Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-07-21

Tor ThompSon'S park, WneTe tHey Will
spend week or ten days with Mrs.
Herman Schroeder, enjoying country
life in all its beauties. Gertrude re-
mains at home and VIII do the house
keeping act for papa" And Fred is
in store for surprises every meal
something new, good and novel.
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The loss in the school house from
the fire Saturday evening was adjust
ed yesterday. The damage to the
building, furniture and fixtures was
placed at s1Gs.70, and the loss on
chemicals at ssS, making total loss
of s256.70 Mr.. Wlngate of the school
board stated this morning that while
no action had been yet taken by the
school board it was decided to build a
fireproof vault very soon to keep the
chemicals in.
The high five party given by the
lodge of Pocahontas at Red Men hall
last night was very enjoyable af-
fair The first Ladies' prize. Roman
stool, was won by Mrs. II. ID. Nc
Bride: Edward Starr won the first
gentlemen's prize; Theo. Baisden won
the gentelemen's consolation prize, a
handsome picture: Miss Ella Ives got
the ladies' consolation prize a hand
some vase, and Fritz Pulvermiller
carried off the booby-a rag doll
After the games were finished there
We're delicious refreshments and after
that came dancing, which lasted till
late hour.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Doll were
termilk. They sent for a physician as
soon as they discovered they were
poisoned, and they are out of danger
today. The milk was allowed to stand
in a tin bucket, which is supposed to
have caused the poisoning.
The Gold King nine will play the
Silver Lake nine at the fair grounds
Sunday afternoon. The Gold King
nine will be made up principally of
men from the Gold King mine at
Gladstone. a few from the Gold King
coal mines here helping out. These
two mines have played two games and
each one has won game and this Will
make two best in three. The railroad
has made cheap rate for the round
trip. which insures a large crowd from
Silverton.
Too many people who handle guns
allow them to go off while pointed to-
ward somebody else. and Il law that
would compel every owner of a gun
accidentally discharged to pay heavy
damages, or at least the expenses OF
the sufferer would be fine thing.
This thing of accidentally shooting
someone and then settling the dam
wrong Damages of other kinds can
be collected. and careless owners of
guns ought not to be immune.
Jake Virant. who accidentally shot
the Mexican known as Crazy" Pete
yesterday. came up ahead of the mar
shal yesterday afternoon and explain
ed the matter 10 Judge Houx. He said
the shooting was accidental; that the
cleaning the gun and that the weapon
was accidentally discharged: he was
very sorry and would rather have shot
himself than the Mexican. The man
was told to come around again today
which he did, but no complaint has
been lodged against him and so no ar
rest viii be made. Virant went over
N "a nj rttnr n n ha
wounded man and took him some
fruit. The Mexican is getting along
fairly we'll
There is no longer Denver depart
ment store octupus. The 'pus" is
there Just the same. but the ''octo"
part has surrendered By this we
mean that the Rocky Mountain News
has recanted. The stores aforesaid
are not such menace to humanity as
he thought. He has promised to be
good and with restored patronage the
world looks brighter. And we could
have similar illustration in Durango
If the Durango grocerymen, hardware
men and coal operators were to give
the Democrat their business there
would be no pools in the city, but all
would be sunshine. The poor labor
Ing man could hoe his own row. But
Durango merchants are evidently
composed of different staying qualities
than the Denver concerns. They do
not intend to be bled by Day, and he
can go on with his dirty screeds for
all the good it will do him. 1t will not
work in Durango if it does in Denver
Geo. II. Shields, father of Jesse w
Shields, has been busy the last few
days looking up evidence for the pur-
pose of proving an alibi for his SON
He can now account for every day of
his sons time from May, 1901, to the
present, with the exception of the
month of June, 1901. This will be
sufficient TO prove the alibi. Jesse
Shields had an injury, mentioned once
before, on May 27, 1901. He was
struck with a chair in fight and his
arm was broken. The case in police
court was reported as John Doe and
Richard Roe. This fact made it diff
ficult to trace in the newspapers, be-