Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-09-04

Miner, arrived from the miouie oi
the gold camp yesterday evening He
Is interesting In saying: There never
was as much doing In the camp and
as little said about 1t as now. MY
newspaper has earned less money
since the general conditions OF the
camp nave so much improved, Du'
things are looking little brighter
There is going to he considerable
more patenttng done, and you know
this Is the life of little mining camp
paper. 1t seems a paper can taik ana
talk about the merits of a camp ana
people can knock and knock, and II
is hard to tell which accomplishes
most The enlarged shipments and
greater development do not seem 10
attract more attention than another
camp barren OF desired results. But
wen hop along. Mary. and do the bese
we can" Then the candle went out.
The Banks woman and daughter,
Myrtle Dawson, were up before Judge
Pike yesterday, charged with keeping
bawdy house, disturbing neighbors
and harboring little boys and a half
dozen other wretched offenses, and
| they pleaded guilty to all and we're
committed to the county jail for ten
days. where they can make faces at
the balance of the prisoners. They
are tough "umbres."
| Frank H. viii recalls memories
of that drowning hole In the Animas.
| He says: I'm 1878, "a years ago, Silas
Smith, Joe McGalliard, Milt and Char
lie virden and myself. begun to swim
in that mole, but we all could swim
The little fellows in those days were
not so venturesome as now and thinli
the older ones exercised more care
to keep them out OF danger than the!
do now | think the deepest part oi
that hole is about twenty feet. 1t ii
long, having an outlet at the moutf
of Junction creek. We never founf
it whirlpool, though there may b'
! an undercurrent that we did not no
tice." Billy wickline says: "The onl'
way to blow up that hole is TO dyna
mite the shelving rock at the head o
IL. Then the river in a short TIM
would fill 1t up level with the bed o
the channel II can be done all right
And. people OF Durango don't yol
know IL must be done and done now
s. W. Raymond, accompanied b
Catherine and Gertrude Raymond lei
this morning for La Crosse. Wis
In response to a telegram last ever
ing stating that J. A. Raymond,
brother Of S. W. and Geo. N. Ra,
mond of The Herald. was very To-
land not expected to live. Catherin
lis daughter Of the sick man. Sh
:. accompanied Gertrude Raymond
/, Durango to spend the school vac
ton and to get away from sorrow, ht
mother having died In the spring an
now 1t seems her father is about
join the loved one who preceded hir
but it is hoped life will at least la
, Inc Is II Years OF age. ffs on4f 4faetlhfYe aetlhfYe
ia and the blow Is hard one as Il
loss of her mother naturally mac
her cling closer to papa In
n udSs UertrUue raymond was plannlT
n to return to school at Zion City
4 which time Catherine would have a
n companied her. continuing to her |
% Crosse home, hut in order to ket
the bereaved child company Gertrut
started this morning and will rema
with her cousin ten days or tw
u weeks. Should death result from IL
9 present illness S. w Raymond wi
. necessarily be absent two or thr.
weeks settling up his brothers a
u fairs.
More grief hurried into one ho,
, than her Maker should have allotte
to the natural life of one frail woma
, struggling alone to protect and guid
her babies.
You would have cried like bah
= II you had been there.