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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26
MILL TRUST is THE
WHOLE THING NOW

A special from Florence to the Post
March 20 says:
BY the total destruction of the Dor
cas- mill in this city by fire yesterda !
afternoon the United States Reduction
n Refining company, commonly
known as the mill trust, has absolute
control of the milling situation in
Fremont county, 1t being the only con.
cern that has any active milling plant
and smeters either In Florence or
Canon City.
Whether the burning OF the mill will
result in the raising of the rate on the
treatment charges of ore is not known
and may not he for some time. It's
destruction has cast a gloom over
Florence.
The United States Reduction & Re
lining company has an idle plant, the
National. mile south of Florence.
which has not been operated for sew
eral years, 1t may be possible that
the company will decide to steam IN
In order to secure the business which
went to the Dorcas mill.
Within the last four years four dIf
ferent milling institutions have been
consumed by fire in Florence, aggre-
eating a loss of sl,lIG.O00, These
mills were the Metallic, FL Paso. Flor.
ence and Dorcas. The Metallic was
valued at $500 900. the Dorcas at $aOO,.
900. the III Paso at 1850, 1000 and the
Florence at 100000.
Although General Manager ]. NJ.
Hover has returned from the Cripple
Creek district he has not decided
whether the mill will be rebuilt as
six months ago he refused an offer
from the Independence people of Grip.
pie Creek to sell the pant for 5000.
600, he asking $250,0O0 for 1t.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

Mick Longworth is a modest man
He has introduced only one bill of a
general character in the house this
session. Out of compliment to his
absention they ought to pass 1t, If for
sensible bill. providing for the pur-
chase by this country of proper resi-
dences abroad for its representatives
in the diplomatic service. 1t ought
not to be impossible for compara-
lively poor man TO accept a diplomatic
position because his house rent would
take his whole salary. as is the case
now.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

of Mexico from Spanish rule and the |
neople had to suffer for its disloyalty |
10 the king and loyalty to the patriots
The last siege occurred in 1867. Go
ing hack TO 1861 the Mexican Con
gress decreed suspension OF foreign
debts. The principal creditors were
England. France and Spain. The
three nations united in hostile dem
onstration for the purpose of enforc'
ing a repeal OF the decree. An agree
ment was finally reached and All
proved by all parties. The English
ana Spanish troops withdrew and re-
turned home. But France withdrew
a lproyal OF the treaty. kept forces in
Neyico and sent for reinforcements
Ia March, 1862. t1e French troops
marched on the capital. AT Puebla
fhey were held in check and by this
repulse .Iuarez was enabled to stay
In the city a year longer But Puebla
fell in May. 1863, and Juarez and his
cabinet we're compelled TO leave the
] city and in June the French troops
tuuk possession. Juarez. as mention
/ ed in previous letters, has his capital
/ Wherever night overlook MIN, tramp
I ing all over the country with ais gov
/ ernment-Vera Cruz. Guadalajara,
| san Luis Potosi, Paso del Norte and
| other places. ON the 10th OF July,
| 1868. q convention OF the leaders of
/ the Conservative or church party de
clared that Mexico should be govern
ed by hereditary monarch and tnat
the ruler should be Catholic. They
offered the crown to ATchduke Maxi
| milan. brother OF the emperor OF Aus
lria. MaXimilian accepted the crown,
! requiring TWO things as conditions
| First, an election by the people OF
! Mexico second that Napoleon Ill
should support him by military force
so long as such force was necessary
In June, 1864, Macmillan and Carlot
Ia, his wife. a daughter of the king OF
| Belgium, were crowned emperor and
empress Of Mexico. Their reign was
short. The emperor soon found that
his policy of reconciliation pleased
neither party. Bad advisers made
| trouble and worst of all for him. the
| United States informed Emperor Ma
poleon III. that there was no occa
I sion or room on tne continent oi
| North America for a monarchy. This
was practically a notice to quit and
| Napoleon SO understood it. He with
drew his troops and Maximilian was
left 10 his fate. He made a feeble de
| fense but was captured here, Quere
taro. Efforts were made TO save his
| lie but 1t seemed political necessity
that he should be executed and ac
cordingly he was shot June 10, 1867
a sad ending of the tnree-year visit tc
| Mexico. Poor Carlotta lost her reason
and her husband his crown. In the
Town are various mementoes of tn,
| emperor. You can see the table or
which the officials signed the dealt
sentence, the stools on which Mira
mon and Mejia, two OF his generals
sat at the trial in the IturbIde theater
| There would have been third haC
the emperor been present, but he was
Ill and did not attend except by rep
resentative. The rough coffin II
which MaXimilians body was brought
from the place of execution can also
be seen. a sight OF these mournfu
relics will add new interest to thos,
OF the emperor seen in the museum al
the capital later on. G. N.R,
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

