Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-12-20

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i Former Lord Chief Justice viscount
Alvefstone, Of England, is dead
Villa troops and followers must be
numerous, or they would soon be kill
ed off.
We are so glad the national base
ball war is about to end. We should
worry.
Coal shortage is interfering with
French war movements. American
coal lacks shipping facilities.
The loan syndicate is having an
| awfully hard time DISPOSE oil the
allied loan We'd take the remainder
if the holiday season wasn't on.
Looks like Austria upholds the she'll
| ing and sinking of the Ancona. If so
the administration should send the
bunch home. We do not want this
kind of citizens in free country.
Another advance in the price of
crude oil of two cents was announced
Tuesday by the Prairie Oil and Gas
company Oil from the mid-continent
field is now selling at Sl.20 u barrel,
only eight cents less than the record
price of 1902.
You can't believe all people tell you.
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ted TO the observation ward by the
Philadelphia police, after he had
confessed to blowing up the du
font plant at Wilmington, Del, and
offered to divide with the police the
sl,0O0,000 reward his arrest would
bring.
Three Chicago packing companies
Tuesday agreed to pay $4,000 penal
ties for infringement of the Texas
antitrust laws and to accept per-
petual judgment restricting them
from owning cotton oil mills and cot
ton gins in that state. The com
paines were Swift & Co., Morris e.
Co. and Armour 4 Co. The meat CON
sumner will pay the penalty,
Any way you look at it, the Ne
braska university football record is
one TO be proud of. During the past
five years the "Cornhuskers" have
played thirty-nine games, Of which
but two have been lost both defeats
being at the hands Of Minnesota. In
these thirty-nine games Nebraska has
totaled 1,O36 points to its opponents
l4S.
No all night permits for the sale
of liquor for New Years eve will
be granted in New York City this
years il Mayor Mitchell complies with
a request made by the board of direc-
tors Of the anti-saloon league. The
league says the practice ought to be
discontinued, "when the distress incl
dent to the war, hangs like pail over
so large a portion of the civilized
world"
American Christmas mail to Europe
the last of which was dispatched
Saturday, consisted Of $3.50 sacks.
The sacks carried in addition to or
binary letters, 800 registered arti-
Giles, $4,000 parcel most packages, and
284 ,457 money orders. The money
orders represented $3,l5S,797, an i'm
crease over the Christmas mail for
1914 of 169,001 orders and 81 ,367,-
704 in value.
The indications are that the reduced
Democratic majority in congress is
not TO have altogether plain sailing
with its new tax proposals Two
members of that party including
Congressman Heating Of Colorado,
quit the caucus Monday night on the
ground that they could not vote to
retain the so-called war tax which has
been in operation for the past year
because they had promised their CON
stituents that they would vote 70 have
ii abolished
General Goethals is certainly en-
deayoring to make a record in clear
ing the Panama canal Of slides at
Culebra cut. The figures for Novem-
Der indicate that over 100000 cubic
yards were taken out by the dredges,
which breaks all records. To put it
another way, enough dirt is remov-
ed every hour to fill nine-ear train
Of standard passenger cars. II is
tremendous job, but big man is in
charge of it.
This year, for the first time the
amount of distilled spirits and fer
mented liquors made in the United
States shows decided decrease, ac-
eording to the annual report Of the
governments commissioner of inter-
nal revenue, just issued. In 1913
there was produced 193,6O6.25s gal
Ions OF distilled liquors; in 1914, 49,
919.542 gallons, and in 1915 140,656,-
| 105 gallons. OF fcrmented liquors
1914 shows 66,105.445 barrels; 1915,
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