Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-10-13
shooting the teacher committed sui
eide.
HE'S REALLY VERY NICE
IN SPITE OF HIS NAME
Polly Pry Learns Something OF the
Early History Of Judge hersehel
NJ. Hogg-Thinks Washington
viii Like Him.

picture is a faithful likeness OF that
distinguished Coloradoan, Judge Her
schel NJ. Hogg
The judge halls from Telluride and
is most delightful gentleman. 1t 10
true that his name is against him, but
you shouldn't hold him responsible for
that. His father made him Hogg. and
his mother added Herschel Marcus.
Either was deadly. With both and
Hogg the Judge has been seriously
handicapped. However. there are
others. | once knew boy who was
christened Rudolf Odolphus Donahu-
gal Abelaird FRANCHISE Stewart. He
died. That's where he got the cinch
on Herschel Marcus Hogg.
But that has nothing to do with this
story, which is not story, but .
biographical sketch.
In his youth the judge was called
"Hershe" by his mother, and "Hersh"
by the boys when they didn't call him
"Hog"-that was at Youngstown, O.,
where boys are notoriously impolite
to each other.
That was as long ago as the sos
although you'd never think 1t to
look at him now You see he admits
i9 years, and being man we are
forced to believe him. If it was a
woman and she admitted that much
I'd write her down 60 IL she didn't
look more than 20, because 1t is-well,
Just because.
When still small boy Herschel
Marcus took his parents to Mercer
county, Illinois, where they resided on
a farm. and the little Herschel collect
ed stone bruises and freckles with a
recklessness that was appalling. But
| what cared Hersch? He decorated
each toe and cultivated callous on
his heel, wore patch where 1t did
the most good and affected hat
without a brim--and was as joyously
happy as a chipmunk in fence corn
er.
Time passed-it most always does
and Hersch arrived at the bear
grease and bergamot period. About
that time his good old father began
to wonder what on earth he had done
that heaven had afflicted him with
such a son. If there was anything on
earth that Hersch didn't know about
then he'd never heard of it-that's
IL
da of misinformation. He--but why
go on? You've all been there.
Then he went to college at Mon
mouth. Ill. That was very painful
period for his family, but 1t passed.
He graduated in 1876 and then took
a law course, obtaining his diploma
and being admitted to the bar in
1873.
He moved out to Indianola. Ia. hung
UP his shingle, and finding the law q
very Improbable business, proceeded
to get married, on the theory. prob
ably, that two could live on what one
would starve to death on.
have his word for 1t, however.
that 1t was the smartest thing he ever
did in his life, and the one evidence
he has that even in his youth he had
great discrimination and perfect
taste, There may be Others" said
the gallant Judge, but not for me-"
In 81 he came out to Gunnison and
joined that brilliant coterie, the
like of which does not exist anywhere
in the state today. There was hand
some Frank Goudy, rosk-cheeked and
bright-eyed; Charley Thomas, keen.
brilliant and full OF youthful enthus-
iasm; Dexter Sapp. witty and jolly;
big Tom Maloney. with his hearty
laughter and his prodigious appetite;
: little Ed. Colborn. nov OF Salt Lake.
| he of the honeyedtongue and
, the rose-hued Imagination, and
many others. And into that set fell
the young lawyer, and by and by he
! became city attorney OF Gunnison and
was one of the boys. One of the
things he did was to prosecute the
, Packer case, a case OF which he still
retains vivid remembrance and
about which we found 1t impossible
to agree.
r In 'SS he removed to Telluride, and
there he became Judge Hogg. Exact
, ly how, / failed to learn, but l i'm
agine it was very much as he receiv-
ed the balance OF his name-through
d no fault of his own.
Since then he has been practicing
I law, ranching and various other
t things-incidentally being interested
E in mines.
Two years ago he heard the buzzins
= OF a bee in his head covering. and or
= investigation discovered that he had
, an attack of "officetus." His physi
, clans assured him that there was but
= one cure, and that was to get an OF
fee so he entered the arena against
G Congressman Bell, who caught 1t years
n ago. and has taken foolish powders
/ so long that he don't know whether
s he is the summit OF Pixies peak or the
e dome OF the capitol. Only he is sure
that he is something-and some day
a when not hurried or excited. he in
I tends finding out what 1t is.
l. Only that | hated to malign an In
d nocent animal, l couldn't tell him
& maybe.
r But the Republicans were not In II
e that year, and the Judge was defeated
y but the other day he got out his ghos
o shirt. sharpened up his tomahawk ant
s did stunt that was q beaut, witt
e the result that he was again the choic,
OF his party for congress. At the pres
= ent writing he is cavorting across tn,
r state in hot pursuit OF Congressman
l. Bells scalp.