goats and sheep. He saia the roads
were awful It took him nine hours to
drive "a miles. Mr.. Peterson will
probably leave Fort Lewis about the
first Of the month.
Billie Pickerill returned yesterday
evening from Pennington. where he
had been looking after the lumber in
terests OF his firm. Mr. Pickerill says
everything looks good at Pennington,
that there will be much building there
this summer.
Some of the farmers Of La Plata
and Montezuma counties, Colorado,
and San Juan county, New Mexico,
will try the seedless apple this spring
The progressive farmer and fruit
grower tries everything that looks
good. The progressive ores are tne
Kind that are found in this country.
Juan Maestas. who had been In the
county Jail several days for shooting
one of his neighbors, took the train
this morning, saying he believed there
is more money in raising tortillas and
pepper pods than raising other prod
ucts, and when he started home he
said he would add to production. Ma
estas believes In the ideal citizenship.
The internal revenue bureaus reg
ulation respecting alcoholic medicines
VIII not become effective until April
l so far as retail druggists are con
cerned. Retail dealers have stated
that large losses would occur to them
If the ruling we're made effective soon.
er as they must have time to clear
old stock.
w. A. Perry, writing from Santa
Barbara, Cal, to Secretary Armstrong
OF the board of trade, says that while
on the subject OF boosting. California
Is the place where 1t all happens. He
says The Herald has kept him posted
during the winter regarding affairs
that interest the property owner. Mr..
Perry describes Santa Barbara as n
beautiful city.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26
BAD BANKERS CRACKING ROCK

The Blind Goddess Is often SLOW
but every now and then she baIanoos
,he scales very nicely. Johnson, the
banker, may be found holding a drill
at the penitentiary quarry almost apy
day, which is being hammered by a
horse thief. or he may be seen crack.
Ing rock on the county road near the
prison Mellen, Imboden and Hill are
also there. They left the Iuxurioua
surroundings of swelldom to mingle
with other highwaymen in the men
Their new comrades are perhaps III.
bred and their ancestry may be low
and hazy, but there is one place where
thief is simply a thief. There are
no social distinctions on the "roaI,
pile" of the state. 'Tis well
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

The Fort Collins Courier calls at
tention to the fact that Fort Collins
raised sugar is shipped to Kansas
City, where it is sold at price that
enables Fort Collins citizens to buy
it by the sack and snip it back from
Kansas City for less money than they
can buy it for in their own town Here
is matter for the beet sugar trust to
explain. Surely Philippine sugar
would not have worked a greater in
justice upon Colorado consumers than
this.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

Money collected by taxation from
the people and devoted to public use
should be accounted for with great
care and exactness. The public is en-.
titled TO the fullest publicity of all
expenditures of public officials. At
the present time Colorado does not
know what its officials throughout the
state are spending. There is no data
collected and no report made by which
comparisons can be made to see II
proper ecopomy is practiced.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26
is CUPID ASLEEP OR Is.HE pEAp2
Durango Banner.

