
end before Wolgast made his first APP
pcarance in the ring Moran had whip
ped Digger Stanley and other top
notchers. Moran was then fighting in
the bantam class.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06
INDIANAPOLIS READY FOR TAFT

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 3-The
finishing touches to the preparations
for the visit of President Taft and the
safe and sane" celebration of the
great national holiday, in which the
president will participate, We're put on
today, The president will spend the
night at the home of former Vice
President Fairbanks. Tomorrow he
win give to the people Of the city,
spending the day as the guest of the
Marion club, the leading Republican
organization of Indiana. II is expect
ed the president will deliver an ad-
dress under the auspices of the club
ard it is regarded as probable that
in the course of his remarks he will
make plain his attitude in reference to
the amendment of the reciprocity bill.
The president will review the big
Fourth of July parade and afterwad,
if time permits, he will go to the state
fair grounds for a celebration of rail
road employees. The downtown sec
tion of the city has taken on a gala
appearance in anticipation of the pres
idential visit. Building after building
along Washington street and other
leading thoroughfares is one mass Of
color from sidewalk to roof and the
national eolors are every where in the
shape of shields, bunting and countless
numbers of flags.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06
ESCAPED With His Life.

"Twenty-one years ago | faced an
awful DEATH" writes II. b. Martin,
Port Harrelson, S. C. doctors said I
had consumption and the dreadful
cough | had looked like it, sure
enough. l tried everything | could
hear of, for my cough, and was un-
der the treatment of the best doctor
in Georgetown, S. c., for a year, but
could get no relief. A friend advised
me to try DIR. Kings New Discovery.
| did so, and was completely cured. l
feel that l owe my life to this great
throat and lung cure It's positively
guaranteed for coughs, colds, and all
bronchial affections. soc and 81. Trial
bottle free at all druggists.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06
Thousands of Dollars Taken From q
Greeley Federal Building

GREELEY, Colo, July 3.-BurelarG
drilled hole in the combination lock
of the postofliee safe and looted the
safe of $4,000 in stamps beside ta6s-
ing registered letters and about $fr
in money placed there after bankingl
hours. Envelopes and postal cards
were untouched and there is no way
at present of ascertaining the value
of the registered mail taken, but it
is considerable.
That the burglars were familiar
with the office is evident from the
fact that they did not attempt to open
the other safe standing nearby, which
contained only records, books and mis-
eellaneous papers.
Officers are of the opinion that they
have clue to the burglars which
has not been given out.
At dawn this morning people in
the south part of the city saw an
automobile containing two men run
ming at a great speed toward the
south. 1t is supposed that these were
the burglars making their getaway.
The yeggmen are believed to be mem
bers of the gang which tapped the
Gilcrest bank, the Welden bank and
robbed the Carr postoffice this spring
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

one of the men insisted in rockins
the boat to frighten the women anu
did II so successfully that the BOAT
shipped quite lot of water and the
women became almost hysterioal Tae
other man demonstrated, but without
success. He said no more, but whPh
the party was safely on shore ne
gave the "rocker" punch in the Jaw,
which sent him into the water hel
had to be fished out with boathook.
The draggled rocker" had his as
sailant arrested. but when the easel
was explained to the magistrate mel
latter dismissed the case and express
ed his regret that he did not have tasI
power to send the complainant to jail.
Elsie Cnve, n girl of seventeen
years, and pretty tough for her age,
appeared in the Adams Street police
court, in Brooklyn, the other day,
charged with having thrown brick
through the window of a saloon. For
some reason the trend of the proceed
ings in court did not please the girl.
She beacme excited and suddenly.
without any warning, she snatched
her back hair off and threw IT at the
| magistrate. Her aim was bad. how
ever and the bunch of hair hit one VI
the clerks in the mouth. He spat out
few hairs and then, politely grin
| ming, returned the bunsh of Grown
| ing glory" to the defendant. The glrI
| was so excited that the hearing of the
case had to be adjourned.
There is n painter, named Eyar
Sherman in this city, who holds IhS
record for falling from heights with
out urting himself. The other day E'
| fell from the top of an eight-stor.
building, landing upon the sidewali
| en- his feet without sustaining an!
| injury excepting a tear in his trousers
| The man, who Is now about filtl
than one hundred falls, many o
| them from considerable heights. II,
has become so skillful that he man
| ages to land on his feet nearly ever,
time and never has he sustained an.
injury beyond n slight sprain or few
scratches. His friends call him tn,
Human Cat"
A real estate broker in this city
caused considerable excitemen
among the physicians at the Sene
hospital the other day, when ne mad'
the positive assertion that he ha
two hearts, one on each side of hi
thorax. He said that the two heact
did not work in unison, but alternai
ed, and so positive was he in his as
sertions, that a careful examination
was made. 1t was found. however
that the man did not have two heart
at all. but only one, and that in de
cidely bad condition The physician
ascertained by an X-ray examination
that the man was suffering from
well developed aneurism of the heart
which accounts for the peculiar ser
sations complained of by the paten
and which made him believe that h
had two instead OF but single heart
The outcome of the case is awaite
by the doctors with considerable in
terest, as aneurisms of that char
acter are comparatively rare.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06
DANGER IN DELAY.
Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous
for Durango People to Neglect.

