Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-09-14

The Heral editor will attend tn,
funerals of two brothers tomorrow
one in spirit of dearly loved brother
in far away Minnesota, and the other
a brother in more ways than one, s
p. Herr in Durango. May their spir
its take flight to the heavenly shore
to await the coming of loved ones left
behind.
Dr. G. d. Harrington came in from
Cortez yesterday, driving over the
wagon road with Walter Hayes. He
came in to get acquainted with more
Deople-they are still shy on popula.
lion out in the land of the Aztec, and
Il people didn't get away from home
sometime they wouldn't know how big
the world Is.
Dick Kermode. who comes nearer
matching our Bill Thompson than
any other sheriff in Colorado is over
from Cortez where he says he hears
nothing but water" Did you ever
see the two big sheriffs together and
take guess at the difference in their
weights. Our old Bill will beat him
few pounds.
Neil Camp went out this morning,
and when he spied the reporter at the
train he said: Il am willing to confess
anything. but II you've got to print
my name spell 1t right once II a fel-
low followed you reporters awhile he
wouldn't quite know what township
he lived in. | am going to Philadel
Dnia and Richmond and maybe to New
York, and amt a-going to get mar
ried, either" Further deponent say
eth not, and if the reporter got fooled
again he couldn't help IL.
Giles r Vandegrift went out on .
mission this morning that naturally
man VINO has a little daughter whom
Ie thinks about the only girl. Van
was going to Roanoke, Virginia. down
where he was a boy one time. to take
his daughter Clara to college. Van
thought he wanted to go so he could
he knew before, some OF them who
would be good to Clara If she got
sick or lonesome.
Hank Lilly came down yesterday ev-
ening from Deadwood gulch where
thav ,,,ina harH Shaan Shnnt
grouse. and when they climb out OF
the gulch to the top of one Of the
hills they look on To the southwest
more than a hundred miles and see
Sniprock in the sandy desert south of
the San Juan river, where the govern.
ment is building schools and board
ing houses for the Indians, so they can
fight the fleas and scratch themselves
without getting in the rain. Hank
says Deadwood gulch is a lovely place
but that If one goes there he should
always take lunch along, as he might
get hungry. Hank brought down some
samples and said he thought he had
the assayer fooled this time.
w. n. Mason is In today from his
Florida ranch, and while he was on
the way he saw something tsmelled
it, which suggests to MIN that some
body has failed to attend to business
He says that dead horse lying by
the side of the road below the Stand
ard smelter ruins, besides being very
offensive to the smell. IL liable tt
scare a team driven by some woman
with child or two to go into the
| wreckage or carnage of runaway
Whose business Is II to look after the
dead horse? 1t is out OF the city lin
| its and Mike Tierny has no jurisdic
ticn there unless he turns his hog
loose to rummage.
Mr.. Chas. Pearson. who is one o
| the most progressive ranchmen in OIL
district. has decided to put a YER
large exhibit OF all his farm product
at our fair. This exhibition Is to b
independent of any competition TO
prizes and ii purely from an adveI
tising standpoint. Mr.. Pearson shoul
be complimented by every one in thi
district for his progressiveness, an
If other ranchmen would get 1t Int
their heads that It is good busines
for them to take as much interest |
the advertising of their farms as tn
business man does in the advertisin
of his stock, their farms would b
worth considerable more and the