Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-05-16

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VIII Elermeyer is over from Monte
yuma valley visiting his sister. Mrs.
pecting his wife and family from Love
land tomorrow when he returns to
Montezuma. He reports crops look
ing fine.
Charles Hartzell came down from
Needleton this morning en- route to
Denver. where he will purchase and
ship machinery for the operation of
mines owned by the company. Mr.
Graham and Jewett are still at Needle
ton.
No additional particulars have been
resolved concerning the death of No
ritz Kruschke. Mr.. l. Kruschke will
return from Telluride this evening and
will then determine If he will go east.
Mrs. DIR. ]. S. Wood of Pagosa juno
ton. but formerly of Chama. arrived
on the afternoon train and for the
next week will be the guest OF Mrs.
George n. Raymond and Miss Jack
son.
Conductor Paullin, who is at pres
ent located in Alamosa, will move to
Durango next week in order to take
in the races. Mrs. Paullin says she
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OF the schools.
Assessor F. o. Price went to the
La Plata this morning on his rounds
through that section, returning next
Friday evening. On Saturday he
will be in his Office at the court
house in order to accommodate per-
sons from the out-of-town districts.
Friday night a Chinaman was lodg-
ed in the Rico Jail and in the mornirg z
his dead body was found hanging iE
| a cell. He had converted his sus-
penders into a moose and it worked
all right. The heather was SAID to
hail from Telluride.-Telluride Jour
nal.
Judge George T. Sumner, who sat
| on the bench when San Luis valley
was a part of the Sixth judicial dis
| trict. has decided to locate in Alamo
| sa. His home has been in Durango.
He expects to open his Office in the
Manders block in week or two.-Al-
| amosa Courier.
Judge Moses Hallett seems to be
up against snag and before he gets
through with the deal he will find h
is not following out the doctrine ad-
vocated by his friend Mr. Bryan. He
returned $500 in moneys and credits
| and the assessor raised it to $780,
600.
A gentleman who attended the lee
ture on India at the Methodist church
Sunday evening met Mr.. Welch on the
street yesterday and him a FIVE dollar
bill to send to the famine stricken
people of India. His heart was
touched by the existing conditions
Hon. John A. Porter, who arrived
from Denver Saturday evening, is
looking quite well. his health having
improved very much of late. Mr..
Porter still has great faith in the ad-
| vancement of this section and his
large interests keep him in touch with
what is going on and also the general
feeling on the outside.
George II. HUT is over from Rico
looking after the sampling of ore.
Mr.. Hutt reports Dolores county pick
ing up. there being several good sized
| deals on hand for improving the con-
dition OF the camp. New ore bodies
| are being uncovered on Newman hill
| and Mr.. HUT predicts booming camp
before the close of the summer. The
Herald trusts that the predictions will
prove true in every particular.
Our fruit growers must begin even
this early to harden their hearts If
they would have the finest quality of
fruit this year. 1t takes nerve to do
the right kind of job of thinning
and there have been very few Of the
growers who could do it. yet II they
would have extra peaches more than
nine-tenths of the little peaches must
be pulled of by hand. Dr. Smith
said this week that on most of his
trees at least nine out of ten must be
taken OF and he confessed that he
did not have the heart to do it. A
few have properly thinned every year
but large majority have feared that
peach every four or FIVE inches was
not more than one-6fth enough. 1t
is hard for the novice to believe that
ten times as much fruit will set on a