for Durango People to Neglect.
The great danger of kidney troubles
is that they get firm hold before the
sufferer recognizes them. Health is
gradually undermined. Backache,
headache, nervousness, lameness,
soreness, lumbago, urinary troubles,
dropsy, and Brights disease, follow
as the kidneys get worse. Don't neg
lect your kidneys. Help the kidneys
with the reliable and safe remedy,
Doan's Kidney Pills, which has cured
people right here in Durango.
T. II. Ballard, 622 Sixth avenue,
Durango, Colo, says: 81 gladly con
firm the public statement | gave in
praise of Doans Kidney Pills in Jan
uary, 1907. procured this remedy at
G.. f. Tiffany Jr's drug store and it
entirely relieved me of kidney trou-
ble / have had no need of Doan's
Kidney Pills since"
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
n y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remexber the -Doan's-and
take no other.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06
Efforts to Induce Congress to Act for
Relief of the West May Succeed

ii. T. Henderson is horne again from
Washington where he spent the past
three months trying to get action on
a point in law, which in its present
form is so ambiguous as to allow of
a number of interpretations and thus
ties up the big irrigation project in
which Mr.. Henderson is interested
known as the Orchard Mesa Irrigation
district, in San Juan county, N. NJ.
This project involves sum of $780,
900.
The question hinges on section A
Of the Harrison act which became a
territorial law in 1886, and provides,
that no organization in the territory,
either political, municipal, or in coun-
ties, should create any Indebtedness
greater than per cent of the assessed
valuation.
This was done to prevent the ter
ritory from getting into the hands Of
political gangs, who could make use
u S"eh hhS"HS VI Bidi liiiS, dilu tiius
swamp the state by throwing it heav-
| lily into debt.
Since the land forming the proposed
district is desert land, the sum oh
tanned from A per cent of its valuation
would not be sufficient to pay the
necessary expense, to amount to the
100000, which the construction work
will cost
1t does not seem reasonable to sup
pose that congress intended to shut
out irrigation projects from a coun-
try where so much depends on irri-
cation, but the law specifies as to
the political, municipal, and county
organizations, and limits same to the
A per cent, The question then re-
solves into the following: Does con-
gress intend that section of the Har-
rison act to apply to irrigation dis
tricts?
Mr.. Henderson and his company are
thus asking congress for an interpre-
t2tion of the law. Until the above
question is answered they cannot go
ahead with the project. They cannot
issue bonds on the per cent basis
ard make it pay. On the other hand
they cannot issue bonds for a larger
sum since under certain interpreta-
ton the bonds may be illegal. Even
il issued they could not be sold since
no one will purchase bonds where
there is possibility of pending leg
islaton connected with them.
The delay in the bill reaching the
committee was due not to any OPP
position to the bill itself, but the fact
that the Democrats held caucus, and
laid out Legislative program, which
was adhered to. This held up the
emergency bills, including that in
which Mr.. Henderson is interested. un-
til about week ago, when it finally
reached the committee.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06
MARTIN EZ-POLLARD.

Yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
the Catholic parsonage, Mr.. Lawrence
Martinez and Miss Bessie Pollard
were united in marriage, the Rev.
Father Callahan officiating. The
groom is brother of Mrs. Roy Ger
vais of Telluride and Mrs. Lillian Fit
ten of this city. He is a competent
telegraph operator in the employ of
the d. & Il. G. His bride is the eld-
est daughter of Conductor and Mrs.
H. w. Pollard. During her residence
in this city she has made many
friends. This morning the young eou-
pie left for Chama where they will
make their home.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06
within thirty minutes Of fhe time i

