Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-04-13

through the store, went over to hl
| office, returned with two large sad
dlebags. carried them up to the room
came down again, took chair neal
the stove, and said:
| We'll, Speed, I've moved"
And he stayed there almost two
years, until prosperity came to him
and ne did much to help Speed sue.
coed In his business afterwards -
Smith ID. Fry. in Pittsburg Dispatch
From Tuesdays daily.
Dick oxford is a visitor from Man.
cos.
Tonight the new city officers will
be sworn in.
| Matt Harrington mas been appointe e,,
administrator of the estate OF c. T..
Peters.
| The sugar beet seed ordered from
Rocky Ford reacned the committee
today.
| The Southern was delayed about
six hours last night by rock slide
at Glencoe.
| Jen Sease. who has been very i'll
for some time at tne Ochsner hospital
is reported somewhat improved
w. ID. Wilson, game warden of
Creede, is in the city o nofiicial bust.
ness, having arrived last night,
Mrs. Nicholas Goegline is at home
again after recovering from q serious
operation for tumors at Ochsner hos.
pital,
NJ. c. Hinderllder is expected In
| with his force of surveyors about April
| 20 TO resume work on the government
| survey.
Ralph Shaw. the Silverton ball
player VINO was operated on at Ochs-
ner's hospital for appendicitis, is do
Ing nicely.
Giles T. Vandegrift and Tom LOTUS
went down the railroad piece this
morning. They are on the lookout for
another contract
Coe Franklin has returned from a
brief visit to Pennington. He reports
that section moving along at about
the proper gait.
Rain rain, all day. No sight of the
sun. The water stands in pmddles
deep enough for ducks To swim And
tnis Is arid Colorado!
Henry S. Winans, representing tne
w. S. Tyler company OF Cleveland. is
calling on coal mine managers today
He sells cars and other supplies.
A. Peters departed this morning for
Excelsior Springs, Mo, and expects
10 return in about two weeks and take
charge of the Durango electric plant
J II. Abbott's brothers and cousin
departed this morning for the East
His cousin will probably return to Du.
range In short time and possibly re.
main
Wood Morgan yesterday made
another shipment OF horses to st
Louis. Tnis time III head were sent
out. This is a part OF the large bunch
of range horses bought OF King broth
ers in the Montezuma and Dolores
country.
When by reason of new railroads
Durango is on the main line OF travel
we will have an opera house tnat will
meet the demands both of the best
companies on the road and OF the the
atergoing public as well. There will
be demand and the demand will be
supplied.
Carpenters are now at work carry
ing out the plans for the enlarging
and Improvement of A. L. Nathan Il
Co.'S store, as outlined In the Herald
month ago. In addition to making
great improvement In the arrange
ment of the first floor there will be
capacious upstairs, which the grow
ing business OF this enterprisIng Arm
makes necessary.
The speech made last night by Hon
c. f. Mcconnell was revelation to
those who heard IT, 1t shows that Mr..
Mcconnell has made deep study OF
and thoroughly mastered the railroad
situation. For a man whose business
Is not in the railroad line he has ac-
cumulated a great fund of information
that is going TO be valuable to the
company or companies who take ad-
vantage of 1t.
With the advent of broad-gauge
road or two or three to the south Du-
range will be in shape for early spring
races. Then we will have the ad-
vantage of being on the circuit and