Durango Banner.
While they are advertising out In
Wyoming for young women to go out
to marry the rancnmen, and it looks
| ike there is an opening to do little
| advertising right here in Durango for
| young men of marriageable age who
| have the nerve. the get-up and the
inclination to pop the question. No
body Is getting married here, and the
number of marriages that take place
In the course of year are surpris-
! lngly small.
Tnls leads 10 the question. What
Is the matter? Is marriage to become
obsolete? Is the little god of love
TO put away his bow and arrows and
go out of business-the little fellow
mat has been on the go ever since
Adam held Eve on his knee in the
shade of the old apple tree away
back when the world was young.
The old question. rs marriage a
iailnre? seems to be still an open
one, with the rising generation lean.
ing strongly toward the affirmative.
Girls are early learning to work
and rustic their own living. so they
are not so dependent on marriage as
formerly. Is this to he taken as an
indication that in the past girls mar
RED In order TO have somebody TO
Duy the groceries and pay the rentq
Perish the thought,
But what Is the matter?
mere are more good looking young
women of marriageable age in On.
range than in any town of equal size
that can be found. If ANYBODY in
some other town feels like disputing
this let him just come and he will he
shown -
But the girls go to work as soon
as they grow up, or sooner. They
work in the telephone Office. work
IN stores, keep books. get positions
as stenographers. and many other
klnds OF work. They go at it as II
work was tne only future ahead of
them-jnst like they expected to
work all their lives.
We have heard it said. and give
'he theory in the absence of n better
one that the reason young men do not
marry In the towns is that they feel
,siiu 10 tackle the proposition until
,hey can live in a brick house on the
boulevard and make about 81 n
year The young men, II seems
nave premonltlon that they must
ne thns situated or the girls wouid
nor nave them. SO the Young man
the most OF them, go on spendinp
their small salaries, living ripbt mn
10 the limit and sometimes more
ara consequently very few of taem
are able to accumulate anything
POSSIBLY some of the Young wo-
men do feel that way about II hut
surely not all. At any rate that Ia
not the way their mothers feIt for
ihey were willing to take the man n,
choice when he said the word
una they took their chances with him.
we 40 not wish to be understood
~ iht'niating that any young woman
. "' All anxious to hear a certain oft
epeated question, but judging from
ne history of mankind since the e,r.
iest time recorded. we believe many
nly asked. "'''
Ahu "hlIe we are on this subject
'e wisn 10 say to good looking.
'or,hy young men from anywhere
ma, Durango is the place to come.
OF only to make your fortune, but
. get one of the loveliest, sweetest
iris you will ever find.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26
HELPS SOME.

Tne Carey act gave Colorado one
million acres of arid land If the state
would have the land irrigated and TAX
en- up by settlers. Any corporation
with plan TO water this land can get
contract with the state to procure
the land from the government and as
soon as water is on the land ana n
settler provided. the state will give
a patent for 1t at so cents per acre
ne money so received creates n fund
Which the state may use to reclaim
o'ner arid lands. One application for
an irrigation scheme under this ACT
mas Deen accepted and second applI.
co'ioh is pending before the land
board This act promises to be no
s,''ali factor In the future development
OF Colorado's agricultural resources.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

There is danger, too. that the wave
OF investigation now running over the
country will go too far-not that too
much Will be found out but that peo-
pie may get the idea that everybody
who Is investigated is guilty of Some
fraud. 1t Is good thing to have
house'cleaning once in while. but
every man knows that home would
not be worth living In II there were
house-cleaning all the time.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26
N eartb beyond mere drudxery,

on earth beyond mere drudgery.
have read that more farmers
wives are committed to the insane
asylums than are any other class OF
people. Following this statement was
the saying OF farmer who Couldn't
see what In time made Susan git
crazy. She hadn't hardly been out
of the kitchen for nigh onto 40 year!"
Are the Women to Blsme2
Now. who's to blame for this state
of affairs? We are, to be sure. 1t
is time we began TO sit up and take
notice of the fact Suppose we teach
our daughter Mollie that mother must
have new dress once In awhile
must have an outing occasionally,
must have her after-dinner nap and
time to read a little from her favor
lite author or the latest story. If a
friend calls, suppose we let Mollie &c
to the kitchen and make the tea
while mother entertains.
Suppose we teach son James to take
his mother out riding now and then
In his new buggy. and to bestow on
her the many little attentions he gives
as matter of course to his best girl
The best girl will like him all the bet
ter for 1t. II she doesn't, he had bet
ter drop her and get another.
Then suppose we get husband to
understand that feeding the pigs and
carrying water and wood are not In
our line, that we need and must have
labor saving utensils in our kitchen
that we must have some magazines
coming in with the county paper. and
that we want some pretty things to
make nome cozy. Bless his dear old
farmers heart! He would be heart.
broken II we were hungering for
bread, but it will take us long time
to convince him that we are really
hungering, starving, for the beauti
full that there is in life.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26
The Business Side Of II.

