Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-10-10

The county convention of San Mi
guel county nominated Mrs. Adels
Dare for school superintendent. and
the Democrats honored Miss Bell Wat
son for the same position.
DR.. Davis returned last evening
from Denver, where he took in the
carnival and visited friends. Mrs.
Davis and little Miss Florence, who
accompanied him to the capital, will
remain some weeks longer.
Mrs. Thomas Jackson and Miss
Gentry Prewitt came in from Denver
last evening and are guests of Mrs. o.
S. Galbreath. With Mrs. Galbreath and
two youngest children Mrs. Jackson
leaves Thursday for California to
spend the winter
While playing crack the whip" yes
terday on the Longfellow school play
ground, Willie Bowman was thrown
down, the force of the fall breaking
his collarbone. Such dangerous
games among small children should
be avoided
Mrs Lottie Ambold came In from
Denver last evening, where she has
been resident during the past year.
She viii remain week or ten days
in order to attend to business mat
ters. and at the same time renew her
acquaintance with her old friends.
The schools will be closed the rest
of the week after today. thus allow
ing the children vacation and an op-
portunity of attending the fair. Ow-
ing to many being out, no matter If
school was kept in session, classes are
broken up. and it was thought best
that all be on the same plane.
The officers of the Durango Club
desire to announce that the club
rooms will he open for the free use
of visitors during their sojourn in
this city this week. Gentlemen can
take their ladies and it will prove a
comfortable place to rest for them
when they get tired during the day or
early evening.
Drs Laclkey and Sedwick have dis
solved partnership and DIR. Lackey has
opened an Office in the Williams block
where he will be pleased to have his
friends call and see profession
ally and socially. During the short
time DIR. Lackey has been in the city
ha hac IN hlichaI gn1anIfI ta
tion as a physician and surgeon.
BATTLE LAKE, Wyo.. Oct. S.
Louis Phelps, a trapper, who has been
in search of valuable copper mine
located by Leadville parties in 1898
has returned with the same result as
he has many times before, finding alb
solutely no trace of the mine or the
miners who formerly worked it.
The two men who located the mine
were grub-taked by Leadville out
fit These two men returned later
with a wagon load of ore which they
sold for $25 1000. They started to re-
turn 10 the mine the next spring and
that was the last ever heard of them.
Numerous parties We're sent to dis
cover their whereabouts, but, like the
search of Phelps, theih quest was in
vain.
II is believed by some that the min
ers after discovering the rich mine
endeavored TO cover their tracks in
order to beat the Leadville parties
out of their share of the find, and
that they were either murdered by
outlaws or perished in the storms in
the Sierra Madres.
Phelps says he will continue his
search for this valuable mine till he
finds it or becomes too old to travel
CHICAGO, Oct Sire today de-
stroyed the big biscuit plant of the
McMahan Co, on Green street. and the
Hoffman brewery. adjoining. 1t was
a desperate fire, and a couple of hours
after endeavoring in vain to control 1t,
Stone. now held by brigands in the
Balkan mountains. II is said the CON
tributions already aggregate s35.000