Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-06-17

ty good aggregation. 1t VIII be in Du-
range Monday.
Now If the fair directors will prove
themselves weather prophets and Sc
lect clear days for the fair. they can
| trot in the Ira Foster class.
| Commencement oratory now being
at discount. the next season OF spell.
| binding will take place the Fourth Of
July when the eagle Will flap his
wings and the whangdoodle screech
| The contest at Telluride as to the
young lady who is to take in the Pan
American exposition at the Journals
expense is becoming interesting. With
over 10000 votes cast. the two lead
| ers are only 200 votes apart
| Charley Hilliker says the crop out
look in the San Luis valley is eXcep-
tionally good. Beneficial rains have
fallen the last thirty days. more mois-
ture falling inside of twenty-four
hours than during two previous years
combined.
| A night blooming cerus will be one
of the attractions at Parsons In day
or two. These plants only bloom
once in seven years. doc" Red
mon has the management of the
show and those who come early VIII
be given front seats.
Remember that anyone possessing
diamonds are subject to arrest and
prosecution if the same are not emu
merated to the assessor. The new
law is strict in this respect, and any
one evading taxation in any direction
Is liable to find it expensive.
c. A. Trip, general western agent
of the Missouri Pacific railroad with
headquarters at Denver has been
transferred to Salt Lake This will
| be regretted by thousands of pa
irons of the road. who have found Mr..
Tripp a pleasant gentleman to do bus
mess with.
Forty-two divorces in one day is the
record of the Philadelphia courts-at
| least slight suggestion that marriage
is failure even in the City of Broth
| erly Love. But maybe these separat-
| ed couples will consent to be brothers
and sisters to each other since they
cannot be anything more than that.
The Durango Pressed Brick com
pany is experimenting with fire clay
| found in the vicinity of Durango and
| from the tests thus far made it is
thought that this clay will manufac-
ture as fine a quality of fire brick
as can be made in any part of the
| country. The company is Just fin
ishing sample lot which will soon
be on exhibition.
| Grand Master Joseph w. Nilsson
will attend the Masonic association at
Telluride and make an address. The
attendance of some of the best inform
ed Masons in this jurisdiction has
been secured. This meeting will be
| instructive as well as pleasurable.
| CallahillBrown came in from Wal
senburg last evening and will probably
hang out for a month or six weeks.
He says that he is not as well pleas
ed with Walsenburg as he is with Du-
| range, but as the family Is located
there he will make that Headquarters
for time, although he wants to get
back to La Plata county before many
years.
The offer of a Chicago woman of
81 900 to the first business or profes-
sional man who can prove conciusively
that he has carried on his work for a
month without lying, comes pretty
near being an insinuation that bust
ness and professional men are not
truthful as a rule. If a newspaper
were to imply anything like that it
would have "A dozen or more libel suits
on its hands instanter.
A most peculiar case is reported
from Dresden. Ohio. Husband and
wife divorced. husband marries his
governess, and divorced wife takes
latter's place; newly welded away
on honeymoon. leaving the home in
charge of its former mistress. If
these two women are not angels.
they must at least have angelic dis
positions, else the fur will fly very
soon after the homecoming.
| Unless a cog is slipped the Bald
win Polar expedition starts from New
York today. A letter from r. l.. Vim
yard to The Herald conveys the in
formation that he signed with Bald.
win for period of 30 months. The
letter was sent from st. Louis, en-
route to New York. Mr.. Vinyard
says great preparations have been
made for the safety and comfort of
the members and he expects to see
Colorado in the course of the next
three years.
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From Saturdays Daily.
| There is scarcity of men for hay