Above all, let us teach our farmer
husbands to have confidence In our
business abilities. So many of us
are taken into the company as life
partners, but are never allowed say
after we say yes" Let us nave him
consult us occasionally about his af-
fairs, whether 1t be horse trade or
the proper time for the sowing of tur-
nip seed. We are certainly more In
terested in him than any one else ex-
cept himself, and we might sometimes
be able to surprise him with our
knowledge of what's what"
The prosperous farmer of today is
the well-read farmer. who keeps a.
breast of the times, and who takes
advantage of every labor-saving ap-
pliance in the conduct of his farm.
We farmers wives must keep pace
with these progressive men. or we
will be distanced
1t is good thing for us to know
and to be able to teach our children
the nature and care of animals and
OF the soil we cultivate, .that the fine
hair and yellow skin of COW are
two points of thoroughbred, that
the shape of horses head and the
expression of his eyes help to show
his disposition. that certain kinds of
foods are milk-produclng and others
fiesh-bnilding, that every animal loves
cleanliness and good care, and that
only with a combination of both can
they be at their best or yield the
greatest profit. We should know soils
and be able to tell what they need
to be made most productive. 1t may
be that not all of our farmer children
are destined to become farmers. But
no matter what their life work may
be, their farm knowledge will always
be benefit to them.
Time was when anything was
thought to be good enough for the
farmer. | believe we almost thought
so ourselves. But we are gradually
coming to know that there is moth
ing too good for us. The best brains
of the country today are busted with
farm problems. The farmer is the
most important factor in America, and
the farmers wife should not be far
behind him.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

The next Legislature is going TO
have a lot of very important work to
do. Solid men of high character and
exceptional ability should be selected
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26
THE FARMERS WIFE.

The following interesting paper was
read by Mrs. Lulu Place at the last
meeting of the Farmers' Institute held
in Durango:
The farmers wife is Just as much
a necessity to the farmer as the farm
itself. She might be able alone to
manage a farm successfully, but the
man has yet to demonstrate that he
can do the same thing. A man may
succeed in nearly every other kind
Of business without the aid of part
ner. but a farmer never can. or all
pitiful objects the most needful OF
pity Is the bachelor or wIdower who
is trying to make himself and others
think that he Is acquiring happiness
and wealth in farming without the
help of wife.
Now. of course, we who are farm
ers' wives know away down deep in
our hearts that there are no wives un-
der the sun So happy and contented,
so well loved and appreciated by their
husbands as ourselves. We wouldn't
complain. Oh. no. But there are oc-
casional times when we cannot help
wishing for some OF the advantages
that our city sisters enjoy.
Did you ever see farmer take
great load of good things to the
city for the city folk to eat-pounds
and pounds of yellow butter and balls
and balls of nice cottage cheese the
farmers wife had made, and dozens
of fat broilers the farmers wife had
raised? Have You ever watched the
farmer deliver the goods and seen the
dollars roll into his pocketbook un-
til II bulged. while his wife sat upon
the nigh spring seat and clung to the
lines of the restless colts the farmer
is breaking until every nerve and
muscle In her poor, tired body is
strained almost to the cracking point?
And then have you seen the farmer
take himself with his fat pocketbook
to the nearest hardware store and bug
two or three hundred dollars worth
OF the latest improved farming ma
chinery TO make his farm work cas-
ier?
Then Just about this time. when the
farmer has a warm feeling in his
heart of satisfaction for himself and
friendship for the world In general,
along comes Mrs. Farmer and timidly
asks Tor dollar to buy certain pret.
ty ornament she has wanted for
months. See his eyes grow large and
round and his mouth open like that
of sucker just landed! He glares
at her as though she had asked him
for the best milk COW, and then, in
a gentle voice that can be heard for
blocks he tells he he'll "be burned II
he kin see why wimmen want to
throw away SO much money on gim-
like that"
or course, nothing OF that kind
could come to pass in the West, but
saw just such incidents back East
years ago. and felt at the time tnat
the fate of an old maid would be bliss
compared with that Of farmers wife.
And then when had decided to mar.
ry n farmer I promised myself that
would do all | could to revolution
Ize the lot of the average farmers
wife.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26
Hsr Greatest Mistake.

