Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-07-08

FIRST of January, 1901.
Mrs. Howard. late of the Windsor.
has taken a three-years' lease on the
Rochester. where she will be pleased
to see all of her old patrons and many
new ones.
senator Newman returned yester. =
day from Denver by the Rainbow
route. He was accompanied by his
nephew. Wallace Stephens and wife of
Denver
Two thousand four hundred dollars
OF the three thousand subscribed for
the Durango, Pennington and Aztec
telephone line has been paid in. so the
Hustler says.
Oscar Maher's fire losses have been
satisfactorily adjusted. But Mr.. Nah
er has not yet decided to start bust
ness again. The probabilities are
that he will not
Joseph p Airy Harry jackson, vii.
liam G. White and C. C. Eddy We're
granted renewal of the gas franchise
last night. Work must be commenc-
ed within so days.
A long pull. strong pull and pull
altogether. now. is all that is needed
to make the next ColoradoNew Mexico
fair one of the best exhibitions of the
kind ever seen in the state
Mrs. Augustus Bracey and Mrs. OBri-
en- and son arrived yesterday after
noon from Terry, Miss. en- route to
Mancos, where they will visit friends
for few weeks. The two ladies are
sisters.
The taxpayers of La Plata county
are already tired of Bradleyism and
by next fall they will be so thorough.
ly disgusted with it that their senti-
ments will expressed in no uncertain
terms at the polls.
The present fusion state administra
tion has shown what an unsayory rec
ord it can make in the first six months
of its existence. What will the next
year and a half bring forth. The
people tremble in anticipation of what
may come.
| Now that the 4th is of the past. let
| the fair directory get together and de-
eide upon premium list and get it be-
| fore the people of the southwest that
the would-be exhibitors will have am
pie time to prepare to contests for the
awards.
The Chicago parties who will soon
arrive in Durango en- route to San Juan
county, N. NJ, should be welcomed in
a royal manner. The Durango Board
of Trade should meet and plan to re-
| ceive and welcome them with true Du-
| range hospitality.
| The mine troubles that have occur
red at Telluride during the past few
days are very much to be deplored
and will result in great injury to- that
camp. as well as to the individual
miners themselves. The great Snug
glerUnion mine is to becosed down
for indefinite period simply because the
ideas of the owners of the property
and those of the miners union colre
cerning its conduct do not agree.
By reason of the close-down the op-
orators of the big property will lose
thousands of dollars on account of the
lack of output of the mine On u
ut ho, mi, 1,
losers of thousands of dollars in the
way of wages, the camp and the town
of Telluride. especially, will suffer to
great extent because of the source
of all this revenue, greater part of
which has been distributed there here
tofore. being imperative. The whole
thing resolves itself into a great OBJ
ject lesson. 1t takes two to make a
bargain, and nothing is ever gained by
one of the two endeavoring to carry
its point by force. Such acts always
react and those who inaugurate them
are invariably the greatest sufferers
in the end. The Telluride incident
also emphasizes the fact that in the
mining camps. particularly, we are in
need of the speedy adoption of an eff
fective plan of arbitration between the
mine operators and the minerS.
Some sort of system whereby both
sides can get together and adjust their
differences, or have them adjusted,
in maner perfectly fair to both sides
and from which adjustment there shall
be no appeal The question in one
OF huge proportions. but the fact re
mains that both the miner and the
mine operator are necessary to each
other, their interests are identical but
until some practical plan of arbitra-
ton is adopted such deplorable- Incl