Within thirty minutes of the time II
was presented, it was unanimously en-
dcrsed. and recommended 10 congress
far further action. The committee
also recommended the passage Of the
hill which amends section to read
that said section does not apply io
irrigation districts.
Beside the Orchard Mesa irrigation
district project, which involvev7 9 sum
of $3.50 900, ani is tied up until con
gress interprets the law, the Bloom
field project, which was organizcd un-
der corporation bonds, is also at Il
standstilI. This is an organization
waiting to refund their bonds and
form an irrigation district. In all a
round sum of SlsO,OOO Is held uo in
the two concerns until congress make
a decision as to the Interpretation oil
section of the Harrison act.
Mr.. Henderson added that the peo-
ple of this section may be interested
TO know that irrigation bonds Of thi'
district may be sold even when The
market is close. Generally speaking
Irrigation bonds are at a standsuI
land Wyoming, Idaho and eastern Colo
|rado bonds are not being even con
Isidered by bond buyers, who refuse t
talk on the subject. The San Juan
however, seems to be favorite eoun
.ltty, and buyers can always be sue
cessfully approached on San Jua
projects. The bonds are held gooC
=, and can always be sold
This seems to show that we hav
, a good reputation on the outside, on
reason being, possibly that we ha9
( never defaulted. These good impre'
y sions are not due to advertising, sine
. that has been one of the things
y which the San Juan has been lackini
e Still we are widely known. For il
( stance, in Chicago there are peop
e having better knowledge Of eSis
+ ing conditions than some Of the res
dents of Durango, which IS amazr
to say the least
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06
THE FOURTH.
man..

The Fourth day of the month of
July is really the greatest day of all
the year. 1t was invented in the year
1776, by G. Washington and j. Han
cock and lot of patriots who per-
ceived the need of national birthday,
for, up to that time, we had been
using the birthday of King George,
really second hand day, and this,
on tea was so high, made the necessity
for day of our own so apparent that
our forefathers made up their minds
to have one or die.
To get this day placed on the cal
endar required big war, the British
troops came clear across the raging
sea to oppose it and il became neces-
sary to properly chastise them before
the date could be printed in red on
the bank calendars, which allows the
banks to close up and remain closed
all that day and hence get one days
interest on all deposits in the hands
of the borrowers without fear of a
run of the reserve fund.
| One of the great industries built up
by the locating Of national birthday
was the iirecrackcr industry in China,
another was the manufacture of red
lemonade, which is exquisitely appro-
pirate, symbolizing, as it does, the
lemon which we handed England and
the blood spilled in the handing there
of. The business of making patriotic
speeches is another industry which
sprang into existence about that time
and which has paved the way of many
q candidate for public office and led
onward to glorious success.
The amount of bloodshed occasioned
by the serious unpleasantness which
broke out between the Revolutionary
heroes and the British hirelings at
the battle of Cows Husband Run, and
other later battles, was great but with
peace came no cessation of bloodshed
for the youth of the land had become
so chock full of patriotism that on
each Fourth since peace was declared
they have declared that there is no
peace-and they break the peace by
the use of explosives which kill and
mutilate each Fourth as many young
patriots as were killed in all the great
battles of '76 and the subsequent dis
turbances which followed.
Even unto this day the celebration
OF the day is a red letter day, not
only on the calendar but also for the
undertaken, the doctor and the sur
geon. The American youth who does
not blow off one or more fingers, kill
n playmate or shoot out both his eyes,
feels that he has failed t, properly
observe the day, and that the low
descending sun has caught him with
wasted day on his hands and he
should feel that way for, with the
great growth of the nation there has
come greater ways of doing these
things, the little red and yellow crack
or of the days of '76 has given way
to the big ten-inch dynamite cracker
which skaters the windows of the
whole town and kills, on an average,
five oys and two girls when it ex-
plodes.
Tomorrow we again celebrate the
Day that made us famous, the Day
that placed our nation on the map, and
it is mete that we do it well for, such
are the uncertainties of life, we may
never see another return of the Day.
The sad facts are that not one of
all those who framed up the day and
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

fought to make ii stick will be on hand
in the morning to help us celebrate,
they are all gone over TO that land
where every day is day OF celebra-
lion and joy, they have left the day
TO us and we should take.care of it as
matter Of sacred trust and cndeavor
to dc our best to show them, as they
look down upon us from above the
clouds that float across the summer
sky, that though they are not with
Us in body that the spirit of the pa
triot of '76 still lives in the hearts of
their countrymen.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

Be careful what you write in your
letters. A Durango girl once, not so
very long ago either, wrote a mushy
letter to her fellow" and signed it
"Your Own Grille" The young folks
fell out, the girl later made a hit
with a mighty fine young man and
they are now engaged to marry but
the first chap is now showing the
girls letter to all the boys and it is
only matter of short time until
her fiance will hear of it and then
there will probably be a broken en-
gagement.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

While we have always had real
good appetite, occasioned as we be-
lieve by clear conscience, yet we
never in our whole life ate four break
fasts in one day, but that's what made
the auditing board cut down Tom Tul-
ley's expense bill and inform him that
one breakfast was enough for any
man.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

