Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-12-11

Chas. Cross and Dan F. Smith Of
the government camp at Mancos. that
has been counting the stumps. came
In yesterday and will continue their
journey east in day or so.
Going to the entertainment OF the
Chicago Lady Entertainers this even
ing you will have highly enJoyaofe
hour or 30. and encourage an enter
prise that should be patronized and
made bigger and stronger every win
ter.
The baggage car from Pennington
yesterday evening wns filled with the
big trunks of travelling men who make
the lower country now Just an they
do Durango or Pueblo. Our sister
| towns on the south are getting away
from US to the extent OF buying more
directly than they did before.
Miss Stella l.. Hitchcock, Mrs. Bes-
sic NJ. Mercer. Mrs. Marcia Moorhead
and Mrs Estelle NJ. Clark OF Chicago
comprise the Chicago Lady Entertain
ers, who will appear at Red Men hall
this evening in an entertainment CIV
en- by the Durango High school, are
registered at the StrRter.
The poor fellow Sells, the fireman
on a freight train which was running
away on Cumbres hill, above Chama,
day before yesterday. had left his post
to run over the train to help the brake
men set brakes. when the train iurch-
cd and threw him below. killing him
instantly. He was hero at that
Hans Aspaas. ranching below Fort
Lewis, will come out with a balance on
the right side again. He has 100 tons
of potatoes which are now worth $l.l5
per hundred, or an aggregate of 1900.
and should they continue to raise they
may net him $4,000. He has $500
bushels of oats and other small
grain. There is evidently something
In farming In La Plata county.
Mrs. A. Y. Cook. one OF the plain,
good old-fashioned mothers, accom-
panied by her daughter, Mrs. @. Van
dergaw, returned yesterday evening
from the North Fork country on the
Gunnison. where they had visited the
parents of the former. Mrs. Wander
gaw'B husband died at Silverton two
months ago and she goes home with
her two babies TO live with her motn-
or. They continued to Florida mesa
this morning.
II Is announced that the Times and
Tribune of Mancos will next week ap-
pear az the Times-Tribune, under the
management OF the Freeman brothers.
port two newspapers and needed but
one. and II the one the people are to
have there now will be published un-
der liberal policy. having as its chief
object the advancement OF the mater
ial resources OF that wonderfully rich
section, the people OF that part of
Montezuna are to be congratulated.
The one newspaper In a community
will find that the Abandonment Of per-
sonalities and partisan politics will
be helpful in the conduct Of news
paper for all the people. The paper
need not be neutral on any subject,
but need not necessarily take up the
factionaI Interest OF any. The Her
aid trusts the Times Tribune will be
useful In the upbuilding Of Montezuma
county.
w. A. Reese went out this morning
to Del Norte to defend Gilbreath. who
is made defendant by the people on
charge of perjury, In Judge Hol-
brooks district court. Gilbreath is a
son Of the Monte Vista banker OF that
name. Mr.. Reese was lamenting that
the old Wnitsitt house (now the Wind
sor) at Del Norte has rooms 18 feet
square and IS feet high. with only
pinon wood 70 keep them warm. Coal
Is too high for Del Norte when they
can buy wood for IS per load.
Sheriff w. J. Thompson departed
this morning with the prisoner Henry
A. Richardson, for the state peniten-
tiary. Richardson had grown fat In
his less than two months In the coun-
ty jail. The sheriff. having neard of
his statement that he would make
rough house on the road. had hand
cuffcd him. His restless, wandering
orbs did not tell a story Of satisfac-
ton with his fate. The day Richard
son shot and beat up Henry Rhudy he
was wild with anger at another man.
and II is possible that he WAS on his
way to get satisfaction out Of some
body else when he permitted Rhudy's
abuse under stress Of drink to anger
him into an unwarranted assault.
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