Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-07-11

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ture make their home in Durango.
Miss Josephine Sullivan left this
morning for Denver Boulder and 9TH
er points. While in Denver she will
be the guest OF Miss Frieda Ambold.
Miss Sullivan expects to be absent for
four weeks.
from Tuesdays Daily.
Push the fair along.
Fish stories are quite prevalent.
Aztec is still In search of some good
hotel man.
Fourth OF July passed without the
expected rain.
X. w. Hollis returned to Silverton
today after attending to land office
business.
Fire crackers were responsible for a
great many runaways in the state on
the Fourth.
Grocerman Murphy is installing a
new awning. The wind played havoc
with the old one.
Travel east is retarded. owing to
hot weather Postponed until Sep
tember and October.
l L., III a;,1t - a,I,
ing tackle these days. and is dispos-
Ing OF large quantities.
The sheep man appears to be in for
n run for his money these days-an-
less he has an undisputed range.
| The party that went to Pine River
a week ago as the guests of w. T.
kirkpatrick returned this afternoon.
Fourth of July celebrations are ex-
pensive affairs In the way of life and
limb. but we must have them, never.
theless.
Miss Lena Carr is comfortably 10
Gated at Silverton. where she is de
veloping a good.sized short hand and
typewriting class.
The ID. & r. G. is broadening its
line to Creede. 1t is only question
Of few years when all the main lines
will be running broad guage cars.
Charles Newman is about used up
from a fall In the upper Pine River
He was fishing and fell from high
rock into the water. striking the knee
leap.
Manager Brown Of the Hyde peo
pie. Pennington. spent the night In
Durango. Mr.. Brown reports every
thing looking fine in his section and
predicts a lively fall
Two murders have been commit
ted in Colorado since the death pen
atty went into effect. This does not
looks as IL the new law was pre-
ventative of killings.
The Pagosa News explains the de
feat of the Pagosa ball team by say
Ing the Durango boys were such a gen
tlemanly outfit the home fellows did
MT have the heart to beat them.
At Monte Vista the manager of the
Great Eastern circus contributed $50
towards the school fund because OF
gambling games. But he could well
afford to. as he worked quite a mum.
ber of suckers by shell games.
AS noted in these columns some
days ago. the district normal institute
meets mt Mancos the last of this
month. and 1t is likely all the teachers
OF La Plata county will attend-those
that are not otherwise improving their
| education.
The Boston Fuel company are push
ing work on the grade which will soon
be ready for track layers. The build
Ing OF this branch line is the means of
letting loose OF considerable money
which benefits the laborer as well as
the merchant.
The Telluride boys say that Slat-
terry Is n prince after a ball game is
over, but a great buffer while the
game is in progress. Well, we can
not blame Jack for doing little howl
Ing the last day with the Telluride
boys rubbing II in.
party OF Alamosa young people
went camping on the Conejos. They
were disturbed by what they thought
were bears browsing In the bushes ev-
cry time they stirred away from camp.
therefore. they pulled up and return
ed home. Turned out to be Galloway
calves.
The construction gang for the Du-
rango-Silverton telephone line arriv-
ed and started to work yesterday.