Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-14

H. II iOIl OF Mbncos stopped owe
night in the city and departed thi
morning for Denver.
F'renchy Thomas Is down from th
La Plata district He says he ha
small quantity Of rich ore which h,
will market.
Dr. Morrison will spend few day
at Emerald lakes. He left for Bay
field this morning and win go to thu
lakes from there.
The Pueblo visitors were amazet
and pleased to learn OF the grea
quantity OF rubber weed we have II
the Durango country.
Stockgrowers are eager to learr
what will he the policy OF the govern
ment with reference to leasing fol
grazing the forest reserves.
Misses Bertha and Allie Walling
who have been visiting the family oi
C. NJ Elliott, returned this morning
for their home at Pennington.
The Pueblo contingent said the Her
aid would do for booster OF Its town
and that they were glad at least one
Durango PAPER would tell them wha,
we have in the greatest of empires
| Patsy Degenhardt has been called
upon to take an inventory OF the dam
age done by fire at the Edith saw.
mill He left for Edith this morning
| He does the work for the insurance
| companies.
Robert Dunlay was passenger
| this morning for Denver. He says II
was expected the cars would he rum
ming to Aztec by August Is, but he
thinks it will be the Goth before they
run into the town.
The Denver Post is going after DR..
Frank Prewitt. formerly OF Durango,
charging him with sending live man
to a friendly undertaken, the last stab
being one of Steele's cartoons that
would make an Apache shiver.
The Golden Reds will play the Du-
range boys at the fair grounds al
80 Sunday afternoon. Caldwell will
play third base for Durango: Forrest
er, Salt Lake university boy, will
be on second; Baker OF Silverton will
pitch and old reliable Grant Hughes
will do the receiving.
Jesse Shields Is down from his min
ing camp on Lightner creek. He says
some of the boys have made dis.
covery up in that country that looks
pretty good. but they don't want any
thing in the paper about 1t. And
there might be something in 1t II they
don't want to say anything about it.
Elsewhere in these columns will be
found a plain-language picture OF the
Durango situation, painted by the con-
servative management of the Denver
Republican. Somebody has been look
ing In our trunk ad told them about
IT, II is all true and the Republican
could have said more. We are fnd-
ing more mines and more rubber weed
farms every day.
The finance committee OF the city
council is composed of Balster. Berndt
and Hanno. Balster and Hanno voted
against allowing the street commits.
siOner 5i hours extra time for May.
George West also voted against It.,
making the vote stand three against
five. The Herald believes the finance
committee should have been sustain
ed by the council.
Matt Schaffer, who resided at Du.
range 10 years before going to Mont
rose to ranch in the alkali fats, has
returned and purchased one of those
little money-making ranches on Cher
ry creek. Matt says the alkali water
made his boys look like old men and
the girls like old women. He Is will.
ing for anybody to have his part OF
the Montrose country and all of the
Uintan reservation, including Grand
Junction.
The Herald is regarded by strang'
ers and home people alike az the only
paper in Durango and In the state for
news and reliability, as vide the fol
lowing words In a note addressed to
| the Herald by stranger passing
through Durango few days ago: Il
congratulate you on the favorable con
trast of your four pages with those
big and imbecile cartoons. in which
mass of trash one seeks for the rea
news OF the day"
Wellington T. Loucks, organizer FOL
the National Good Roads association
was an arrival in the city last night
| He is mere in the interest of good
roads and will arrange 10 have
meeting with the board OF trade, cit,
and county officials to plan goot
roads convention for this place sim
liar to that at Onray, Canon City ant
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