Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-03-14
COMBINATIONS.

None of the Colorado members are
implicated in the postoflice report.
The Colorado & Southern railroad Is
going to add 1000 new cars to its
equipment.
Democratic state committee Will
meet March 31st to fix date for hold
ing state convention
Wind of the hurricane order pre-
vailed again yesterday in the eastern
part of the state. Durango escaped
rs usual, with tail end.
The election fraud cases are being
rried in Denver and let us hope some
IF the culprits will be landed in the
penitentiary.
President Smith of the Mormon
church is the father of 81 boys and 2G
girls according to his testimony before
he senate committee, and he added :
Il am proud of every one of them"
Chas. S. Thomas, who run the gov
srnors office two years with but oDS
object. that of landing himself in th}'
United States senate, has a two-col-
INN article in the morning Democrat
which kills as much space and says as
little as any article OF the same length
ever published.
George Gould diA not visit Denver,
simply stopping few hours in Pueblo.
The visit was not prolific of any new
developments, or at least so far as
surface indications go.
Herald's Ouray correspondent
| phones that the smelter at that point
| ,,rgI ~.
week BY that slime the roads to
ted Mountain will be in shape for ore
hauling
The floor of Gould's private car is
constructed of railroad ties which
means it cannot be telescoped. The
frame work is also constructed in such
4 manner as to prevent being smashed
in case of collision.
The New York Sun, the newspaper
founded by Charles A. Dana, is said
20 have been sold to Thomas B. Wan
imaker of Philadelphia, son of form
er Postmaster General John Wana-
maker and owner of newspaper prop
critics.
| 1t is said Senator Fairbanks condA
tions. named upon consenting to ac,-
sept second place on the Republic
national ticket, We're that he sh0dt .
be permitted to name both the nationJ
al chairman and the vice chairman. e
privilege which precedent gives to the
presidential candidate and that Roose-
welt agreed to the terms
Old man Sylvester died at his cab
in near the Butterfly mill in the Ophir
district at IL o'clock last night. He
was at Ophir yesterday afternoon, Wis.,
lting one of the saloons, departing ap-
parently as well as ever Death is be-
iieved TO be due to heart failure, Cor
oner Glenn of Telluride having gone to
investigate this morning. Sylvester
has occupied the cabin he died in for
The past twenty years, being a typi-
cal prospector.
The U. S. government bulletin is
sued Tuesday. the Sth, concerning the
snowfall in the mountains. says: AL
though the snow fall during February
on the Rio Grande and eastern water
sheds was greater than that for Janu-
airy, 1t was much less than normal and
Will not materially increase the sup
ply of water for irrigation In the
mountain districts of the western
| slope the precipitation, including rain,
was also much below normal. The
| exceptionally high temperatures-
characteristic of March or April rath-
ar than winter month-which were
feature during the closing week,
caused much snow to disappear from
moderate elevations as well as from
nigh southern and western exposures.
In some localities the high winds were
Of benefit in sweeping the current fall
Of snow into timber and guiches; in
others, however, they aided evapora-
tion and melting" -