Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-04-06
From Mondays Daily:

time here looking over Indian anairs
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Mrs. n. C Miller will be the guest
of Mrs. ]. w. Wingate during her visit
in Durango, which will be about three
weeks. with a week in Silverton.
Mrs. Harry Jackson returned last
night from Boulder, where she went
for a visit with ner daughter Ella,
who is attending the Boulder univer-
slty.
o. R Womack. G. w. Culp and r A
CUP. newcomers from Cooper, Tex.
went out to Mancos this morning. ex-
pecting to locate on ranches near
there.
Mrs. Scharnhorst will soon make
visit TO her old home in Germany.
according to the Cortez Journal. and
the judge will take advantage of her
absence and build a fine stone house
on their ranch.
c. l.. Streeter. recently chief chem
ist of the Lamar sugar factory. is in
the city and may make up his mind
TO locate here and lead farmers life
in the greatest farmers paradise on
earth.
DR.. G. V. Copp returned Saturday
from the lower San Juan river, wnere
he mas been the past several weeks
prospecting to determine the merits
of some placer ground he has. He
saws that section is all right.
j. l.. Williams had the misfortune
TO have two ribs, the eighth and
ninth, broken in little friendly
scutiie in the store Saturday night.
He and John Young were scuffling and
both fell, Mr.. Williams falling on
JOINS elbow in such a way as to
break the ribs.
The train from the East arrived at
II O'Clock last night carrying two
days mail. The train which left Du-
range yesterday morning going east
got over the range few hours late
The train did not go through to Sill
verton last night, but a passenger
up tnis morning attached to the
freight.
Tom Lotus and family returned
last night from southern California
Tom visited Los Angeles, San Ber
nardino, San Diego, Pasadena and a
few other places and reports a fine
time. At Pasadena ne saw Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Herr He says they are
coming back to Durango in May. Mr.
Lotus thinks the trip will be pretty
hard on. Mr.. Herr as he says he has
no use of his legs.
Mr.. A II. Poage, station agent al
Alamosa, states that local and through
shipments TO Durango. Silverton and
other western points of general mer-
chandise is greater on the d. e. r. G
this spring than for many years Car
load lots especially have increased the
transfer a. Alamosa. Alamosa is on
the increase, employing many laborers
at good wages.-Alamosa Independent
Journal
Mrs n. C. Miller Mrs. Harry Jack
son and mother, Mrs. Becker, and
Miss Anna Ramsay were among those
who enjoyed themselves all day Sat
urday at Antonita and then at Alamo
sa over night and all day yesterday
and until last night between Durango
and Alamosa. A good deal of the de
lay was caused by two freight trains
getting stuck in the snow yesterday
morning with the snow pow behind
The trains mad to be dug out.
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Joe Taylor, the old man who tried
10 commit suicide recently, died last
night at Mercy hospital where he mas
lived the past few years. The body
was taken to the Durango undertaking
rooms and prepared for burial. The
old man had been in poor health for
long time and had failed very fast of
late. II was his suffering tnat led
him to attempt suicide, which he did
about a week ago. when he tried to
cut his throat with a knife wnich was
100 dull to do serious damage. He
was taken TO the hospital after that
and gradually grew worse till the end.
Frank Mead of Washington. d. C.,
general supervisor Of Indian affairs,
has just completed his inspection of
Indian agencies and schools in this
section and departed tnls morning for
Phoenix, Ariz. He visited the agen-
cies at Dulce Ignacio and Shiprock,
and the school at Fort Lewis while IN
this section. He reports the Utes at
Ignacio are a little backward in the
advance they are making in the mat
Ter of civilization He says also the
Utes on the west end of the reserva-
'tion are backward on account of lack
of water which they need for their
land
This summer the d, & r. G.. railway
company Will probably decide whether
they will build over the range to Pa
gosa Springs and on to Durango or
across from some point on the Chile"