We pay all our own bills and pay
them promptly but we kick like thun-
der when we are expected to pay bills
for others who are just as able to
work as we are.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06
Big Prize Offered BY Lordon Stand
ard. Goes to French Aviator

LONDON, July 3.-The first half of I
the international circuit aviation race
was ended at Hendon park aerodrome.
in Hendon, just outside London, to-
day.
Andre Beaumont, Frenchman,
made the speediest trip from Paris to
Hcndon and was awarded lhe London
Standard prize of $12,50O. NJ. Gilbert,
another Frenchman, won the Dover
trophy for the fastest passage across
the English channel.
Vedrines, Vidart, Kimmcrling, Beau
mont, Valentine and Garros, all reach
ed Hendon closely punched.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06
A NEW PROPHET.

Competition, real competition, has
arisen for the languid lady in the pur-
pie kimona, who drops into frances
and reads the future nt page rates;
for the gypsy princess Of the unwash-
ed countenance and the power of di-
vination; for the voodoo man, the
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

An optimist always goes to the
postofficc whistling cheerfully for he
hopes that he will get letter with
money in it but a pessimist always
fears to look into his box because he
fears he will get n letter from some
of his poor relation asking for help.
The pessimists fears are fulfilled more
frequently than the optimists hopes.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

If politician wants to be popular
he is careful never to go around bawl-
ing for anything that he is not sure
the people want. He sees which way
the people are going and then he runs
in and gets AT the head of the pro-
cession and poses as leader.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

Publishing paper is like growing
swine to some extent, live stock
grower loses mis- hogs by cholera but
an editor loses his hogs by having to
cut them off the subscription list be
cause they won't pay their subscrip-
tion
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

No man has ever been able to cor
ner and use up all the fun in the
world so there is pleasure for every
one who will take it. 1t may not be
just the kind you figured on having
but it will be, probably, "just as
good"
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

We are not going to commit ourself
on the question of Canadian reciproc-
ity until we learn whether it will in
crease or decrease the attendance at
the ball games and its influence upon
delinquent subscribers.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

1t is easier to allow yourself to be
imposed upon than to resent it in
many cases but when you see plainly
that in order to protect your rights
you have got 10 fight sooner or later
why not go to it and get it over with ?
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

Mary McLane, in her diary, says
that women are absolutely unreliable,
that they are, as a rule, untrue as
sweethcarts and wives and that they
forget the duties of motherhood when
children interfere with pleasure. My,
don't Mary talk just like grouchy
man
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

In order to have state slogan that
will really sloge it must be freakish.
To say "Come to Colorado" cuts no
ice but write it "Kum to Kolorado"
will cause people to sit up and take
notice.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

We hear men talking about this or
that act as being the "last resort
As n matter of fact the last resort is
the 6x3 plot in the graveyard and
we know of few who ever took ii
willingly.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

Just why anyone should really want
to know exactly how the Maine was
wrecked is a puzzle to us. There are
enough things of recent occurrence to
worry over without digging into mat
ters that are dead and buried.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

1t cost more than million dollars
to crown King George but as we can
not find that it cost us, directly or in
directly, single penny we can't see
where we have any kick coming.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

If Springer had shot both Henwood
and Won Phul it would have been
just as well for the undertakers and
great deal better for the rest of
the world.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

Now that the coronation is all over
we wonder if two-thirds of those who
went to London to witness it are not
wishing they had their money back.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

Times rarely get so duh that a
man who really wants to work can
not find employment at living wages.
The man who can deliver the goods
is the one who is rarely out Of job.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

If we understand the situation
Champ Clark, while he declares that
he is not candidate for presidential
honors, is just DARING the nomina-
ton to jump onto him.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

We are so lacking in up-to-date
ideas that we cannot figure out how
spending the night in bedroom with
his friends wife and tearing her night
d',ss off her is proof that lIenwood
is Noble Character and that he was
striving only for the Good of the Fam
ilv
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

When you can buy box of oranges
for less money than it takes to get
bushel of potatoes it seems as
though the man with the hoe must
have fallen asleep at the switch.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

You cannot judge by appearances.
A man, if he puts in time enough, can
get callouses on his hands from hold
ing a fishing rod or billiard cue.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

A new play, called The Takers,
has just been staged. 1t seems queer
that a playwright would write a play
for female characters only.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

A mans wants and his gets seldom
jibe. He gets a lot of things that he
don't want and wants lot of things
that he fails to get, as rule.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

Our idea OF wasted time is TO sit
around waiting for your ship to come
in when you have never sent a ship
ont
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-06

Some men are like the little old
low power automobiles, about all there
is to them is the honk.