believe the greatest mistake we
farmers wives make Is In neglecting
TO care for ourselves. We begin our
farm lives with the idea that we are
both head and heels to the entire
family. AS a result, children. hus.
band, the hired man and even the
animals we help to care for very
soon become dependant on us. We
must be first out OF bed in the morn
ng and last into bed at night. We
must Sc the whole family into bed,
carry this one drink, tuck that Que
in. give the other one dose of cough
syrup. wind the clock. put the cat out
and do lot of other things that,
small in themselves, amount to half
days work when grouped. Then,
when we do get into bed finally, we
are so tired that we can do nothing
except worry about the next days Ia
Dor. A few years OF this kind OF
struggling and we begin to look old
and worn. and we haven't an interest
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

Latest styles Of hats at cost. Tells
Bros.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

knppenheimer's correct clotaes Al
Nathan's.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

1t was tired looking lot of passen
gers that got OF the eastern this
morning. The train was crowded and
none OF them had chance to stretch
themselves until they reached Du-
range.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

Ed Hudson. superintendent OF the
silverton Northern railroad, was one
OF the blockaded passengers arriving
today He stopped AT the Palace and
Will go on to Silverton at the first
opportunity.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26

Superintendent Peterson telephoned
In from Fort Lewis to Inquire If the
train got in. And the Herald was
able to say 1t had. He reports the
weather out there today 'as bad as II
can be-" He has just returned from
= rtip to BLUM City. Utah.. where he
went to look after some OF his Indians
who have little farms and nocks OF
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-09
MET THEIR MATCH.
Two Negroes Make Unsuccessful

Especial to The Times Dlspatch)
GREEN BAY, VA. May S.-Two dis
orderly negroes who shot into the crowd
at A1eherrin last night when Captain
George Price tried to place them under
arrest, held UP Mr.. Archer Hnskins. SUI
pervisor for the district. about three
miles north OF this place to-day, near
chappells saw mill, and but for the
bravery OF Mr., Haskns they would no
doubt have robbed him. Mr.. Haskins
was a gallant Confederate soldier, and
knows not what fear means. and when
ordered by these men to stop reached
under the buggy and pulled forth his
pistol. which scared the fugtlyes and
they broke and ran.
Both men were heavily armed. onlcer
Orange at Burkevlle had been notified
to arrest them upon their arrival, but
1t is not thought that they Will 80 through
Burkevile though. ana posse Will so
In scarce OF the men tonight.
The trouble for which Officer Price
tried to mako The arrest Is said to have
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-09
Architects, Take Notice

The Virginia Commissioners OF the
jamestown Exposition, having In charge
tho erection Of q State Building for Vir-
ginla at the jamestown Exposition, here
by announce that they have arranged for
a competition. the object OF which Ia to
select an architect for tho Virginia State
Building,
They desire to have the building super
Intended BY the designing architect.
The building Is to be OF Colonial style
OF architecture. is to have both land and
water fronts, 1t can BIO mn original design
or n reproduction. The cost must not OK
coed $4,000 including MI stationery, Ak
lures and architects commissions,
The first floor will have hall and one
large reception room, four other medium
sized rooms. two small rooms and toilets,
Tho second floor will contain at least
eight bedrooms. with two baths.
The committee will meet at the Month
cello Hotel in Norfolk on May the %,
1906, to receive drawing and suggestions
from architects desiring to compete for
this work,
gard to this can be addressed to w. w,
SALE. I.owcnberg Building Norfolk. Va.