Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-01-05

10 appear weekly. Durango seems to
be favorite field for establishing
newspapers and Mr.. Blakely probably
has Just as good a right as any one
else. However, we wonder that the
effort is not daily.
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Charles A. Speiss, attorney for the
Phelps-Dod road returned last
night from Las Vegas. where he went
to spend the holidays at home. Mr..
Speiss has been busy getting rights Of
way for his road, having put in sew
eral weeks in the vicinity of Farming
ton and on the La Plata river. He
went to Pine Ridge this morning TO
Interview farmers along the line of
survey for the purpose of securing
rights of way. His road will come lip
the La Plata river and cross over and
come To Durago by way Of Pine Ridge.
p. T.arsh is over from Rico VIII
remain day or two He thinks Dolor.
Fred Strater says II Herman Hanno
and Oscar Buskirk have many more
blow-outs he will steer clear. And
Fred is pretty good slayer as
rule.
Over in Berlin an actress refused
to go on with the performance be-
cause the leading man was too realis-
tic in the hugging scenes, Perhaps
his wife was a member OF the COM
pany.
Mrs. j l.. Russell is lying at her
home very sick. She has been sick
since Friday and last night at mid
night her condition was considered
serious. but then Il slight change for
the better took place
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The Reading Club will hold an open
| meeting at the home OF Mrs. p. w,
Ritter, Thursday afternoon at
O'Clock II will be a Hobby" party.
each guest representing or imperson'
aiing her own hobby
The commissioners are allowing
| road bills today. Mr.. Bradley said the
bills for repairing the damage
done the roads during the rains last
summer. were greater than at any
| time during the last seven years.
Every district except that OF
Thompsons Park overrun its appro-
priation The bills, it is said will run
| close to $4,000.
Prosper Joseph Barber, siepfather
of w. r. Wales the bicycle man, died
at his home west OF the Rio Grande
depot at 1895 o'clock this morning.
death resulting from pneumonia Mr..
Barber was "a years of age. He was
n native of France and came to this
| section in 1876 and has made this
his home ever since. He is survived
by his wife. Funeral services will be
| held at the residence tomorrow after
noon at 2 O'Clock
Mayne, the 12-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. F. c. Perkins, was expert
menting yesterday with a giant cap.
He tried to explode it with rock
and failed. and then he struck
match to it. II went on and two or
three pieces of the shell entered the
right eye and his right hand was bad
\ ly torn. The pieces of shell were ex-
tracted and no permanent injury was
done.
The drawing for the $125 chest Of
| silver took place AT two O'Clock this
afternoon at Hahn's jewelry estab-
ishment There were quite a number
present including representative Of
| The Herald who can assure one and
| all that perfect fairness prevailed.
| The fifth number drawn was the lucky
one. being 2S9S. II the holder of this
number will present same any time
| within thirty days the chest will be
turned over, otherwise the second
number. 1889. will COME in for like
| treatment and then No. 2S9. will
have show for thirty days. The sill.
yer chest is a beauty.
1 y. m.--We stop the press to an.
nounce the one holding the lucky
ticket. Miss Lelah Parker, who pre-,
sented the same at 10 minutes OF 4.
One never runs across CRATER
but what the guilty person always
yells stop thief" and charges corrup-
tion against others in order to throw
OF suspicion. We are reminded OF this
by the semi-oocasonal slop-overs of
the Morning Democrat in regard to
county printing. It's assertions about
| saving the county money are absolute
| ly false as we are prepared to prove
for any amour, Of money named The
pure and holy Democrat management
| filed great many bills the past two
| or three wears that had to be cut 95
per cent, and AT the present time has
a bill filed for about 5000 more than
| it agreed to do the work for Aagain.
speaking of the publication Of the list
of nominations The Democrat takes
the credit of inducing Clerk Eddy to
change the form against the recon-
mendation of the secretary OF state.
| and others Interested in uniform
| form, and according TO bills filed the
| cost of publishing the list for the late
election is as much as the county
ever paid for any election. II the
Democrat is so solicitous regarding
the interests of taxpayers why not