Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-27

esting for those speaking German. es-
pecially Americans who have learned
the language and have become rusty.
tirely in German. The High school
class In German should also attend
The Wormer brothers. who made
an effort to rescue q bunch Of horses
were unable to reach them after try
Ing for two days, but they were to
start out again today. Tney had TO
travel several miles on sncwshoes.
and the snow being soft, 1t stuck to
the shoes and made travel exceeding
| ly difacult
Miss Marie Herzer, teacher at Dix.
came In from that place today. ac-
companied by her brother. the minis
ter. She mad to get on her horse
and walk on the crust of the snow. as
the horse was compelled to lunge so
TO get Through the deep snow. Miss
Herzer has eighteen pupils in her
school, only two Of whom are Eng
lish, the rest being German.
| Under Sheriff w. J. Patterson
went out this morning to Pagosa
Junction or Pagosa Springs, after
Charles S. Bradt, who is wanted
acre for passing worthless checks.
He passed one check for $25 and an
other for SIS on Charles Casad. They
were drawn on the Pagosa Springs
1 N ho hu in
the bank.
| As we understand Mr. Hazards
! proposition, ne first wants to ascsr-
tain IL a franchise can be secured for
an electric car line which will ira
verse the Animas valley There are
other details that require attention
before franchise will do any one any
good. With a franchise possible these
details will be arranged and then
wnen the franchise Is granted Mr..
Hazard is ready to enter into bonds
to carry through the project The
| Herald is for the construction OF the
line, and the city OF Durango should
encourage the enterprise.
| Harry b. Kerr went out this morn
ing on his return to Denver. He may
stop at Cnama 10 see II he can do
anything toward getting the bunch of
snowbound horses out He arranged
with the sheriff Of that county some
time ago to rescue the horses, II pos
sible, but as they have not been got
ten out vet. Mr. Kerr thinks 1t is be-
cause the sheriff has not been able to
do anything for them. He thinks
possibly some feed can be gotten to
the two horses that have been penned
in by the deep snow near the railway
above Chama, and II there is no pros
pect of getting them out he will try
10 have some feed taken to them.
The result Of Mr. Kerr's trip to
Ignacio TO see what could be done
for the starving ponies was that sec
eral of the indians agreed to get the
horses out If 1t could be done and
drive them southwark where the
range is free from snow, provided a
white man would go with them. They
wanted the wnite man because they
said the Mexcans claimed the range
for their sheep, and tnat II they went
alone they would be run out by the
Mexicans. or at least have trouble
with them. Tney wanted the white
man to explain the situation to the
Mexicans so tine latter would let the
ponies range where they were placed
Two or three white men volunteered
fk- lie, tnl tt,nt
the good work will be commenced i'm
mediately.
The Post last night contained a spe-
cial from Canon City which throws
some additional light on the kidnap-
ing case. II says that the child when
last seen was carrying a coal bucket,
and the bucket was later found on
the bank of mill ditch which emp
tied into the Arkansas river. Off
cials there believe the child was
drowned, and she would have doubt
less been given up as drowned had II
not been for the anonymous letter re.
ceived from Silverton Offering to re
turn the little one for $3.50. Mrs
Lough was suspected and sample OF
ner writing obtained and the two
hands being similar, she was believed
TO be the kidnaper. The Canon City
marshal admits that Ada Lough left
there two months before the child dis
appeared, but does not know but what
she went back and got the child. 1t
may be that when she read Of the
child's disappearance she thought oil
a scheme to get some money by pre-
tending the child had been kidnapped
hoping the parents would send the
money as requested in the letter. II
looks like the child was really drown
ed