Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-07-28


fixtures of the latest style were pur
chased during Mr.. Williams trip to
the outside, and these have all been
put In place. making the whole ar
rangement OF the place very attract.
i've
Frank Gillespie thought as the price
strike he would purchase a couple OF
shoats He therefore bought two of
Mike Tierney and paid for them the
sum OF eight round dollars. Yester.
day Mike came in with n tale OF woe.
Somebody had poisoned the pigs.
Frank had his doubts about this being
true, so he thereupon went up to
Mikes castle and found that 1t had
been correctly stated To him. Sure
enough someone had poisoned the two
pigs and the dog and had set fire to
the straw in front of the mules. Par
ties camping nearby saw the smoke
and rustled water and put out the fire,
saving the mules. AS there was no
insurance the pigs were loss.
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The jolly and distinguished party of
eastern people w r. Kirkpatrick has
been entertaining at his Pine river
summer home departed for their re-
spective homes this morning, report
ing most excellent time, having
invigorating air. The following com
posed the party: General and Mrs
Hollister. Mr.. and Mrs, Reynolds, Miss
Smiley. j. NJ. Hollister and wife, Den
yer: Mr.. and Mrs. Kendrick and Miss
Kendrick. Delaware, Mo; Neos Ris-
ley, Mr.. Isham, Mr.. DeVall, New York;
Judge Boight, Milwaukee. The party
were given a coach to themselves to
Alamosa, and will have a private
sleeper from that point to Denver.
The articles of incorporation of the
Durango Girl Gold Mining &c Milling
company were filed today with the
ticles name as incorporators John OIL
bert. George Oibert, Anna NJ. Vein
ing and Albert ID. Leiner. The capital
stock is 81 SOC, 900. of 100000 shares
of the par value of 81 each. The time
for which the corporation shall exist
is 20 years. The affairs and business
are to be under the control of board
Of seven stockholders, and Anna NJ.
Weinig, Albert ID. Leiner, John Gilbert.
Geo Gilbert, Arthur Cornforth, owen
Dodge and John NJ Cooke are select
Ell for this board for the first year. The
main Office of the company is to be
Durango, and the board of directors
may select other cities or towns for
branch offices II they deem such ac-
tion advisable.
Deputy State Engineer C. w. Wells
departed for Denver yesterday morn
ing. stopping en- route at Alamosa and
one or two other points. II will be the
last of the week before he reaches his
destination. and Saturday evening he
wrote and mailed to the state engin-
eer a report of the conditions as he
found them in regard to the Oro Fino
road The Herald is sorry to say that
the visit of Mr. Wells was not pro.
ductive of any special good. and n
looks as though the money apprppri-
ated by the state will be allowed to
go to some community where there is
more united support for enterprises of
this character. AS long as we have in
our midst newspaper and n few fol
lowers who are opposed to everything
Al. ,,aIt. II
the people its going TO be hard sled
ding to secure united action. How
ever the time is not far distant when
dacency viii prevail, the knockers cast
aside and the grafters thrown out.
Amid the virgin fragrance of the or
ange blossom and the lily Mr.. Sam
Wittow and Miss Julia Rachofsky
pledged their troth. while the Rev. s.
A. kobey. grandfather of the bride,
forged the link connecting two souls
for better or for worse, The cere-
mony was performed at the palatial
residence of Mr. Harry Rachofsky.
father OF the bride, on Sunday, July
"a, and was witnessed only by the i'm
mediate family. The bridal gown
was magnificent in its simplicity--a
Worth creation. The ceremony was
performed under bridal canopy,
veritable bower of the most fragrant
flowers, symbolic of their faith, and as
the words of union were spoken a
beautiful white dove was released
from concealed horn of plenty and
sped on its way rejoicing just as the
horn itself came into sight releasing
mass of flowers that showered the
newly we'd Following the ceremony
the family dinner was served. Mr..
Wittow is worthy and well known
citizen of this community, a hale fel-
low well met, and a gentleman OF no
mean business ability. Mr., and Mrs.
Wittow left for New York this morn
ing on their honeymoon, and while,
away will visit Newport, Narragansett,
Long Branch, Chicago and st. Louis.
After doing the fair the young couple
will return and take up their home in
Silverton. where Mr.. Wittow has en-
barked in business for himself. In
New York MIR. Wittow will combine
business with pleasure. Our hearty
congratulations and best wishes are
extended to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rach-
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