Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-17


From Tuesdays Daily.
Jsmea Mari of Bayneld was in to.
day and bought binder.
Humane Agent H. A. Kerr. left this
morning for Denver, having In his
care the Bruderbruck girl whom he
viii place in the girls school at Ren-
yer.
Grand Junction profited by the Uin-
tah registering The News estimates
that 5000 people registered there and
they spent on an average Of S225
apiece. That would put $I50000 in
circulation there in a few DAYS.
Mrs. d. p. Ritter and her daughter
Mrs. Porterfeld, departed this morn
Ing for Sal, Lake City for visit.
After a few weeks there Mrs Porter
field will go to her home in Goldfeld
New, and Mrs. Ritter will return
home.
terday evening a new baby girl came.
and that boy will not have to play
and romp alone any more. He wont
have to climb on the fence to pass
the time but he'd better not use any
of those hair ribbons to hitch up Fido.
The divorce mill ground ont two
A
REYNOLDS obtained n divorce from her
husband on the grounds OF non.sup'
port, and Mrs. NJ L.. Hegwer was
granted a divorce on the grounds ol
non support and desertion. Both in
the county conrt.
The Esmeralda mine in Minnie
eulch, above Silverton. which has a
wonderful record OF gold production
is reported as not shipping at pres
ent; stripping the vein with the pnr.
pose of blocking out enough ore to
give the low grade to n mill: 10 avoid
closer sorting which costs money.
The Southern Pacific is out to par
allel the main lines of the Gould sys
TEN and this will give Durango two
great railways-neither one will be
skinned There will be other pebbles
on the beach, hut Pennington will
ind that II will cost more to get Flor
ida water and Durango breezes than
tens.
Bill Accord came In last might from
the East and West Mancos, where he
has been at work for some time. He
went to Grand Junction and regis
tered for the land drawing. but MS the
chances are little less than one in
six of drawing anything, he does not
count very much on that. He and
Tom went to Pagosa Springs this
morning.
George Crawford and a party of Ii
passed through last night bound fol
Red Mountain to visit the mines being
operated by the Crawford syndicate
The party occupied the chair car "Sil
verton." which took them to their des
tination and was brought back this
morning. The train bound for Ala
mosa this morning took the regnla
chair car and the extra.
The body of Engineer Thompson
who was killed on the Rainbow route
between Silverton and Red Mountain
was taken through this morning fol
Alamosa. where II will be buried The
body was accompanied by the widow
and other members of the family
Miss Zee Thompson, the daughte
here. was not able to go, she bein,
prOstrated by the sudden news OF he
fathers death and unable to travel
II IL doubtful II the engineers will
20 out on account of the poor condi
tion Of the road. for it Is understood
they have orders to run as slow a
necessary to make travel safe. an,
are paid for all over time. II It 4
true that such are the orders from
present indications II looks like the
will slow down to the speed OF
ent speed maintained is becoming eS
ceedingly risky.
AS will he seen in an article prin,
cd elsewhere In this issue about tn
work done by the county commission
ers, one thing that is sadly needed Il
the way Of legislation is a law to pre-
tect counties from parties drivin
stock In large numbers over bridge
and breaking them down. As the Lax
stands now n man is prohibited fror
hauling more than 5000 pounds of mt
chinery over bridge at one load, We
man may crowd a herd OF cattl
onto bridge. break It down an
there is no recourse for the county.
Soil that will grow large potatoe
AT an altitude of over 5000 feet AZ
pears to be adapted to the successf,
growth of rubber weed. and Millar
Green having ranch about that higi
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