Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-07-21
closed to travel today for repairs.

closed to travel today for repairs.
Foreman Swift of the Chief mine is
attending TO business in town today.
LoST-Pair spectacles. gold bow.
Finder leave at Herald Office and be
rewarded.
John Hartman of the Ei Moro is
spending i few days in his old Tellu.
ride home
Miss Lena Steinegger of the Inter.
Ocean Hotel is visiting with her pa
rents up the valley.
The teachers training class had an.
other meeting this morning in the
county superintendent office.
MIR ana Mrs. Frank Hartman of
Huntington. w. Va. are two tourists
who stopped a day in Durango on their
way around the circle They left on
INC 'iHAtln lHlb morning,
Charles Pinkerton. who was recently
called to Los Angeles to nurse his sick
father writes to Durango friends that
lhe old gentleman Is improving and ls
hopeiul that he may yet live several
years.
The ggiyur,a mi Isn,,Igsb ,,.t 49,.
mails hy Russian battleships looks as
though Russia has decided to provoke
other nations into helping Japan So as
to avoid the humiliation OF being
whipped by Japan alone.
D.
Miss Young has received a sample
OF a notsecss seat. which viii un.
honbtodly become popular in our
schools II does not make noise as
II Is being shut or opened. An eraser
without the wooden back Is also an
other article designed for the quiet of
he school room, as it cannot be heard
when II falls to the floor.
D.
j II. Fessenden of Tampa. Fla, who
has been looking after mining inter.
estS IN the vicinity of Animas Forks.
came down from Sflverton this morn.
Ing and Is spending the day in Du.
range ana Is being entertained by his
wife's sister, Miss De la Vergnc To
morrow morning Mr. Fessenden goes
to Pennington to visit Alecll Bowman.
whom he has not seen for twenty
years. He then returns to his south.
ern home
Sllyerton and San Juan county min.
ers are putting in steady time, and un.
der the same conditions that the min
ers OF Cripple Creek and San Miguel
county quit work. This of itself is
sufficient to condemn the action of the
BILE for all the hardships OF the past
year. The miners of San Juan and
Ouray counties would be in the same
| plight as those of San Miguel had
they listened TO the siren voice of
Meyer But they had better sense-a
fact fully realized at this time.
The Gold King Consolidated ball
team will cross bats with the Silver
Lakes at Athletic Park next Sunday.
The Gold King team will consist OF
the picl, OF tho Durango Gold Kings,
strengthened by the pick Of the Gold
Kings Gladstone team. The Silver
Lakes will have Vaughan from Col
den to pitch the game, and the lineup
will be almost the same as it was for
the game in Siverton on Jnuly 3. At
that time the Gold Kings defeated the
Silver Lakes after a close game, on
the result of which 81 900 changed
hands As the Silver Lakes after
ward defeated both the Silyerton and
Durango teams, their loss to the Gold
Kings put the Gold Kings in first
place. In the return game TO be played
next Sunday the Lake boys will do
their best to reverse the score. The
Gold King hackers have any amount
of money to bet on their favorites. The
game. therefore, will be for blood
from the start. and promises to be
one Of great interest.
O.
Wood & Morgan who recently
bought 900 head of horses from the
King brothers near Monticello, Utah
viii begin shipping as soon as a
bunch of two or three hundred can be
rounded up Shipment of this mum
ber will be continued until the whole
thousand Is disposed of. Some OF the
very best will be kept for the livery
buslncss-that is. those that are too
good to sell MIR Morgan stated this
morning that this was the finest bunch
Of range horses he had ever seen. The
King brothers had gone into horses
several years ago. and had stayed
with them through dull times and
good always breeding up, and care
fully looking after them. Horses. likt
sheep cattle and everything else, had
been down for long time. and wher
they were down almost everybody
tried TO get out Of the business. Whef
cattle or sheep were down there was
a scramble to sell out, and when theJ
were up there was IA rush to get Int
the business again. Horses mad beer
down for long time, and now thej
had gone up till there is good prom
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